In a move that is likely to see trawlerloads of sarcasm sent up to Humberside, the town that on Saturday saw its football team promoted to the Premier League is bidding to become the UK's 2017 city of culture.
The mother-and-daughter duo tottered back onto the cobbles like a pair of evil twins, with sarcasm and surliness dripping from every one of their pretty little pores.
Palmer was polite but his message was laced with sarcasm.
("Seventeen copies sold, of which 11 at trade price to free circulating libraries beyond the seas. Getting known," says Krapp in the play bearing his name some two decades later, finely balancing sarcasm and delusion).
Perhaps it's like reading literature in translation: through a mesh that removes enriching nuances, from regional accents and class signals to sarcasm and local politics.
Ribera, in an article responding to the new law, also notes caustically that it was approved just two days before World Biodiversity Day - "showing the degree of sarcasm with which these issues are managed" - and that it only prohibits oil and gas operations from "Natural Sanctuaries and Monuments", even though no such areas exist at the national level.
If I do, then if I say or do something stupid, there is glee and sarcasm: "And you're a member of Mensa?" At primary school I was fast-tracked a couple of years, which seemed like fun, until I ended up as a 12-year-old brat in a class of cool teenagers, who ignored or bullied me.
It's also a pitch-perfect riff on what Lindsay-Abaire does in Good People: writes lines dripping with sarcasm for those who made it, modulated with the speaker's heartrending realisation that they never will.
He fights a constant battle against both the Vikings and haemorrhoids, and we learn that he didn't burn any cakes and that the Scandinavians brought sarcasm to England.
"Step right up! See the Jews!" wrote Salon's critic with pardonable sarcasm, underlining the show's presumably unintended freak-show vibe.
Asked if they felt for Ballack, the defender Manuel Friedrich laid on the sarcasm.
