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Word: scorpion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke, a scorpion comes to a creek and asks a frog to carry him across it, because scorpions can't swim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan: Senate May Impede Arms Talks | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...cool encounter with at least one highly symbolic scorpion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Ample EXTREME PREJUDICE | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...request of Levi, Kariko will stay at Harvard after classes end in June to help host the arrival of the American Arachnological Society. More than 70 spider and scorpion specialists, including scientists from Europe, will converge on Cambridge, for this international spider convention...

Author: By Shannon E. Liss, | Title: Small Seminar Studies Spiders | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe, you gon' holler...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...Nice Duck." He waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in the Animal Kingdom the Fly | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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