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Racist jokes aren'ta laughing matter Asian Image Dr Weaver studied the linguistic mechanisms of US racist internet jokes aimed at African-Caribbean origin people, British stand-up comedy especially that aimed at Asian people, the Danish cartoons deemed to be blasphemous and the Ali G Show. |
 BBC News | Oscars: A Morning Stroll animation heads to Hollywood BBC News Now its creators are set to stroll up the red carpet at the Oscars. It's one of the best-known jokes in the world. Now British animators have given it a new twist and created a short film that's taking them to Hollywood. Directed by Grant Orchard of ... |
 International Business Times | Twitter jokes ruin US vacation for two British tourists USA TODAY By Laura Bly, USA TODAY That's the message tourists are getting from a British travel association, after the news that a 26-year-old bar manager and his travel companion were detained and deported from Los Angeles International Airport last week after ... British tourists repelled from US after destructive Twitter jokes Twitter Jokes get British Tourists Barred from US: What You Need to Know No Sense Of Humor: British Tourists Arrested In US Over Twitter Jokes – OpEd |
 Daily Mail | Emily Bunting and Leigh Van Bryan: UK tourists arrested over 'destroy America ... Daily Mail By Richard Hartley-parkinson Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell ... Brit pair stopped from entering US over Twitter jokes Tourists banned from entering US after Twitter jokes US arrests British couple on terror charges for Twitter jokes |
 USA TODAY | UK: Hacked phone call with FBI poses no risk USA TODAY LONDON (AP) – Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks ... Hackers intercept FBI, UK police call Hacker Group Posts Audio of FBI, Scotland Yard Call Hackers Steal Confidential FBI Phone Call, Post Online |
Daddy's Girl The New York Review of Books In the spring of 2001, at the Conservative Party Conference in Plymouth, Margaret Thatcher made a joke. She was then seventy-five, and had been out of office for more than ten years, much of it spent as the hectoring conscience of her party. |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Katy Perry's film is no joke for profane Russell Brand Telegraph.co.uk The American pop star whose parents are pastors, now has to decide whether to edit the British comedian out of a proposed film about her life. Mandrake hears that Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning producer of such films as A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, ... Russell Brand 'bonds with Deschanel' Russell Brand After Katy Perry Look-a-like Zooey Deschanel Slightly creepy ... |
 Zee News | Joke on child wear offends British parents Zee News London: Many agitated parents in Britain have decided to boycott one of country`s biggest retailers for selling a garment that jokes about child abduction. Costing about 10 pounds (nearly $16), the garment -- Babygrow -- carries a slogan on the front ... |
BA suitcase race highlights Olympic spirit CampaignLive By Daniel Farey-Jones, campaignlive.co.uk, Tuesday, 07 February 2012 12:18PM There are plenty of jokes about airlines and baggage, but British Airways is making the subject the focus of an Olympics-related TV ad, which features an international ... |
 The Guardian | How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy The Guardian One of the most famous practical jokes in British military history has returned to haunt the Royal Navy – more than a century later. A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, ... |
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