1.   But as anyone who has seen the vice president poking fun at himself with David Letterman knows, the candidate does have a lighter side.

2.   But listen to me, sounding ungracious and poking fun at something so inspirational as our own Christmas catalog.

3.   But Nelson brought up the subject again, poking fun at the New York press corps for taking him to task over the Milwaukee game.

4.   He has also ceased poking fun at the intellect and spiritual beliefs of Bulls coach Phil Jackson.

5.   He made special mention of a column by Art Thiel of The Post-Intelligencer poking fun at Nebraska that ran earlier this week in the Lincoln newspaper.

6.   I made fun of this show, if you can imagine a straight-arrow such as myself actually poking fun at the Austin arts community.

7.   Late-night comics Letterman, Leno et al. can rarely manage an opening routine without poking presidential fun.

8.   Medieval stone-carvers were probably just entertaining themselves, he said, and to some degree poking fun at high-minded and demanding clerics who hired them.

9.   Now he is home, poking fun at the government on radio, but press freedom in Romania has a long way to go.

10.   Poking fun at America has always been a European pastime, particularly among the French.