Other serious authors also produced clerihews, including W. H. Auden, and it remains a popular humorous form among other writers and the general public.

Bill Hoest and other cartoonists of that decade drew cartoons showing Volkswagens, and these were published along with humorous automotive essays by such humorists as H. Allen Smith, Roger Price and Jean Shepherd.

As is common on other internet forums, simple faux-HTML tags and action tags, such as < sarcasm > and < backs away slowly >, respectively, are sometimes used for a humorous effect.

The humor Plautus offered, such as “ puns, word plays, distortions of meaning, or other forms of verbal humor he usually puts them in the mouths of characters belonging to the lower social ranks, to whose language and position these varieties of humorous technique are most suitable ,” matched well with the stable of characters.

In Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), Mark Twain, on the other hand, satirized the impact of Scott's writings, declaring ( with humorous hyperbole ) that Scott " had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

" The command commonly produces a humorous response in other Infocom games and text adventures, leading to its usage in the title of the interactive fiction competition, the XYZZY Awards.

Some other humorous parts:

Reality television is a television programming that presents purportedly unscripted melodramatic or " humorous " situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded.

" There are several other folk and humorous etymologies for the term.

In addition to " Leader Kibo ," other Kibologists have developed cult followings of their own from their unusual and humorous writing.

Their conversation consists mainly of bouts of humorous negotiations and mockery of their associates or other business rivals.

However the humorous depiction of Mongkut as a polka-dancing despot, as well as the king's and Anna's apparent romantic feeling for each other, is condemned as disrespectful in Bangkok, where the Rodgers and Hammerstein film was banned by the Thai Government.

In keeping with the zany atmosphere, the music supervisors also used other notable musical works to add to humorous situations.

He is remembered for his comic character, Sam Slick, who appeared in The Clockmaker and other humorous works throughout Haliburton's life.

: This subgenre in its current usage is imitative in its style to mock, comment on, or trivialise the genre's established traits, subjects, auteurs ' styles or some other target by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

The main story is assisted by many other humorous sub-plots.

One other use of the distinction that occurs in some languages is the expression of " mock respect ", essentially a humorous way of expressing disapproval, by the use of the formal form to address people with whom one would not normally use it, such as children or close friends.

The tonal language is similar to Nielsen's other symphonies, but the symphony soon degenerates into a number of cameos, some sad, some grotesque, some humorous.

In a similar vein were his illustrations for John Sack's Report from Practically Nowhere ( 1959 ), a collection of humorous travel vignettes previously appearing in Playboy and other magazines.

; Cats and Coffee warning: A Cats and Coffee warning or C & C warning is a satirical warning that a usenet posting or other writing may contain humorous material.

The group's music is characterized by aggressive, yet danceable bass-driven backbeats overlaid by humorous, hopeful and sometimes violent lyrics criticizing capitalism, American politics, patriarchal exploitation, and police brutality, among other things.

His father, Jacques-François Deluc, was the author of some publications in refutation of Mandeville and other rationalistic writers, which are best known through Rousseau's humorous account of his ennui in reading them ; and he gave his son an excellent education, chiefly in mathematics and natural science.

Aside from the Animal House appearance, the song appeared in many other films, typically in raucous and humorous contexts.

A parody in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

The adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

This slow drying aspect of oil can be seen as an advantage for certain techniques, but in other regards it impedes the artist trying to work quickly.

In his book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the unique aspect of the Jewish prophets as compared to other similar figures.

The inability to comprehend any aspect of the thing other than its properties implies, this argument maintains, that one cannot conceive of a bare particular ( a substance without properties ), an implication that directly opposes substance theory.

By the early 1920s, unit operations became an important aspect of chemical engineering at MIT and other US universities, as well as at Imperial College London.

In various traditions chakras are associated with multiple physiological functions, an aspect of consciousness, a classical element, and other distinguishing characteristics.

Like most other types of subpixel rendering, ClearType actually involves a compromise, sacrificing one aspect of image quality ( color or chrominance detail ) for another ( light and dark or luminance detail ).

It is clear from this piece and other writings, that while the political portion of Defoe's life was fairly dominant, it was by no means the only aspect.

In contrast to other species, E. invadens forms cysts in vitro in the absence of bacteria and is used as a model system to study this aspect of the life cycle.

" A. S. Rautian, on the other hand, argues that the reproduction of ancestral patterns of development is a key aspect of certain biological systems.

Every other aspect of film making originated in a different medium than film ( photography, art direction, writing, sound recording ), but editing is the one process that is unique to film.

Often referred to as Gaianism, or the Gaian Religion, this spiritual aspect of the philosophy is very broad and inclusive, making it adaptable to other religions: Taoism, Neo-Paganism, Pantheism, Judeo-Christian Religions, and many others.

" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.

Conjugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, voice, or other grammatical categories.

While tense relates the time of a situation to some other time, commonly the time of speaking, aspect conveys other temporal information, such as duration, completion, or frequency, as it relates to the time of action.

Even languages that do not mark aspect morphologically or through auxiliary verbs, however, can convey such distinctions by the use of adverbs or other syntactic constructions.

Sometimes, English has a lexical distinction where other languages may use the distinction in grammatical aspect.

However, rather than locating an event or state in time, the way tense does, aspect describes " the internal temporal constituency of a situation ", or in other words, aspect is a way " of conceiving the flow of the process itself ".

The other factor in situation aspect is duration, which is also a property of a verb phrase.

In other language groups, for example in most modern Indo-European languages ( except Slavic languages ), aspect has become almost entirely conflated, in the verbal morphological system, with time.

Her familiar Homeric epithet Boôpis, is always translated " cow-eyed ", for, like the Greeks of Classical times, its other natural translation " cow-faced " or at least " of cow aspect " is rejected.

Ibn al-Salah, a hadith specialist, described the relationship between hadith and other aspect of the religion by saying: " It is the science most pervasive in respect to the other sciences in their various branches, in particular to jurisprudence being the most important of them.