He also likes to spend his time goofing of, and usually forces one or more of the students to accompany him.

They also say that whatever goofing around he does in private with his old roommate is not evident in public.

The menace in his voice hinted strongly that the somebody wouldn't do very much more goofing in the future.

Its spoofy goofing is as tiring as it is tireless.

His goofing and between-song patter is likewise so slick that it can border on shtick, yet still comes across as sincere.

Ms. Harris's flat affect and convincing sophistication are an antidote to the tone-deaf goofing on display elsewhere.

Kevin Drum of Mother Jones said "[...]AIPC is a super-strict, teach-to-the-test, no goofing off kind of place that apparently gets good results."

But the street goofing does give way to real issues, usually set off by Doug's Caribbean-born parents, James, a cab driver (Sullivan Walker), and Marie (Lorraine Toussaint).

But as incarnated first in Mr. Johnson's dreamy, neo-beatnik prose and now in Billy Crudup's transcendent goofing, F. H. retains a curious aura of innocence.

Clowning, with its bruising pratfalls and adolescent goofing, draws more men, as do acts requiring strength, like the four-high acrobatic teams in which one huge member of the troupe stands beneath the others.

Still, as these nostalgic feeding frenzies proceed, with all the goofing on old stars and rabid interest in backstage tales that can only now be told, it feels like a binge that lacks proper nourishment.

"Tough, Tough Toys" retrieves one of the themes of "Great Apes" and strips it of the camouflage of Swiftian goofing: namely, that misanthropy might just be in the eye of the beholder.

This sloppy, cliche-ridden comedy about four aging mobsters blundering their way through a series of unlikely capers has moments of wit, provided by Barry Fanaro's overplotted script and Mr. Hedaya's priceless goofing.

Mr. Durang's goofing hits the bull's-eye frequently enough to keep the smiles from fading permanently, and the hard-working cast vamps, camps and mugs with enough panache to put over even the dopier material respectably.

That is where this reporter caught the act - and quickly realized, even as she giggled, that there was a goal behind the goofing: these doctors really do think managed care is a damaged system, and they desperately want to fix it.

Themes are borrowed from the "Goofing Off Suite", originally recorded by Pete Seeger in 1955, which includes an excerpt from the Chorale movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and "Russian Folk Themes and Yodel".

Really, though, the brand that powers this ragged, intermittently uproarious fusion of sketch-comedy goofing and driving around in circles is Will Ferrell, who wrote the screenplay (with Adam McKay, the director) and served as an executive producer, in addition to running around on a race track in his underpants.

We wanted to see if you'd get to the same place as the goof with the hair.

One goof and I'm done, maybe for a very long time.

It's a gas the first time and a goof the second.

"And sometimes size can make you look like a big goof."

One of them goofs, and both have to face an investigation.

I'm into a goof, but I can hear and think.

He had been made the victim of what was known in the department as a goof.

The big goof was bound to turn up on her own, soon.

It started as a goof, the way some people go bowling.

Just a goof that's making a bust of the old guy.

"Those days of big goofs are few and far between now.

"I feel like a goof saying those same ones to each bunch."

There are students who say they come here as a goof - mall school, yes!

I could hear her calling me a goof, fading away.

Well, I couldn't figure out who had made this goof.

But I don't know if we can make a goof it without help.

I just stood there like a goof waiting for him to introduce her.

He grinned like a goof and I almost pushed him off.

When the kitchen goofs, it does so in grand style.

You worked hard to restore your credibility after a goof.

But after knowing about the goof happened, she lets them stay on the top floor of her house.

Here are a couple of "goofs" that made into the finished product.

His goof was left in the album and concert film.

Leave it loose enough for her to correct your goofs.

"The goof with the hair was found murdered two days ago.

That's what I've been doing while you were goofing off.

So how had he goofed on the last four numbers?

Each day, after just an hour's work, the other kids would start goofing off.

And my answer is, You know when your employees are goofing off.

The build team spent more time goofing off than building the car.

Three or four goofed up orders and you were out.

What these women do when they meet is, basically, goof off.

Then they'll want to goof around in the halls for a while.

"They kind of wrote down answers just to goof around."

In the beginning the dancers can be seen goofing off.

I have a hard time imagining any other president goofing around like that.

Most of the guys are goofing off or on work details around the hill.

Something must have snapped inside my head for me to goof up like that.

"It would take so long we might goof the whole thing.

He started out just goofing around with friends, and then thought it would be fun to do fighting as a job.

Yes, laptops can be used to goof off in class.

They're just goofing around, doing one of the Hanson numbers.

The way I read it, somebody goofed badly on something very important.

You've just got to pick your times to goof around."

They hang out at the pool, goofing around, getting high.

Your best ideas happen when you're playing, laughing, goofing around.

Seldom has he goofed around with more serious a purpose.

However they merely goof off and drive him to quit.

At midnight we got up and goofed toward the highway.