Word: witnesses
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...Lost in the Supermarket" and "Material Girl." "Not Fair" laments that her otherwise excellent boyfriend is lousy in bed ("I look into your eyes, I want to get to know yer/ And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over") but advances from slagging wit to real disappointment in the chorus...
More people watched Tina Fey's takedown of Palin online than on Saturday Night Live. And well they should. Why sit through 90 minutes waiting for the good bits when an army of online editors will separate the wit from the chaff? This isn't just a knock on SNL. The View, the nightly news--they're all albums, which the Web breaks down into singles...
...Still, say this for Londoners: They can laugh at themselves. "Good thing Hitler's dead," remarked a stock clerk in a supermarket. "He couldn't get us with the Blitz, but the place is so incapacitated now, he'd walk right in." Meeting adversity with a sort of gloomy wit is not a characteristic that always serves Brits well; they sometimes crack jokes when they should be complaining. Yet in this coldest of economic climates, an unquenchable sense of humor is one commodity that won't lose its value...
Meeting adversity with wit: that's what Brits mean when they talk about "the Blitz spirit," and snowbound London is infused with it. It's the reason its citizens cracked jokes and conducted sing-alongs in bomb shelters. It's also the reason they seldom complain with sufficient conviction to make authorities take notice. They're too busy having a laugh. Customers have to navigate sheet ice at the entrance to a central London branch of Holland & Barrett, a chain selling health foods and natural remedies. "I'm not sure it was worth opening up yesterday. We only took...
...comments to French wire service Agence France Presse on Jan. 26, Uderzo père used all the wit and cunning of his animated creation animated creation to counter suggestions he was an aging pigeon who'd been manipulated by business sharks. "To be accused by my own daughter, in the pages of the newspaper of reference, of being an old man, manipulated and deluded in his insatiable greed by the gnomes of finance, is already quite undignified," Uderzo said, before noting the irony of his daughter using language and imagery from the series to accuse its creator of selling...