This is where Daniel's story takes on a slightly comical turn as he tells of borrowing his father's suit and using the word confidential quite a bit in meetings whenever answers didn't come freely.
Tubby Hook (Sunday) Despite its comical name, this bit of land between Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Parks in northern Manhattan had a serious role during the Revolutionary War.
They are celebrated today as design classics, while their pedagogic content is seen as a bit comical: imagine giving kids books about Nelson and Napoleon!
They were, even then, an old-fashioned treat, and a bit comical for that; not for nothing did Victoria Wood and Julie Walters send them up in Acorn Antiques.
Describing the inquiry as "unprofessional" and "more than a bit comical," Mr. Green said witnesses had been asked whether his client had had a hair transplant or undergone cosmetic surgery, and where he bought his clothes.
Sometimes, the attempts are a bit comical, as when one of the correspondents in Texas, Ashleigh Banfield, surprised the Bush campaign chairman, Donald L. Evans, while his car was being filled at an Austin gas station.
And it is to the abundant credit of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater that that juxtaposition of the cuddly and the horrific, coming near the conclusion of "The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes, and About Their Untymelie End While Sitting in a Small Room at the Correctional Facility in Ossining New York," is not the least bit comical.
They are beloved by makeup artists, who seem to favour Sarah Happ's Lip Scrub (£19), rubbed in with a cotton bud, then removed with the other end, or Bliss's Fabulips Pout-O-Matic (£34), a set comprising an effective scrub balm and a faintly comical gadget (a bit like an electric toothbrush) used on film sets to give actors an instantly plumped up mouth.
It's actually quite cool, but Scoble prepping himself to take on some Dubstep is a bit comical to imagine.
