In 1958, while still in Singapore, Parkinson published his most famous work Parkinson's Law, a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first published in the Economist magazine in November 1955, satirizing government bureaucracies.

Printed examples emerged in 19th-century Germany and in 18th-century England, where some of the first satirical or humorous sequential narrative drawings were produced.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

" Chocolate Cake ", a humorous comment on American excesses that wasn't taken well by some US critics and sections of the American public, was released in June 1991 as the first single.

Each of the quartet would sing one line of the verse-a different one for each performance, followed by each cast member reciting some humorous reason for his misery in spoken form, then ( in the first several seasons ) the quartet would reprise the chorus and end with all four sobbing in typical overstated manner.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Fred Allen's December 30, 1936 radio broadcast included a humorous wrapup of the year's least important events, including a supposed interview with the man who " invented a negative craze " on April 1st: " Ramrod Dank ... the first man to coin a Knock Knock.

Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch, of Punch and Judy ; the name also referred to a joke made early on about one of the magazine's first editors, Lemon, that " punch is nothing without lemon ".

In the very first version of PGP, an encryption algorithm was given the humorous name BassOmatic ( after a skit on Saturday Night Live ) and Pretty Good Privacy itself is named after a Lake Wobegon fictional grocery store named " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ".

His first play, Les Pieds Nickelés ( Nickel-plated Feet ), was a great success and was representative of the style of his later work ( generally humorous ).

* Triple, a humorous paraprosdokian consisting of three statements, in which the third statement does not match the first two

The first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series were dubbed a trilogy, and even after he extended the series, author Douglas Adams continued to use the term for humorous effect-for example, calling Mostly Harmless " the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.

*" Two's a Crowd ," a humorous documentary short film explores the cohabitation of a married couple, who had lived separately for the first four years of their marriage.

Many couplets from Busch's humorous verses have achieved the status of adages in the German language, such as " Vater werden ist nicht schwer, Vater sein dagegen sehr " (" It's easy to become a father, but being one is harder rather ") or " Dieses war der erste Streich, doch der zweite folgt sogleich " (" This was the first initial trick, but then the second follows quick ").

" The Times praised both the libretto and the music of the first act (" Everything sparkles with the flashes of Mr. Gilbert's wit and the graces of Sir Arthur Sullivan's melodiousness ... one is almost at a loss what to select for quotation from an embarrassment of humorous riches.

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.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.

It is one of the first American movies which, under cover of humorous light romance, depicts the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin: rigid and gray, all the more so when compared to the free and sunny Parisian society of pre-War days.

A number of Amis's characteristics show up here for the first time: mordant black humour, obsession with the zeitgeist, authorial intervention, a character subjected to sadistically humorous misfortunes and humiliations, and a defiant casualness (" my attitude has been, I don't know much about science, but I know what I like ").

Later that same year, Wheaton released Memories of the Future: Volume 1, a humorous critique of the first thirteen episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

When filing the papers for the town with the BLM, Brown decided that the town should be named as a respectably humorous salute to the first President of the United States, George Washington.

This is the only episode in the first season in which Rod Serling appears on-screen and breaks the fourth wall ( in a rare humorous scene ).

In the film, while the Disney characters are represented as humorous versions of charros, gauchos, etc., Chile was represented as Pedro, a small airplane engaged in his very first flight, whose attempt to fly over the Andes to pick up air mail from Mendoza is humorously depicted.

The first recorded use of the phrase " lock and load " is in this film: twice as a metaphor for " get ready to fight " and once as a humorous invitation to drink alcohol ( get loaded ).

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

The first article said " the Spanish Nation is the Spaniards from both sides of the Atlantic ".

The resulting article in SURFER Magazine, " Quest for Fire " by journalist Sam George, put the Andaman Islands on the surfing map for the first time.

She has uncovered the politics behind the New York City Greenmarket, and was among the first to publish a long-form article in a major American newspaper about Ferran Adria of El Bulli.

Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place.

" Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident.

The Brezhnev Doctrine (, ) was a Soviet Union foreign policy, first and most clearly outlined by S. Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article, entitled " Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries.

The most important single article of the Magna Carta, related to " habeas corpus ", provided that the king was not permitted to imprison, outlaw, exile or kill anyone at a whim — there must be due process of law first.

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".

* Dutch: &# 39 ; t definite article of neuter nouns and third person singular neuter pronoun, &# 39 ; k first person pronoun, je second person singular pronoun, ie third person masculine singular pronoun, ze third person plural pronoun

The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone magazine.

Hubbard first introduced Dianetics to the public in the article Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science published in the May 1950 issue of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

* Knuth published his first " scientific " article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title " Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

According to Jan-Gustaf Ljunggren, in an article in the Swedish journal Läkartidningen ( 1983 ; No 32-33 ), in the 12th century, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, another Muslim physician, provided the first description of Graves ' disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.

In 1933, the Britannica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt " continuous revision ", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted and every article updated on a schedule.

Here we denote with the Bernoulli number of the second kind ( only because the historical reason of formation of this article ) which differ from the first kind only for the index 1.

He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for around six decades.

The first paragraph of the article contains an exception for lawful executions, although this exception has largely been superseded by Protocols 6 and 13.