If you're hanging out with good friends and are in the middle of a mock-argument, try softly hitting or pushing each other.
Over the years, Child has, with her customary charm, set up a fun-poking mock argument between herself and newfangled critics about her copious use of butter and cream in "Mastering".
I can picture Dad and Granddad in the garage, carrying on their annual mock argument about the relative merits of peanut oil and lard.
Mock arguments could be built up in defense of preposterous definitions.
Posey in particular seemed barely able to sit still, or resist luring Hoechlin into mock arguments in the "Shut up/No, you shut up" vein.
At each table were other brides, most in skimpy bridal costumes complete with mock veils, throwing back shots and getting into bawdy mock arguments with the drag queens, who trafficked in insult humor.
Last week, there were so many of the mock arguments that lawyers call moot courts that they threatened to exhaust something that had never been thought in short supply: Washington lawyers willing to pretend to be Supreme Court justices.
By the 15th century the Inns of Court were governed by their benchers, who had previously given at least two courses of lectures (readings) and who presided over mock arguments (moots) in which students argued difficult points of law before them.
That's why today, July 27, at the intersection of the 500th anniversary of the formation of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, she is hearing arguments in a mock appeal in the case of Shylock, the hard-hearted moneylender from Shakespeare's controversial comedy, "The Merchant of Venice".
The students had been asked to create a mock trial of Lady Macbeth using selected text from Shakespeare to support their arguments -- was she guilty or not guilty?
