This pathfinder is a pathetic joke.
But the joke – the unfunny, pathetic joke – is on Hodges.
As an example, there's Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" — this would be kind of a pathetic joke on a little screen.
"From the hat I was wearing to my complete ignorance of the technical jargon," he writes, "I was a pathetic joke".
Mr. Dylan and Mr. Guest have each made the same satiric point, that the world of commercialized acoustic music that culminated in the "folk boom" of the Kennedy era is a pathetic joke.
My feelings on reading this are roughly analogous to those when I discovered that the word "whorephobic" genuinely wasn't some pathetic joke invented by Richard Littlejohn to denigrate the politically correct.
As the nation industrialized, however, Crockett's heaps of dead pelts became the equivalent of America's capitalistic might, and his own profile began to rise from pathetic joke to vaunted hunter and Alamo hero.
I had the terror of having to follow him on stage many times, and would make the pathetic joke, "I know this is an open mic, but I must be doing well if Robin Williams is opening for me!" As an artist, Robin Williams represented the dizzy heights of brilliance we could aspire to.
Neither do I believe I know any bird person who would call themselves an ornithologist... Bird-spotter or bird-fancier A bird-fancier is either more appropriately applicable to a person who keeps caged birds, or it is a pathetic joke made by some bore in a pub who has just heard that you are interested in birds.
The charging system sucks, the remote is fragile and frail, the PC software is pathetic joke, and worst of all now, it won't do anything.
