Asked to summarize the Iranian people in three words, Masry says, jovial, lively, and humorous.

In deep financial crisis, traditionally social democratic Denmark elected a conservative prime minister, Poul Schlüter, a jovial man with a bow tie.

CORAL (Computer On line Real time Applications Language) is a programming language originally developed in 1964 at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE), Malvern, UK, as a subset of JOVIAL.