" The Sunday Herald wrote: " Kids love the Horrible Histories series because of Terry Deary's unstuffy approach and the amount of carnage featured.

* Terry Deary's Tales ( written by Terry Deary )

* Horrible Histories on Terry Deary's official site

* Terry Deary's homepage

* Terry Deary's speech at the Game Based Learning Conference, London, March 2009

Dirk has also worked on audiotape adaptations of Terry Deary's Horrible Histories books and is audio director for the Animated Mr Bean television series, which means that everything heard in the show has gone through Dirk's hands at some point.

With a new emphasis on " star " characters, Terrytoons featured the adventures of Super Mouse ( later renamed Mighty Mouse ), the talking magpies Heckle and Jeckle, silly Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck, mischievous mouse Little Roquefort, and The Terry Bears.

Worden was a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, " displaying a mischievous glee as she frightened him with human hairballs and wicked-looking Victorian surgical tools, only to disarm him with her antic laugh " and appeared in numerous PBS, BBC and cable television documentaries ( including an episode of Errol Morris ' show First Person ) as well as NPR's " Fresh Air with Terry Gross " on the museum's behalf.

The song selections on the first album reflected the repertoire that the musicians had been working on for two years — re-imagined traditional songs inspired by The Weavers like " Santy Anno " and " Bay of Mexico ," calypso-flavored tunes reminiscent of the hugely popular Harry Belafonte recordings of the time such as " Banua " and " Sloop John B ", and a mix of both foreign language and contemporary songwriter numbers, including Terry Gilkyson's " Fast Freight " and " Scotch and Soda ", whose authorship remains unknown as of 2011.

A nine-track version of the album ( featuring Ludwin on lead vocals, but with plenty of Terry Bickers ' vocals and guitar parts retained in the mix ) was eventually released through Festival Records in Australia and was followed by two EPs.

# " Calling Occupants " ( anti-adversary mix ) ( John Woloschuk / Terry Draper )

# " December Dream " ( full-length mix ) ( John Woloschuk / Terry Draper )

#" Kokomo " ( stereo single mix ) ( John Phillips / Mike Love / Terry Melcher / Scott McKenzie ) – 3: 35

The show was firmly based in the tradition of Northern comedy, in that much of the humour arose from the fact that Bob and Terry were living in a matriarchal society.

Misquoted or misadvised aphorisms are frequently used as a source of humour ; for instance, wordplays of aphorisms appear in the works of P. G. Wodehouse, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

As Terry Pratchett notes in The Art of Discworld, humour, as a profession, is hard, and nowhere is it harder than in the Fools ' Guild.

A popular example of self-parodying heroic fantasy is provided by the British writer Terry Pratchett, whose parodies of the genre are widely acknowledged as a prime example of British humour.

Terry Pratchett, in his ' Discworld ' novels, makes several references to the poem's well-known opening two lines " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold "; much of the humour springing from a misunderstanding of ' cohorts ' to mean part of a suit of armour.

The first two games are often compared with the Monkey Island series in terms of style and humour, and the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels and derivative games.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the Ankh-Morpork Assassins ' Guild has a far more sadistic variant of the " Wall Game ", and is essentially an extreme hybrid of rock-climbing and dodgeball.

Modern-day statistics guru Bill James, who rates Lindstrom No. 43 on his all-time third basemen list, placed him among the top three under-21 players at that position and called the 1927 Giant infield of Lindstrom, Hornsby, Travis Jackson and Bill Terry the decade ’ s best.

At these meetings, CEO Terry Lundgren has maintained that former Marshall Field's locations have been successful and profitable, noting that the Walnut Room had recently experienced its most visitors since they started keeping statistics.

Havelock Vetinari, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of over thirty books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of-even more or less subtle jokes about-our ' Roundworld ' or Earth.

In particular, he objected so strongly to one character – ' Ken Shabby ' – that the sketch was removed, leaving both Terry Jones and Michael Palin to complain much later that the vast majority of the film was " nothing more than jokes behind desks.

The scripts involved clichéd relationships and stilted dialogue, making the show the butt of several jokes ( particularly on Terry Wogan's morning Radio 2 programme ) which caused some embarrassment to the BBC.

Terry Jones and Michael Palin, both later to become members of Monty Python's Flying Circus, wrote jokes for the show.

It has often been mocked: Terry Castle says that " like many bookish lesbians I seem to have spent much of my adult life making jokes about it ", and Mary Renault, who read it in 1938, remembered laughing at its " earnest humourlessness " and " impermissible allowance of self-pity ".

He is Judy's best friend and roommate and usually hangs out with her ( and helps her play some horrible jokes on Laurence ) but unlike Judy, Terry is one of the very few people who seems to actually like Laurence.

The 2012 Northern Territory General Election resulted in the party winning 16 out of 25 seats under the leadership of Terry Mills, defeating the Incumbent Labor Government lead by Paul Henderson.

When a caution came out with 15 laps to go, leader Terry Labonte got hit from behind by the lapped car of Darrell Waltrip.

In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

Australia enforced the follow-on and piled on the pressure ; Gooch was out for 0 on his third ball of the first over caught by Terry Alderman off the bowling of Dennis Lillee.

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

Terry Gilliam later said, " They pulled out on the Thursday.

* 2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who was named Super Bowl MVP, completed 17 out of 30 passes for Super Bowl records of 318 passing yards and 4 touchdown passes.

Troy Aikman finished the game with 15 out of 23 completions for 209 yards and a touchdown ( Aikman became just the third quarterback to win three Super Bowls ; Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana each won four ).

Terry Moore stated that ' I started out wanting to do a newspaper strip, and tried one idea after another before I realised I hated the gag-a-day life and really wanted to try a story instead.

Terry Robiskie was named interim coach to finish out the season, which ended with an 8 – 8 record.

Terry is used to coax a popular dockworker, Joey Doyle ( Ben Wagner ), out to an ambush, preventing him from testifying against Friendly before the Crime Commission.

Terry sets out to shoot Friendly, but Father Barry obstructs that course of action and finally convinces Terry to fight Friendly by testifying.

* Christopher Craig and his " gang " ( Vincent and Terry ) spend a great deal of their spare time hanging out in a Croyden Milk Bar in the movie Let Him Have It.

The totally inexperienced Terry is so horribly bad during rehearsals that Powell tries desperately to get out of his contract with Sims.

Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ) but dropped out to work on recording an album.

The Greys were led by Matt Baxter with a 9-2 record and 2. 47 ERA while the bullpen was led by Terry Pearson, who recorded 20 saves and a. 50 ERA and stuck out 43 batters in 36 innings while only walking eight batters for the entire season.

This may have been true in part but actually Bob needed little persuasion to stay out drinking with Terry or to behave accordingly.

Mayor Joe Wright announced his resignation from the office as of January 14, 2011 ; CIty Councilman John Jennings was named as Interim Mayor, until the appointment of Terry Dilk on January 25, 2011 by the Marion County Republican Committee to fill out Wright's term through the 2011 elections.

Terry Knight, a singer on Capitol Records, had witnessed the Beatles ' White Album session during which drummer Ringo Starr had walked out and, in May 1969, released a song called " Saint Paul " about the impending break-up of The Beatles.

However, with Frank McLintock and Terry Neill competing for the centre half position, Ure found himself being squeezed out towards the end of that decade, and he left Arsenal in August 1969 to join Manchester United.

The programme-Sir Terry Pratchett's Choosing To Die-told the story of Peter's journey to the end where he used The Dignitas Clinic, a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland, to assist him in carrying out the taking of his own life.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and found that it was " told with a cheerfulness and a light touch that never betray the time and money it took to create them ", appreciating " the sly wit and satire that sneaks in here and there from director Terry Gilliam and his collaborators, who were mostly forged in the mill of Monty Python ".