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.
But Boom explains that their songs, which poke fun at gay lifestyles, are all meant in jest.
The Onion story is littered with outrageous laugh lines, some of which clearly poke fun at Ahmadinejad.
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Politicians will struggle to contest plans that underscore nationalist and religious values and poke fun at Greece.
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.
With a chip on his shoulder the size of Mount Sinai, Zuk never misses an opportunity to poke fun.
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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.
Mr Howard had a fine time this week using his barrister's skills to poke fun at Gordon Brown, the real chancellor.
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For another, they know how to poke fun, using their art to critique, if not utterly blow up, social convention and ignorance.
Peers can joke around, gossip, gripe, and poke fun at each other.
Two political aides have been accused of making offensive gestures linked to Native Americans to poke fun at a US Massachusetts senator's challenger.
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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.
My own website is peppered with music videos, photography, art, and illustrations intended to poke fun, add subtle sarcasm and, occasionally, inject irony.
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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Being a democratic nation entails much more than simply having elections -- it means vigilantly guarding freedom of expression, including the right of all people -- comedians, journalists, bloggers, critics -- to poke fun or disagree with the government.
Amid the pimp mythologies and metaphors that gut contemporary hip hop, rappers like Common and Xzibit in his wildly popular MTV series Pimp My Ride, devoted to upgrading broken-down automobiles seize on pimpology's prominence to poke fun at its pervasiveness.
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