Wiseacres noted that it might have been better to have made the decision earlier: the uniforms for the athletes competing in this summer's Olympics are already emblazoned with the name Czech Republic.
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But while we're draining that foul bathwater, let us save the baby — the satirical fake news through which The Onion staffers, Borowitz and countless anonymous wiseacres express their chagrin at the state of the world.
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Screenshot: Multnomah County Circuit CourtBefore any of you wiseacres say, "Technically yes, now I have," just take a sec and think, because there's a very distressed man in Portland, Oregon who would like to be reunited with this handsome feline.
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With a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, who directed "Neighbors" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and voice cast loaded with talent like Kevin Hart, Jordan Peele, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch and Kristen Schaal, the film gets plenty of lowbrow laughs from the premise of two wiseacres who hypnotize their principal into believing he's a superhero.
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" In the first of his three masterly novels about the life of Cicero, Harris' narrator explained that an election is "the most vigorously alive thing there is -- with thousands upon thousands of brains and limbs and eyes and thoughts and desires ... it will wriggle and turn and run off in directions no one ever predicted, sometimes just for the joy of proving the wiseacres wrong.
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The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon.
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Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times said of the outdoor American leg, "Zoo TV is the yardstick by which all other stadium shows will be measured." David Fricke of Rolling Stone said that the band had "regained critical and commercial favor by negotiating an inspired balance between rock's cheap thrills and its own sense of moral burden". He praised the band for "retool[ing] themselves as wiseacres with heart and elephant bucks to burn". Fricke noted that the increased visual effects for the "Outside Broadcast" leg increased the shows' "mind-fuck" factor.
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As described in a film magazine, Peck's girl Minnie (Normand) gets into so much mischief that the wiseacres of the town decide that she needs to be put to some useful occupation. A kindly lady takes her under her care and she soon becomes a more or less valuable assistant to a modiste's show. Returning to the store one evening to get a package, she comes across some sneak thieves who are burrowing beneath the bank. She spreads the alarm, captures one of the crooks, and wins the heart of a detective sent to apprehend the criminals.
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He also appeared in amateur sides put together by H. D. G. Leveson Gower against both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and in an end-of-season Gentlemen v Players match at Scarborough. In the season as a whole he took 94 wickets at an average of 22.10 runs per wicket. "Wiseacres, sprawled in their canvas chairs in front of the Stragglers Bar at Taunton, stroked leathery faces and said he would walk into the England team," says one account of that first full season. What made Greswell's bowling different was the very late movement that he achieved off the pitch.
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At the time of the rebellion in 1745, Osborne went to a farmer by the name of Butterfield, who kept a dairy at Gubblecut, near Tring, in Hertfordshire, and begged for some buttermilk. Butterfield, by a brutal refusal, angered the old woman, who went away muttering that the Pretender would pay him out. In the course of the next year or so a number of the farmer's calves became distempered, and he himself contracted epileptic fits. In the meantime he gave up dairy-farming and took a public-house, The wiseacres who met there attributed his misfortunes to witchcraft, and advised Butterfield to apply to a cunning woman or white witch for a cure.
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