Prod or poke at them with the thing all you like, they won't respond.
With the new phone, the user does not need to bow his head to poke at a salient pixel on the screen.
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That last line was a not-so-veiled poke at the last energy giant to dominate Houston, Enron, where Kinder served as president before Ken Lay nudged him aside in favor of the now incarcerated Jeffrey Skilling.
People should walk and bike more and quit pointing a finger at the rising cost of petrol and instead poke at the huge gut they develop from driving two blocks just to pick up a carton of milk.
Mr. Reagan particularly liked to poke fun at the shortcomings of our modern tax system.
Another Republican understandably went out of his way not to poke fun at the tax collectors.
While some may poke fun at Wyoming's attempt to get some attention, Sansonetti maintains that it worked.
Yet Mr Lee is not just some academic out to poke fun at clumsy companies and economic peculiarities.
There are currently a series of catchy Dentyne ads that poke fun at our overly social-networked society.
That she was ready to poke fun at herself, and slow to care about the limitless gossip that appeared about her.
My Twitter feed was instantly filled with Canadians incensed that I had the audacity to poke fun at their beloved country.
The controversial cover of this week's New Yorker was meant to poke fun at the "politics of fear" surrounding Illinois Sen.
Peers can joke around, gossip, gripe, and poke fun at each other.
Having endured endless jokes about his oversized frame, the New Jersey governor shrewdly decided the best path was to poke fun at himself.
Israeli venture capitalist Yossi Vardi, who founded the famed ICQ instant message service later bought by America Online, decided to poke fun at it.
Is that any different, really, than Mozart , who would poke fun at the same form, or Brahms or Schubert or Mahler?
Most of these have a multiracial cast, look to Africa for inspiration rather than clinging to images of Europe or America, or poke fun at South African racial stereotypes.
Seems a near-decade of comedy routines, movies and TV commercials that poke fun at foreign accents in distant lands answering questions about simple product information has had an effect.
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Sure, the once-yearly opportunity to poke fun at an ill-judged Oscars dress or a super-gushy acceptance speech (gather, Kate, gather) is a welcome prospect in these dreary days of economic doom and gloom.
There are a number of big name YouTubers out there who upload gameplay videos of various titles and either poke fun at them, or instruct their viewers how to better play the featured title.
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What I poke fun at, and do so for a purpose, is the over-the-top prose used by TSA (and most bureaucracies) to explain what they do and the jobs of the folks who discharge that mission.
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Michael Duff found the ball at his feet from a corner but only managed to poke the ball straight at Arason.
Gradel put Leeds ahead only for Billy Sharp to poke home an equaliser at the second attempt just before half-time.
Peter Leven should have made it three when he collected David Fernandez's flick six yards out but could only poke the ball weakly at Gordon.
In a new NBER working paper, Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley poke different holes in the conventional view.
Sabri sent over a low cross and Semih managed to poke the ball past Lehmann at his near post.
When will millions of networked viewers likely poke their nose out of the forest at exactly the same instant?
Like the parents of the children of Lake Wobegon, we believe ourselves to be better than most, a bias at which Keillor takes a gentle poke.
Another popular newcomer is Poke, run by Californian chef Mychael Henry at the bar and restaurant Magdalena's Party in the Palermo Soho neighbourhood every Wednesday from 8:30 pm until midnight.
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