Sentences with phrase «as poke fun at»

I hadn't been thinking about my actions and this was a clever way to punish me as well as poke fun at the rest of the series.

Let's face it, the sourcing of antibiotic - free foods is not nearly as sexy as poking fun at the political system.

He then called out former campaign adviser Hank Sheinkopf, as he poked fun at the way Jewish people dance.

In the same light as poking fun at Star Wars geeks or something.

«I could have done that,» may be a typical response to Creed's work, just as it was for Carl Andre's Bricks, Bob Law's empty canvases with a little Biro line running around their perimeters, and all the other artworks that have not so much captured the public's imagination as poked fun at prejudice.

Not exact matches

He poked fun at what we called his «hilariously useless» guide to playing the xylophone as an example of what not to do, and said content farms should focus on quality, not quantity of content, and that Google will eventually reward those that do with better search rankings, and therefore that it will be better for business over the long run.

When Erik passes by those Apple disciples lined up outside, including one fanboy who has a haircut modeled after the infamous «notch» of the iPhone X, Samsung pokes fun at what many have referred to as the cult of Apple — those consumers who must have the absolute newest Apple products, right away, no matter the cost.

«It's something that, in a way, you can kind of poke fun at yourself by dressing up as the colonel,» McEntire said.

Kazakoff and Rose have poked fun at business schools» growing acceptance of the GRE exam (dismissed by them as a ploy by schools to compete for more female applicants) and donned powdered wigs, ruffled shirts and tailored Victorian jackets, bantering in British accents for a recent segment on the invention of capitalism.

Myers (as Dr. Evil) poked fun at the White House for its rapid turnover.

Snapchat released a filter that poked fun at its rival Facebook as that company struggles with data privacy issues and Russian interference during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

The product is getting plenty of creative attention as Wendy's pokes fun at the name Giant Jr..

People poked fun at Apple because you couldn't connect the iPhone X to a new MacBook without a dongle, as the latter only have USB - C ports.

Finally, Google poked fun at Apple's latest iPhones lacking a headphone jack, touting its presence on the Pixel phones as a feature:

As for poking fun at my book... don't you think your cheap shots might be a little narrow, seeing you've NEVER even read it.

By wondering if Korean Jesus cares only about Korean problems, Hill pokes fun at the issue which was made a media spectacle in 2008, when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright could be heard preaching that «Jesus was a poor black man» as part of his support for Barack Obama.

Or, Pat, is NP poking fun at those who talk about the Bible as a dangerous weapon and making fun of Canadian Hate Laws the prohibit its use in some circumstances.

If the article is written in the same style as almost every onion article, it is poking fun at religious people.

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@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

You all know Socality Barbie, the Instagram parody that uses a Barbie doll dressed as a hipster to poke fun at Millennial girls on Instagram.

I'm just here to poke fun at athiests who attempt to claim their belief in the non-existence of a deity doesn't qualify as a religion.

But be willing to have fun poked at you and what you adhere to as well otherwise what is happening is discrimination bordering on abuse, the very thing you criticise the so called church of.

This joke has more critical bite; one imagines it being told (by an alienated conservative, say) as a way of poking fun at others, not oneself.

He once wrote an amusing essay called «The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos» that poked fun at the fondness of academics for purchasing ugly cars and dowdy clothing as a badge of authenticity.

It made me embarrassed to support the same club as them, they asked the same question over and over... Yet they moan at a manager for making a mistake over and over... Comical, if they was spuds we would have been joking about that and poking fun at them.

Twitter exploded yesterday as football fans from around the Premier League rushed to poke fun at bad - boy midfield Joey Barton.

Jack Wilshere has been used as a reason to poke fun at Arsenal in recent seasons, but breakthrough star Alex Iwobi has praised the midfielder.

How they have loved to poke fun and laugh at Arsenal in recent years as we failed to win any major piece of silverware from the 2005 FA cup win over Manchester United on penalties until that dramatic fightback from 2 - 0 down to beat Hull City at Wembley last May.

As much as I love to laugh and poke fun at Liverpool's many, many, MANY failings (the Gerrard slip is the funniest moment in football history), I would be lying if I said Liverpool didn't have a massive effect on me as a football faAs much as I love to laugh and poke fun at Liverpool's many, many, MANY failings (the Gerrard slip is the funniest moment in football history), I would be lying if I said Liverpool didn't have a massive effect on me as a football faas I love to laugh and poke fun at Liverpool's many, many, MANY failings (the Gerrard slip is the funniest moment in football history), I would be lying if I said Liverpool didn't have a massive effect on me as a football faas a football fan.

While awards do come in all shapes and colors, the current Man of the Match award presented in the English Premier League games have been rather very uninspiring aesthetically, with many poking fun at it referring to it as a «yellow brick»

A doula who believed nurses laughed and poked fun of their patients» birth plans as they wadded them up at the [nurses»] station.

The Labour leader was in a self - deprecating mood over lunch, as he repeatedly poked fun at Brown and his own mistakes.

The Tories poked fun at Miliband's turn of phrase but as the clip got replayed the next day, Labour began offering «Hell Yes» t - shirts to raise money for the campaign coffers.

As we and the good folks at CapCon take us down a video memory lane of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, here's his (only) LCA Show rebuttal video from 2007, which poked fun at this «steamroller» approach toward Albany.

Roskoff poked fun at Quinn's relationship with Bloomberg by serenading the fake mayor with «As Long as He Needs Me.&raquAs Long as He Needs Me.&raquas He Needs Me.»

Later, Cuomo poked fun at the idea of Nixon running by quipping he hoped celebrities like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie didn't get in the race, if name recognition was as important as reporters suggested.

CHUKA Umunna has been blasted as «xenophobic» after he poked fun at Albania in a poster for the remain campaign in the EU referendum.

Theresa May shows no love is lost with George Osborne as she dresses in high - vis to poke fun at former rival while accepting award

In that comment Mr. Krupski pokes fun at his life as a pumpkin farmer, and raises the question on whether he can run his family's Peconic agricultural business while simultaneously representing a legislative district that stretches from Fishers Island to Center Moriches.

Colbert often used the term to skewer the policies of President George W. Bush and poke fun at his supporters for what Colbert saw as distorting reality.

Feedback has poked gentle fun at reports describing area in terms of football pitches or Wales, lengths as multiples of...

Feedback has poked gentle fun at reports describing area in terms of football pitches or Wales, lengths as multiples of a London bus, and so on, but now you're doing it in the story on tapping the electrical potential of ear cells (17 November, p 18).

The comics also poked fun at themselves, as when Kasha Patel riffed on a NASA press release describing the recent Space - X test - rocket explosion as a «non-nominal launch» to lament a recent «non-nominal» date.

Few can poke fun at themselves like Karl can (no one else would dare or do it as well as he would), and you have to wonder if his versions of the Chanel woman — in her tweed suit and full array of Chanel accessories (the chain bag, the statement shoe, the sunglasses, the gloves, the earrings) wasn't also a wink - wink look at the cult of shopping he himself has inspired.

Louis walsh pokes fun at simon cowell's serious accident kate hudson showcases her short - cropped «do as she exits a speaking engagement in la looked sensational with new short do «underneath, we all look like melted ice cream!

Although at times it suffers from cheesy dialogue, The Cabin in the Woods is easily on the best horror films of our time, poking fun at the cliches of horror, while being pretty scary, as at least one of your greatest fears appears, in one of the best films of 2012.

The film is given an opportunity to shrewdly poke fun at cable news, specifically Fox News (their new home is run by a cocky Aussie), as Ron uncannily becomes a purveyor of sensationalist non-news stories like car chases and cute animals while Veronica can't make an interview with Yasser Arafat grab anyone's attention.

He also pokes affectionate fun at certain excesses, such as the statuesque gallery owner whose clothes are such works of art that they make noise whenever she walks.

It also pokes fun at their secluded nature, such as Max's terrible lies to exclude Gary.