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If a joke fell flat, he'd gesture accordingly ( and sometimes a cow's moo would be played in the background as to not let him continue ); if a studio crewmember ( the stage crew were unofficial participants of the show ) would make a flat joke, he would expel them from the studio in mock anger.
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In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished a year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks attract the most humor and silliness ; he said, " If you're going to tell a joke involving an animal, make it a duck.
Hicks's stand-up routine was removed from the show allegedly because Letterman and his producer were nervous about a religious joke (" If Jesus came back he might not want to see so many crosses ").
Berlioz's joke " If the Emperor of Russia wants me, then I am up for sale " was taken seriously.
He was asked to put it in writing, which he did, in English, while making the joke: ' If your guns are not better pointed than your pens, then you will make little impression on Copenhagen '.
If a joke did not get the desired chuckle, Douglass inserted additional laughter ; if the live audience chuckled too long, Douglass gradually muted the guffaws.
If a team earns three points without missing a single question, they have the option of going for the " Mother Lode " by answering two more questions correctly without missing one, or else a fictitious penalty is put upon them ( usually made up on the spot by Packard and related to a joke from earlier in the show ).
With the financial difficulties that later plagued Leloir's laboratories and research, he would joke, " If I had patented that sauce, we'd have a lot more money for research right now.
The joke has been adapted on the Internet with a number of pages saying " If you'd like to know how to keep an idiot busy for hours, click here.
If the need recurs ( or the joke is widely enjoyed ), nonce words easily enter regular use just because their meaning is obvious.
( If the listener laughs here, anticipating a racist joke, it is customary to reprimand them, saying things like, " Why did you laugh?
If his Act 1 material could be played as a joke, there's no doubt about the intentional viciousness of his attacks on Helena.
If the owners are caught peeking at the construction, they are " penalized " by Watson in the form of a practical joke.
" ( 189 ) When Charley refuses to urinate on the trees ( a " salute " for a dog, as Steinbeck remarks ), Steinbeck opines: "' If I thought he did it out of spite or to make a joke ,' I said to myself, ' I'd kill him out of hand.
If these meanings are not distinguished, the result may be the following categorical syllogism, which may be seen as a joke ( pun ):
" After Greenspan retired from the Federal Reserve, McCain later made the same joke that he would appoint him to a commission to review the tax code even if he were dead: " If he's dead, just prop him up and put some dark glasses on him like, like ' Weekend at Bernie's.
During the campaign, Williams publicly made a joke likening rape to bad weather, having quipped: " If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it ".
If Karen is depressed Smitty will tell her a tragic story about his own life, which she will laugh at thinking it is a joke.
At its peak, Watson's hotel employed English waitresses in its restaurant and ballroom, inspiring a common joke at the time: " If only Watson had imported the English weather as well.
" This is a reference to an advertising slogan of the ABC school of drawing and painting, " Si vous savez écrire, vous savez dessiner " (" If you can write, you can draw "), a joke about the graphical nature of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
When the Joker arrives, however, he is infuriated that Harley would try to kill Batman herself ; Harley explains her plan to him, but the Joker only gets angrier, roaring, " If you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!
If “ meme ” is chosen properly we remember the good, joke or song and would share it.
If and fell
If that's all the Romans did, it's a surprise to me that Rome fell.
If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.
If the prices fell, Ehrlich et al.
As James Hutton wrote: " If the stone, for example, which fell today, were to rise again tomorrow, there would be an end of natural philosophy science, our principles would fail, and we would no longer investigate the rules of nature from our observations.
If the pension benefit fell below a specified level, then such workers were allowed to substitute a wage figure of 75 % of the average wage during this period, thus creating something like a minimum wage benefit.
If you had the knack, Puck might do minor housework for you, quick fine needlework or butter-churning, which could be undone in a moment by his knavish tricks if you fell out of favour with him.
If she had remarried, all her children would share equally in her dowry, but the first husband's estate fell only to his children, or to her selection among them, if so empowered.
If they fell asleep, the waiters were instructed not to wake them.
If Zedekiah's years are by accession counting, whereby the year he came to the throne was considered his " zero " year and his first full year in office, 597 / 596, was counted as year one, Zedekiah's eleventh year, the year the city fell, would be 587 / 586.
If in response to a man overboard, put the rudder toward the person ( e. g., if the person fell over the starboard side, put the rudder over full to starboard ).
# If in response to a man overboard, put the rudder toward the person ( e. g., if the person fell over the starboard side, put the rudder over starboard full ).
If in response to a man overboard, put the rudder toward the person ( e. g., if the person fell over the starboard side, put the rudder over hard to starboard ).
Here also are the sonnet, If Music and sweet Poetrie agree, and the beautiful ode beginning As it fell upon a day, which were once attributed to Shakespeare himself.
If Antioch fell, he would be invincible.
If the ball fell to the ground, the player had to reach down from his horse to pick it up.
If the sheer power of a swing did not fell the horse or its rider, the bill's hook was excellent at finding a chink in the plate armour of cavalrymen at the time, dragging the unlucky horseman off his mount to be finished off with either a sword, spear or the bill itself.
If it was half the number who fell back in good order the rate would have been 64 %, in either case a Roman disaster, but perhaps not quite the one depicted by the authors if Scipio's army was not involved.
If the User wins a game, the sector the cube fell in is destroyed, and the sprites and binomes who were caught within are turned into energy-draining, worm-like parasites called nulls.
* If you nearly fell off your chair, it was because you were very surprised.
If you like to find the peace of mind, you can take snow shoes and walk to the nearest fell Kätkätunturi.
If after putting an orange in on one side, an orange fell out the other, it would be possible to make educated guesses or hypotheses on what was happening inside the black box.
If she shifted her feet they did so too, and fell to stamping their feet.
If the alliance fell apart, then the husband could send the wife back to her father in a political type divorce.
If the outside temperature fell to, the temperature display is automatically selected to warn of possible " black ice " road conditions.
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