In vain I searched the mugs, hanging on hooks from the bottom of a cabinet, for the names of favorite vacation spots, for bits of corny wisdom, for testimonials or messages from co-workers or grandchildren.
Still, Witchell said, "it's a bit of a corny cliché to say it's an excuse for a party, but it is, and I think that people are just pleased for the opportunity to celebrate something".
The right literary reference, the right hi-fi gear, and voilà: the freedom to go home alone, unswung, to a bit of light fiction, corny jokes and an airbrush that liberated the white-collar male from the uncomfortable burden of human curiosity.
Surprised us all a bit with a string of corny Brut33 adverts in the 1970s.
While his last ever single, the Riot Squad's 'Gotta Be a First Time', was dismissed as 'a corny bit of beat', he was implicated by association with a gruesome gay crime dubbed 'the Suitcase Murder'.
The costume, like that portion of his jokes designed to be corny, is a bit of an affectionate spoof of the conventions of this genre.
This is a hyperactive comic with tons of corny jokes, callbacks to old comics, and even a bit of ridiculous adventure (Too Much Coffee Man, for example, challenges rappers Public Enemy to a rap battle).
Even his sense of humor is a hybrid, a little bit corny with flashes of sarcasm.
Some musicians make fun of corny standards.
