And so I borrowed mum's gentleness and decency, kindness and humour, problem-solving skills and ability to support those she loved.
General coping strategies were described and included: adopting a positive attitude, having a sense of humour, reframing the problem, gathering information/accessing external resources, focusing on strengths, developing and sustaining trust, doing things together, minimizing risks, being realistic, simplifying tasks and living in the moment.
Our diverse senses of humour caused huge problems.
No; we have cleared some obstacles in our partnership and, as in any partnership, new problems may emerge, old problems may reappear, but what I can promise today is that I will continue applying, with all the conviction inspired by a happy marriage, the method of an open and frank dialogue, where necessary seasoned with a sound layer of humour, to overcome those problems".
For Tim, confronting his problems through humour hasn't smothered them, but it has made them manageable: "It doesn't make you feel so alienated".
The problem with football humour lies in repetition and thus the problem with football humour lies in the invention of the internet.
Nineteenth-century writers such as Nikolai Gogol poked fun at the problem with dark humour.
And, in many senses, Long- ford was a 19th-century figure, struggling, often with humour, to deal with the problem of being born too late.
He's a curmudgeonly widower with a wry sense of humour, failing eyesight, a bladder problem, a neck like a turkey that's been dodging Thanksgiving since the bicentenary, a heart of gold, an estranged highflying lawyer for a daughter (the ubiquitous Amy Adams) and an outspoken contempt for number-crunching, computer-reliant front-office suits.
I'm more interested in coming up with humorous solutions, than making humour from the quagmire of problems there are out there.
The problem is that his humour was presented in extraordinary classical language.
