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 ).

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

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

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

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 adverts for mail order " objets de tat " will require prospective buyers to commit to exorbitant, protracted payment arrangements and demand they give up the opportunity to put right their error, once the thrill of actually holding a " Lady Diana Full English Breakfast Plate of Hope " has faded.

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.

* Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry, editor.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wry nose is a deviation of the rostral maxilla.

Coolidge's laconic ways and dry humor were characteristic of stereotypical rural " Yankee humor " at the turn of the 20th century.

The distant, dry, laconic tone of the narrator is balanced by the openness and honesty of the story.

The novels are also well liked for the laconic style, sharp cutting dialogue, and dry humor.

Saito's personality comes off to others as laconic, bland and very serious, but he does have a dry sense of humor that tends to come out around Okita, and also a more hysterical side that later starts to make its presence show when regarding his relationship with Sei.

The Spartans were especially famous for their dry wit, which we now know as " laconic humour ".

A novel assay that mimics dry bacterial exposure to touch surfaces was developed because this test method is thought to more closely replicate real world touch surface exposure conditions.

It is thought that before the Ice Age Greenland had mountainous edges, and a lowland ( and probably very dry ) center which drained to the sea by one big river flowing out westwards past where Disko Island is now.

... everybody hated him because he was very dry, and I thought he was wonderful because he was very dry.

Up to 20 % of the dry weight of the endospore consists of calcium dipicolinate within the core, which is thought to stabilize the DNA.

According to the Oakland Zoo in California, East African Hedgehogs are thought to estivate during the dry season.

He took over a well that was thought to be a dry hole.

The species are so distinct that when Charles Darwin collected them in the islands he thought they were completely different birds, and it was only when he was back in London in 1837 that the ornithologist John Gould revealed that they were closely allied, reinforcing Darwin's growing view that “ species are not immutable .” The adaptations of their numerous species, in three genera, show diverging evolution to exploit several ecological niches in the rugged and dry Galápagos Islands.

A dry fly is typically thought to represent an insect landing on, falling on ( terrestrials ), or emerging from, the water's surface as might a grasshopper, dragonfly, mayfly, ant, beetle, stonefly or caddisfly.

Where species, like the Buff-throated Sunbird, breed in the dry season, it is thought to be associated with the flowering of favoured food plants.

The obvious defects of this theory, ( 1 ) that the senses alone cannot apprehend matter itself, ( 2 ) that it is not clear how the multiplicity of phenomena could result from these two forces, thought it is no less convincing than Aristotles hot / cold, dry / wet explanation, and ( 3 ) that he adduced no evidence to substantiate the existence of these two forces, were pointed out at the time by his pupil, Patrizzi.

Although it was evidently a dry season Flemming, who was described by King as " very intelligent ", thought from the appearance of the herbage that " there is not often so great a scarcity of water as at present ".

The name " Mani " is thought to have originally meant " dry " or " treeless.

Palliser discovered it was a dry land with no trees ; thus, he thought it would be unsuitable for growing crops.

( 1 ) The variation of geology and topology in dry climates is thought to have a greater effect upon plants than in areas with high rainfall.

The two words terra and tellus are thought to derive from the formulaic phrase tersa tellus, meaning " dry land ".

Ward, a young traveling salesman of dry goods, was concerned over the plight of many rural Midwest Americans who were, he thought, being overcharged and under-served by many of the small town retailers on whom they had to rely for their general merchandise.

He established that north of the Kolyma River and Cape Shelagsky there was an open sea, not dry land, as people thought.

The terms wet moon and dry moon originate from Hawaiian mythology, where it was thought that the moon appeared as a bowl which would fill up with rain.

Initially thought to survive only about 2 hours in a dry environment, and about 48 hours in a damp environment ( such as a litter box ) a new paper published by Cornell vets ( http :// www. vet. cornell. edu / FHC / news /) titled " Can FeLV survive in the environment?

Downstream, when he saw the dry river bed, he thought it was an ideal place to pray to Lord Shiva.

He was appreciated for his archaizing style in the 2nd century CE, but others thought that his language was antiquated and his style dry.

Whereas haze often is thought of as a phenomenon of dry air, mist formation is a phenomenon of humid air.

The island is only separated from the mainland at times of high sea-level such as the present and is thought to have had dry land connections to the mainland for most of the past few million years.