Biographer Gary Carey notes: " She was a born storyteller and was always in peak form when reshaping a real-life encounter to make an amusing anecdote.

An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting account, which may depict a real incident or person.

He shared an amusing anecdote:

In an amusing anecdote recounted in Blackwood's Magazine, Dr. Mayne is said to have bequeathed a trunk to an old servant, noting that it contained something that would make him drink.

Simon is relaxing with Kaylee in the common room, telling her an amusing anecdote about medical school.

Since brevity is the soul of ambiguity as well as wit, newspaper headlines continually provide us with amusing samples.

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

the amusing `` Yurochka '', in which a hard-to-please young man is given his come-uppance ; ;

But, though the draugr usually presages death, there is an amusing account in Northern Norway of a Nordlending who managed to outwit him:

If a story is found to be untrue, it is disqualified, but particularly amusing ones are placed in the urban legend section of the archives.

Despite often objecting, Emma is usually party to ethically questionable practices and occasionally finds them amusing.

Comedy sometimes includes puns on false friends, which are considered particularly amusing if one of the two words is obscene ; when an obscene meaning is produced in these circumstances, it is called, Greek for " ill-sounding ".

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

It is not clear whether this is a true story, but it may have been found amusing at the time.

He incorporates the same stock characters constantly, especially when the character type is amusing to the audience.

" He also noted " It is amusing to recall that we fought the revolution in defense of the rights of man and the civil war to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles.

The editor of the Times laughed out loud when he read it, saying ' an official document is seldom amusing and useful yet this was both.

It is also a very readable book which relates many amusing incidents in his long and fruitful career.

As a whole it is largely commonplace ... Gilbert's dialogue in the first act is here and there very amusing, but in the second it is slow and tedious.

A performer will often take a stage name because his / her real name is considered unattractive, dull, unintentionally amusing or difficult to pronounce or spell, or because it has been used by another notable individual or because it projects an undesired image.

He tried to help around the house, although occasionally he botched tasks due to his great size and strength, but is otherwise considered quite a catch by the Addamses for his skill at more personal tasks, such as waxing Uncle Fester's head and amusing the children ( to whom he was deeply devoted ).

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

She had some amusing scandal about the Farneses in the old days.

By exploring ideas about Roman loyalty, Greek deceit, and differences in ethnicity, “ Plautus in a sense surpassed his model .” He was not content to rest solely on a loyal adaptation that, while amusing, was not new or engaging for Rome.

This genre of mathematics includes logic puzzles and other puzzles that require deductive reasoning, the aesthetics of mathematics, and peculiar or amusing stories and coincidences about mathematics and mathematicians.

There ain't nothin ' funny about a drunk [...] I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk.

John A. Lee's Shining with the Shiner ( 1944 ) tells amusing tales about New Zealand folk hero Ned Slattery ( 1840 – 1927 ) surviving by his wits and beating the Protestant work ethic.

Bacque's latest book, Putting On Conrad, about the experiences of producers trying to put on his play in the face of libel chill, is an amusing satire on Canada's literary establishment.

Tivoli's founder, Georg Carstensen ( b. 1812 – d. 1857 ), obtained a five-year charter to create Tivoli by telling King Christian VIII that " when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics ".

Lucian's practice was to travel about, giving amusing discourses and witty lectures improvised on the spot, somewhat as a rhapsode had done in declaiming poetry at an earlier period.

Familiar to Broadway, radio, movie and early television audiences, this " Apostle of Pep " was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five daughters.

Wilson found the repetitive nature of the questions to be so amusing -- and annoying -- that he wrote a song about them entitled " Biff's Question Song " which he now features regularly in his stand-up routine.

Instead of speaking about the poet in the ' parabasis proper ', the birds speak about themselves, outlining their genealogy, their value to the audience and their effect on the audience's vocabulary-in all these topics however there are amusing echoes of things a Chorus would ordinarily say on behalf of the poet.

In his review in the New York Times, Elvis Mitchell called " minty-cool " Helen Mirren and " deft " Julie Walters " a graceful pair of troupers " and " a sunny, amusing team " and described the film as " yet another professionally acted and staged wry-crisp comedy about British modesty ... that gets its laughs, but seems increasingly out of date ...

There is a most amusing story in Athenaeus about the boys in the inn at Agrigentum.

In one of the more amusing dispatches, Pollitt ( 1936 ) informed his Soviet contact about a recent visit to France to make campaign appearances for candidates from the French Communist Party.

* Die Tante Jolesch oder der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anekdoten ( 1975 ) ( a collection of amusing yet bittersweet anecdotes about Jewish life and personalities in pre-Nazi Vienna and Prague, and in the emigration ), translated by Maria Poglitsch Bauer and Sonat Hart, Ariadne Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-57241-149-4.

In England: A Nation, ( London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904 ), edited by Lucian Oldershaw, and in a chapter entitled " The Patriotic Idea " written by G. K. Chesterton, the beauty of Box Hill violated by an invading army is used to express a healthy patriot's love for his nation is opposed to the jingoistic nationalism of tabloid newspapers: " But just as a man who has been in love will find it difficult to write a whole frantic epic about a flirtation, so all that kind of rhetoric about the Union Jack and the Anglo-Saxon blood, which has made amusing the journalism of this country for the last six years, will be merely impossible to the man who has for one moment called up before himself what would be the real sensation of hearing that a foreign army was encamped on Box Hill.

It contained " many amusing and intense anecdotes ... but precious little about what was going on with him is revealed.

There ain't nothin ' funny about a drunk [...] I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk.

They also cite his poor singing and dancing as examples of his " amusing awkwardness ", which " spoke volumes about who he was ".