Sami wanted to buy crack.

They exchanged jokes and got angry.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

This area is also important in understanding jokes.

This is Mena, this is how I make a joke at people.

Tunisians had been gossiping and joking about the corruption for years.

He s cracked jokes about rape and is open about being a womanizer.

It is named after the hero of bad Soviet era spy novels, a figure who was also the butt of many underground jokes.

A local joke claims that Israelis have more parties than voters.

Today things are ugly, there are lots of prostitutes smoking crack and this gives us a bad rap.

Drug abuse trends in the region indicate that cocaine, coca paste and crack cocaine abuse is increasing.

Gone for the moment are jokes about government being the problem, not the solution.

He laughed it off, made jokes about it and made us really believe that he was ok.

There is even a league table of the world s funniest jokes (I did not laugh much).

Several jokes about the Facebook outage were soon streaming on Twitter, with many of them being re tweeted by hundreds.

And it turned out, there was this audience that didn't know it wanted crack cocaine, but, when it came, it really did.

And one of the sad parts of this is that indeed, among the many other ramifications of crack cocaine is that the most talented individuals in these communities this is what they were striving for.

According to the age old belief of Malayalees, an auspicious kani at dawn on the Vishu day is lucky for the entire year.

But politicians are averse to academic advice. All too often, they prefer bad jokes until the last laugh is on them.

In recent weeks, ever since Kenya s government announced that oil had been discovered in the Lake Turkana basin, more jokes have emerged.

People avoid health care jokes, but you could say the same thing about drugs.

And to do that, you have to actually go back to a time before crack cocaine, in the early '80s, and look at it from the perspective of a gang leader.

Watching a film which maybe highlights a character that is fighting to live, or just a character that defies stereotypes, makes a joke, sings a song.

NAIROBI In Kenya, there is a running gag that sums up how far away the Turkana people live from the rest of us.

Because you could smoke crack cocaine you can't smoke powdered cocaine and smoking is a much more efficient mechanism at delivering a high than is snorting it.

We're going to do some jokes, some gags, some little skits and then we're going to talk about the L1 point.

Cocaine used to be America s problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.

The 44th were a crack division, but their expertise was fast moving mechanised warfare, and the terrain meant they had to leave their heavier equipment behind, go slowly with what they had.

The larger sluices may be concealed under the roots of trees (such as crack willows), which have grown up from seedlings established in the brickwork.

Gardner and Will acknowledge each other Will then looks back at Gardner walking away as his son proceeds to tell him knock knock jokes.

It is enough to mention the words Vatican and bank in the same sentence to start a cascade of jokes about comic opera ineptness and skullduggery.

Its focus was on Western Europe, and, as one joke went, it was designed to keep the Russians out, the Germans down, and the Americans in.

Indeed, as with postwar Germany s first leader, Konrad Adenauer, there are jokes about Merkel being Chancellor for life (Germany has no term limits).

Most of the population of the city of São Paulo STILL doesn't feel the water shortage (and believes in the state government, and keeps wasting water and making jokes on the subject) for a simple reason they live in apartment buildings.

According to one news report, for instance, the new ban on cyberbullying is worded in such a way that police could even use it to categorize sharing Internet memes that lampoon the government as a form of cyberbullying.

Much of the humour in the initial Asterix books was French specific, which delayed the translation of the books into other languages for fear of losing the jokes and the spirit of the story.

As a Maasai, I have heard every Kenyan joke about how uncivilized my people are, so I was happy that someone else was in the spotlight for a change.

Far from showing fear, Mexican social media users have flooded the Internet with sarcastic jokes and dark comedy about the apparent threat, mocking ISIS, its violent ways, and the supposed need to prepare for war with jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

But if you think about it, I would say that in the last twenty five years, of every invention or innovation that's occurred in this country, the biggest one, in terms of impact on the well being of people who live in the inner city, was crack cocaine.

Now to give you a sense of just how bad the inner city was during crack and I'm not really focusing on the negatives, but really, there's another story to tell you there if you look at the death rates just of random, young black males growing up in the inner city in the United States the death rates during crack were about one percent.

The only freedom Russians have left is to devise bitter jokes that tap the country s rich historical stores of political pathology. If they could export them, they would be as rich as Germans.

Scottish funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal stage as he lampoons Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and a cast of other world leaders with his hilarious impressions and biting commentary. See if you can catch a few sharp TED in jokes.

By the end of the hand axe epic, Homo sapiens as they were then called, finally were doubtless finding new ways to amuse and amaze each other by, who knows, telling jokes, storytelling, dancing, or hairstyling.

But politicians are averse to academic advice. All too often, they prefer bad jokes until the last laugh is on them.

MOSCOW Owing to the harsh economic situation, it was decided to cut off the light at the end of the tunnel as a temporary measure. That is but one of the jokes making the rounds in Russia these days, as the country faces its most severe crisis in a decade.