(1) Last week we had a very funny conversation about how we both enjoy the term ‘fannying about’.
(2) The two main housing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have been in limbo for four years and are desperately in need of reform that should start this fall, but there is scant attention to the problem.
(3) 21 min: Vittek races down the inside right channel to win a ball he should never have been allowed to win - Criscito was fannying around - and wins a corner.
(4) "The Great Barrier Reef is definitely at a crossroad and decisions that will be taken over the next one, two, three years might potentially be crucial for the long-term conservation [of the reef]," said Fanny Douvere, from Unesco's World Heritage marine programme.
(5) Romney fielded former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and a leading Florida politician, Will Weatherford, to hold a phone-conference with reporters over Gingrich's time with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
(6) The FHFA lawsuit, which follows a subpoena issued to the banks last year, demands that the banks pay compensation to cover some of the $30bn (£18.5bn) Fannie and Freddie lost on mortgage-backed securities.
(7) Mortgage firm sues over Libor US mortgage finance company Fannie Mae sued nine of the world's largest banks yesterday, including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, accusing them of colluding to manipulate interest rates and seeking more than $800m of damages.
(8) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(9) Opposition whip and member for Fannie Bay, Michael Gunner, will run against Lawrie, who he claims has lost credibility after the supreme court found she sought to undermine an inquiry into her controversial granting of a rent-free lease to unions.
(10) In the recent Face the Nation interview, Gingrich was asked about civil charges that had recently been brought by top financial watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission against Fannie and Freddie executives alleging they misinformed people about the risky subprime loans that mortgage giants held when the housing bubble burst.
(11) It began with four nervous girls writing anonymous poetry and has swelled to more than 100 members calling themselves the #FDL – the female or "fanny" defence league – which has made films, a music video and met Gove.
(12) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(13) Since starting [the programme], all women have delivered HIV-negative babies, which has contributed to reducing child mortality in this area,” says Fanny Luwemba, a buddy volunteer in Sandi village.
(14) And I cherish stories of Fannie Lou Hamer singing “This Little Light of Mine ” just as much as I love tales of Harriet Tubman leading slaves home to the north – but tales of black exceptionalism are set in obvious contrast to the stereotypical and still resonant idea of lazy slaves and disenfranchised sharecroppers.
(15) With only three votes out of eight, Lawrie will need about 60% of the membership’s vote to retain power against challenger Michael Gunner, the member for Fannie Bay.
(16) On Thursday, Moody's threatened to downgrade the AAA ratings of government lenders Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Home Loan Banks and Federal Farm Credit Banks, illustrating the vulnerability of the already depressed housing market to a government default.
(17) In an interview with ABC on Monday morning, Gingrich denied he had ever worked as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and had only been an adviser.
(18) 7.54pm GMT 9 min: Colback is in plenty of space down the left, but there's no option for him in the centre, so he checks back and fannies around awhile.
(19) We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some; and we’re Susan B Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth.
(20) From it, Schweinsteiger and Lahm fanny around for ages before the latter finally gets a cross in.
Funny
Definition:
(superl.) Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
(n.) A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(2) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
(4) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
(5) Take feedback when it's offered In common with all the other judges on Show Me The Funny, I'm not entirely comfortable with judging other comedians.
(6) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
(7) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
(8) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(9) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(10) So like I said, it’s funny to be a woman, in a world that judges you solely by what you do with your vagina: whether any babies have come out of it, and what you are doing with it.
(11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(12) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
(13) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
(14) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
(15) "It was a funny afternoon," said Pardew whose side have won seven and drawn one of their last nine Premier League games.
(16) In his five-star review for Time Out New York , David Cote calls it "gobsmackingly funny".
(17) First in line was Conservative Richard Fuller, who he believed was looking at him in a funny way.
(18) Funny on its own, even funnier with funny music playing beneath it .
(19) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
(20) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.