She breaks the mood by quipping "I'm available for adoption again.
Yet she has been in a remarkably good mood lately even quipping late last week about the wisdom of choosing April Fool's Day as the date on which to launch the new company.Ms Fiorina must have had more than an inkling of what was to come.
Sceptical Turkish-Cypriots had started quipping that Mr Denktash's last remaining friend was Boncuk, his pet terrier; but objectively, he has found a new one Mr Papadopoulos, the new father of rejectionism.Very logically from his point of view, the Turkish-Cypriot leader described the Greek thumbs-down as a vindication of his own scepticism about the viability of the Annan plan.
Indeed, asked about the politics of energy, he refers to his early childhood in America's capital by quipping that "I fled Washington at an early age .And even some of his admirers admit there is some truth in the charge that he marshals obscure and interminable charts and statistics to baffle and browbeat his audiences into intellectual submission.
Humour Not its chief selling point, but the show does leaven the trauma with the occasional zinger, usually dispensed by Peter Dinklage's patron saint of sarcasm Tyrion Lannister and Diana Rigg's magnificent Lady Olenna Redwyne, who would totally beat Downton's Countess Violet in a battle of the quipping dynastic battleaxes.
Reaction on Twitter focused partly on the former Beatle's relaxed attire - or "$800 mom jeans" - but the night was stolen by the Rolling Stones, who put in (another) high tempo performance, frontman Mick Jagger quipping at the start: "This has got to be the largest collection of old English musicians ever assembled in Madison Square Garden.
He gets more wind beneath these wings in the second half, and shrugs off some of the more overblown and obvious routines that end the first, when he talks about the agony of planning holidays based on resort reviews online, quipping that one read: "The Kids Club was so good we left them there after we went home".
It's darker and less kitsch than Raimi's trilogy, but Spider-Man himself (Andrew Garfield) has got his sense of humour back, quipping mid-fight just as he does in the comics.
Spraggan had the final word, quipping back "I think you'll do that far before I do", before a feisty warning not to "f**k with the gays".
Last year he admitted that he had tried a joint in his student days, quipping that unlike Bill Clinton he had actually inhaled.
In other news, yet so frightfully ironic, Tory politician Henry Smith tweeted earlier this morning quipping that he was struggling with the hot air in the Commons.
