She wrote the part specially for Grant, and it shows: he gets amusing lines, delivered in the stumbling, aren't-I-adorable way that was already becoming his trademark.
I've got amusing people in my life, I'll give you that.
Wagner's Rhine, first in the piano and then rising from the orchestra, gets amusing Chinese turns of phrase, as though this were Das Yellow River.
In "Lucky Bruce," readers get fresh, amusing stories from Friedman's life in letters — the time he provoked Norman Mailer into a fistfight by mussing his hair at a party, say, or was hired to write a script and introduced to his new secretary, a between-marriages Natalie Wood.
This side was built in 1633, this new bit in 1840," he said) with its double-height foyer lined with family portraits, a dining room with a mile-long banquet table and a morning room where Thomas Hardy is said to have written, you might think it doesn't get more amusing than this.
You'll get consistently amusing responses.
Kids might get an amusing tweak of Rowling's world by being reminded how lock-step those first three books were by beginning with Harry being whisked to Hogwarts, facing a challenge and then Gryffindor winning top prize at the end of term (rather annoyingly, I thought at the time)> No such luck.
"Why do you ask?" This one can stop the entire topic, most people who ask are giving a scripted response and you'll get some amusing replies as they try to figure out why the pace of your personal life matters to them.
She gets some amusing badinage with Melbourne and has a nice moment of cold rejection and disdain on meeting for the last time the utterly defeated Sir John Conroy.
Some more hayfever advice from Vaughan Sandy: "I favour Benadryl for hayfever, although a course of injections is good because you start off getting really amusing bumps up your arm.
