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"ribbing" Definitions
  1. a pattern of raised lines in knitting (= the activity of making clothing out of wool) or on a surface
  2. (old-fashioned, informal) the act of making fun of somebody in a friendly way synonym tease (1)

309 Sentences With "ribbing"

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He found the ribbing, like much else in life, hysterical.
Roman Catholic ritual also comes in for some gentle ribbing.
Even the Scotts' good natured ribbing and poses are on point.
Economic research shows that there is some truth to the ribbing.
Instead of ribbing my friend, I decided to do something better.
Of course, he also took the opportunity to do some ribbing.
We're just ribbing you Kanye fans, please don't send angry emails.
The Huckabees complained about the ribbing, but they also exploited it.
There they are, ribbing and pinching each other, jostling and laughing.
Or maybe not, given the ribbing Kimmel gave Rumi and Sir. Rude.
Klay Thompson's photo quickly fell victim to some free-catalog-style ribbing. .
Diersing accepted O'Leary's offer, to some lighthearted ribbing from the other sharks.
There's nothing like a cookie dustup to inspire some competitive ribbing, though.
Those policies have since changed, and Mr. Trump enjoyed ribbing Mr. Obama.
I'm saying, Marc Maron has given me some ribbing on that show.
"The real story is the surveillance," the President responds, before ribbing his staff.
After a bit of ribbing, however, Anonymous said they found much to dislike.
The multi-talented star has endured some good-natured ribbing from —who else?
According to Sandrock, Ellmers' comments was not just a little ribbing between friends.
There is cursing and laughing and ribbing, and it sounds like a party.
After they each said "I love you" and hung up, the ribbing began.
It's good-natured ribbing, but it also feels like a reinforcement of masculinity.
And the revelation set off some good-natured ribbing between the two countries.
We'd developed an odd relationship, mostly built around ribbing each other over politics.
I'm sure the ribbing from his teammates will continue for a few days.
It's good-hearted ribbing, but it's premised upon very real anger and frustration.
And she'll miss the ribbing she got when she went home for a visit.
They also drew ribbing from critics, who noted the beauty queens' numerous spelling mistakes.
"He's nervous right now!" she says, ribbing him for wearing a single pearl earring.
If you don't know that they're ribbing you, why bother calling this a troll?
Tucked in the ribbing of her neck is a sleeping baby animal—impossibly cute.
Plus, Lorelai gently ribbing Emily over her Will Smith crush is just fun. 2100.
It also took its fair share of lighthearted ribbing — even among those being honored.
It also has reinforced corners and interior ribbing to absorb even more drop force.
Jane makes coffee and copies, takes calls and endures light ribbing from her colleagues.
It was a routine that Baylor player Kalani Brown couldn't let pass without some ribbing.
Once the table was full and the ribbing had died down, Hanson started the meeting.
Liam Hemsworth is on the mend — but not without a little ribbing from his colleagues.
We'll admit we have a soft spot for celebrities who enjoy ribbing each other online.
Still, Mr. Malina, who is a known prankster, has taken his fair share of ribbing.
President Donald Trump keeps ribbing the low ratings for a TV series he executive-produces.
There were reporters calling his parents seeking comment and constant ribbing from his co-workers.
Will he take a shot, even a gentle ribbing, at Warren, or hold his fire?
" Thicke couldn't resist ribbing his fiancée, quipping, "How come Instagram [gets] to see this before me???
"You should see the ribbing I get," he said, "when I can't open a ketchup bottle."
As Harris took the stage, host Howie Mandel couldn't resist ribbing him over his recent breakup.
The episode has plenty of funny moments, like Obama ribbing Letterman about his nearly Biblical beard.
At least I had the good grace to sit there and take the ribbing I deserved.
Blake Griffin doesn't hold back while ribbing Caitlyn Jenner at Alec Baldwin's upcoming Comedy Central roast.
"We can change what we find disgusting," said Rebecca Ribbing, a researcher working on the exhibition.
So during Tommies week, "there's ribbing, both with my brothers and with my friends," McDonough said.
The video is likely to bother Trump, who is notoriously averse to criticism or public ribbing.
Bragg carried his poles in canvas cases marked "Don (Tarzan) Bragg," a flourish that evoked ribbing.
The friend sent a message ribbing him about it, and Brian sent back a snarky reply.
"I want him to grow it long so I can braid it," says Journey, ribbing her sister.
Gentle ribbing is fine, but posters are asked to remove personal information about the people they post.
LeBron found it hard to let his guard down, refusing even to accept lighthearted ribbing by peers.
"It takes some practice" and perhaps a tolerance for gentle ribbing from your training partner or spouse.
In some cases, their own congressional colleagues have been ribbing them about being the next vice president.
When men have been friends for 70-odd years, ribbing is an expression of loyalty and love.
Normally, when she sees me, she greets me with a smile and with some good-natured ribbing.
" Crowder has defended his actions on his own channel, describing the language he used as "friendly ribbing.
We're meant to warm to Hannah and Andrew as they wear each other down with good-natured ribbing.
Thanks to this, and the powerful vertical ribbing above them, the whole ensemble appears ready to blast off.
Seemingly taking the ribbing in stride, Jonas replied by commenting on the post with an eye roll emoji.
I expected some ribbing about the "had to do it to 'em" pose I'd thrown into my pic.
Romney also took some ribbing from The Atlantic for enjoying a corn dog at the Iowa State Fair.
The ASMR subculture also get some ribbing with IfNf's Downloads, videos and audio tracks that feature soothing voices.
Or perhaps that nonchalance is because this racial ribbing didn't occur against a background of any clear majority.
Via emails and text messages, they exchanged some good-natured ribbing — and negotiated a deal for next weekend.
Their many sculptures turned them into bibles of stone while the ribbing and traceries added amazing decorative energy.
It's a sweet moment, complete with the aforementioned good-natured ribbing over the state of Yessoufou's phone screen.
He kept going, praising rappers, ribbing basketball players, hosting a ''women of soul'' evening at the White House.
That didn't keep him from ribbing his chosen candidate on a panel with fellow billionaire Sam Zell Wednesday morning.
It featured a guy named "Omar," an average construction worker and dad who's ribbing on influencer culture for fun.
But despite the near-constant ribbing, last week's New Hampshire visit was not just a reunion of old friends.
Amid the chaos she is warm and funny, playfully ribbing her staff and poking fun at The Verge delegation.
In my memories of adolescence, beneath the constant ribbing and occasional pyromania, we had tremendous affection for one another.
His longevity and roots from the very start of the space program were occasion for some ribbing by colleagues.
But the other Indianans are blurrier, as if the authors couldn't quite decide how much ribbing they could take.
And a generous ribbing above the ankle provides compression to your shins, reducing the likelihood of painful shin splints.
Instead, it offers up a peculiar amalgam that's part commencement speech, part policy analysis, and part gentle GOP ribbing.
Many Democrats spent Tuesday night ribbing President Donald Trump during and after his speech before a joint session of Congress.
Higgins jokingly referred to the vehicle as "The Thing," most likely ribbing Apple for the bulkiness of its sensor array.
Surely, a man who Forbes lists as having a net worth of $6.2 billion can withstand a little light ribbing.
" Ross told PEOPLE: "I'm anxious to … see how much ribbing I get in the locker room when I show up!
Sure, there was some jovial ribbing of former Speaker of the House John Boehner, whose emotional bouts were well-chronicled.
Her mother, who divorced Prince Andrew in 1996, had to get used to unrelenting ribbing by Britain's royal-obsessed media.
"People on the left in the media enjoy watching me take a ribbing from my mother," he told the Inquirer.
" Although McEntire says her dad gave her a gentle ribbing afterward — "Daddy said, 'Did you have that thing on backwards?
This keeps your socks in place, and the front ribbing allows air to flow through to cool your skin's surface.
You can see the potential for workplace humor, gentle ribbing of nerds, and the potential for big egos and drama.
The developments were greeted with ribbing by critics of the Republicans' concerns, with the Senate Intelligence Committee's vice chair, Democratic Sen.
The figure's chest is a masterpiece of folds, knots, and ribbing, which is split open down the center into an ellipse.
Despite the upheaval of a second amputation, she's likely to receive the playful ribbing that often buoys the wounded warrior community.
He didn't seem malicious about it though, describing his ribbing as being delivered in a "Canadian voice" -- something they'd both understand.
I had a good laugh about the whole thing, took some ribbing from my friends and moved on with my life.
The designer Sonia Lartigue riffed on the vitrines' simple design, in which welded brass ribbing holds together individually cut glass panes.
Spieth won his first four matches this week, but he still copped a friendly ribbing at the winning team's press conference.
" Perry then revealed herself to be the actual voice behind "Gemma," ribbing her beau, "Honey, I thought you knew me better.
Someone designed the ribbing on that can — those horizontal ridges — because it makes the can more durable and resistant to dents.
It's not clear what guests of honor Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge thought of his playful ribbing.
While Gowdy's Republican colleagues praised his aggressiveness in seeking information, he also came in for occasional ribbing for cycling through hairstyles.
He was just visiting the campus, but he began ribbing me like an old friend, then followed me to a restaurant.
Imaginative ribbing of the rich and celebrated aside, I'll tell you who is there for me in the wee hours: streamers.
J.) injected some levity into the deposition, plugging his Twitter account and prompting some light (if puzzling) ribbing from his colleagues.
"It was pretty annoying," said Stumpf, 30, of the ribbing he has received from friends, including articles shared on his Facebook wall.
Look, these companies know that product announcements are a game, and who here doesn't enjoy seeing corporate millionaires lightly ribbing each other?
Brown noted the ribbing the game received after revealing its game map, which laid out a rather geographically-questionable view of Australia.
Netflix got a lot of ribbing for its original holiday movie slate this year, for instance, which included Hallmark channel style fare.
After Amanda Nunes dominated Ronda Rousey in the octagon, the reigning champion continued her celebration by ribbing the UFC favorite on Twitter.
The "Avolatte," as the breakthrough beverage is called, has drawn some ribbing from those who find Millennial obsessions to be tiresomely trendy.
Tina Fey learned the hard way that you can't poke fun at George Clooney and not receive a little ribbing in return.
A group of friends, laughing and ribbing one another, spills out of the bodega with a storefront trimmed with neon blue light.
In the meantime, Jamie's breakthrough season will continue to include questions about his sister, not to mention the occasional ribbing from teammates.
Lindsey Graham joined Trump in ribbing Warren over the test, saying on Fox News that he would take a DNA test himself.
" Khloé couldn't resist ribbing her older sister in her sweet reply in the comments section before expressing her gratitude, writing, "Wow wow wow!!!
Thunders gigs were rife with these, along with Johnny's delight in ribbing the crowd and admonishing them for their reaction (or lack thereof).
The annual event — attended by journalists, politicians and celebrities — is usually marked by some good-natured ribbing on the president and his administration.
These are a couple of big-league organizations that throughout the years have taken a terrible drubbing as well as a terrible ribbing.
As much as I enjoy ribbing distinguished lawyers and judges for being bad at computers, I really cannot blame them in this instance.
The Antonin Scalia School of Law had prompted some backside-related ribbing with the trending hashtag #ASSLaw, as well as another unsavory acronym.
"Tribute that may be urned?" is a corny shout out to "ODE on a Grecian Urn," which has endured its share of ribbing.
But Harper and his wife say the fans in the seats at Washington's National Park went well past good-natured ribbing on Wednesday.
The clothing company won't sit, or stand, for the ribbing -- XOXO is suing to block Trojan and for any profits made off its name.
Johnson's drive landed within a couple of paces of a surprised Riley, who came in for some light-hearted ribbing by his fellow commentators.
It was like witnessing teenagers ribbing each other, running around playing tag and talking with food in their mouths and having it dribble out.
Park City, Utah (CNN)Mitt Romney had barely disembarked from the Silver Lake Express lift when the glad-handing and ribbing began in earnest.
The two have enjoyed a long-running ribbing over the game, which Republicans won last year to break a seven-year Democratic win streak.
They cheered raucously, ribbing a retired judge who had backed a horse that was disqualified for an infraction after romping home in first place.
Fantasy sports are a bigger thrill if you can lord your success over your buddies and give them a gentle ribbing for their failures.
Butler, in 2016, elicited incessant ribbing from his Olympic teammates in Brazil for repeatedly insisting — loudly — that he was an N.F.L.-caliber wide receiver.
" He also thanked his donors, gently ribbing those who "got very, very generous the day after the election," but saying "we love you too.
" The friend, standing outside the club between sets, saw Jones getting out of the cab and immediately started ribbing her: "I've been texting you.
I didn't want to make a fuss, cause trouble for anyone or be seen as someone who couldn't hack a little macho newsroom ribbing.
There was some ribbing about my penchant for taking control, but everyone knew I was right: The spreadsheet is the only way to go.
Obama answered with jokes: a riff about eating mozzarella sticks, another ribbing Kimmel for giving his audience a hard time during the commercial breaks.
"It's, like, the best shop ever," Dan Rodriguez, 22, said after gently ribbing Mr. Lee about the Justin Bieber tune playing softly in the background.
Despite his Twitter prowess, Dingell wasn't always up on contemporary pop culture, but he seemed to delight in ribbing his staff for catching him up.
Not-so-gentle ribbing of the competition aside, the Z Cam S1 is a serious piece of kit, with a serious price tag to match.
With father-daughter ribbing on full display, Larry and Kara Walker sat down in Sikkema Jenkins's large white middle gallery to chat about the exhibition.
I don't have small hands unlike some people," he jokes, not-so-subtly ribbing President Donald Trump before he adds, dryly: "Sorry for getting political.
"Mark Meadows got slapped around big time," quipped another GOP member, though many in the room took the Trump comments as simply good-natured ribbing.
While this too invited plenty of ribbing from the usual peanut gallery, I realized that there was a coded message within his words; an invitation.
Despite the serious subject matter, Jon Avnet, the director and co-writer, said the cast subjected him to a fair amount of ribbing on set.
McDonald's announced Tuesday it will use fresh beef in some of its U.S. burgers, prompting rival Wendy's to lay down some fresh-never-frozen ribbing.
Am I going to owe my mother and my best friend—who are both reiki practitioners—an apology for gently ribbing them about their practice?
On the air, in print and in personal appearances, they combined amiable banter and gentle ribbing with earnest explorations of shared beliefs and quests for comity.
Not one to let a good ribbing go, DeGeneres poked fun at the actor and clapped and wolf-howled along with the audience as Gyllenhaal laughed.
He may have gotten some ribbing from her at the time, but he says that they've moved on and he's made plenty of other mistakes since.
Our guide, Semphiwe, was sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, giving us all names in Zulu or Xhosa and ribbing us if we couldn't pronounce them properly.
As they discussed his promises of a hard-line immigration policy, the panelists waffled between ribbing — what would he do about supermodels illegally in the country?
Mr. Lawrence wrote in an email that, aside from some gentle ribbing, relationships between nerds like him and the more avant-garde performers have been supportive.
Debate moderators challenged Sanders on the viability of a socialist candidate in June 2019 and again in September 2019, and his opponents joined in the ribbing.
Raygun, an apparel and merchandise brand based out of Des Moines, released a t-shirt ribbing the widely reported chaos at this year's Iowa Democratic Caucus.
New Hampshire radio hosts Paul Steinhauser and Chris Ryan greet Kasich with the familiarity and ribbing of people that have spent a lot of time together.
" Cohen, 50, couldn't help ribbing the singer a bit for the family's new paycheck, presenting her with a bedazzled football that hilariously read, "I'M VERY RICH, BITCH!
While Goren's ribbing was always funny and good-natured, he became divisive, like a punk rock centrifuge, separating the self-aware punks from the straight-up boneheads.
They do the same job, ribbing off each other as you do on an afternoon show, but Langbroek was getting paid significantly less than her male counterpart.
The red piping mimics the red stripe on Phasma's cape, while the stitching designs on the torso are indicative of the ribbing of the character's under armor.
On air, Colbert started referring to O'Reilly as Papa Bear, and Papa Bear, though hardly known for easygoing self-effacement, seemed to take the ribbing relatively well.
Over NBA All-Star weekend, Irving's comments became a hot topic of conversation, and even resulted in some gentle ribbing from fellow Cleveland Cavaliers player LeBron James.
I really like the thick ribbing around the collar, the cuffs, and the bottom of the sweater because it adds texture and visual interest to the piece.
Chicagoans know their problems better than anyone else, and they would be perfectly happy to endure some good-natured California ribbing about harsh winters or hot dogs.
The backlash ranged from gentle ribbing to invocations of the term "the n-word," which is frequently used as a stand-in for an offensive racial slur.
There is light chatter in the rooms, the kind of razzing and ribbing that young men who have competed with each other for years are prone to.
As they sat side by side, Mr. Trump and Mr. Duterte projected a friendly dynamic, ribbing members of the news media as they prepared to speak privately.
And like the powerful everywhere, neither group should exist without a good old-fashioned ribbing, because satire, uh, helps shine a light and all that fun stuff!
In response, Trump challenged Tillerson to "compare IQ tests," delivering a sharp-edged ribbing that threw a bright spotlight on his seemingly shaky relationship with his top diplomat.
MACCALLUM: All right, before I let you go, I want to ask you about the Space Force, which got a lot of attention, even some ribbing this week.
You may believe this is some gentle ribbing between two friends, but Berry's comments to Outlaw were perceived to be fat-shaming by some on British social media.
As usual, the crassness of Hollywood—er, sorry, Hollywoo—is the main object of the show's friendly ribbing, but this time it also tackles the superficiality of politics.
Despite what some killjoys would have you believe, for the most part, it's an excuse for a bit of good-natured ribbing amongst friends, family, and co-workers.
Action is what Baarns had hoped for in this game, and action is what he got — a long with a lot of good-natured ribbing in the booth.
The Gridiron dinner has long been a bipartisan venue for good-natured ribbing at times when tensions between the media, lawmakers and the president are at their highest.
He rarely, if ever, said no to attending the funeral of a foreign dignitary, and he endured the ribbing that is the cost of being a vice president.
Stars who fell for the message were teased by some of their fans in the comments section, including Rob Lowe, whose ribbing came courtesy of his own son, John.
Piled into the old wooden elevator after the show, guests took turns ribbing each other for being undercover accomplices within Silven's routine — but it was all in good fun.
"The sibling ribbing has already started," the proud father of two captioned a too-cute clip of his older son tickling his new baby brother's tummy over the weekend.
And, when it comes to our own sign getting roasted, there's nothing like a little ribbing (or a whole lot) to give us that dose of perspective we need.
Many of his jokes, including ribbing against Ted Cruz and calling Antonin Scalia's dissension against gay marriage "very gay," inject casual satire into Franken's tour of his Senate tenure.
Corden took the stage at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Tuesday night to present Streep with the Distinguished Collaborator Award — and in the process gave her a playful ribbing.
However, the jokes at Trump's expense come after the billionaire businessman's has spent significant airtime ribbing Cruz over his Canadian birthplace and whether it jeopardizes his eligibility to be president.
In December, Hemsworth went toe to toe with his younger brother, Liam Hemsworth, as the two took turns ribbing each other with doodle-strewn pics of the other's magazine cover.
"Baby too explicit for a write-up," Lil Baby told me immediately, bouncing past and onto a new thought, engaging with his friends before circling back to continue his ribbing.
Thomas mixes it up for Celtics BOSTON — Isaiah Thomas says he didn't take any ribbing from his teammates after scoring 52 points without registering a single assist last Friday night.
The fake-bitter rivals continued ribbing each other in skits on the late night show, until finally Damon elevated the feud by kidnapping Kimmel and taking over his show in 2013.
He further defied his reputation by cracking jokes that were (by the subterranean standards of such occasions) not bad: ribbing Boris Johnson for his failure to nab the premiership, for example.
And through it all, people have been poking fun at the comically misaimed backlash — including the DC Red Hen's Twitter account operator, who's spent the past few days ribbing critics online.
The streaming service sent what it probably thought was an innocuous-enough tweet Sunday night, ribbing a few dozen of its users for partaking in a holiday-inspired B-movie binge.
The dinner, traditionally the last time the two major party candidates share a stage before the election, typically features good-natured ribbing between the candidates but usually includes warm-hearted remarks.
And yes, Motor Trend deserves a lot of ribbing, particularly because it spent a full day on Twitter teasing that it had some sort of huge Apple Car scoop coming today.
But that friendship can be uneasy, in no small part because Marcus, the more senior of the two, insists on ribbing Alberto (who is half-Comanche, half-Mexican) for his heritage.
Griffin's boxer's fracture, meanwhile—reportedly the result of an evening of ribbing that he found excessive—is an almost too on-the-nose metaphor for how Clippers seasons tend to end.
That is, they cannot discuss pleasure or sexual enhancement (so condom ads are allowed if they focus on preventing pregnancy, for example, but not if, say, they talk about innovative ribbing).
"In the 1600s, it was considered inhumane to feed lobster to prisoners more than twice a week," Ms. Ribbing said (this is possibly because lobsters were so common at the time).
There was the way the black contestants seemed to believe they had a better chance with her, and the discomfort of the white contestants during the serious moments of masculine ribbing.
Trump even joked about future departures in his upbeat and self-deprecating remarks on Saturday at the Gridiron Dinner, a tony event that brings journalists and politicians together for bipartisan ribbing.
The good-natured tension and ribbing between the two old "boys" is still there — and still a bit old hat — but there is a new dynamic that juices the entertainment factor.
Using a shiny chintz fabric from Japan, he designed his own version of it, with a slim fit, knitted ribbing at the waist and cuffs, and a strap at the collar.
Bonding around the fun stuff, sure – the laughter, the ribbing -- but also around the real stuff – aging, death, job loss, suicide, marital difficulties, faith and doubt, parenting challenges, and more health scares.
Bostian, still fairly new to the corridor and recently transferred to the New York-to-Washington run, wasn't much for small talk or the ribbing through which railroaders leaven the stressful job.
Sen. John McCain appeared on The View on Monday to help his daughter, co-host Meghan McCain, celebrate her 33rd birthday — and to have a little fun ribbing her over her boyfriend.
During Saturday evening's Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles, Leonardo DiCaprio was on the receiving end of some gentle ribbing at the hands of fellow Oscar-nominated actor Matt Damon.
Of course, Kim chose to pair hers with a maxi skirt instead of leggings or booty shorts, but the cut of the bra and the ribbing are typically signatures of the brand.
Kushner's ascent to senior White House adviser has been met with ribbing from the media and scorn from liberals, who have cast him as a privileged boy wonder in over his head.
In recent weeks, as his wife and friends have been ribbing him about his own impeachment, Mr. Paul has been following the news out of Washington with an unusual level of understanding.
Residents there spent Monday digging out from up to a foot of precipitation from a weekend storm that earned an unofficial name ribbing off the government shutdown: "Snurlough," combining snow and furlough.
But per usual, Robert turns some good-natured ribbing into a below-the-belt comment, insinuating that Dallas is a helicopter mom who's going to drive her kid away and end up alone.
"He took a fair amount of ribbing about it," said a Republican senator, who requested anonymity to talk about the banter within the Republican conference, noting that Romney took the teasing in stride.
In contrast, restaurants and cafes have sometimes taken on an ideological tinge, with conservatives mocking liberals for their latte coffees, and liberals ribbing conservatives for their deep-fried everything and well-done steaks.
If you're looking to wear a turtleneck alone, avoid ribbing or knitting that can show signs of stretch — look for thicker fabrics or an allover print that will even out your torso's proportions.
After their trek, Salleh and Tucker says they have received gentle ribbing from people asking why their country's barbecue did not make the cut and a persistent question of what barbecue was best.
He lambasted Clinton for her "politics of fear, futility and incompetence for supporting trade deals," but faced a ribbing of his own on social media for speaking next to a pile of garbage.
Some of the tweets from the account -- which has more than 18,000 followers -- included ribbing France over his drunk driving case, other jokes about the 57-year-old's lifestyle and general NASCAR talk.
"I think winning matters," Klobuchar said, ribbing Buttigieg not just for his 10 defeat in a race for state treasurer, but for his high-profile loss as a candidate to run the DNC.
You could wear a Giants jersey to an Eagles game and either engage in witty ribbing and banter with good-natured fans or have your throat slit while waiting to buy a beer.
Although he was asked to avoid ribbing the new administration — since Trump broke with tradition in not attending and the rest of his royal court followed suit — the Daily Show correspondent couldn't help himself.
In an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune brutally headlined "When this is over, you will have nothing that you want," he's done the same for Donald Trump — but the ribbing isn't gentle anymore.
" Not everything is so weighty; Armantrout gets in some good ribbing of everyday foibles: She notes wryly that "Humans / photo-bomb the planet" and that "There's a lot going on in / 'the' / zombie apocalypse.
It was an unusual sight: Democrats and Republicans gently ribbing each other, giggling, and vowing to work closely together on legislation that is said to be vital to the health and safety of Americans.
Communicating with the actor through a keyboard (Fleischmann is unable to speak with her mouth), the young interviewer didn't miss a beat, ribbing the actor on everything from his career to his personal life.
Rubio's line Tuesday was a nod to the ribbing he endured when he repeated five times, with minimal variation, a line attacking President Barack Obama during ABC News' Republican presidential debate earlier this month.
That includes pledging to do better on climate change and eat more vegetables, but there's also an amusing ribbing of the Trump administration, because they know exactly what your reaction is going to be.
After some good-natured smartwatch ribbing — "Ah, you have my watch," he said with a gleam in his eye upon noticing the LG Watch Urbane on my wrist and revealing what was on his.
The plant's single bud, which spanned the full length of my hand, was clearly in no hurry to open, pink filaments still tightly ribbing it from stem to tip an hour after we arrived.
During her talk, Dr. Matsumoto passed around her hand-knit swatches: stockinette (standard jersey, fairly stretchy, used for T-shirts); garter (stretchier); ribbing (stretchiest); and seed (not so stretchy, but one of her favorites).
A pop star, pumping up the crowd at a political rally, knows to be polite and sincere; a politician, visiting a late-night talk show, knows to act relatable and take some gentle ribbing.
Washington (CNN)The Bush family might just be the only one in the United States where an inside joke includes some friendly ribbing about the possibility of becoming the leader of the free world.
Through some chummy insider ribbing, the CEO hit on the idea that he really should maybe go, that he'd be fine if he did, and the most important thing is what's best for the community.
He skipped a number of traditional events, like Politics and Eggs with the state's business leaders and ribbing it up with voters at the Puritan Backroom, where presidential candidates have visited since the 1960's.
Ellen DeGeneres reveals during her talk show, Tuesday, that she got a little ribbing from fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Bruce Springsteen after forgetting her ID to enter the White House for the ceremony.
"I went out yesterday for lunch with my friend Gayle King," said Shriver, 61, as Savannah Guthrie, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Hoda Kotb and Carson Daly began jokingly ribbing the CBS This Morning co-anchor.
Over the weekend, she attended a country music festival in Bentley's native Arizona where both acts performed, and she sought out the brothers to thank them — all while ribbing Bentley a little in the process.
At the Al Smith dinner in 2016, on the eve of the election, Trump turned an occasion for good-natured ribbing into a full-on assault of Hillary Clinton, peppered by dashes of self-pity.
I will tell you that I took a certain amount of ribbing from my colleagues for even asking the question, which is not necessarily a bad thing; humor can help defuse a potentially embarrassing subject.
Newman's "Bio-Suit" design uses thousands of feet of internal ribbing laced together with 140,000 stitches to maintain internal pressure, while adding gold fibers in the fabric to transmit data on the astronaut's vital signs.
For the first dress, she made the ribbing by laying out strips of iridescent, pearl-coated, laser-cut fabric and manipulating it — by pushing, pulling, and pinching it by hand — to create its waves and valleys.
She kinda took a shot at Variety for misquoting her in a cover story they did, as well as ribbing The New York Times for running a cropped version of this pic in their Sunday edition.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who also spoke at Saturday's event, enjoyed a healthy amount of ribbing on social media for backing Iowa in the Rose Bowl over her alma mater, Stanford, earlier this month.
US Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kevin Bewley, an explosive ordnance demolition specialist who took a lot of ribbing for being one of the few sailors in an Army task force, was killed by an IED.
James Corden kicked off the 70th annual Tony Awards by celebrating the diversity among nominees in his opening monologue – while ribbing presidential hopeful Donald Trump "Think of tonight as the Oscars, but with diversity," Corden joked.
And Royal Jordanian, which has been posting a series of Tweets ribbing the U.S. over the new security protocols, is also offering alternative ideas for how travelers can keep themselves occupied on a long transatlantic flight.
Also nearby was former first lady and 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton, a favorite target of the President's tweets, in which he likes to call her "Crooked Hillary," ribbing his former rival about investigations and emails.
In one game, she played GET for six points, a score so pitiful it would have earned her some good-natured ribbing in the past, but instead it was met with polite silence around the table.
In a follow-up scene inside a diner, Miles grills his friend on the inner-workings of Shelby's plan, ribbing him about how he would need "300 years" to build a Ford that could beat a Ferrari.
The comparisons to the Trump campaign are probably due in part to his playful ribbing of his "vicious, violent" supporters and the fact that he, at one point, "joked" that his supporters should consider murdering his opponent.
Mr Medvedev, who broke into the top 22017 of the world rankings shortly after winning a title in Tokyo last fall, came in for his share of ribbing after failing to back up his pre-match comments.
British comedy actor Asim Chaudhry — who goes by Chabuddy G in the video — conducts the auditions, and begins by ribbing 12 Years a Slave star and Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor for his inexperience with safety video-making.
The Harry Potter author has been aiming a steady campaign of social media-based ribbing at the President-elect for a while now — and in the last week her volume of Trump-based burns have really peaked.
Full Frontal's immediate confidence has led some people to give Comedy Central grief for offering The Daily Show to Noah instead of to Bee, and it's true that her comedy has teeth where Noah's favors gentle ribbing.
Boris Johnson: When the British prime minister and his partner announced they were expecting a child, social media responded with a good deal of ribbing, as the exact number of his progeny is somewhat of a mystery.
Indeed, Loulou Studio's pared-back aesthetic centers on classic '90s-era cuts and oversize knits with thick ribbing and sculpted silhouettes that place the focus on the garments' materials (either cashmere from Mongolia or cotton from Portugal).
The return of "CJ" whet the appetites of Washington media ahead of the dinner, known for its playful ribbing of both politicians and the news media and headlined this year by Comedy Central late-night host Larry Wilmore.
Nearly two decades later, they are remarkably attuned to each other — when Hargitay suddenly furrows her brow, Hermann quickly says, "Bless you," seconds before she actually sneezes — and their banter is easy and filled with good-natured ribbing.
He will likely face some ribbing -- potentially both light-hearted and probing -- about his infamous 2011 gaffe in which he forgot to name the Energy Department as the third of three federal agencies he would abolish as president.
The Country Music Association Awards are supposed to be a celebration of one of America's enduring art forms, a night of star performances, gentle ribbing and a red carpet resplendent with formal wear and the occasional cowboy hat.
Speaking to CBS News, he explained that he woke up to an inbox full of people telling him that the font, which he made around the turn of the century, had been the subject of SNL's good-natured ribbing.
It's the type of homespun Wisconsin burgh where Packers loyalty runs deep and fans of their NFC North opponents are in for some good-natured ribbing—especially if they root for a certain team of seafaring plunderers in 2016.
"Some of the girls who had tough matches earlier today were kind of ribbing me in the locker room before I went on, saying 'You need to hold it down for our country today,' so no pressure," Gibbs said.
Contrary to the ribbing they often receive in pop culture, millennials seem to have a good head on their shoulders, according to Waage, who says, "These 'firsts' are replacing big-budget homes and expensive renovations with patience, frugalness and practicality."
Gordon-Levitt – the 50th recipient of the award presented annually by Harvard University's distinguished theater troupe – took the good-natured ribbing in stride, even as the evening's emcees poked fun at his Oscar snubs and less-than-stellar box-office returns.
Despite some gentle ribbing from Cameron, 244, ahead of the race — he joked on his Instagram Story that Dorfman would be way behind him on the 26.2 mile course — she crushed his time, finishing in 3 hours and 56 minutes.
Mr. O'Rourke has stopped jumping atop counters and chairs at events, gestures that inspired gentle ribbing, and has scaled back live-streaming everything on social media, from his snacking on chips and guacamole in the car to his dental checkups.
By the way, MVS says there's been absolutely no ribbing going on between him and Davante Adams while the star has been out with a toe injury ... telling us the team can't wait to get the Pro Bowler back soon.
He provided commentary for MSNBC at the Al Smith Dinner, the Catholic charity fund-raiser in October where presidential nominees engage in good-natured ribbing of themselves and each other (Trump mostly skipped the "good-natured" part and was booed).
In a Facebook video posted this week, President Barack Obama and "Caddyshack" star Bill Murray engage in a golf putting competition in the Oval Office, and, amid good-natured ribbing of each other, highlight Thursday's deadline and encourage people to check out HealthCare.
"I knew him when he was heavy, and now I know him when he was thin, and I like him both ways," Trump said, ribbing the governor who has said he lost at least 50 pounds after having bariatric surgery last year.
The ribbing he received was embraced with affection at the White House; the regular meeting of top national security officials in the Bush White House was even renamed "The Strategery Meeting" after Will Ferrell, as Bush, used the word on Saturday Night Live.
With a decade's worth of pop-punk songs, MTV shows about men kicking each other in the nuts and hilariously hyper-sexualized music videos to reflect upon, The Lonely Island brought not just fond ribbing but a splash of innocence to the table.
And talking of Anglo-American distinctions, let's not forget that most of the bashing of British teeth comes from the US, which has been understandably fond of ribbing its previous management about anything it can for at least the last 242 years.
Ms. Waldman found a note on the gate of her family's Berkeley house, threatening to turn her in to social services; Star Jones took her down on "The View" and Gawker began a gleeful, decade-long ribbing of the Waldman-Chabon marriage.
Of course, the meeting wasn't without friction: Jon tried to get Arya to join him in a little lighthearted ribbing of their sister, Sansa, but Arya wasn't having it, defending Sansa and issuing a reminder to Jon to remember who he is.
Part of this animosity seems to have stemmed from general ribbing and one-upmanship — it's worth noting that most of these artists have collaborated repeatedly over the years — and occasionally from disagreements over style similarities and perceived theft of lyrics and musical elements.
The chummy, gentle ribbing of Billy Crystal or Bob Hope is the outlier now; subsequent hosts like Kimmel and Seth MacFarlane (and, taken to the extreme, Ricky Gervais's combative Golden Globe gigs) have hewed much closer to the Letterman model of jaded outsider.
Millennials are used to being the youthful butt of other generations' jokes, but while this age group has learned to handle the good-natured ribbing from our elders, one thing our demographic doesn't take so kindly to is the reminder that we too are aging.
He was also looking forward to catching up with former training partner Yohan Blake and ribbing him for failing to win the 100m but he had a succinct answer for one reporter who suggested Bolt would be back on the track at the Tokyo Olympics.
The tweet from the network came after Golden Globes host Seth Meyers said in his opening monologue that his ribbing of Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2900 may have been what compelled the real estate mogul to run for president.
"I have some very conservative friends in the Senate and House in Tennessee and I was giving them a ribbing—you have Tea Party types fighting to allow a government utility to extend into other areas in defiance of a private company's wishes," Littlefield said.
Neighborhood Joint Whenever Bill Shore brings his son's skates to be sharpened at Westside Skate & Stick in Manhattan, as he did one morning last month, he tucks his Philadelphia Flyers hat into his tote bag — lest he incur a ribbing from the shop's staff.
It was not the first time Thomas spoke in 10 years; in 2013, he broke his silence by ribbing his colleagues who went to Harvard Law School by suggesting that getting a lawyer who went there meant a defendant received "inadequate counsel" (Thomas went to Yale).
A campaign that a day earlier had taken some ribbing over a leaked email showing that top aides churned through a list of more than 80 potential slogans — many of them plodding and colorless — suddenly seemed to be taking on the vitality of a grass-roots movement.
They know how to celebrate, whether it was Poulter donning a fan's mailbox costume (he always delivers) or the players ribbing Bjorn about the tattoo of the final score he had agreed to get if Europe won ("The worst decision I made all week," he said).
It felt like the Academy did recognize its blind spots in representation, and while the night was full of positive gestures, these moments of cognizance won't really mean much if the Oscars don't improve so that these jokes and moments of ribbing don't have to exist.
The school bully who couldn't take back what they dished out would be a prime example; the person willing to laugh at a light ribbing is probably chill AF in other ways; the one who can sass you right back could end up becoming a mate for life.
But whoever compiled the album had some nerve to include Maddie & Tae's "Girl in a Country Song," a smart, funny, putatively progressive, and genuinely negative song about sexism in country music, reframed, in context, as mild, tolerant ribbing and thus validating the ethos it was written to criticize.
In a lighter brand of comedy to begin the program, Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents Association and a CNN contributor, presented a cartoon spoof of what might have happened if Trump had attended the dinner, while ribbing how famous media personalities would have covered it.
It's car porn mostly, with some competitive ribbing from the co-hosts in between, and it's all handled beautifully: a first-episode showdown between the hybrid Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P24, and Porsche 43 sizzles in Ultra HD, with super-sharp slow-mo sequences and CG diagrams in between.
Upon returning to Lyon after the Ballon d'Or gala, for example, she showed up at practice the next day driving a gleaming S.U.V. The car turned some heads and drew some ribbing from teammates, who thought she had treated herself to a new car to celebrate her award.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The night was winding down at The Rieger, an upscale casual restaurant in Kansas City, and a couple of Denver Broncos fans in town for a game last month were standing at the bar, engaging in some friendly ribbing with supporters of the hometown Chiefs.
Mr. Bloomberg, whose mammoth spending has privately concerned Mr. Trump, "writes checks like a drunken sailor," the president said, ribbing the former mayor for spending more than half a billion dollars on a presidential bid that Mr. Trump predicted would not make it past Super Tuesday on March 3.
" Even Vice President Mike Pence, whom Mr. Trump has praised as one of the "nicest human beings," tried his hand at ribbing the Democrats before the president took the stage: "Those people were standing so far to the left I thought that stage was going to flip over.
Already the team's most dynamic scorer (14.9 points a game) and among its top passers and defenders, he has added an improved jump shot to an on-court portfolio that has drawn comparisons to LeBron James from his Oregon teammates — when they are not ribbing him for the flop.
Fans dug up a Twitter post from 2816 in which Butler boldly stated, "I wanna check julio jones...lol......real talk doe.." Butler took some ribbing over the post, which he wrote when he was a student at West Alabama, but he said it was more aspirational than egotistical.
" Even Vice President Mike Pence, whom Mr. Trump has praised as one of the "nicest human beings," tried his hand at ribbing the Democrats before the president took the stage: "Those people were standing so far to the left I thought that stage was going to flip over.
Every great baker has to start somewhere, and for Sarah Michelle Gellar, her early days came with a bit of ribbing from her actor-turned-chef husband Freddie Prinze Jr. Though she now owns her own culinary business, the actress says she was better at ordering out when she was younger.
"I have been very clear on both my record, where I have sued pharmaceutical companies, and what I'm campaigning for, that includes raising wages and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy," he said before ribbing Sanders, whose personal net worth rose in recent years after his book became a best-seller.
Marquan's grin grows impossibly wide when I ask him to recount the first time he beat his dad in a game, but before he can tell me about out-rolling his old man at age 12, his father himself barrels into the conversation to hit his son with some good-natured ribbing.
Whether fictional or real, the Ancient Athenian supper that Plato recounts in his "Symposium" has all the familiar outlines of our own modern gatherings: drunkenness, attempts at moderation, cures for hiccups, a "no shoes" policy, surprise drop-in guests, flirtations — not to mention some gentle ribbing, one-upmanship and a long, heated discussion of love.
Alfred E. Smith IV, who sustained the legacy of his great-grandfather, Al Smith, the New York governor known as "the Happy Warrior," by good-naturedly ribbing presidential aspirants and other potentates as the master of ceremonies at an annual white-tie charity dinner, died on Wednesday at his home in New Canaan, Conn.
Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyLawmakers say Zuckerberg has agreed to 'cooperate' with antitrust probe Trump judicial picks face rare GOP opposition Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg courts critics on Capitol Hill | Amazon makes climate pledge | Senate panel approves 0M for state election security MORE (R) with his Hawley Hops spiced ale, after some good-natured ribbing.
In "Celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chop Divides," John Eligon writes: The night was winding down at The Rieger, an upscale casual restaurant in Kansas City, and a couple of Denver Broncos fans in town for a game last month were standing at the bar, engaging in some friendly ribbing with supporters of the hometown Chiefs.
The don't ever include you in their office bantering or humor Friendly teasing with employees is often done to show that you are part of the team, that you're "one of us" — so when a boss never feels comfortable including you in friendly ribbing, then it may be a sign that they don't care for you.
Silva uploaded a post mocking Bisping for kicking his own trainer while hitting pads at an open workout the other day, and immediately Bisping responded by sending out a copy of his most recent clean drug-test report: a wildly disproportionate response to a bit of light ribbing, but if what Silva is after is absolution he couldn't have planned it any better.
Though it may perhaps be easier to recall Smith's constant ribbing of his cousin Carlton or the show's theme tune, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air impressively acted as a guide to issues around race and one example of the (rarely depicted) upper middle-class black American experience, with episodes centering on topics such as racial profiling and police brutality.
Their noble, classicizing piers and temple-like porticos, which recall Greek and Roman architecture, and the soaring romantic I-beams, which recall the intricate ribbing of Gothic cathedrals, proclaimed that a democratic, capitalist country like the United States could carry on the traditions of a great civilization — "America's humanistic nationalism," as the religious scholar Martin E. Marty said at the time.
But the ribbing got a little more intense as Paisley turned his attention and guitar to the subject of Donald Trump, in a parody of Underwood's "Before He Cheats" that took aim at the president's social media habits: "Right now, he's probably in his PJs watching cable news and reaching for his cell phone," Paisley sang as Underwood feigned mortification.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraCalifornia leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs California counties file first lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule MORE (D-Calif.) got light ribbing over recent reports that he's on Clinton's VP shortlist.
TRUMP BALKS ON TAX RELEASE: Despite ironic ribbing from Mitt Romney, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE says he will decide in the coming months whether to release his tax returns, pushing back on calls to release them immediately.

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