Doctors have a not-so-amusing name for this common plague of women in the throes of a new sexual relationship: They call it honeymoon cystitis.
It might be a far more amusing name if it wasn't for nearly every off-field scandal involving an NRL player ever.
This just landed in our inbox: a pitch for a new URL shortener with the slightly amusing name Bu.tt, which is of course described by its creator – John McKinnon – as a shortening service that "kicks it".
Halfway through the book there is a long episode about a cricket match played between Britannula and a touring team from England, which gives Trollope an opportunity to indulge his penchant for amusing names (Lord Marylebone and Sir Kennington Oval) and to fantasise about the future development of the game.
We'll adapt new etiquette for behaviour like this, just as we'll invent amusing new names for the new accidents we'll have crossing the street glued to our wrists.
Jamie Foxx is a witty actor and an intuitive comedian who can sometimes manage to make the lamest material -- the WB sitcom that bears his name, for instance -- amusing.
Ariel, Prospero's faithful sprite (Erin Colleen), has become female, which allows her to make an amusing remark about Disney's stealing her name for a mermaid.
Still, it's amusing — and a bit bizarre — that Google/Alphabet decided on this name for its new holding company even though it couldn't secure the most obvious domain name (or social media accounts, for that matter).
Based on a long out of print French book, the screen is divided in half so you can mix the top and bottom halves of different animals for up to 200 gently amusing images, names and flowery descriptions.
My late husband thought it was so amusing that one of his pet names for me was Hyphen.
Those amusing street names in Venetian demotic?
