Chris Hughton, his successor as Norwich City manager, had hoped he would get "a good reception" on his return to the club he led to successive promotions; if it was not quite that, then it was hardly a storm either, at least until late on, when he responded to the gleeful Villa fans' call for a happy wave.
This is not a call for a happy-clappy news service, nor Soviet-style nothing is wrong.
The show went on in something resembling triumph, with a robust standing ovation and multiple curtain calls for the happy, relieved-looking cast.
Happy areas receive more calls from happy areas than from unhappy areas, and unhappy areas receive more calls from unhappy areas than from happy areas.
She even has a solo album out called 'How Much For Happy' Get in shape.
Soon afterward, we imagine, somebody will decide to avoid the wisp of redundancy and simply call the dance the HOP, for Happy Old Party.
Soon afterward, we imagine, somebody will decide to avoid the wisp of redundancy and simply call the dance the HOP, for Happy Old Party View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Alan Burdick By Atul Gawande.
Happy events call for double.
We are not happy to call for this noncooperation, but we are helpless".
Similarly, Morgan was only to happy to call for Clarkson's sacking from the BBC, after footage of him appearing to mumble a racist term emerged.
The classic form of this argument is known as the "Ticking Time Bomb Scenario", but it's not hard to concoct any number of implausible scenarios in which a large majority would be happy to call for the chap with the electrodes.
