I have been cocky and tried toasting buttered bread, especially when the butter is still hard (snicker snicker) from being in the fridge.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The Great Moderation – snicker, snort.
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Our former selves snicker behind their hands as they pack.
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After watching Amma's revision, the men in the room uniformly snicker.
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"People point and snicker and I am terribly depressed," he said.
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They snicker and scoff when she has the baby in the office.
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You may even snicker because you think you've seen this flick before.
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Homo erectus has some new competition in the snicker-inducing species names category.
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It all made for a snicker-worthy story when the audio was posted online.
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In that context, Westbrook's snicker about Curry's defense becomes more understandable if not less arrogant.
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But SETI scientists know better than most the risks of being seen as snicker-worthy.
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Snicker all you want, but the $3.5 billion health services industry could use a little disruption.
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Listen, maybe after launch, we'll all become accustomed to referring to Peacock without an accompanying snicker. Maybe!
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The Falcon isn't a ship that goes snicker snack from one heading to another, it arcs and swerves.
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"People would just snicker behind me," Freed, now 22, tells PEOPLE for the 2019 Half Their Size issue.
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I wear them around Brooklyn, the bottoms of the pants tucked into Uggs, practically daring people to snicker.
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Snicker if you want, but a journalist's primary mission is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
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If you snicker or say nothing while your fellow men behave like Donald Trump, you are no better.
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Sadly the powers that be overturn every rock, scab, and snicker he makes to make him seem worse.
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At the playground, the kids gather around a camera tripod and snicker, as though sharing an inside joke.
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Adults might snicker, but I could distract the kids by pointing out facts about other animals in the vicinity.
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"They were talking about chip-equipped bar codes or something," Martens told me, breaking into a nerdy snicker-giggle.
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It was easy to snicker when he asked African- American audiences what they had to lose by supporting him.
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And while "Mortal Engines" offers plenty to snicker at, the same might be said of the ancients' movie formulas.
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Turn it on for a satisfying snicker as we all pick up our briefcases and beat each other to death.
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Laugh, smile, smirk, snicker ... whatever it was, Judge Brinkley did not immediately rule on Meek's motion for a new trial.
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Picture this: after work, three robots meet at the charging station to snicker at the profile of ASS-R 371.
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It's reactive, chasing the lowest common denominator of what will get 12 or five or three million people to snicker.
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Old-guard philanthropy may snicker, but so did the other sectors that Bezos has decimated during his reign at Amazon.
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These words serve a triple purpose: They disarm the opponent, calm you down and make you smile ... or at least snicker.
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I'm having a right serious moment, but then I hear a distinct snicker, and a tall, skinny blur goes breezing by.
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A very unusual position to expect a strike from, and it happened to snicker-snack Pettis's skin in just the right way.
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That notion might make some people snicker, just like others chuckled when a reality TV host launched a presidential bid in 2015.
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Mr. Gardner will unloose monologues — unfiltered, gale-force and repetitive — that can set professors' teeth on edge and lead classmates to snicker.
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Romo, with a faint snicker, then suggested that there was "always a little gray area," when it came to the rule's enforcement.
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One weekend, three latinx teens, wearing gear fit for the Tour de France, snicker among themselves, threatening each other with ribald jokes.
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Snicker if you'd like, but Yang notes that many diseases are understood through examining feces and understanding what is and isn't normal.
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As far as our producers … I don't recall hearing anything from them when we pitched them other than a snicker or a laugh.
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Twitter was a place to catch up on trending news and snicker at stranger's remarks regarding whatever was on TV at the time.
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"When I say, 'We need to come from a place of love,' people roll their eyes and snicker," she said of elected officials.
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Bold, snicker-out-loud funny, magnetic and unsettling through its power-struggle convolutions, this production musically and dramatically fills the company's looming proscenium.
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While some delegates snicker that a candidate with only one delegate could be allowed on the presidential ballot, Trump supporters like Orrock aren't worried.
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They're in your presence, and they're being obsequious, and then they leave, and they run to their Georgetown salons, and they snicker about you.
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It is easy now to snicker at that earlier quip about the burden of being a Jewish star, but Myerson was, indeed, very famous.
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James Corden is a pro at making others snicker, but there are times when he just can't help but catch a fit of giggles himself.
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You may snicker at first at the primitive special effects (or graphics), and sometimes the old clothes, hairstyles and acting may be hard to take seriously.
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Ignoring the muffled snicker from an elderly man mincing chilies in the background, I squat down and do my best not to torch the whole creature.
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While we snicker behind our coffee cups at the more egregious examples, there are still plenty of other ways to get fired that may surprise you.
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So, firstly, Drake chooses to imitate Rihanna's curt, staccato original flow, which is already snicker-worthy because he doesn't sound nearly as tough as she does.
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If there was a game, I had found a way to graft a photo mode onto it (PC game photographers, yes, you are allowed to snicker here).
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But y'all really like the way meat tastes, and rather than follow your empathy to its natural conclusion, you'd rather look away and snicker at the silly vegans.
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It's disappointing that Graham's conclusions—remarkably in line with what we now know to be true—are lost on those who are quick to snicker at his idiosyncrasies.
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Sure, a lot of people still snicker about the Dow 36,000 book from 1999 and point to it as Exhibit A for the market mania two decades ago.
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Republicans like to snicker at Democrats for getting their "panties in a knot," but ignoring science is turning them into the party that is increasingly out of touch.
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The half guard continued to be case of Rua desperately looking for sweeps and Jones' elbows snicker-snacking across Rua's face whenever a break in the action presented itself.
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Washington (CNN)Former President George W. Bush made his successor, Barack Obama, noticeably snicker at a joke delivered during Bill Clinton's speech at a hurricane relief benefit concert in Texas.
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But researchers who study laughter say reflecting on when and why you titter, snicker or guffaw is a worthy exercise, given that laughter can harm as much as help you.
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She shadows physicians perfecting techniques for penis transplants (you may snicker, but losing genitalia to an IED is a scar many solders have had to bear, with few options for reconstruction).
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She was wearing a lapel microphone and her sobs were still audible over the courtroom speakers while she was outside of the room, causing Chapo's wife, Coronel, to smile and snicker.
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On Saturday, Miller conceded with a snicker that most American sports fans will have no idea that he left the sport until they tune into the Winter Olympics in two months.
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Her small-minded neighbors and classmates snicker behind her back about how her father has undoubtedly left her mother and how her preternaturally wise baby brother Charles Wallace is clearly a moron.
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Someday we'll probably have wireless earbuds that are so inconspicuous they'll make the Dash look laughably big and obtrusive, sort of how we snicker when we look back at old cell phones.
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We don't want an audience to watch the debate with Joe because we know Joe is going to fall apart, an audience makes that harder as they laugh and snicker and whatnot.
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Celebrity minders will surely snicker knowingly at "Gemini," Aaron Katz's neo-noir caper, in which Jill, a personal assistant to the Hollywood starlet Heather, navigates the murky abyss between loyalty and servitude.
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By the time she admitted her use of a private email server was a "mistake," and he leaned into his mic to snicker, "That's for sure," I knew he'd taken the bait.
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As a rapper, he jabbers, scampering through dense clusters of rhymes in a deep, vibrant, honey-coated snicker, with a touch of amused smugness in his voice that's undercut by sheer energy.
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The rest of the country is going to snicker, but Fisker's upcoming all-electric SUV, called Ocean, unveiled a feature this week to honor the car's West Coast roots and SoCal vibes.
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While some Americans may snicker at snooker, it's one of Britain's most popular games, with millions who play and who watch live coverage on the BBC, and it's growing in countries like China.
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One season later, Collins patrols his space at the rear of the Giants' defense with cunning and conviction — an evolving star who can snicker at the befuddlement he once felt on the field.
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Their leaders may seemingly snicker as President Trump spoke to them in Brussels about paying their fair share, but it does not change their new reality in the relationship with the United States.
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Up until then he used to listen politely to his nightly bedtime story, but on this night I first heard a snicker, then a chuckle and by the last page he was roaring with laughter.
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Even the fruit emoji are the most playfully immature of the bunch: If you don't know what the little cartoon peach is supposed to signify, well, ask the nearest seventh grader and watch her snicker.
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Snicker-spurring misdeeds by politicians here are about as common as college football national titles, but, like the specter of N.C.A.A. rules violations, the Bentley affair has cast a cloud over Mr. Strange's Senate seat.
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"All things menstrual continue to be stigmatized; people still snicker when periods are raised in conversation despite the fact that it is a normal biological function experienced monthly by more than half the population," Rosenthal said.
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When Miller remarks that an attendee's fortune may be suffering due to "a square Uranus," there isn't so much as a snicker (for the record, in an odd slip-up, Miller pronounces said planet's name as Ur-AR-nus).
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It's a measure of how far Sanders has moved the party to the left over these past four years that policies that brought a snicker to many establishment Democrats in 229 are now the mainstream views of the rank-and-file.
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"When the work of journalists basically pokes fun at crime and activities that no reasonable person would be involved in, it's on us to get beyond the snicker and laugh and sneer and look at if there's a bigger issue," Tompkins said.
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We saw a hint of this dynamic in the last Democratic debate, too, with a ridiculous question asked of Hillary Clinton about gender roles in the White House that was essentially a barely-concealed snicker over the idea of Bill Clinton picking out flowers.
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The bottom line: Snicker if you like but people like Sandy Hingston, a boomer from Philly, are in a condiment crisis over the obsolescence of her potato salad and deviled eggs in favor of foods containing mustard, ketchup, salsa, kimchi, wasabi — anything but mayo.
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Key among these are: Changing the Conversation to How Things Get Done, Not IF They Will Get Done: Washington insiders snicker at the dysfunctional relationship between the Hill and the White House, on which they blame the failure to repeal ObamaCare and pass immigration reform.
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They are most visible on leisurely summer road trips, when a detour to take a selfie with a chicken or to snicker at a 114-year-old statue's bare butt won't make anyone late for the cranberry relish or the Easter ham, but they are always there.
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If I was clueless on the internal politics of the Clinton administration — Labor Secretary Robert Reich must still snicker at the fat kiss I gave him, in a Sunday profile, as the liberal mastermind of White House economic policy — Kennedy and his wonks were good to me.
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This is not to say the politics of Black Panther should escape scrutiny; its professed solution of outreach programs and UN speeches is not exactly a middle ground between complete isolation and Killmonger's agenda, and any familiarity with the United Nations might lead you to snicker at Marvel's weird optimism.
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In a month or so, Richardson might indeed have reason to crow, and with the power of hindsight, the Jets can snicker at anyone who had the audacity to doubt them Sunday after watching Russell Wilson, slowed by two leg injuries, dissect them for 103 yards on 23-of-32 passing.
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He tried to make the ban — the Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act, or "Ego" Act — permanent, but Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, personally objected to the measure on the Senate floor, leaving some Republicans to snicker that he just wanted his painting paid for when he retires next year.
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" By "everything" they meant: "lady fingers, fuzz buttles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do das, crap flappers, whistlin' bung-holes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, and just one single whistlin' kitty chaser.
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I might not have known EDESSA, but in return, I got to snicker at the entry CHEEPS for the clue "What small cranes may produce" and ponder the fact that we live in an era where a relatively recent and succinct phrase like NOT EVEN can be seen in The New York Times Crossword.
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While Anirban described placing samples of healthy omentum — an apron of tissue hanging over the intestines — in a petri dish and then adding cancer cells, I remembered how, unbeknown to me, slithy growths had burbled through my abdomen, whiffling through my omentum, ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus and a section of my bowels, all of which had to be snicker-snacked.
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"I've never been in another conference where people didn't laugh or snicker when I announced what the title of my talk was," said Joel Anderson, an associate professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, one of a handful of philosophers who also do research in this niche field, dominated by psychologists and behavioral economists.
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I'm partial to What a Time to Be Alive, his collaboration with Drake, which got dismissed as interim product when it came out yet swerves to life with more spirit than any of the mixtapes — the beats fusing murk and gleam, Future's deep growl contrasting markedly with Drake's smug snicker, each rapper trying to outdo the other so they can claim the project as theirs.
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Sofronoff also commented that Bleijie's comments had "the hint of a nasty schoolboy's snicker in it".
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She writes children's novels, including her novel A Snicker of Magic which was a New York Times bestseller.
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In a forum post at Gatsbys fansite Snicker at the Swine, Bobby stated the following in regards to future albums or tours: During the hiatus, most of the members started side projects.
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The TV show was smart enough to trade on both the sentimentality and the shockability of its viewers, encouraging them to sigh at romantic satisfaction and, at the same time, to snicker at the dirty talk that gave it spice.
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17Andreyev, Judith Wondering about Words: D'où Viennent Les Mots Anglais ? p.56 # the overtness: snicker, snigger, guffaw. # the respiratory pattern involved: snort. # the emotion it is expressed with: relief, mirth, joy, happiness, embarrassment, apology, confusion, nervous laughter, paradoxical laughter, courtesy laugh, evil laughter.
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The Durban Ice Arena offers a large group of group building works out, birthday parties, bunch parties, school occasions and trips, ice appears, ice hockey exercises and ice skating/figure skating exercises all under one rooftop; making a charming snicker a-minute affair for all.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy gained a reputation for deviousness. Computer Gaming World reported on rumors that "several important people within the [video game] industry cannot (snicker, snicker!!!) even get out of [the] first room!" Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship, which would translate the Vogon language to English. This tricky puzzle appeared early in the game and required the player to use a variety of obscure items in a specific fashion to create a Rube Goldberg-like chain of events, and the puzzle had to be "solved" within a limited number of turns.
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One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker- > snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. As with much of the poem's vocabulary, the reader is left to guess at the meaning of "vorpal" from the context.
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He likes helping him out. Buzz - A young and inquisitive blue and yellow quadbike who is sometimes said to be "too small". He also liked to get into trouble with Snicker the foal in the first series, and arguably Tom's closest friend. Now in the second series, he is now a well behaved boy and likes helping Tom out.
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In fact, after the third time, people started to wonder and snicker at the 13-year-old, at which Muhammad replied that the wisdom Ali contained exceed the wisdom of the group assembled. Some Shias assert that Ali should not even be called a convert, as he and Muhammad were hanif monotheists, and had refused to worship idols even from birth.
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Purdey - Farmer Fi's pet cat who is rather lazy and is a friend of Wheezy's. Mo - The only cow on the farm and hence sometimes gets lonely but otherwise an ordinary cow character. Winnie - A horse who tends to not be very excited, except when it comes to carrots. Snicker - Winnie's foal who likes to get into mischief with Buzz and his favourite food is sugar cubes, but also, like Winnie, loves carrots.
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When Carter takes out the trash, Lucy, who is smoking on her roof, watches him. He drops the trash, and Lucy begins to snicker; hearing her laughter, Carter turns toward her, and she hides in the shadow of the roof. Sarah hears the noise and comes outside with her dog, Bozo, and warmly introduces herself to Carter. They have a brief talk before Lucy's friends arrive loudly down the road and Sarah goes back inside.
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He cuts Sands' hair and beard; the men throw Sands in the bathtub and scrub him clean before hauling him away again. Later, the prisoners are taken out of their cells and given second-hand civilian clothing. The guards snicker as they hand the clothes to the prisoners who respond, after Sands' initial action, by tearing up the clothes and wrecking their cells. A large number of riot police enter the prison on a truck.
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He had his aircraft painted distinctively striped in black and white. As his victory score mounted, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class and House Order of Hohenzollern. In November 1917, he and his squadron mate Goering each had 15 kills, and both still coveted the highest Prussian decoration - the blue enamel cross of the Pour le Mérite. Thirty years later, Loerzer would snicker to colleagues that Goering had inflated his mission claims.
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" People columnist Janice Min wrote that "the most egregious crime at the 68th Academy Awards on March 25 was–egad!–the relentless elegance and good taste that deprived viewers of genuine, Grade A snicker fodder. Television critic Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times applauded Goldberg's performance, noting that her "confident performance [...] was symbolic of her whopping improvement as host over her showing on the 1994 Oscars." Some media outlets were more critical of the show.
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This is often furthered by the combined effect of the meaning beyond just the sounds themselves. The California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. uses Emily Dickinson's "A Bird Came Down the Walk" as an example of euphonious poetry, one passage being "...Oars divide the Ocean, / Too silver for a seam" and John Updike's "Player Piano" as an example of cacophonous poetry, one passage being "My stick fingers click with a snicker / And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys".
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Christopher Farah on Salon.com described the book as one "that may make the cynics out there snicker, the literary purists smirk, and the sentimentalists weep with joy or smug, self-fulfilled sadness." The book's film adaptation has been met with positive reviews. Variety magazine Ronnie Scheib praised the performances of Bar-Or and Belfer, saying "[they] manage to inject their characters with enough wistfulness, sweetness and compassion to prevent their strength from reading as self-righteousness.".
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They continue to chase him until he jumps into a bush. The bees flee, causing Pluto to snicker at his good fortune before he realizes he landed in a bush of poison ivy. While he is scratching himself from the itching, he lands into some goldenrods, which release their pollen, inducing a sneezing fit as his allergies get triggered. Then the sky gets dark as a strong April shower starts coming down with thunder followed by hail, chasing Pluto back to his doghouse.
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Narcoleptic Pianist on CDbaby (Somnifacient Records, 2002) – an hour-long nonstop piano solo written for insomniacs. Warped Children’s Songs (Somnifacient Records, 2007) – parodies of children’s songs, such as Mary Had A Business Plan and Row, Row, Row Your Raft. Piano Petrissage on CDbaby (Somnifacient Records, 2010) – an hour-plus nonstop piano solo composed and arranged for play during massage therapy sessions, yoga sessions, and meditation. Od-Ditties on CDbaby (Somnifacient Records, 2011) - Recorded Live at RavenCon 2011; songs to make your inner nerd snicker.
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The first chapter gets published as a "prologue to a novel" under the pen name "A. Ilyin" although Tal had requested the pen name "I(lya) Annenski" (not being aware that Annensky was a famous Russian writer). Nevertheless, he is extremely proud and happy about his success, although behind his back, people snicker. When he has a chance to meet the editor, he overhears a conversation where the editor defends accepting the article; it is of "hopeless mediocrity" and was only accepted because of the money.
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Wild Orchid Children is another band featuring Huffman and O'Quin. In August 2007, the band started a MySpace page and posted a single song, titled "Ahead of Us the Secret" which was also made available for free download at Gatsbys fansite Snicker At The Swine. The band features musicians from other prominent Seattle bands The Divorce and Forgive Durden. The band started taking pre-orders in late October 2007 for a 4-song EP, which includes the songs released for streaming on the band's Myspace page.
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Muttley is sometimes confused with the crime-fighting dog Mumbly from The Mumbly Cartoon Show. Mumbly looked very similar to Muttley and had the same wheezy snicker, but their ears were different and Mumbly had blue fur and wore a trenchcoat. Mumbly later showed up as the captain of the villainous Really Rottens in Laff-a-Lympics along with his accomplice, "The Dread Baron," who resembles Dick Dastardly. The Dread Baron and Mumbly later appeared in the TV movie Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose.
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The movie starts with a young Miss Julie aimlessly wandering in the empty confines of her family’s manor house. We hear her calling to her absent mother and walking by a babbling brook where she sees one of her dolls stuck in a tree. She lets out a snicker at the sight of the abandoned doll, and leaves the brook. We jump to Midsummer Night 1890, where the same manor is deserted, save for three individuals; Kathleen the cook (Samantha Morton), John the valet (Colin Farrell) and Miss Julie (Jessica Chastain), the Baron’s daughter.
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Alex and Daniel are both close friends with the Hodsons, who are a bohemian, academic middle-class family living somewhere in a leafy London suburb. They alternate having Sunday dinner with the Hodsons, who are quite aware of their relationships but don't talk about them, though the Hodson children are inclined to snicker. Alex also has a depressed client who has recently lost his job to age discrimination. They sleep together at Alex's flat, and then Bob announces his arrival, forcing them to pretend to be having a casual drink.
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While the teenagers snicker, Marge fails miserably to get her point across about sex. Elsewhere, Lisa enjoys Bob's company despite Homer's usage of the Bunsen burner to toast the rest of the marshmallows since he already ate all the chocolates. At home, Homer tries to squeeze in some alone time with Marge, yet an angry Marge decides to use Homer as an example for her sex education class. Marge brings Homer to church to tell her class that she has abstained from sex with her partner for two days.
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Desson Howe of the Washington Post called the film "head-scratchingly ordinary" and wrote, "Even by the fast-and-loose standards of action filmmaking, Collateral Damage is a disappointment." Claudia Puig of USA Today said, "It's laughably unbelievable, yet it's hard to snicker at anything involving terrorists, even Collaterals obscure Colombian variety. What we get is simply another opportunity for Schwarzenegger — who seems to be in perpetual Terminator mode — to flex his muscles." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three out of four stars and described it as "a skillfully made example of your typical Schwarzenegger action film".
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Amy Reiter of The Los Angeles Times liked the episode and described it as "the kind that makes you belly-laugh and chortle and snicker despite your better judgment". The introduction of Ricky Martin as David Martinez was welcomed by most reviewers. Futterman wrote that "Ricky Martin carried on the Gwyneth Paltrow tradition of pretty great guest teacher cameos", and TVLine Michael Slezak said that the episode was good "at least whenever Ricky Martin appeared on screen". VanDerWerff called him "fun and infectious", and Kate Stanhope of TV Guide said he "showed himself to be a guest star with mucho potential".
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Schneider found the combination of the Randnet's web browser and the mouse to provide a "passable surfing experience". He described the portal's private content as "much too limited", where "[a]nyone who has used the Internet would snicker at the lack of up-to-date contents or tools offered on Randnet". He was disappointed in the companies' failure to have ever delivered certain promised online features, such as game beta testing and music distribution. But it provides new users with a "simple network [which] functions as first baby steps into the vast world of the Internet".
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Douglass frequently combined different laughs, either long or short in length. Attentive viewers could spot when he decided to mix chuckles together to give the effect of a more diverse audience. Rather than being simple recordings of a laughing audience, Douglass's laughs were carefully generated and mixed, giving some laughs detailed identities such as "the guy who gets the joke early" and "housewife giggles" and "the one who didn't get the joke but is laughing anyway" all blended and layered to create the illusion of a real audience responding to the show in question. A man's deep laugh would be switched for a new woman's laugh, or a high-pitched woman's giggle would be replaced with a man's snicker.
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Supernatural has always had its share of darkness; in the first episode, Sam lost his fiancee to the same demon that killed his mother, which isn't exactly at the top of Sir Chuckles-a-lot's list of Fun Time Party Gags. (He prefers to open with something about dead puppies.) But that darkness is generally leavened by the writers obvious pleasure in playing with horror tropes, and the banter between the heroes. When the show leaves on its serious face for too long, it gets increasingly hard to actually take seriously. It works best when we're getting to snicker with the characters enough that we don't feel the need to start snickering at them.
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Morris has narrated a number of audiobooks, a few of which have earned her AudioFile magazine's Earphones Awards, the first was for the young adult novel Dear Zoe by Philip Beard in 2004. Other Earphone Award-winning titles include Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures by Jackson Pearce, and The Tapper Twins Go To War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey. The audiobook The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, where Morris voiced the 12-year-old Paloma, won AudioFile's Best Audiobook of the Year and Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award. Her narration of children's book A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd received a nomination at the 2015 Audie Awards and received the Honor Recording Odyssey Award from the American Library Association.
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In 2000 Schlichting founded NoodleWorks Interactive, which specializes in children's interactive design, development, and design consulting. Under Schlighting's supervision, NoodleWorks Interactive has worked with children's learning and entertainment companies and projects such as LeapFrog, eScore - Learning Centers, Pearson Broadband (Educational Division, London), Fisher/Price, Snicker Interactive Toys, Serosity, Electronic Arts (EA), LBS Alchemy, and more. In November 2011, Schlichting released Noodle Words, an iPad app for children where they may choose a word from a box and tap it to see animated bee characters act out the word's meaning. Noodle Words received the Kids At Play Interactive, or KAPi, Award for Best Educational Product of The Year, the Parent's Choice Gold Award, a KAPi Pioneer Legend Award for Schlichting, and the Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award, among others.
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Roger Ebert described the film as "one of the most controversial films at the Toronto and Sundance festivals" and gave the film a three-star review, noting that it "is about a necrophiliac, but in its approach, it could be about spirituality or transcendence." The New York Times noted that "it would be easy to snicker at this Canadian film, were its subject not handled with a delicacy and lyricism that underscore the mystical rather than gruesome aspects of what Sandra coolly acknowledges is a consuming addiction." The A.V. Club stated that "There's much of interest here, and though it's rare and refreshing to find a film that genuinely tries to address the subject of death directly, Kissed is likely to leave its audience as cold as the objects of its heroine's desire." On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 70% rating.
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David Kipen, a critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, considered the "darkness as a sign of our paranoid times" and singled out curfews and searches that were part of the tightened security at Hogwarts as resemblances to our world. Julia Keller, a critic for the Chicago Tribune, highlighted the humour found in the novel and claimed it to be the success of the Harry Potter saga. She acknowledged that "the books are dark and scary in places" but "no darkness in Half-Blood Prince...is so immense that it cannot be rescued by a snicker or a smirk." She considered that Rowling was suggesting difficult times can be worked through with imagination, hope, and humour and compared this concept to works such as Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
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During Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, in the episode Sappy Birthday, Muttley shows a calendar where 16 April is marked; his birthday. Muttley does not really talk; his main examples of speech are his trademark "wheezy snicker" (usually at Dick's expense, who sometimes retaliates by thumping him on the head) and a mushy, sotto voce grumble against an unsympathetic or harsh Dick (usually along the lines of "Snazza frazza rashin' fashin' Rick Rastardly!"). Don Messick had previously used Muttley's distinctive laugh for a recurring antagonist for Huckleberry Hound in the form of a black and white dog who enjoyed antagonising Huck the mailman, dogcatcher, barbecuer, etc. Messick also used the same laugh for the character of Griswold in an episode of Top Cat, then for an embryonic version of Muttley (called 'Mugger') appearing in the 1964 movie Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, as well as for another Hanna-Barbera canine, Precious Pupp, in 1966.
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Gods' Man remains Ward's best known and most widely read wordless novel. Spiegelman considered this due less to the qualities of the book per se in relation to Ward's other wordless novels as to the book's novelty as the first wordless novel published in the US. Irwin Haas praised the artwork but found the storytelling uneven, and thought that only with his third wordless novel Wild Pilgrimage did Ward come to master the medium. The artwork has drawn some unintended mirth: American writer Susan Sontag included it on her "canon of Camp" in her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'", and Spiegelman admitted that the scenes of "the depiction of Our Hero idyllically skipping through the glen with the Wife and their child makes snicker". Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck objected strongly to the content of the book: he believed it had a destructive effect on children, and called it "the darkest, ugliest book had ever seen".
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Perhaps his social conservatism has bred such a discomfort with the implications of modern science - that the universe works by natural rather than supernatural or divine laws - that he's compelled to snicker at one of the foundations of modern science: He's called another one, the big bang, "the nuttiest theory I've ever heard."' In The Times, Oliver Kamm is equally critical, pointing out that Wolfe doesn't appreciate that Chomsky himself 'is sceptical that the language organ is a product of natural selection' and that, indeed, some 'scholars believe that Chomsky underestimates the explanatory power of evolutionary theory.' Harry Ritchie in The Spectator says 'Wolfe is at his best when describing Chomsky's almost religiously cultish, charismatic hold over linguistics', but that Wolfe's 'version of Chomsky's downfall is as wrong as Chomsky certainly is.'. David Z. Morris's in the Washington Independent points out that Wolfe 'has proven his enduring ability to choose the right moment.
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