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Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so-lute-ly ...
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
These cute dad jokes and funny one-liners will have adults and kids laughing until their bellies hurt. Check out some of the best corny jokes of 2025.
Most East Asian characters are usually inscribed in an invisible square with a fixed width. Although there is also a history of half-width characters , many Japanese, Korean and Chinese fonts include full-width forms for the letters of the basic roman alphabet and also include digits and punctuation as found in US ASCII .
The Simpsons has had some of the best characters on television, and not every one of them has Simpson in their last name. In that period, I can tell you that Homer and Bart have definitely gotten ...
A sarcastic response written on a table that reads "Wow, you are SO deep!" Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. [1] Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, [2] although it is not necessarily ironic. [3]
'Live, laugh, love': The most crushing Gen Z insult, explained
Involves character comedy; the comedian uses the skill of ventriloquy to "throw his or her voice" into a dummy or puppet character. The ventriloquist generally speaks as the "straight man" and gives the comic lines to the dummy. Exceptionally skilled ventriloquists can make the dummy sing.