Like every village in this Roman Catholic valley, it was dominated by a towering stone campanile with church bells that gonged as if to announce our arrival.
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Any act that survived without being gonged was given a score by each of the three judges on a scale of 0 to 10, for a maximum possible score of 30.
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"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen " got gonged on both counts : the use of " Gentlemen " made it politically incorrect, excluding half of the congregants.
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When Bush arrived at the airport here Thursday morning, he was greeted with a red-carpet welcome, replete with a fife and drum corps and a replica of the Liberty Bell which he gonged.
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While they were able to complete their act without being gonged, two of the judges gave them low marks ( Phyllis Diller gave them a zero, while Jamie Farr awarded them a marginally better 2 ).
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Orange County comedy punk band The Radioactive Chicken Heads ( then called Joe & the Chicken Heads ) made their national television debut on " Extreme Gong ", though they were gonged midway through their performance.
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If that's not a modern success story, I don't know what is, and Rockwell lets us see all the joy, lust, self-pity, and rage with which Barris gonged himself.
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But then again, I love rancid milk . " The celebrity who had gonged the performer was typically asked " Why'd you do that ? " and was expected to provide an explanation, joke, or further insult.
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And yet, getting gonged confers recognition of " citizens " contributions'to a good society in my case equality and the gesture affirms our necessity; the radicals not the royalists are the best of the British.
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During the 1980s comedy boom, it seemed that every Chinese restaurant had a small stage and " gong shows, " contests that held out a bit of prize money for contestants who didn't get gonged by the audience.
