Her recent poetry books are Paper Affair: Poems Selected and New ( Black Moss 2010 ), Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry ( Scrivener Press 2010 ), and Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me ( Black Moss 2010 ), which was a finalist for the 2010 Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Prize, the 2010 Ottawa Book Awards, and the 2010 Archibald Lampman Poetry Prize.

Robert Kerr Fulton, OBE ( 15 April 1924 – 27 January 2004 ), more commonly known as Rikki Fulton, was a Scottish comedian and actor best remembered for writing and performing in the long-running BBC Scotland sketch show, Scotch and Wry.

From the end of the 1980s to beginning of the 1990s names like Pelvs, Planet Hemp, Karnak, Walverdes, Relespública, Garage fuzz, Beach Lizards, Virna Lisi, Wry, Killing Chainsaw, Pin Ups ( band ), Second Come, Okotô, Brincando de Deus and Boi Mamão are prominent.

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray grew up in Riddrie and the " Thaw " sections of his novel Lanark loosely document his early life there. Ricky Fulton of Scotch & Wry, Francie & Josie fame, raised in Almond street and went to Riddrie school at the top of the road

The two put together their first project in January 1995, a show about World War I entitled Innocent Millions Dead or Dying: A Wry Look at the Post-Apocalyptic Age ( With Songs ).

Alongside his Scotch and Wry co-stars, Gregor Fisher and Tony Roper, Fulton made two appearances in Rab C. Nesbitt ; once in 1988 and ten years later in 1998.

It is assumed that the Feist ( dog ), Bull Terrier, Smooth Fox Terrier, Manchester Terrier, Whippet, Italian Greyhound, the now extinct English White Terrier, Turnspit dog and or Wry Legged Terrier all share in the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier's ancestry.

For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.

" Wry, dry, laconic, he thought about cricket with a deep intensity and a splendidly ironic point of view ," wrote John Arlott.

* Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry, editor.

However, it was the comedy sketch show, Scotch and Wry, that became an institution at Hogmanay.

In tribute to his Scotch and Wry character, Supercop ( a police traffic officer ), police motorcyclists escorted the funeral cortège as it made its way to Clydebank Crematorium.

* Booknotes interview with Buckley on Wry Martinis, May 4, 1997.

The Long Kickline: A History of the Princeton Triangle Club, written in 1968 by Donald Marsden ' 64, provides a detailed chronology of the organization through the production of Sham on Wry in 1966-67.

Fisher also worked with the late Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton on the hit sketch show Scotch and Wry.

Phosphorescent rose to wider critical acclaim after releasing Aw Come Aw Wry in August 2005 and Pride in October 2007.

The 1961 production, Wry on the Rocks, introduced a satirical revue format in a cabaret atmosphere.

Among his notable pupils were pianist Howard Brown, tenor Gordon Wry, and composers Patricia Blomfield Holt, Walter MacNutt, and Kenneth Peacock.

Wry nose is a deviation of the rostral maxilla.

While in retirement, he wrote his memoir, Reuben On Wry.

In June, Keystone issued adverts in Britain with the words: " Are you prepared for the Chaplin boom?

Stars such as Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Russell appeared in adverts for the pieces and the availability of the collections in shops such as Woolworth made it possible for ordinary women to own and wear such jewelry.

The 2009 campaign for Foster's contains two 40-second adverts, " Backpacker " and " Deep Sea "; both end with the slogan, " Foster's – get some Australian in you.

Recent Foster's adverts have featured " Good call ", in which numerous English men phone up Australians Brad and Dan for general advice.

Many graffiti artists see legal advertising as no more than ' paid for and legalised graffiti ' and have risen against mainstream adverts.

He was to become one of the famous stars of the sport along with Stanley Matthews and others of the era, and was to be one of the first to appear in adverts ( for Brylcreem ), after Denis Compton.

In the United Kingdom, the Trakehner breed is most famous for being the horse featured in the long-running series of adverts for Lloyds TSB bank ( the horse Downlands Cancara was used in filming ).

Viz has had many different spoof adverts for various items, such as ornaments, dolls, sheds, china plates and novelty chess sets.

These poke fun at the genuine adverts for such items in magazines found in the colour supplements of Sunday newspapers.

Another staple of Viz advertisement parody are the adverts for public and government services which one would normally not expect to find advertised ; for example, one ad consisted of the words " Raped?

A long-running gag has been adverts for sheds, or rather surreal types of sheds (" TV Sheds ", " Shed Bikes ", " Shed Snakes ", etc .).

The studio went to efforts to promote the actor, releasing adverts for his second film Quick Millions ( 1931 ) with the headline " A New Star Shines.

His manner and voice meant Rushton was in constant demand for adverts, voice-overs and presenting jobs.

He was strongly opposed to the 2003 United States war against Iraq, and with fellow musician Damon Albarn personally paid for full page adverts in the NME magazine.

From 2005 to 2006 she appeared in adverts for insurance brokers Privilege.

For many years she became popular for her appearances in the Terry's Chocolate Orange adverts saying the famous line " It's not Terry's, it's mine!

* Odin makes contact with the Draycotts after seeing one of Cynthia Draycott's adverts for a soft drink, which seemingly involve various gods promoting the drink ; one of these adverts is seen when Dirk confronts Anstey's son early in the book.

Since entering into a coalition with For Fatherland and Freedom, the party increasingly sought to propagate a particularly ' Latvian ' vision for Latvia as highlighted by a series of controversial adverts encouraging the consumption of Latvian goods, and warning of the dangers of non-Latvians

He also provided the voice of Buzby, a talking cartoon bird that served as the mascot for the then Post Office, He also appeared reduced to OO gauge in adverts for Hornby model trains .< ref >

Evidently Marks had also sold Sullivan the rights to some of his 8mm sex films as well, as adverts by Kelerfern ( a Sullivan mail order company ) carried Marks-directed sex shorts like Hole in One, Nymphomania, King Muff and Doctor Sex for sale around this period.

As well as comic strips, it also included photo strips, joke articles, celebrity references, and adverts for phone lines and mail order products, many of a pornographic or sexual nature.

Small press comics are traditionally sold by mail, using reviews and classified adverts, websites, email lists and word of mouth to reach an audience.

As well as comic strips, it also included photo strips, joke articles, celebrity references, and adverts for phone lines and mail order products.