The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

This was done by Joe as a gag in 1998, mostly as a personal exercise to see if he could remember how to still use the level editor.

* Uncle Dennis ( Ransom Sherman )-Molly's hard-drinking uncle, Dennis Driscoll, who was the subject of a running gag ( see below ) and was generally never heard.

David said, ' When he looks at me and flare those nostrils ; and he would be gone ,' it would be such a wonderful thing to see this great big guy just reduced to a giggling idiot by Harry, but unfortunately, all I could do is to tell you, we had great fun doing the show ; and much of it was laughing at some silly gag that one of us had pulled on the others.

The clinical tests to see if the Glossopharyngeal nerve has been damaged includes testing the gag reflex of the mouth.

Eventually, after a storyline in which the Sage's dog had been kidnapped and Groo aided him in recovering the dog, the " secret " was revealed in a throw-away moment, with Groo asking in a " by-the-way " manner what the dog's name was, and the Sage replying with the nondescript name, " Mulch " ( in itself a reference to another running gag in the Marvel / Epic run, see above ).

This is part of the running gag of a series of mostly failed attempts to find some sort of alternate means of protection against grues in the event one's light source fails, most famously in Zork II where a can of Frobozz Magic Grue Repellent was included as a red herring — mostly useless, since it would only last for one game turn after one's light source expired, during which the player could not see his location anyway.

They are often gagged ( see forniphilic gag ) and / or placed in position where there is a danger of being smothered.

An April Fools Day gag strip in 2007 depicted her as being detained by the Department of Homeland Security, and a two-week series around the same time drawn in a photo-realistic style told of her as coming to live with the Bermudezes after Sergio's wife Rosa was killed in a drunk driving accident ( see below ).

The gag revolved around steak and kidney pies, and the gag would normally see Tim and Helen discuss what they'd eaten.

Most cartoonists fill the first two panels of their strips with a " throwaway gag ," knowing that the public may not see them, and making them integral to the plot would likely be wasteful.

I can't see without them ," which became a trademark gag and catch phrase for Velma.

In South Africa ' ripping off ' can be making a joke of something that a person does on a regular basis ; see running gag.

In order to see that this hindering situation remained effective, Washington detached several bodies of his troops to the periphery of the Philadelphia area.

A report of Sr. Edw Grevyles minaces to the Baileefe Aldermen & Burgesses of Stratforde '' tells how Quiney was injured by Greville's men: `` in the tyme Mr. Ryc' Quyney was bayleefe ther came some of them whoe beinge druncke fell to braweling in ther hosts howse wher thei druncke & drewe ther dagers uppon the hoste: att a faier tyme the Baileefe being late abroade to see the towne in order & comminge by in hurley burley came into the howse & commawnded the peace to be kept butt colde nott prevayle & in hys endevor to sticle the brawle had his heade grevouselye brooken by one of hys ( Greville's ) men whom nether hymselfe ( Greville ) punnished nor wolde suffer to be punnished but with a shewe to turne them awaye & enterteyned agayne ''.

But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton Janssen, Mrs. Robert Jarvis, Mrs. Walter Adams order low-calorie seafood, no bread, I could see the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961.

Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.

** In order theory, see order automorphism.

* Legalism, which maintained that human nature was incorrigibly selfish ; accordingly, the only way to preserve the social order was to impose discipline from above, and to see to a strict enforcement of laws.

Artists have had to ' see ' issues clearly in order to satisfy their current clients, yet not offend potential patrons.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks ; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

The shot backs up and raises, in order to see Marshal Will Kane totally alone and isolated on the street.

All Italian-Canadians were denied RAI programming by RAI International's removal of its programming from the Canadian marketplace, a move intended to create a public outcry and a threat that Canadians would resort to using satellite viewing cards obtained via the US in order to watch RAI, even though these cards were either grey market or black market, according to different analyses ( see below ).

The ancient historians allege that Messalina was a nymphomaniac who was regularly unfaithful to Claudius — Tacitus states she went so far as to compete with a prostitute to see who could have the most sexual partners in a night — and manipulated his policies in order to amass wealth.

Until 1917 it was possible for someone who was not a priest, but only in minor orders, to become a cardinal ( see " lay cardinals ", below ), but they were enrolled only in the order of cardinal deacons.

One of its most important functions was the security of revolutionary order, and the fight against counterrevolutionary activity ( see: Anti-Soviet agitation ).

A Cabal room in use at Valve Software. During the rise of Usenet, the term was used as a semi-ironic description of the efforts of people to maintain some order over the chaotic, anarchic Usenet community ( see backbone cabal ).

For example, The Shining might be sorted as Shining, The ( see Alphabetical order above ), but it may still be desired to display it as The Shining.

( b ) defining mathematical rules such as ( a + b ) = ( b + a ) stating that when adding two numbers, the order of numbers does not matter ( see commutativity ).

In order to see that these churches were properly established ( as was Paul's typical pattern, see Acts 14: 21 – 23 ), Paul left Titus in Crete.

In order to study them the full range of biographical knowledge available today on Kraepelin is necessary ( see e. g. Burgmair et al., I-VII ).

Just as if you were to see the lifeless corpse of a man lying far away, it would be fitting to list all the causes of death in order to make sure that the single cause of this death may be stated.

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

The following week it was reported a gag order had been placed on the band regarding further public statements on the matter.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

The gag order was supposedly at the request of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

A gag order was imposed during the trial, prohibiting attorneys on either side from commenting to the press on the evidence, proceedings, or opinions regarding the trial proceedings.

A gag order is an order by a court or government restricting information or comment from being made public.

After the trial's gag order was lifted, jurors made it clear they believed the agents were blatant liars.

Nationwide Title also obtained a gag order against another foreclosure defense lawyer from posting videos of their employees admitting they lied under oath when processing foreclosure documents.

The gag order — a prior restraint — was issued without the other party present and is under appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union.

In 2009, Jones was fined for violating a gag order on labor issues.

Commissioner Roger Goodell had issued a gag order for all owners and team executives from discussing any aspect of the pending labor issues.

Jones " crossed the line ", drawing a " six-figure " fine, sources said, as the commissioner distributed a memo to all 32 owners, along with a reminder that the gag order remains in effect.

In April 1994, District Attorney Dillon sought a gag order for all lawyers involved in the case, arguing Kunstler and Kuby had made statements to the media that might be inadmissible during the trial and could influence potential jurors.

" This amounted to a gag order for Kästner throughout the Third Reich.

* August 2005: EPIC and a coalition of open government organizations filed an amicus brief in Gonzales v. Doe, a lawsuit concerning the FBI's authority to issue national security letters without judicial approval and under a permanent gag order that bans the recipient from telling anyone about the demand.

The next year, Kerkorian and Chrysler made a five-year agreement which included a gag order preventing Iacocca from speaking publicly about Chrysler.

Because the jury was sequestered, an attorney gag order would not have been supported by any appellate court, leading to often chaotic scenes outside the courthouse.

After Kurupt's second departure, Against tha Grain was released ; soon after, citing dissatisfaction with serving five years on the label and seeing no release, Crooked I also left Death Row, eventually filing a gag order on Knight to prevent the mogul's interference with his finding a new deal.

See gag order.

Hentoff vigorously criticized the judicial gag order involved in the Fistgate case.

WBC said that it was thankful for the verdict, but also unsuccessfully sought a mistrial ( based on alleged prejudicial statements made by the judge and violations of the gag order by the plaintiff's attorney ) and also filed an appeal.

In connection with this, Harris received a gag order from a U. S. Attorney in preparation for a federal grand jury investigation.

On 14 December, High Court Justice Anthony Gates dismissed a call from Chaudhry to impose a gag order on Prime Minister Qarase, from making media statements until Chaudhry's lawsuit is heard.

He filed an application in the High Court for a gag order to prevent the Prime Minister from making media statements until his lawsuit was heard, but Justice Anthony Gates dismissed the application on 14 December.