For kids too young to appreciate the fine points of disco, a step-on whoopee cushion in the carpet of the elevator lobby created plenty of hits and giggles.

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So we are beginning to get to really what is going on, and that is not to say, whoopee, everybody lies about sex and we can go ahead and do that.

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Whoopee, crowed today's opposition, gleefully seizing on Mr Ciampi's message as a tool against the feeble draft law on conflicts of interest that is supposed to sort out those of Mr Berlusconi.

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Seth MacFarlane is hosting the Oscars might make you think the normally lush Gift Bags will be stuffed with whoopee cushions, fake vomit and plastic dog doo, hey maybe even a Peter Griffin sex tape.

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In previews for the 1997 TV movie, Houston's Fairy Godmother and pop singer Brandy's title character were much hyped, but the Rob Marshall-directed production itself was stolen by old pros Bernadette Peters as the stepmother, Victor Garber and Whoopee Goldberg as the King and Queen, and Jason Alexander as a kind of singing, dancing, pratfalling George Costanza.

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