You might need to prod me a bit".
"Obviously you guys want that, because you continue to prod me," he told reporters.
Where do they get the nerve to constantly, and so loudly, prod me toward commerce?
I want you to prod me, poke me and give me every test".
"He'd prod me, 'When was the last time you made a good picture?"' Mr. Shearer said.
But, happily, it does little more than prod me, remind me that I need to tread carefully.
But I am a committed free market liberal, and it is fair to say that does not normally prod me in the direction of French Socialists.
My father tried to prod me for more information, but the newscaster had told me what I needed to know, and that was good enough for me.
In a dystopian urban mockup called Shangri-La, I am suddenly surrounded by nurses in platinum blond wigs, who prod me and look into my eyes.
She would prod me in the side, in a friendly manner, and say: "Look, she's nothing but skin and bone!" The fact that I was deeply anorexic and that she was overweight is irrelevant.
My typical one-liner response when people prod me about where I'm from is "Pennsylvania, the Harrisburg-Hershey area", since I lived there in my formative high school years and then returned for several years in my adult life.
