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.

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.

The gag was intended to be revealed in the final episode of the series, but was scrapped early on due to inconsistencies, and also to the fact that rabbit ears would be too fictitious even for The Simpsons.

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.

Modern single-panel gag cartoons, found in magazines, generally consist of a single drawing with a typeset caption positioned beneath or ( much less often ) a speech balloon.

In most cases, " The Man of a Thousand Voices ," Mel Blanc, contributed the animals ' gag lines, often lowering his voice one to two full octaves, far below the range he used to voice the character of Barney Rubble.

The stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard often impersonates James Mason's voice saying it is the voice of God ; it is a running gag in his shows.

He is often accompanied by his dog " K-9 ", and sometimes by other creatures ( one gag, first used in Hare-Way to the Stars ( 1957 ), being candy-sized " Instant Martians " that become full-size on addition of drops of water ).

Because gifts of value would mark social status contrary to the spirit of the season, these were often the pottery or wax figurines called sigillaria made specially for the day, candles, or " gag gifts ", of which Augustus was particularly fond.

* The song Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms is often used in a famous gag in a number of Warner Brothers cartoons, usually involving a piano or Xylophone rigged to explode when a certain note is played.

An often used running gag is that catgirls habitually end their lines of speech with the phrase, the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's meow.

At one point, Archie outright asks permission to date Midge, and Moose declined the request, but it showed, that at least Archie has the courtesy to ask him, whereas Reggie will stoop to dating her on the sly-which often results in Moose pounding up Reggie-as a running gag.

They often burst at the seams after a few uses, although they are commonly given as gag gifts and therefore many may not be used at all.

They toned the gag down after 1941, though they kept it going often enough as the years continued, climaxing on Allen's May 26, 1946 show, in which a sketch called " King for a Day ," satirizing big-money game shows, featured Benny pretending to be a contestant named Myron Proudfoot on Allen's new quiz show.

The humor in a running gag may derive entirely from how often it is repeated, the ( in ) appropriateness of the situation in which the gag occurs, or setting up the audience to expect another occurrence of the joke and then substituting something else ( bait and switch ).

As a running gag, a nervous Stan often vomits whenever Wendy approaches to kiss or speak to him.

Because the jury was sequestered, an attorney gag order would not have been supported by any appellate court, leading to often chaotic scenes outside the courthouse.

Another running gag is a satire on the fact that Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman and Brian Blessed are often typecast as over-the-top, melodramatic or camp stock villains in films and TV shows.

A gag is usually a device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help.

This is common in BDSM, but in practice these sorts of gag can usually be got rid of by working the jaws about and / or pushing with the tongue, and they often do not stop the victim from making a loud inarticulate noise to call for help.

As another running gag, Peggy often calls attention to her part in something for its own sake.

A recurring gag is her inability to understand what people around her are talking about, often mixing up words and taking insult at conversations not directed at her.

A long-running gag depicted Joey and Chandler occasionally fighting with each other like an old married couple, with Chandler often assuming the wife's role — this eventually ended when Chandler became permanently paired with Monica.

Another common gag is during games such as Report Card and Odds Makers, Dan Le Batard's name will often be Don, rather than Dan.

In a running gag, starting in the episode " Dammit Janet !," Chris is regularly tormented by an evil monkey who lives in his closet, though whenever he complains about it to anyone, they don't believe him ( a reference to the iconic tale of the Boy Who Cried Wolf ) and often laugh him off instead, after which the monkey appears with a malevolent grimace and points at Chris in a threatening manner.

In a running gag, Jaime can often be seen rejecting the Scarab's ( also voiced by Lopez ) more violent and bloodthirsty suggestions (" No, it would not have been easier to just vaporize him back in the diner!