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Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

Advocates and some lawmakers say a toothless enforcement system is often to blame.

Besides, treating topical humor in the same way that a toothless, mangy mutt gums a dumpster bone is not the same as maintaining neutrality.

As part of the shake-up, the existing watchdog, which has been criticised as "toothless", will be scrapped.

Having to chase all those runs means conceding them in the first place, and bar Stokes and Brydon Carse, England's bowling looked toothless on the first day in Leeds.