But Dukakis was not beaten by a "zinger"; does anyone remember Bush's similarly dry reply, in which he changed the subject to the murder of police officers?
Waters recalls: "Sally told me she was off to the [mental health charity's] Mind Media awards, in London, as a judge, and I said, 'Didn't you do that last year?' 'No' came the predictably dry reply, 'I was too busy trying to kill myself.' We both laughed".
Did you see that?", in a dry tone, reply something along the lines of, "No, I paid $12.50 to stare at the ceiling".
The Southampton Press has already written a caustic editorial about the law, and when Joe Shaw, its editor in chief, was asked if he hung his wash out to dry, he replied, "You're damn right I do".
A clunker, I replied; dry, tasteless and drab-looking.
"As the [Reagan] administration secretly plotted to sell arms to Iran," he asked, "Where was George?" Republican bumper-stickers replied: "Dry, Sober and Home with his Wife".His last crusadeYet even when he was carousing and he sobered up in the 1990s he was a hell of a senator.
"Have a long dry ride?" Mr. Caesar replies, "No, had a herring for breakfast".
When asked, "Should I get Prosecco in my build-your-own negroni?," the waitress, with her no-nonsense pants suit and dry sense of humor, replied, "I can't believe we even offer that".
Collingwood also displayed a dry sense of humor, replying, "We're playing better," when asked to explain England's transformation before going on to pay tribute to the team spirit, work ethic and cricketing intelligence of his players.
Asked, "Do some people at The Sun feel as though the parent company has hung them out to dry?" the associate editor replied: "Well, there is certainly a mood of unhappiness that the company proudly, certain parts of the company" are "actually boasting that they are sending information to police that has put these people I have just described into police cells".
"You can't write good poems with a dry cunt," Mark/Hana wants to reply.
