Sentence examples for bum jokes from inspiring English sources

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A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.

And Rachel Rooney's The Language of Cat (Frances Lincoln Children's Books), winner of the CLPE poetry award, is something rare – a poetry book for children that doesn't patronise its intended audience with bum jokes or lower its linguistic ambitions.

The Herald Sun wrote that the "iLoo is, unquestionably, very good news – mainly to journalists with a bottomless pit of laboured bum jokes" while the Seattle Times wrote "now the company has a credibility problem as well as a red face".

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"I'll have to sue that bum," joked Babe Ruth, sitting near the 50-yard line.

It's all a far cry from Lysistrata, with its flirty naked pensioners and hairy-bum jokes.

This is most evident in the show's opening scenes, which include two weak songs with especially thin melodies and which are rife with the dreadful, ba-dum-bum jokes that pass for dialogue in the Mel Brooks universe.

But why is it that, faced with something either impressive, beautiful or pioneering, we so often scuttle back to bums, willies and bad jokes?

For the first half I was torn between feeling extremely pleased something so anarchic and daft had been commissioned by the BBC in the first place, and willing it to be just that little bit funnier, and less reliant on jokes about bumming.

Wearing his trademark pullover and holding, as ever, a rolled-up newspaper in one hand, he has kept his stage persona remarkably intact since he first appeared at the Hungry I nightclub in San Francisco on Dec. 23, 1953, a debut that effectively changed the course of stand-up comedy, steering it away from congenial plaid-jacketed men telling ba-DUM-bum mother-in-law jokes.

Here Mate, Look At Your Leg: I Put a Joke On It? Tatty Tatty Bum Bum? Absurd.

Everyone laughed him off, making the usual jokes about homeless people trying to bum change for drugs.

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