Within air-conditioned cocoons, there's amusing shopping galore at the KL City Centre Suria Mall, Pavillion, Mid-Valley and 1 Utama, the latter two among the world's most gargantuan and disorienting.
Peter A. Hulne is amusing as the shop's owner, Sam, and Jill Bartlett has promise as the good-looking office manager, Denise, who is quick to use pepper spray on her co-workers and wants to be reimbursed for things like pedicures.
Nor is Mr. Baldessari, the famed conceptual artist, thrilled that one of his favorite activities -- scouring thrift shops for amusing found objects -- has been ravaged by eagle-eyed entrepreneurs cherry-picking the best objects, especially those with designer provenance.
The goings-on at the taxidermy shop are amusing, but will they last?
A few months later the gallery added a shop, which includes amusing knickknacks from local graphic designers.
The collection is quirky -- ranging from exquisitely crafted microscopes of polished brass to an amusing display of antique apothecary shop signs from Amsterdam, each depicting a human head with mouth agape.
The idea for the sketch came from the owners of a hardware shop in Hayes, Hillingdon who wrote in to The Two Ronnies to describe some of the amusing events and misunderstandings in their store.
" 'Missiles of October' certainly typecast me, there's no question," said Devane, noting he finds it amusing that someone who "graduated from high school with nine shop credits" keeps getting cast as university-educated, high-brow commander in chiefs.
White beauty-shop chairs with bowl-shaped hair dryers add an amusing twist to the imaginative Caribbean-Southwest-Asian menu.
Sander Burger's "Hunting & Sons" is a grimly amusing marital fable in which a young husband who runs a bike shop goes to increasingly desperate lengths to make his pregnant wife, a borderline anorexic, put food in her mouth.
