There was a question-and-answer gag that went around at that time: Q. `` Who'll carry the Forty-second and Forty-third wards ''??

In 2005, there was internal conflict about whether or not a gag rule should be imposed on ACLU employees to prevent publication of internal disputes.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

Another recurring gag was for other characters to mispronounce his name, often, particularly in the case of rivals, deliberately.

On some occasions, new gag cartoons have been created for book publication, as was the case with Think Small, a 1967 promotional book distributed as a giveaway by Volkswagen dealers.

While an inbetweener, Barks submitted gag ideas for cartoon story lines being developed and showed such a knack for creating comical situations that by 1937 he was transferred to the story department.

Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was ( principally with partner Jack Hannah ) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and ( if approved by Walt ) put into production.

The following week it was reported a gag order had been placed on the band regarding further public statements on the matter.

The gag rule was ultimately retained.

The gag order was supposedly at the request of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

His friends all assumed he was completing intelligence assignments, interpreting his denials as part of a legal gag.

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A gag order was imposed during the trial, prohibiting attorneys on either side from commenting to the press on the evidence, proceedings, or opinions regarding the trial proceedings.

This was done by Joe as a gag in 1998, mostly as a personal exercise to see if he could remember how to still use the level editor.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

Although most fans assume ( and the lyrics of " I Bought Myself a Liarbird " from The Big Express imply ) that there was some financial impropriety involved, the terms of the settlement imposed a " gag " on the band and have prevented them from speaking publicly about the matter.

As portrayed by Sellers, Clouseau ’ s French accent became steadily more exaggerated in successive films ( for example, pronouncing " room " as " reum "; " Pope " as " Peup "; " bomb " as " beumb "; and " bumps " as " beumps "), and a frequent running gag in the movies was that even French characters would have difficulty understanding what he was saying.

The brothers drove around in a comical bubble car, a precursor to the famous Trotters ' van ; and there was even the gag where, just as he was trying to impress the girl ( played by Cheryl Hall ) Jason casually leaned back against the bar, without his knowing that barman had just lifted it behind his back, and fell through.

" As with waterings, the sliming gag was used in almost every episode, especially from 1982 onward ( a number of 1979 and 1981 episodes featured no slime at all, and slime is known to have been used on only one episode of Whatever Turns You On ).

" ( In subsequent rewrites of these skits for an episode of Whatever Turns You On, the question was changed to " Name one of the Great Lakes "; that rewrite of the gag was also reused in at least one 1981 episode.

There he spoke out against the gag rule intended to put a stop to anti-slavery petitions.

In a similar manner, a ' gag law ' is intended to limit freedom of the press, by instituting censorship or restricting access to information.

The use of a phallus shape is intended to give it an erotic connotation, but it may be a large knob similar to a ball gag or it may be inflatable.

As an intended running gag throughout the anime, whenever Shu does something that irritates Meg to the limit of her patience, she delivers her " Meg Chop " to Shu's head ( in one case, she has used the chop on the Maze Octopus " Rapper King ").

As the name implies —" gag " being a show business term for a comedic idea — these cartoons are most often intended to provoke laughter.

" This subsequently became a running gag on the show where adults mispronounced their names, Tom Anderson originally calling them " Butthole and Joe ," and believing the two to be of Asian ethnicity ( describing them to the police as " Oriental ").

A horizontal strip can also be used for a single panel with a single gag, as seen occasionally in Mike Peters ' Mother Goose and Grimm.

This gag initially started as suggestions that the answers be written " on the back of a twenty dollar bill ".

In the House Adams became a champion of free speech, demanding that petitions against slavery be heard despite a " gag rule " that said they could not be heard.

In both cases, the gag or shank rein will be the bottom rein in the rider's hands, while the snaffle rein will be the top rein.

If a gag bit is used, there will be a drop noseband in addition to the cavesson, supporting the tie-down.

Technology changes to suit whatever a gag requires ; a battle with spears and arrows might be followed by a peasant using an ATM.

A positive test result is the involuntary contraction of the jaw ( biting down on the " spatula "), and a negative test result would normally be a gag reflex attempting to expel the foreign object.

A running gag with Clouseau in this and the following film is that he randomly attacks his partner to keep him on his toes, only to be successfully countered, and complimenting him.

A gag rule may be formally neutral, that is, forbidding discussions or arguments either for or against a particular policy.

Since the original gag was a resolution, not a standing House Rule, it had to be renewed every session, and Adams and others had free rein until then.

The gag would be reused in many cartoon shorts to come.

The " hair gag " would later be used by English comedian Benny Hill in the closing chase sequence of his April 25, 1984 show.

" Knowing how Don Rosa like to play a gag, it is likely that this city would be Eureka, California ( Eureka meaning ' I found it '!).

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

David said, ' When he looks at me and flare those nostrils ; and he would be gone ,' it would be such a wonderful thing to see this great big guy just reduced to a giggling idiot by Harry, but unfortunately, all I could do is to tell you, we had great fun doing the show ; and much of it was laughing at some silly gag that one of us had pulled on the others.

Letterman then chats with the audience and Shaffer, sometimes relating an anecdote from his personal life, sometimes discussing his anticipation of a particular guest ; a running gag may be featured.

Some could be expensive, such as his famous used car salesman routine with a jalopy and a breakaway floor: it cost $ 12, 000 to produce the six-second gag.

Another prediction, that the Berlin Wall would be destroyed in 1989, also came true, although the follow-up gag that it would be " quickly replaced by a moat full of alligators " obviously did not.