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Colman, whose witty conversation made him a favourite, was also the author of a great deal of so-called humorous poetry (mostly coarse, though much of it was popular) – My Night Gown and Slippers (1797), reprinted under the name of Broad Grins, in 1802; and Poetical Vagaries (1812). Some of his writings were published under the assumed name ...
L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier (UK: / l ɛ ˌ s p r iː d (ə l) ɛ ˈ s k æ l j eɪ /, US: / l ɛ ˌ s p r iː d (ə ˌ l) ɛ s k ə ˈ l j eɪ /, [1] French: [lɛspʁi d(ə l)ɛskalje]; lit. ' staircase wit ') is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.
Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH ICAO spelling alphabet : where Mike signifies M and Romeo R Conventional abbreviations for US cities and states: for example, " New York " can indicate NY and " California " CA or CAL .
A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. [1] It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line, whereby the humorous element of the story is revealed; this can be done ...
Two Congressional panels grilled CEO Andrew Witty about the cyberattack on the company's Change Healthcare unit, which processes around 50% of all medical claims in the U.S.
J. Jo Frost: Family Matters. John Bishop: In Conversation With... Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series) The Justin Lee Collins Show. Justin Lee Collins: Good Times.
Parsecs are used in astronomy to measure interstellar distances. A parsec is approximately 3.26 light-years or about 3.086×10 16 m (1.917×10 13 mi). Combining it with the "atto-" prefix (×10 −18) yields attoparsec (apc), a conveniently human-scaled unit of about 3.086 centimetres (1.215 in) that is used only humorously.
The dining room of a New York residence. Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays. [ 1] The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner ...