Asked whether kicking a big swath of users out of the app was scary, Droll answered that if you want to build a sustainable social platform, "You can't have growth at all costs — you need to have good growth".
"Sometimes, when we're hungry," is their characteristically droll reply.
But Pitre, who writes with wonky approachability and a droll willingness to answer just about any question (Q: "My family hates curry.
Smaller in stature, with a prematurely receding hairline and the furrowed brow of a man regularly dealing with vocational stress, Cashman answered droll questions on whether he needed Hank Steinbrenner's permission to attend.
Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question-and-answer clips and other spots featuring his grandmother "Bubby," is being wooed by the site's competitors, including Metacafe, ManiaTV and others, with promises of guaranteed exposure, a share of advertising money, or both.
In his low voice, Mr. Merritt answered with droll, argumentative grumbles.
Asked whether his elusive working habits had given him a James Bond-like aura, he seemed to savor the question for a moment and then answered in his characteristically droll manner.
His droll inflection bares the resentment at having to answer your silly and stupid question.
Then he found his own answer to Warhol's Brillo boxes: wry, droll or superficial statements, often comments on the South or the venality of Hollywood ("Maybe Now I'll Get the Respect I So Richly Deserve"), scrambled on a canvas or meticulously emblazoned across cheesy landscape paintings.
Gail Collins's smart, thorough, often droll and extremely readable account of women's recent history in America not only answers this question brilliantly, but also poses new ones about the past and the present, as she explicates moments that were widely recorded and illuminates scenes that were barely remarked upon at the time.
