He looked to be in his element as he mocked the two earnest young men who moderated the chat, flashing the briefest sign of anger when one of them stepped on a punch line.
Lately he's been doing inappropriate things in public, like parading around an office holiday party with his testicles resting, exposed, on a punch ladle.
Lawyers says smaller issues, like paint drips, gaps in counters or broken screens, should be taken up with the developer on a "punch list" — a list of things the developer needs to fix in the apartment in the short term.
Back when Christopher Evans, then a special effects matte artist, was on the creative team for "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), it was "like working on a Punch and Judy show," he said.
On the eve of the Second World War, he was still tinkering with the machine — considering entering votes on the paper roll as lead marks that could be read electrically, or even, as he wrote to I.B.M.'s director for market research in 1939, "on a punch card".
The Democrats, fearful of missing the deadline, were pleased that the judge moved directly to testimony, and they began laying out their case that voters might have tried to cast a vote on a punch card without pushing the stylus all the way through it.
