Gags that prevent communication may also prevent the communication of distress that might otherwise prevent injury.

Gags may be classified as over-the-mouth type, mouth stuffing type or mouth opening type.

Gags can use many different types of blow-off ( ending ), but some of the most popular are the confetti bucket, the long shirt, a pants drop or the time-honored " all clowns exit running " although contemporary indoor shows may end a clown gag with a simple blackout.

Each Gag track has seven Gags which must be earned, each level Gag being stronger than the last.

Gags in the strips commonly deal with Garfield's obesity ( in one strip, Jon jokes, " I wouldn't say Garfield is fat, but the last time he got on a Ferris wheel, the two guys on top starved to death "), and his hatred of any form of exertion or work.

Gags galore were delivered weekly on Stop Me If You've Heard This One and Can You Top This ?, panel programs devoted to the art of telling jokes.

Gags can also refer to the prop stunts / tricks or the stunts that clowns use, such as a squirting flower.

In 2000, JFL Gags began airing on French Canadian network Télé Québec.

After taking down a major diamond score, Frank's fence, Joe Gags ( Hal Frank ), is murdered for being on the take-pushed out of a 12th story window.

`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

Otherwise what is or is not divine may be loosely defined, as it is used by different belief systems.

Parallel computing may be seen as a particular tightly coupled form of distributed computing, and distributed computing may be seen as a loosely coupled form of parallel computing.

It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.

Physics today may be divided loosely into classical physics and modern physics.

It may be argued, therefore, that the ability to grow long, straight, densely packed hair provides a distinct evolutionary advantage in cold climate ; however, it would be a distinct disadvantage in a hot climate, when compared to loosely packed, spongy, closely cropped hair.

Old English poets often place a series of synonyms in apposition, and these may include kennings ( loosely or strictly defined ) as well as the literal referent: Hrōðgar maþelode, helm Scyldinga [...] “ Hrothgar, helm (= protector, lord ) of the Scyldings, said [...]” ( Beowulf 456 ).

These midrashim are sometimes referred to as aggadah or haggadah, a loosely defined term that may refer to all non-legal discourse in classical rabbinic literature.

A synthetic polymer may be loosely described as crystalline if it contains regions of three-dimensional ordering on atomic ( rather than macromolecular ) length scales, usually arising from intramolecular folding and / or stacking of adjacent chains.

For purposes of exposition, views about religious pluralism may be loosely classified into views about 1 ) inter-religious pluralism and 2 ) intra-religious pluralism.

It may be more accurately described as a game loosely based on Shadowrun.

The latter may range from loss of train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to incoherence known as word salad in severe cases.

The bar may be forged as part of the spearhead or may be more loosely tied by means of loops below the blade.

Thus, taekwondo may be loosely translated as " the way of the hand and the foot.

Currently, 32 IBM mainframes may share the TPF database ; if such a system were in operation, it would be called 32-way loosely coupled.

Beta Tucanae consists of a group of six stars that may be loosely gravitationally bound into a system.

In North American colloquialism, the word " tool " may be loosely used to describe an individual of low mental capacity ( essentially, an " idiot ") or someone who fails to realise that they are being taken advantage of by others.

The terms is strictly used to refer to gridded ion thrusters, but may often more loosely be applied to all electric propulsion systems that accelerate plasma, since plasma consists of ions.

* Nightgown, or nightie, a loosely hanging item of nightwear, may vary from hip-length ( babydoll ) to floor-length ( peignoir ).

( The other four in the modern interpretation, different from the Greeks ' ideas, are: baryonic matter ; radiation – photons and the highly relativistic neutrinos, which may be considered hot dark matter ; cold dark matter ; and the term due to spatial curvature – loosely, gravitational self-energy.

Note that the size of the columns depends loosely on the rate of cooling ; very rapid cooling may result in very small (< 1 cm diameter ) columns, while slow cooling is more likely to produce large columns.

Note that in common use the term convection may refer loosely to heat transfer by convection, as opposed to mass transfer by convection, or the convection process in general.