The Kazakhs might not actually have been laughing at the Germans, but they were surely amused by a recent public relations move by the Chinese.
NOFX never broke up, and even without the benefit of a hit the band has amassed fans all over the world, enough to launch "The Hepatitis Bathtub" onto the Times best-seller list, at No. 3, in a category that surely amused Burkett and his bandmates: "Celebrities".
They would surely have amused the hungry houseguests breakfasting on O'Neill's capacious terrace.
I bet some of them thought I said 'barely profitable'!" (If they did, they were surely not amused).
So he'd surely be amused to learn that today a taste-making coterie of Parisians is falling in love with Uzès and settling there, despite the fact that it's not in Umbria.
At the same time the bitter tweet of Stephen Aziz, Manchester City's former kit-man, who accused Mancini of being arrogant, self-centred, vain and ignorant, will surely have amused those with memories of Malcolm Allison, Joe Mercer's assistant when an outstanding City team won the league in 1968 and manager at Maine Road for two brief spells in the 70s.
Schwitters would surely have been amused.
Edwards, whose parents have been granted a court order declaring him to be presumed dead, was himself a student of rock music history and popular culture, and would surely have been amused to find himself the object of so much speculation and intrigue.
Tomorrow she shares the bill with her longtime fellow traveler Dave Van Ronk, who will surely thrill and amuse with his stickler's approach to American roots music.
Yet Sinatra, who would have turned 95 today, surely would have been flattered and amused — bemused, too — at the lavish attention and respect tendered to him over the past two decades by rap musicians.
I was also amused that SWINE was clued as "Pen pals?" As usual, let's hear from the constructors: Surely most Americans are familiar with this voice, thanks to a certain movie that runs continually on TV during a holiday.
