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...test of humor is its staying power--the Marx brothers are still funny forty years later. You can't apply that criterion to Monty Python yet. But my roommates have been answering my questions about the weird things they say lately with quotes like "Well, that's where my claim falls to the ground" or "It's a pun" and "It's people like you what cause unrest." This could go too far. I don't know how I could take a lunch made out of spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, chicken tetrazzini and spam...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...planes crossing the triangle. He also talks of great waterspouts and baffling stretches of "white water" that were noted by navigators who sailed as long ago as Columbus. He provides testimony from a 20th century skipper who says his 160-ft. tug was yanked for a few moments by weird forces, almost as if "somebody wanted us to be in another place from where we were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Deadly Triangle | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...debate to freeze-dry or not to freeze-dry every food now available shows no signs of resolving itself. But while others are debating, it is best to stick with the supermarkets. It is luxury for less, and a light pack is small recompense for a weekend of weird tasting meals. The winter is the one time when all those frozen fruits and vegetables pay off, as well as the canned meat products...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: It's Cold in Them There Hills | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...close, and man, is he wasted. One brilliant critique of society (and here, the law, as he reads the transcript of one of his trials) after another, and all he can do at the end of each rap is give a beaten shrug and a desperate laugh and say, "Weird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

Tryon. We local extras like to think our little community is a far sight nicer place to live than those boom villages Mr. Try-on built for The Other and Harvest Home. No weird twins up to supernatural devilment here, nosir, and no mythical human sacrifices either. Oh, we've had our odd sexual fandangos, if you get my drift, but if that's all you're after, you'll want to head on over to Peyton Place. Lots more action there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tourist Trap | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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