When the object of study happens to be some type of discourse ( a speech, a poem, a joke, a newspaper article ), the aim of rhetorical analysis is not simply to describe the claims and arguments advanced within the disourse, but ( more important ) to identify the specific semiotic strategies employed by the speaker to accomplish specific persuasive goals.

Several months later, when Tesla had finished the work and asked to be paid, he said that Edison replied, " When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke.

When used in this manner, the iris wipe may be centered around a certain focal point and may be used as a device for a " parting shot " joke, a fourth wall-breaching wink by a character, or other purposes.

When booting a Cr-48 from developer mode, when the screen displays the " sad laptop " image, pressing xyzzy produces a joke BSOD screen.

When the punchline was delivered, there would be a laugh track and the actors would close their lockers, allowing the process to start again with different people and a different joke.

* Japanese children sing this melody with improvised lyrics of " Monkey ( in Japanese, saru )-Gorilla-Chimpanzee " as a joke, while among grown-ups the lyrics as a title " Kuchibue Fuite ( When We Whistle ) are well known after a 1963 NHK children's program, Minna no Uta, performed this song.

When McGee tells a bad joke, Molly often answers with the line " T ' aint funny, McGee!

", in exactly the same way Lou did in the Abbott and Costello movies, repeating a joke from Brooks ' Robin Hood sitcom When Things Were Rotten in which Van Patten shouted the line.

When, prior to the recording, LaBour told Bailey that his article had been intended as a joke, Bailey sighed and replied " Well, we have an hour of television to do ; you're going to have to go along with this.

When the news was announced some thought it to be an April Fool's joke.

When the officials thought he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly after the medal ceremony and was banned for a year by the AAU for this stunt, later winning the 1905 Boston Marathon.

When he found out that they wanted to place him into " joke classes " so he would get good grades, he turned down the offer.

When it became clear after a few days that the joke was not going to subside, the party's official name was quickly changed to the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, but was almost always called simply " the Canadian Alliance " or " the Alliance ".

When network censors cut a joke about a " water closet " ( the British term for a toilet ), on February 11, 1960, he received national attention by leaving the show and did not return until three weeks later.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85 – 90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

# " When e ' er I spoke sarcastic joke " ( King Gama, Ladies ' Chorus )

# " When e ' er I spoke sarcastic joke " ( King Gama, Ladies ' Chorus )

Asked why he did not leave Jerusalem for Tel Aviv, he later said, “ Tel Aviv was not radical enough – only the kibbutz was radical enough .” However by his own account he was “ a disaster as a laborer ... the joke of the kibbutz .” When Oz first began to write, the kibbutz gave him one day a week to write ; when his book “ My Michael ” became a best-seller, and he had become “ a branch of the farm ”, three days ; and in the eighties he had four days for writing, while teaching for two days and taking turns as a waiter in the kibbutz dining hall on Saturdays .”

When someone made a joke about his severe visage, and some of the local politicians he was not on good terms with laughed in response, he remarked, " My frown never yet made any of you sad, but these jolly men have given you plenty of sorrow.

'" When asked about sex, LaLanne had a standard joke, saying that despite their advanced age, he and his wife still made love almost every night: " Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday ..." He explained his reasons for exercising:

When this same joke was used in the episode " The Juice Is Loose ," the entirety of Twitty performing " I See the Want To in Your Eyes " was shown.

When the workers tried to order a suitable ship's anchor chain from London, the managers in London cancelled the first order because they thought it was a joke.

:" When I first heard about the Nebra Disc I thought it was a joke, indeed I thought it was a forgery.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.