In contrast, bodies in which there were fewer salt humours, such as fat bodies, produced less seed, so had less desire for sex and were consequently less fertile: 'Because in fat Bodies, where fat and sulphurous Humours predominate, there is little Seed generated, and hence they have little proclivity to Venus'.
Mercifully, a few politicians used humour to jolt jaded voters out of their torpor.
The words referred to firm official reports, later firmly denied, that Egypt's 84-year-old ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, had died on June 19th, and to vehement, rival claims of victory in the presidential elections held on June 17th, given the peculiarly lingering absence, several days later, of an official count.Unusually for a country famed for its humour, few in Egypt are laughing.
In 1964, after attacking the shah's subservience to the United States, he was deported, spending the next 16 years in exile.Mr Moin describes and it is one of the few touches of humour in this excellent book how Khomeini got on rather well with his first hostess, the polite but flabbergasted wife of a Turkish security officer.
Queen Square, Wed to 12 Jul When Adam Riches won the Edinburgh comedy award in 2011, it was with a style of humour few had seen before: taking the tropes of traditional sketch comedy but grafting on a level of hugely physical (and frequently highly embarrassing) audience participation.
Hamilton soon redeemed it with The Man With the Golden Gun, which had humour, fewer gadgets and a now relaxed and confident Moore.
But this is one of the few tiny moments of humour in the book.
Gallacher also displayed a diplomacy and a humour that few expected, particularly in dealing with the Sam Torrautographon autograph episode.
Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper's Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist.
Both bands played separately, and then joined with impressive coherence for three new compositions, juggling strictly counted percussion patterns, penny-whistle jigs, surges of sax improv and a few squirts of surreal humour.
