I have a good eye for being put into a situation and being able to see connections, sometimes funny connections, and I never thought my particular sense of humor would ever be anything anyone would ever appreciate or even get.
Kelman makes a funny, implicit connection between maintaining the fire (the narrator goes off to get "burnables") and maintaining a story: everything is potentially burnable, everything can be used.
While the name might be funny, the connection to the negative perception of marijuana as a gateway drug could rub some the wrong way.
In the movie "Lincoln, Tommy Lee Joness, as the sarcastically vilifying Thaddeus Stevens, exemplifies the funny-cruel connection.
It is preposterous, but also deeply funny, and the connection between Gus and Mickey feels authentic largely because Mickey isn't falling anywhere near in love.
He was such a wired, complex, brilliantly funny individual, no connection with him was anything like ordinary.
"Croquet" (1985) illustrates the early American connection, stiff, funny, reductivist and differently austere.
During his appearance on Leno two years ago, Obama joked about his funny name, his genealogical connection with Dick Cheney and his penchant for leaving clothes lying around the house.
The Twittersphere is a torrent of initial gut reactions, calculated provocation, flashes of brilliance coupled with flashes of anger, jealousy, compassion, manipulation, candor and connection, brilliantly funny jokes, and miserably failed attempts at jokes, poetry, news, commentary.
The child of Indian immigrants, the grandchild of uneducated strivers, Mr. Khan marveled that he — "someone with a funny name and no connections or money" — could be doing something so important.
