Is it a highfalutin synonym to get a little more texture and variety in their writing?" The result — a primer with a memoir embedded in it — manages to be both high minded and very funny: "Objects scavenged from the Manhattan sewers were used to create the edgy aesthetics of Bob's downtown loft," writes Mr. Koren, using that sentence to demonstrate one of his 10 definitions of the "a" word.
Some of these sightings include a UFO flying over the London soccer stadium Stamford Bridge and a "funny shaped object" spotted above British politician Michael Howard's house.
This could be another dog, a certain type of person or just a funny looking object.
Unfortunately, local Labour MP Cat Smith didn't see what was so funny about object-oriented ontology.
"It was a funny-looking object.
"It was a funny-looking object, like a child's science experiment, and I thought, 'Why would somebody have thrown this out here?' But then again, you see a lot of junk on the streets in New York," Schreibman said in an interview.
If you use funny names, objects you like, or made-up places, the problem is 10 times more interesting, making it more likely that you will solve it.
The process of ratification is funny: the objective beauty in a benign or omnipresent object is recognized, and then the source material is curated and recontexualized.
Funny how NOONE objects to an upgrade.
It's funny how certain objects convey a message — my washer and dryer, for example.
Certainly whenever he appeared in court, Fletcher's handicap proved benign and very funny ("Your honour I object". "Why's that?" "Because it's devastating my case". "Overruled". "Good call!").
