Sentences with phrase «jokes about writing»

Here are a few boards with everything from character development tips to jokes about writing.

He joked about their written sermons which they attempted to read to the people and remarked, «The great mass of our western people wanted a preacher that could mount a stump, a block, or old log, or stand in the bed of a wagon, and without note or manuscript, quote, expound, and apply the Word of God to the hearts and consciences of the people.»

I didn't know if they would ever get off the boats, and we joked about writing a Gusto & Gecko adventure on the sea about it.»

I've half - joked about writing a book on how to go back to school in your 40s and who knows?

I've joked about writing a book about my life as its stranger than fiction over the last 6 plus months.

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The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

Tech insiders like to joke about how a startup hasn't really gone under until its founder or CEO writes about their experience on Medium.

On a final note, I'd just like to say that I just wrote over 900 words about Viagra with nary a limp dick joke or stupid headline pun.

Between songs, they told jokes and shared personal stories about how they met, got their start and how Kenny's inspiration for writing the song «Last Dollar» was literally being down to his last dollar in Vegas in 2002.

I've joked about it and never actually discussed it in writing, but the news of Geocities» passing made me misty, so indulge me.

I use it as an ice - breaking anecdote at women's retreats, I wrote about it on my blog, I use it as a sermon illustration when I preach at Christmas: I have all my jokes down pat.

Also, the Bible is a book written by humans and for humans, and since humans throughout time and around the world all engage in sex and joke about sex, what would be really shocking is if the Bible didn't talk about sex.

It was not to be wondered at that such a religious figure as al - Jahiz should write about singing, wine drinking, and jokes.

Religion is such a joke that anyone who is willing to write stuff and exaggerate about it and make someone feel good that's religion for you in a nut shell.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

Raison's Filter Fiber © (joking about the copyright)-- bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to post that wonderful argument: Many, if not most are buried within other words, but I am not shooting for the perfect list, so use your imagination and add any words I have missed as a comment (no one has done this yet)-- I found some but forgot to write them down.

i always make a joke when i write or talk about my vegan cooking journey that i tried the broccoli millet croquettes from veganomicom and i failed miserably.

Here's how well the White Sox have played so far this season: I wrote this whole thing, top to bottom, and realized there wasn't a single joke about the Drake LaRoche situation.

The topic has come up so often lately that Robin Ventura and Todd Zeile of the Mets joke about sitting down and, like a couple of baseball - savvy Emily Posts, writing a book.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

so a player who feels what and how the fans feel about the mediocrity of the club is now slated to be bigger than the club... wenger spent a donkey years at the club and won nothing yet he stays in fat contracts and yet he is not bigger than the club, remember last season when he complained that the salaries of the emirates workers was affecting the club transfer... imagine what a joke arsenal has become... admin pls think of something better to write about and leave sanchez out of this... van pussy was a legend...

Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth (click here to check price on Amazon) is written in a very down - to - earth style and is full of jokes and humor, which is a nice approach that you'll probably appreciate compared to some of the other books that are written in an almost clinical style.

When POTUS rambles about going to war or openly criticizes his administration on Twitter, you take what he wrote seriously, as in it's not a joke he means it - irrespective of it not being an official or traditional communication channel.

Peppered with in - jokes about the cynicism of politics in general and race politics in particular, Kwame clearly did plenty of homework before writing and directing this play and was unafraid of stepping on a few toes.

In January 2012, I wrote a column that made a little joke about humanities Ph.D. students learning important skills such as how to put sheets on their mothers» basement couches.

Researchers discovered that «64 % of the survey respondents had personally experienced sexual harassment, inappropriate or sexual remarks, or jokes about physical beauty and cognitive sex differences,» Gibbons wrote.

► Science comedian Brian Malow «was one of three presenters... who entertained the crowd with a mixture of jokes and serious insights about how comedy can educate the public and help scientists become better communicators» at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jon Cohen wrote last Friday from the meeting.

There's little to fear from the existing Do - It - Yourself Biology (DIYbio) movement, concludes a report released today by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. «There's been a lot of debate in the biosecurity community about what DIYers may or may not be doing, from making narcotics to pandemics to viruses that kill heads of state (I'm not joking),» writes Wilson fellow and report co-author Daniel Grushkin in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

I realize writing a researched article all about inducing muscle pump to look good for an event may seem like a joke... perhaps superfluous and a big waste of time.

No I'm joking what I meant to say is it depends on where you live, for example Melbourne is renowned for having four seasons in one day, remember Crowded House even wrote a song about it!

Boutique Fitness / / This feels like a bit of a joke to write about now, in which I haven't broken a sweat in about three four weeks, BUT — believe it or not — I was doing well in the resolutions department for a hot second.

Haha... I'd completely forgotten about the bucket in my room joke I made... Sounds less funny written down!

Before the New York Post wrote about Jacque Reid's reversal of her decision to participate in my coaching, I was often the running joke of online media in the so - called «black space.»

Before the New York Post wrote about Jacque Reid's reversal of her decision to participate in my coaching, I was often the running joke of online... [Read more...]

If you enjoy lots of vibrant conversation about most every subject, with lots of word games and some silly comparisons and small stores and jokes, then write to me,»cause I'm the same way.

The movie also relies on a lot of the same, tired genre clichés despite its attempts to shake up the formula, and it drags on for so long that it practically writes its own jokes about the title.

More importantly, there's nothing nearly so mirthful about the trailer, or the general thought of director Chris Columbus teaming up with Sandler's Happy Madison production company; unless the Columbus who wrote Gremlins shows up, this is likely to be another Sandler comedy where only the most wan jokes make the cut.

Downsizing (* 1/2) Filmmaker Alexander Payne (Sideways) and writing partner Jim Taylor turn the quirk factor up a notch and forget to add substance and emotion to this one - joke movie about a couple (Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig) that wants to follow the trend of downsizing into 5 - inch humans and living in a private utopian community.

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

are nothing to write home about or, indeed, to write anything about: boy jokes, gay jokes, hitting on girls, and accessing emotions through failed bondings with father / son figures.

The trailer (watch it here) features God writing some rules which basically plays off like a joke about Murphy's Law, ie.

«The great romantic comedy about first - world power has yet to be written,» McFeely jokes.

Talking about the project's origins, Anderson teasingly tied in some of Phantom Thread's plot, joking that he hadn't been feeling well and noticed «a love and affection» from his wife he hadn't seen in a while, adding: «So, I called Daniel to say, «I think I have a good idea for a movie...» One thing lead to another and then we had fashion books all over our house and we kept talking, writing and then things kept going, going and going until it seemed impossible to stop.

Ever since I started caring about films enough to write about them, I've always considered the awards a joke.

The Five - Year Engagement, which runs longer than two hours and invites all kinds of bitter jokes about the title, is another collaboration between writer / director Nicholas Stoller and writer / star Jason Segel in which they seem to have written and shot a movie that is four hours long, then awkwardly stuffed it into a still - overlong two - hour frame

Marlowe is irritated that he never got credit for writing Shakespeare's plays, one of many obnoxiously presented wink - wink jokes about immortality aimed at fans of vampire fiction who have probably heard this stuff a million times.

I could write pages about how this movie isn't your average rom - com — how it has a frankness that a lot of its Hollywoodized brethren don't, how its characters feel real — but that opening joke says it all.

We wrote a post last month in which we joked that Tauriel must have put her foot down about butt shots, because in their paired poster, it's Legolas who's got his back to the camera, while Tauriel gets an action pose.

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career, «hired to write for every small paper in Washington, D.C., just as it was about to fold,» saw that jink broken in 1984, when he came to NPR.

At a certain point, our dullard duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (who wrote, directed, and star) break the fourth wall, turn directly to the camera, and explain half of a joke they just told (It's about the play on «soft» and «hard,» they say, forgetting, apparently, to mention the comic «Rule of Three» that precedes it).