But his first week on the job was no hoot.

The next few years is going to be a hoot!

The games they play with each other are a hoot.

The people back home do care two hoots about what happened 10 years ago.

That may not sound like a hoot, but it is.

There were two short hoots and then a long one.

And, oh yes: to have a hoot in the process.

Anyway he does not give a hoot for such things, you know.

But the kid will get a hoot out of it.

I guess a good way to put it is that she's a hoot.

He gave a hoot of laughter and let her go.

Back went her head and out came a hoot of laughter.

Not the Chicago of my father's youth, but a hoot all the same.

If you're going there for everything but the movie, then maybe it's a hoot.

The hoot of a bird; one I had heard before.

I expected to hear hoots but instead heard more silence.

A short hoot answered her; she moved toward the sound quickly.

"Walking down the street is a hoot, because you can hear music," she said.

For the two men, looking back at the filming is still a hoot.

I looked around and she was standing over Hoot, staring down at him.

At night only the hoot of the owl is likely to be heard.

Like him or not (and the general never gave a hoot about it), the man was larger than life.

Trying to do it without a story or characters people will give a hoot about is not such a good idea.

Of course not all drivers give a hoot what they eat.

She was fantastic in the movie and just a hoot of a person.

They hooted, and again he had to bring them to order.

Why did he hoot every time she came on the stage?

He thought of his brothers and how they would hoot at him.

Of course, new ideas that turned out to be right were also hooted down.

"Did you hear them hooting when I was being carried out?"

Then he saw what was wrong and hooted with laughter.

Why did it have to hoot almost in her ear?

I expected the group to hoot with laughter, but no one did.

When they asked what the matter was, she just threw up her hands and hooted.

So we hooted at them for a while, but the birds stood their ground.

The fans here did not hoot his last name when he came to the plate.

Suddenly, for no reason, I expected him to hoot like an owl.

Patrick hooted with surprise when he saw the door was gone.

The train hooted and then moved forward a few yards.

"Then we will give it to the children," said a third, and they all hooted with laughter.

The young men around the table hooted with false laughter.

"Is it known what he did while the owl hooted?"

Stuff like the inmate who hooted at him the other day as he walked by.

A van hooted at him as he ran across its path.

As before, the crowd began hooting, but now, rather than come near, they threw things.

But those moon kids sure laughed and hooted at us a lot after that.

There was a long moment of silence in which they could hear the wind hooting around the house.

As I expected, they hooted over the book's title and its premise.

Her brothers could never see it without hooting with laughter.

Suddenly an owl began to hoot out in the fields.

The next few years is going to be a hoot!

The games they play with each other are a hoot.

"Walking down the street is a hoot, because you can hear music," she said.

It must have been a hoot to just let go and make a mess like that.

"It's been just people who thought this would be a hoot," she said.

It would be a hoot or - at the very least - a column.

Warm bed with young flesh seems out of the question, but the evening's going to be a hoot.

They really are a hoot - or terrifying, depending on your state of mind.

But it would be a hoot if all this has taken the Street by surprise, too."

To Ellen, my wish to be mysterious was a hoot.

The show, really just a series of interconnected sketches, is a hoot.

Ezekiel and his assistants probably thought it was a hoot.

It would have been a hoot just after the release of "Graceland."

I thought that was neat and learning was a hoot.

Oh, yeah, this was gonna be a hoot, all right.

The last one was a hoot, and this one promises to be every bit as good.

He concludes, "this simply magical film is a hoot from start to finish".

In fact, she'd had a ball Tuesday night; cosmic bowling was a hoot.

Pia thought it was a hoot and insisted on accompanying her.

But she was thinking that it might be a hoot to be invisible now and then.

When it was dark there was a hooting of an owl, close by.

He brought his kids everywhere, and he was a hoot of a storyteller.

There was a hoot of laughter from the others, and the man grinned good-naturedly.

What a great - that is a hoot.

I thought it'd be a hoot,' she said, defiance coming into her voice, then she looked away.