(1) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
(2) James Hornsby Abington, Northampton • Every 1 April, Guardian readers need to beware of the spoof story.
(3) 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.
(4) Private Eye's all-time sales high came in 1986, when it recorded a circulation of 238,000 at the height of the popularity of the Dear Bill letters that spoofed Denis Thatcher.
(5) Bowie’s 1980 track Fashion has provided the soundtrack for more catwalk shows than I could ever hope to list here, and of course Bowie made a cameo appearance – judging a walk-off between two competing male models – in Ben Stiller’s brilliant 2001 fashion spoof Zoolander.
(6) Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary, has shown she can tackle comedy by appearing in a spoof trailer for a Law & Order-style cop show called Tough Justice.
(7) Her spoof video I'm Fucking Matt Damon became a YouTube mega-hit and last month won her a Webby award for "best actress" .
(8) Even if you don't get the gag on the way in – the doormen wear tattered clothes – then the penny drops when you enter the L-shaped, 200-capacity basement and see the satirical murals spoofing Manhattan's high-society swells.
(9) The crsA47 suppressor restores sporulation of spoOE, spoOF, spoOK and spoIIG mutants to levels near those of wild type bacteria and substantially improves the sporulation of a spoOB strain.
(10) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(11) The instruction came via a spoof Twitter account using the name of the parent company’s Japanese chief executive, Kazuo Hirai.
(12) Spoofs are no longer one-off scrawls that fade on individual walls, but community in-jokes that take on a virtual life of their own.
(13) That weakness could theoretically allow a hacker to receive the email by spoofing the server.
(14) Press Association BBC radio station defends spoof M&S job cuts clip The BBC has caused anger after broadcasting a spoof advertisement that seemed to make fun of Marks & Spencer staff who have lost their jobs.
(15) In Colorado, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a video called “The Mark Udall Dynasty” that spoofs the opening credits of the hit 1980s TV show Dynasty as the narrator says: “Wealthy, comfortable and established.
(16) A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country.
(17) James Corden can sing and, although it’s a spoof, the performances are really good.
(18) The same deletion in the upstream region of the functional spoOF gene results in cells which sporulate very poorly, although they are not blocked at the onset of sporulation, as in an spoOF null mutant.
(19) Open reading frame 2 encodes a 26,000-dalton polypeptide that is similar to a family of transcriptional activators, including the products of the Bacillus subtilis spoOA and spoOF and the E. coli ompR and dye genes.
(20) They then pretend to be their target, using a technique known as internet protocol address spoofing.
Spook
Definition:
(n.) A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
(n.) The chimaera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(2) Turning on the community suggests they are spooked by the growing support to protect our national treasures.
(3) But political corruption and the implacable opposition of the spooks and military to progressive change are the traditional forms of anti-democratic politics, in Britain, as elsewhere.
(4) Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first, before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers.
(5) Backing the spooks against a left-leaning newspaper is, for a Tory prime minister, a no-brainer.
(6) Investors were also spooked by a chequered sales performance as breakneck growth stuttered at home and abroad.
(7) In the latest CIA coup, America's leading spooks have sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy with their chucklesome debut on social media: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
(8) She is, therefore, basically the Ruth Evershed (from Spooks) of the ancient world.
(9) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."
(10) If the only black people they see are the "looky looky" men on the beach selling fake watches then the idea of a black holidaymaker might spook them.
(11) "She has reinvented family drama in Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Merlin and launched acclaimed contemporary series such as Spooks and Life on Mars as well as Cranford.
(12) Any list of the decade's most memorable shows would be dominated by series that began in its early years: The Office, Spooks, Peep Show, The Thick of It, Shameless.
(13) Greece spooked investors for a third day running on Thursday as the Athens stock exchange fell 7.35% amid fears over the debt-stricken country’s future in the eurozone.
(14) If the desertion of some of their juniors has spooked Egypt's generals, they are being careful not to show it.
(15) In the technology world, a still-young and rapidly expanding business posting losses isn't unusual, and it's unlikely to spook many investors.
(16) The Daily Mail and the Spectator apparently don't care much if spooks routinely capture and comb all our emails and phone traffic.
(17) After our daughter left, my wife would sometimes go to her room – pictures of Spooks, etc – and cry.
(18) He is said to have entered the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit premises on 3 April and walked away on 5 April, spooked by the discovery that the fire escape door they had previously used had been locked in the interim.
(19) As the debate in ancient Westminster Hall wound on and the libertarians (security must not undermine basic freedoms) proved the better-briefed side, the spook faction got a bit dirty, as is their patriotic duty.
(20) That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in: they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.” Peña Nieto’s pronouncements are the most forceful so far against Trump, whose rise to the top of the Republican primary races has spooked Mexicans of all social strata.