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All tourist-oriented and hotel shops sell rum, whether aged from three to six years (añejo) or low-grade aguardiente (from sugarcane alcohol) with humorous labels.
The text flows easily from one topic to another, peppered with examples both serious and humorous.
The PG-13 rated movie, Wild Wild West , for example, opens with a 'humorous' decapitation, and the PG rated movie, Star Wars: Episode 1--The Phantom Menace , contains numerous violent deaths."
St. Johns law professor and Sunday poet Lawrence Joseph's anthology of conversations with New York attorneys is deemed humorous but "pointless" (Rob Long, the Weekly Standard ). Reviewers say Joseph is "good at catching the way people talk" (Christopher Lehman-Haupt, the New York Times ) and his characters "are first cousins to David Mamet's or Eric Bogosian's ranters" (Philip Lopate, Esquire ). But beneath the froth the book offers little insight into the way lawyers work, Long says; it's really about "what colorful New Yorkers talk about when they're trying to be colorful."
Gedunk is obviously a humorous application of the past participle of dunk --Crullers “gedunked” in coffee--and by the 1930s it was obviously well established in the Navy to refer to any concoction involving ice cream, and especially to establishments dispensing it.