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Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, [3] [4] a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's ...
A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking. [1] Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh, though it is possible for some persons to occupy both roles in the course of their careers.
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An edition of American humor magazine Crazy, Man, Crazy from 1956. A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire and parody, but some also put an emphasis on cartoons, caricature, absurdity, one-liners, witty aphorisms, surrealism, neuroticism, gelotology, emotion-regulating humor, and/or humorous essays.
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
[[Category:Humorous user templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Humorous user templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos) 2. head (i.e. the beginning, as in da capo) capriccio "A humorous, fanciful, or bizarre, composition, often characterized by an idiosyncratic departure from current stylistic norms." [5] See also: Capriccio (disambiguation) capriccioso
Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays.