He's so ancient, he must remember when typewriters were office equipment, not just amusing style accessories (the staff of US Vogue have apparently started a trend for typewriting notes, because email is, like, so last year and the past is so now. Or something).
It was amusing to watch certain staff members jockeying among themselves like Indy race car drivers for position in the motorcade — For God's sake, you can't expect me to ride in the same car as the speechwriter!
The staff members are amusing without seeming as if they are playing to the cameras.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has dispensed with the amusing whimsy involving its eccentric staff that lightened the earlier films, and it takes its sense of mission very seriously.
"The appearance of the marching columns was novel and amusing," recalled Jackson's youthful staff officer Henry Kyd Douglas".Here one fellow was bending beneath the weight of a score of boxes of cigars, smoking and joking as he went, another with as many boxes of canned fruits, another with coffee enough for a winter's encampment, or perhaps with a long string of shoes around his neck, like beads".
But in addition to their gifting potential, these books make amusing airport reading for traveling students, staff and faculty members over the holidays too.
The author, an Air Corps officer, had Corporal Mulligan on his special staff for a time with amusing results.
By Charles Cooke The New Yorker, February 23 , 1946P. 65 The author, an Air Corps officer, had Corporal Mulligan on his special staff for a time with amusing results.
His department has carte blance to investigate the affairs of any city department and dip into anything that looks… The author, an Air Corps officer, had Corporal Mulligan on his special staff for a time with amusing results.
Ms Toksvig, 54, did not indicate where she was working at the time but said when she told staff "everybody thought it was amusing".
