He gives us an account of this in his lively and humorous poem, `` The Happy Artists ''.

One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.

His father, Jacques-François Deluc, was the author of some publications in refutation of Mandeville and other rationalistic writers, which are best known through Rousseau's humorous account of his ennui in reading them ; and he gave his son an excellent education, chiefly in mathematics and natural science.

His latest book, published in October 2000, Travels with a Primate, is a humorous account of his journeys with his former boss, Robert Runcie.

There follows a humorous account of their " unconstitutional fopperies ", including Dermott's belief that their greatest masonic symbols were the knife and fork.

* A humorous account of the drinking culture of Madison Avenue advertising executives during the 1960s.

A humorous but informative account of code-making and-breaking in Britain's WWII Special Operations Executive.

Entitled Being John Lennon, the book is a humorous account of life on the road in The Beatles ' tribute " Sgt.

8: Prison Wine "-extensive, humorous account of preparation and tasting, with photographs.

He describes Leguía as a charming and self-effacing " man of the people " who gives a humorous account of the 1908 coup attempt.

The celebrated English author George Borrow wrote Wild Wales ( 1854 ), which includes a lively, humorous account of his visit to Pontarfynach.

* The book The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost is a rather humorous account of the author's two years living on Tarawa.

The work is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, a heartland small town.

In Tropic of Ruislip, Leslie Thomas ’ s humorous account of suburban sexual and social mores in the mid 1970s ( adapted for television as Tropic, ATV 1979 ), the steady flow of families from council housing on one side of the railway to an executive estate on the other side served to illustrate what was becoming known as “ upward mobility ”.

Luigi's account of his own adventures is meant to be a humorous parallel to the adventures of Mario.

In 2004, Bulloch published a limited edition memoir, Flying Solo, which is a humorous account of his personal and professional life, interspersed with tales from the convention circuit.

Mi Primer Millón, a humorous account of trying to make it in the music industry, again went top 10 in Chile and made the Billboard and world Latin music charts in 2003.

Along with the book Provocative Therapy and numerous articles, Farrelly ( in collaboration with Nick Kemp ) recorded the cd Me and God-a humorous autobiographical account of his life and work.

The book contains a description of the ascent of the Nose and the Wall of Early Morning Light ( 1970 ) as well as farcical instruction in climbing basics, ratings of prominent climbers of the period, a humorous account of rock climbing controversies and life-styles of the 1960s and 1970s, and a vivid portrayal of Harding's own rebellious and charismatic character.

Wargrave is mentioned in Jerome K. Jerome's, 1889 book Three Men in a Boat, a humorous account of a boating holiday on the River Thames:

The video, available on The Beautiful South's compilation DVD Munch, is a humorous account of The Beautiful South on a world tour in order to pay for drinks at the local bar.

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ( Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе ( Lepa sela lepo gore ), literally translated as " Beautiful villages burn beautifully ") is a 1996 Yugoslavian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War.

The popularity of these terms in the early modern and modern period has resulted in the addition of numerous light-hearted, humorous or " facetious " collective nouns.

Bill Hoest and other cartoonists of that decade drew cartoons showing Volkswagens, and these were published along with humorous automotive essays by such humorists as H. Allen Smith, Roger Price and Jean Shepherd.

Hofstadter collects and studies cognitive errors ( largely, but not solely, speech errors ), " bon mots " ( spontaneous humorous quips ), and analogies of all sorts, and his long-time observation of these diverse products of cognition, and his theories about the mechanisms that underlie them, have exerted a powerful influence on the architectures of the computational models developed by himself and FARG members.

Starting in 1912, Satie's new humorous miniatures for piano became very successful, and he wrote and published many of these over the next few years ( most of them premiered by the pianist Ricardo Viñes ).

The humor Plautus offered, such as “ puns, word plays, distortions of meaning, or other forms of verbal humor he usually puts them in the mouths of characters belonging to the lower social ranks, to whose language and position these varieties of humorous technique are most suitable ,” matched well with the stable of characters.

Both of these books are composed of individual short stories ( which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions ) set within a larger narrative story ( a frame story ), although the frame-tale device was not adopted by all writers.

McGonagall's fame stems from the humorous effects these shortcomings generate.

Varying from arcane to combative to humorous, and ranging from midshipmen to very senior naval aviators who sought command of aircraft carriers ( which sometimes lapsed into ego battles ), the content of most of these interviews has been lost to history, though some were later chronicled in the several books on Rickover's career, as well as in a rare personal interview with Diane Sawyer in 1984.

The burning symbolised liberation from servitude to the memory of these events or else represented humorous and often critical commentary on them.

Prominent among these texts is " The Contendings of Horus and Set ", a humorous retelling of several episodes of the struggle between the two deities, which dates to the Twentieth Dynasty ( c. 1190 – 1070 BC ).

Later, and for many years, at the British science fiction convention Eastercon, he would deliver a humorous speech ( often part of his famous series known by the tongue-in-cheek label of " Serious Scientific Talks "); these were eventually collected in The Eastercon Speeches ( 1979 ) and A Load of Old Bosh ( 1995 ), which included a similar talk from the 1979 Worldcon in Brighton, 37th World Science Fiction Convention.

Many of these letters received serious responses ; Novello sometimes continued the charade correspondence at length, with humorous results.

He privately attended ' academies ' in Madrid throughout his reign — these were lighthearted literary salons, aiming to analyse contemporary literature and poetry with a humorous touch.

The most notable of these later Minnesänger, Neidhart von Reuental introduces characters from lower social classes and often aims for humorous effects.

McKinney goes on to say that " many of these poems have a newly relaxed, almost conversational tone and rhythm, an often humorous ease and an intimacy of voice that surely reflects the new intimacies and joys of her life ".

The redundancy of these two well-known statements is deliberate, for humorous effect.

It bears sometimes humorous names in certain countries, however, e. g., in The Netherlands, Poland and Germany it can actually be purchased under these names:

The chief of these were the Potiphar Papers ( 1853 ), a satire on the fashionable society of the day ; and Prue and I ( 1856 ), a pleasantly sentimental, fancifully tender and humorous study of life.

There are new songs that mimic Serbian epic poetry, but are humorous and not epic in nature ; these are also circulating around with no known author.

This gives me doubly nature, and these studies I think be my best humorous work.

Her address was notable for including several humorous remarks displaying her down-home Texas charm such as: " I'm delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like " or " Poor George, he can't help it.

The old " Halt and Catch Fire " instruction and HCF mnemonic are sometimes appropriated by users who discovered these instructions, as a humorous way of expressing that the unintended execution of such an instruction causes the system to fail to perform its normal functions.

Types of stories in these collections include animal fables, proverbs, stories of jihad or propagation of the faith, humorous tales, moral tales, tales about the wily con-man Ali Zaybaq and tales about the prankster Juha.

Emotional, touching, and sometimes humorous, you follow the story of these couples as they are forced to face their demons.

Many of these are satirical in nature or at least intended to be humorous.