11.   Poking fun at bare-bones NCs is a staple of editorial columns in trade magazines.

12.   Poking fun at lunch is a pastime as old as the program itself.

13.   Poking fun at Oasis, the popular British band currently climbing the American charts, seems to be a cottage industry in England.

14.   Poking fun is the best way to inoculate a public figure against criticism, Katz says.

15.   Poking fun at the Los Angeles life style is also the message of the local chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

16.   Poking fun at the slowpoke Indiana Hoosiers has become popular fodder at the Final Four.

17.   Reno acknowledged the negative image she comes with by poking fun at herself in her remarks in Gainesville.

18.   Since he was the oldest man ever elected president, he had a great time poking fun at his age.

19.   The great songwriters from the glory days of the American musical used to love poking fun at operatic music in their shows.

20.   The routines of Krawczyk, Telling and their peers invariably involve poking fun at themselves and the foibles of their own lives.