11.   The other kids poked fun at him, saying his mother dressed him like a girl.

12.   American Greetings was trying to express edgy humor last year with a valentine meant for siblings to poke fun at each other.

13.   Although her book pokes fun at middle-age angst, the author said this had been the best time of her life.

14.   Although he never called himself a political dissident and was never jailed as one, he often poked fun at totalitarianism in oblique references in his poetry.

15.   An opponent once tried poking fun during a campaign and paid dearly for it in lost votes.

16.   And as fodder for satire, the genre has plenty to poke fun of.

17.   And how dare Kelso poke fun at our downtown?

18.   And even the keynote speaker, Dr. Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, poked fun at himself.

19.   And instead of poking fun at the hit man or kingpin personas, Abrahams relies on such howlers as El Nino jokes and vomit gags.

20.   And McPherson makes a living by poking fun at them.