Word: jocularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audience, where they showed spirited support.Pesticide Red, the next band, brought a louder voice to Rockus. In an interview before their performance, band members described themselves as “pirate gypsy rock.” There was also talk of pant-less practice jams in dorm halls. This jocular attitude translated into a fun performance that was classic punk rock. Fortran was last. Vocalist Carrie McDonough added a distinctive voice to their music, and even kept a facetious conversation with the audience between sets. Before their performance, the drummer, who identified himself simply as Okie, described the band?...
...beloved Milwaukee priest known for his jocular demeanor (he once said Mass in a bright orange Wisconsin-cheesehead hat) and for restoring the archdiocese's reputation following a sex scandal, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, 59, is set to be the next Archbishop of New York City, perhaps the nation's most prominent pulpit. Dolan inherits the second largest archdiocese in the United States, with 2.5 million Catholics in nearly 400 churches, on April 15. Known as a staunch defender of church orthodoxy, he is succeeding retiring Cardinal Edward Egan at a crucial time: the church in New York City faces...
...even minutes, of being posted. But the locals have continued to create new ways to avoid being blocked. Instead of posting on social discussion forums, where such topics are usually raised, netizens wrote about the incident on video game bulletin boards and other unrelated sites. They also used jocular code words for the incident ("bonfire party") and deployed special software that reversed sentence order so that lines ran from right to left and horizontally instead of vertically. Xiao Qiang, a Berkeley-based Chinese media expert thinks the government censors lost this round. "In this particular case, netizens' anger was just...
...Obama must create a new movement and he must create a whole new choir and in his new choir he's the conductor and they are inspired by hope," Brazile continued. "They are not looking to hear that angry jocular masculine tone that we're accustomed to in American politics. He should not hit an angry note. It's not what the choir will listen...
...scene featured the kind of irony that makes spoof newscasts worth watching: ignorance controlling expertise, the jocular triumphing over the serious, the layman anchor taking the scholarly, bespectacled professor to task on the subject of his own book...