One is aware that there are words Butterworth uses partly because he finds them amusing: prannie, prannock, flapjack, Maypole, Chorleywood, pisshead, and accordion, among others — words he picks up and saves like a magpie.
Patience allows you to remain cool and rational -- to think clearly -- under stress, to take the foibles and annoying behaviors of others in stride and perhaps even find them amusing.
The sign joins a long list of marketing materials companies end up apologizing for once they discover that many female consumers don't find them amusing.
(Attach a note to each one of them, so you'll know who it belongs to, and why you have it) If you're a computer geek, keep those old MS-DOS games, you'll find them amusing later on in your life.
The first pages were read to another friend, the future novelist Anthony Powell, who found them very amusing, and was surprised when Waugh told him, just before Christmas, that the manuscript had been burned.
It's just that he finds them more amusing than everyone else's.
Americans now accept these ads as a matter of course, but in my experience, visitors from other countries find them both amusing and appalling.
