... Budd Dwyer shot himself ? Now he has half a mind to go back to work . ” These jokes apparently have cognates in humor about the head injury to James Brady during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981. The “ hole in the head ...

... Budd Dwyer's wife ( mother , press secretary ) say before his press conference ? " or " How did you know Budd Dwyer was a politi- cian ? " Second in popularity were jokes playing on beer commercials or beer characteristics . For example ...

Dark humor about those who have removed themselves from the gene pool.

Erin McHugh. R. BUDD. DWYER. (1939–1987). Imagine. that your entire life—your legacy, all anybody remembers about you—is winnowed down to the moment you died. That was the terrible fate of R. Budd Dwyer. R. Budd Dwyer led the kind of life ...

Robert Firth. CHAPTER 3 REPUBLICAN Budd Dwyer The fate of this next scoundrel is a tragic story of greed and death , the wages of sin as it were . A politician from Pennsylvania , Budd Dwyer was a member of the state House of ...

... Budd Dwyer , etc. ) ? A : The cockpit ; her teeth ; her ass , etc. See Bronner ( 1988 ) , Oring ( 1987 ) , Simons ( 1986 ) , and Smyth ( 1986 ) for further analysis of the folk riddle in these contexts and cycles . 21. Robert Dobler ...

... Budd DWYER: a state official's public suicide Convicted for his involvement in a government bribery-conspiracy scandal, second term state treasurer of Pennsylvania Budd Dwyer called a news conference on the day before his sentencing ...

Dylan Frost. R.BUDD. DWYER. R. Budd Dwyer was born in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1929. He served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania ...

... BUDD. DWYER. Another disturbing incident, which epitomized the way the establishment news media distorts the truth about important events, involved Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer. Dwyer drew the ire of then-Pennsylvania ...