Sentences with phrase «pokeable figure of fun»

Tottenham are the Gunners traditional figure of fun, but the Blues are more of a hate figure since Roman Abramovich took over and brought in that Portugese Bus Conductor to spend his money.

The full - backs were Giacinto Facchetti and Berti Vogts, who apparently used to be a footballer before he became a Scottish figure of fun.

I just wish he hadn't hung on so long and was made to look a figure of fun on the pitch...

Wengers long journey from club hero and saviour to a hate and figure of fun man is desperately sad.

Morgan might have made for an easily pokeable figure of fun last term, but the Jamaica international has stood tall above the rest this season to block, grunt and grind his team to the Premier League title — lest we forget, straight after back - to - back summer international tournaments in the Gold Cup and Copa America.

The midfielder laughed when the video of the ex-Granada manager's training «dance» was mentioned, but says Adams is far from a figure of fun.

Margaret Thatcher once said of Andreotti: «He seemed to have a positive aversion to principle, even a conviction that a man of principle was doomed to be a figure of fun».

Macmillan left office a figure of fun, an Edwardian music hall joke, and yet in his old age had Margaret Thatcher literally sitting at his feet.

Alan Clark, the politician and diarist, had an ambivalent attitude towards his father, «K», or as Private Eye called him «Lord Clark of Civilisation», a figure of fun to a younger generation in his final years.

Will this be Corbyn's «Donkey Jacket Moment» - the moment at which his credibility disappears and he's regarded by the commentariat not as a serious politician but as a figure of fun?

There is nothing more dangerous in politics than descending into a figure of fun.

It's all hilarious to watch, and James Franco knows Wiseau is a figure of fun for the film while Sestero, played with well - meaning sweetness by his brother Dave, is the audience surrogate.

Although he appears to be a figure of fun, a freak accident turns him into a psychopath...

«When was the last time a gynecologist was in a movie, even as a figure of fun?

But his unconventionally visionary, cloudy canvases are making him a marginal figure in the artistic establishment and a figure of fun for the general public.

Hawn began her acting career playing the ditz on TV comedies like Good Morning World and Laugh - In, but by the end of the»60s, her bubble - headed persona became less a figure of fun and more a love - generation ideal.

The only figure of fun is Tommy, who is also eventually treated as an eccentric (if frequently inappropriate and tone - deaf) dreamer.

Though the two subjects have decidedly different origins and audiences — Harding being part of a national and tabloid - friendly scandal, Wiseau having accumulated more of a grassroots notoriety — both movies are clearly aware of the novelty status that comes with taking a closer look at real people who have become figures of fun.

Like Gonzalez, Wallace casts a sardonic eye on the past, the frigid geometry of the skyscraper, here turned into a figure of fun.

The world thinks you yank deniers are figures of fun, whilst getting on with serious analysis and attempting policy and agreement for everyones benifit, including your sorry arses.

In UK he would be a national figure of fun like David Icke — briefly chair of the Green party, who now believes that the lizards are taking over the government — and some other wacky ideas.

Not exact matches

Four months before political cartoonist Mike Fiore won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, his NewsToon app was rejected by Apple in December 2009, with the company citing rules about making fun of public figures.

The rest of the class figures the party will be more fun without him.

Longtime Tonight Show host Johnny Carson — along with his chief heirs in late night, Jay Leno and David Letterman — poked plenty of fun at political figures, but mainly for their personal foibles, both real and comically exaggerated: Gerald Ford's clumsiness, Ronald Reagan's age, Bill Clinton's appetites.

And it's fun to watch a host of great, familiar actors playing historical figures — like Bruce Greenwood as Robert McNamara, Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield, Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, and Zach Woods at one of the Washington Post's lawyers.

A strong cup of coffee serves as my catalyst for figuring out what I need to break today and how much fun we can have doing it.

And to the guys at Sweet Jesus... don't make jokes or have fun with the name of a religious figure.

Our goal is to make it a «one - stop shop» for Bourbon, full of official facts and figures and a lot of fun stuff that we haven't dreamed up yet.

Figure out what kind of people are there, what they value, how they think, and what they do for fun.

It seems you like to post negative things at me, so I figured you were trying to make fun of my «Jimmy Carter» song I posted.

I showed Annie and Un Kull (I eventually figured out they were saying auntie and uncle, but they pronounced it Annie and Un Kull and believe me, I'm not making fun of them) to mama's room, a converted garage that my daddy had fixed up for mama when he was alive.

No matter what you name a child other children will figure out how to make fun of it.

The episodes, on everything from He - Man to Barbie to Star Wars action figures, were full of color, nostalgia and some of the most fun interviews you'll find in a documentary series.

BUT I figure I'll prove to my trainer that I'm super serious by following her meal plan, and then I'll use my powers of persuasion to weasel my way into some more fun foods.

After yesterday's fun roundup of a rainbow of margarita flavors, I couldn't resist figuring out a recipe for one of my all time favorite exotic margaritas, the tamarind margarita.

This is one of those super-random blog posts that I figured might be fun and also spark some great comments from you guys since I always love learning more about you!

But a couple of weekends ago I was shopping with my mom both at Trader Joe's and in Russian grocery stores in Brooklyn and I was already getting a ton of fun foods that I didn't need... so I figured, lets get some quail eggs, why the heck not?!

We haven't figured it all out yet, but we hope by keeping meal time fun and getting them to continue to try new things we'll continue to grow the number of meals that work for the whole family.

I figure those little cards will fold up and fit in the doors of our new «giving house» nicely, and if I intertwine them with a few fun gadgets (similar to last year) it will hopefully be a smooth transition!

I'll have to figure out some sort of tofu substitute during the no soy / no fun diet phase.

I have no idea how to even get started with creating a garden... and it's gonna be a lot of fun to figure it out.

Each foursome will be paired with a renowned chef, star mixologist or notable sports figure at this fun - filled celebrity golf tournament being played at the long - awaited Mountain Shadows course located at the base of Camelback Mountain.

I busted open a big can of pumpkin puree for the muffins and figured I'd have some fun with what was left.

The photos of her and John (I've made his famous chicken wings so I figure we're on a first name basis) are fun and look like they belong in a fashion magazine.

It may take a little bit of trial and error to figure out the amounts that you like best, but experimentation is part of the fun, right?

What if Osama Bin Laden owned Arsenal???? If Stan Kroenke's was just in the stand watching Arsenal play he would be insignificant The point here its about Arsenal a club with history and a philosophy Arsenal represents London the monarch and the UK Arsenal is a brand an ambassador to the values of the UK London and its people If you are pro life you would know that bin laden and kroenke are figures of the same coin and that is pro death pro terror How would you feel if I butchered your pet for fun?

They will not stay down for long as Captain Emily has a fun bunch that just needs a couple of more times through the batting order to figure everything out.

No overall participation figures are kept, but a good guess is that somewhere between 50 % and 75 % of the 22,000 Lockheedians get involved in at least some of the fun scheduled from the clubhouse.

Some more fun facts and figures (per PGATour.com) about the short, but often rally - killing, hole that intrigues even the most casual of golf fans:

But for the sake of fun, baseless speculation, let's figure out what a trade for the third overall pick would look like.