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How droll!

It works slyly, not with punch lines but by transforming the obvious premise into winning satire, taking a droll view of how we lock other people into stereotypes.

How droll that Letitia Baldrige should say that drinking cocktails during dinner is a "new affectation" ("No Wine, Please: I'm Drinking," Feb. 23).

But here it was not the typical self-consciously droll gesture — "See how the spectators have become the show?" — and more a comment on what we can't see when we're blinded by the spotlight.

How droll that was!

But the magazine extends its how-to ethos to droll articles such as "How to Become a Famous Writer" by Neal Pollack, who wrote the tongue-in-cheek book "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature" last year.

How delightfully droll!

Tonight, an interjection by his deep-voiced production manager prompts a skit about a hungry blue whale, which then dovetails with a droll earlier gag about how to say "John Craven" in BSL.

A lot of times when food writers praise an old-fashioned ingredient such as romaine lettuce, they do it with a nod and a wink and more than a hint of condescension, like fashion critics chortling when a Parisian couture house sends its models out dressed in gingham and lace -- "Oh, how very droll!" Not me.

How unchic, how reverse-droll, how... suburban.

This was how Mr. Houston-Jones, wonderfully droll as the sweater-vested drama teacher, framed excerpts from "Knife/Tape/Rope," his 1989-90 collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Jonathan Walker.