The fire department is using this amusing anecdote as an opportunity to stress the importance of smoke detectors.
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As a Washingtonian, I have to share this amusing anecdote: Pruitt is bristling at the presence of former Washington state senator Don Benton, who ran the president's Washington state campaign and is now the EPA's senior White House adviser ... These officials said Benton piped up so frequently during policy discussions that he had been disinvited from many of them.
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According to a legend, in 1415 when Mehmet II was to forced to swear an oath, he hid a pigeon under his shirt and holding the pigeon he promised that as long as this life continues, there will be no assault to Ottoman lands.A Karaman page This amusing anecdote is probably a fabrication.
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The review in the January 1873 Quarterly Journal of Science concluded that "although some parts are a little tedious, from the amount of minute detail required, there is throughout so much of acute observation and amusing anecdote as to render it perhaps more attractive to general readers than any of Mr. Darwin's previous work".
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His sermons, which show no special theological bias, had considerable literary merit. He had an original vein of humour, which made even his reports as a school inspector unusually amusing. He had extraordinary powers of elocution and mimicry. As a reader he was unsurpassable, and his college friends describe his powers of amusing anecdote as astonishing.
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A now amusing anecdote is told of Louis' reaction to this change by Virginia Morell, "Ancestral Passions", Chapter 21. Louis attended a presentation by the young David Pilbeam, then a graduate student, in Chicago in 1965. Louis interrupted by yelling at Pilbeam to "shut up", among other words. Not finding any support among his mentors and supporters, Pilbeam told Louis to shut up and went on with the presentation.
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He was a family man who would regularly take his family out to dinner at Tali's restaurant every week and have a large dinner. Frank DeCicco later told Gravano an amusing anecdote about a robbery that Paruta, himself and several other criminal associates had arranged to pull off. He stated, > It seems in his early days, Frank (DeCicco) was going on a robbery with some > guys. And for this particular score, they needed a lockpicker.
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Johnson entertained fans at the 1996 MST3K Conventio-Con-Expo-Fest-a-Rama 2: Electric Boogaloo on the "Celebrity Panel". Johnson was invited for his role in the movie-within-a-movie of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, This Island Earth, but spent most of the time answering questions about his Gilligan's Island days. He shared an amusing anecdote: Johnson once participated in the Ig Nobel award presentation ceremony, credited as "The Professor Emeritus of Gilligan's Island".
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Loos continued writing as a magazine contributor, appearing regularly in Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Biographer Gary Carey notes: "She was a born storyteller and was always in peak form when reshaping a real-life encounter to make an amusing anecdote." Loos began a volume of memoirs, A Girl Like I, published in September 1966. Her 1972 book, Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now, was written in collaboration with friend and actress Helen Hayes.
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Even the script writer, Matt Mason, went on to become a best- > selling author and included the amusing anecdote in his book.": In 2017, music publication TheRansomNote cited the Booo Krooo as the first in the grime comedy genre. > "Boo Kroo are pretty much forgotten now - they started life as a comic strip > that appeared regularly in RWD Magazine. Three useless MCs trying to ride > the garage wave, Boo Kroo were essentially a proto version of People Just Do > Nothing.
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Though not in the first rank, they are brimful of shrewd sense, genial humour, amusing anecdote, apt quotation, and duly italicised puns. Eagles wrote on the fine arts as a critic of the old- fashioned school, to which he loyally adhered in artistic as in other matters. Scattered throughout The Sketcher are many pleasing lyrics. A selection from these and other of his poems, original or translated, was made by the author's friend, John Mathew Gutch, and fifty copies printed for private distribution, 8vo, Worcester, 1857.
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With a rapier wit, Tooke excelled in situations where "a ready repartee, a shrewd cross-question, ridicule and banter, a caustic remark or an amusing anecdote, whatever set [himself] off to advantage, or gratifie[d] the curiosity or piqued the self-love of the hearers, [could] keep ... attention alive and secure[d] his triumph ...." As a "satirist" and "a sophist" he could provoke "admiration by expressing his contempt for each of his adversaries in turn, and by setting their opinion at defiance."Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 50.
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J. W. Sexton High School, conservatory, exterior, 2002 The Warren S. Holmes Co. emphasized that the most important part of the entire project was the planning. The firm spent over a year researching the community's needs and wants to create an appropriate structure. Retired structural engineer and partner of the firm, Howard Hunter, recalled an amusing anecdote. He remembered that when the firm was researching what educators wanted in their new school, the biology/taxidermy teacher said he would like a conservatory large enough to house considerably sized animals and maintain an entire ecosystem.
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As Serenity flies by a planet, River lies in bed listening to not-quite-audible voices. She arises and takes a walk through the ship's rooms and corridors, in her bare feet, encountering her shipmates in varied conversations with each other. Simon is relaxing with Kaylee in the common room, telling her an amusing anecdote about medical school. River suddenly "sees" them looking at her, with Simon telling her that he'd "be there right now", implying she is responsible for taking him away from his successful medical career.
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Penny Dolan, Mr Pod and Mr Piccalilli, Illustrated by Nick Sharratt, Publisher Walker Books, 2005, , , 32 pages. The semi- autobiographical book Vet In Harness (published in North America as All Things Bright And Beautiful) by James Herriot includes an amusing anecdote in which Herriot uses a particularly spicy piccalilli to help make an unsavory meal more palatable and avoid offending his well-meaning hosts. This story was also published by Reader's Digest magazine (and several Herriot compilations) under the title "The Piccalilli Saves My Bacon". Piccalilli receives an honorable mention in the Harry Champion song, "A Little Bit of Cucumber".
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Mayne wrote two plays before giving up poetry as unbefitting his station: The City Match (1639), a domestic farce acted at Whitehall by the command of King Charles I; and The Amorous War (1648), a tragicomedy. His other works include a number of poems and sermons; translations of Lucian of Samosata (1638, 1664), and John Donne's Latin Epigrams; and the preface to the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher first folio. In an amusing anecdote recounted in Blackwood's Magazine, Dr. Mayne is said to have bequeathed a trunk to an old servant, noting that it contained something that would make him drink.
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There were some opposition to his rule in Normandy, yet it proved remarkably easy to rule, especially compared to the County of Toulouse which had been brutally conquered. The Conseil du Roi, which would evolve into the Parlement, was founded in these times. After his conflict with King Henry III of England, Louis established a cordial relation with the Plantagenet King. An amusing anecdote is about Henry III's attending the French Parlement, as Duke of Aquitaine; however, the King of England was always late because he liked to stop each time he met a priest to hear the mass, so Louis made sure no priest was on the way of Henry III.
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Allen's jokes, when he still lacked access to television, were regularly stolen by top mainstream shows The Red Skelton Show and Laugh In. quotation: Several episodes of The Simpsons, including "Missionary: Impossible", "Treehouse of Horror XIII" and "The Italian Bob" have poked fun at Family Guy, implying that MacFarlane's show is guilty of stealing jokes and premises from The Simpsons. However, the producers of both shows have said that there is no serious feud between the two of them and their shows. In 2017 the Australian television show host Grant Denyer was interviewed on the radio programme The Grill Team, which is on 2MMM. In the interview, The Grill Teams co-host Matty Johns told an amusing anecdote about introducing a child to the board game Test Match.
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Smith was one of the founder members of the Queen's Park club, based in Glasgow. In his "Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches" written in 1890, David Bone describes Smith thus: > The least known, perhaps, of the original international men, but one whose > name will ever be honoured by many of the older school of players, and > locally Queen's Park members, is Mr. James Smith, who died some years ago in > London. Mr. Smith was, in conjunction with his brother Robert, early > associated with the game in Scotland, and was an original member of the > Queen's Park. Mr. Archibald Rae, the first secretary of the Scottish > Football Association, and at one time an active member of the Queen's Park > (and a beautiful dribbler in his day), tells an amusing anecdote of Smith, > while playing against the Hamilton Club, leaping on the top of a hedge to > win a touch-down, which in those days counted a point in the game.
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Contrary to Yankovic's belief that the song would not be popular, it was one of the best-received songs from the album, and Yankovic incorporated the song as an encore to his tours. When performing this song live, Yankovic has been known to extend the song, by listing off more types of doughnuts, including blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, boysenberry, loganberry, gooseberry, Halle Berry, old-fashioned doughnuts and Nanaimo bars (when performing in British Columbia), as well as Saskatoon berry donuts (when performing in Saskatchewan); listing more names "Zelda" calls Yankovic; not telling the "amusing anecdote" at first; and even starting the song over completely after he "loses his train of thought." When performing this song live in Canada, Al is known to replace the dream job at Sizzler with one at Tim Hortons, a Canadian doughnut shop. During the guitar solo of the third chorus, Yankovic sometimes introduces West eagerly, but West plays "Mary Had a Little Lamb" instead of the real solo.
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But his place in history as an inventor, also is accompanied by an amusing anecdote about the presentation of his invention in society: A letter from the period read: "... designed to rotate on small metal wheels. Provided a couple of these skates and a violin, he joined a dance dress held in Carlisle-House, Soho Square in the heart of London . An additional ways to reduce their speed or control their direction, was to give valued against a mirror located at the end of the ballroom. Not only resulted in breakage of the same and his violin but also was severely hurt. " After this fiasco, not again oirse on skates until 1790, when a Parisian blacksmith invented a skid on wheels called "skate-a-terre." However, it took about 25 years to win recognition that this skid. In Berlin in 1818, skates on wheels were used for the first time in the premiere of the ballet "Der Maler oder die Wintervergnügungen" ( "The artist or winter Pleasures"). The ballet was created to skate on ice, but as it was not possible to produce ice on stage, were used wheeled skates.
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