The less jolly side of sex at school was also described.
BORIS JOHNSON Politician The London Mayor's Twitter presence is less jolly than you might expect: it's largely a series of ex officio PR releases.
If, however, you don't have a Sky subscription, or were hoping that Sky might instead invest more in British TV, things look altogether less jolly.
As an adult, I find Disney's Mary Poppins somewhat less jolly than I remember it as a child – although not as dark as the books that spawned it.
Authorities in China took a decidedly less jolly stance, arresting more than 500 people for allegedly spreading rumours about the world's impending demise.
He's sporting new plumage, more formal, less jolly than before - and yesterday he took to the skies at one of Davos' grandiose and unfocussed panel discussions, on terrorism.
But literary buffs do concede that their hero wrote early about masturbation in Portnoy's Complaint (1969) and has ended up less jolly, obsessed with prostate cancer: "He's come full circle".
Evelyn Waugh, whose work took a distinctively less jolly satiric turn in the midst of his second novel, Vile Bodies – when his first wife left him – produced great novels from a very bleak soul.
In an attempt to clarify matters, he later remarked that he's not anti-cleavage per se, he's just anti-cleavage during tributes to the dead (Sarandon was presenting the In Memoriam segment), seemingly labouring under that belief that women's breasts are detachable and can be put in a drawer for life's less jolly moments.
But heavier duty - and less jolly - evidence trawls through rows about Freedman recruiting the political historian Sir Denis Brogan to write about a Democratic convention in Los Angeles without consulting Cooke, and the subsequent division of the empire which brought a grudging peace.
The next couple of weeks will be hard to bear, knowing that the holidays will be much less jolly for the millions still living in the shadows.
