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In a society that celebrates spending and credit, this behavior is usually looked upon as a joke rather than a serious problem.

This does not seem to legend, just a joke Bale.

In the early days of mobile phones, the advertising slogan "It doesn't cost much to keep in touch" was a bit of a joke.

He grinned at me, as if sharing a secret joke.

The dentist did not know that it was a joke and tried to explain.

John played a joke on Henry, and the next day Henry got back at him.

He shouldn't have been angry with me for what I said, for it was nothing more than a joke.

I do not know why in my friends around like a joke to say he is a farmer, but it did affect me.

As for the name-changing of Chen's family, it is just a joke. How much influence can "Chen Low-carbon" have on the public?

As he would not be setting off for another three weeks, he treated this as a very good joke.

my sister, suddenly laughed, it let me, in the mirror. oh, i put a piece of butter on the nose against it, like a joke!

I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.

I thought I'd play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you.

But I said, I'm not-- I have to break any awkward moment, or any silences, with a joke.

So, in a second study they used a description of a Monty Python sketch which participants weren't told was supposed to be a joke.

It's hard to hear about this ruling and not consider the Italian legal system to be a joke.

I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

' We joke that by the time we are old enough to go on mah-jongg cruises , we 'll clean up because we started young, ' she said .

'It's a little bit of a joke, ' said Antonio Zea, director of soccer for Adidas America.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month it would not get through their skins .

Yeah, it's an old joke, but it's sort of true. Because most hermaphrodites do have to date.

Anglia TV made a statement the day after the program that it had been intended as a joke.

I do not know you have been a joke to me is true or false.

What's the matter? Aren't you able to take a joke?

(Laughter) The next day I came to see him. I was like, "Doctor, that was a really good joke. "

When he tried to make a little joke, the judge warned him not to give frivolous replies to the lawyer's questions.

To make it a joke instead of a logic puzzle, the result needs to be a coherent story that isn't strictly sensible in everyday terms.

Katherine Solomon was sure that Langdon would never joke about something like this, and yet he sounded like he had lost his mind.

Harry used to consider it a great joke to go into expensive cosmetic shops and make outrageous requests for goods that do not exist.

He said: "Before Jack went on Kenny was making a joke and trying to relax him going onto the pitch. "

He told me, "I used to joke that we treat Congress like mushrooms; keep them in the dark and feed them shit. "

You know it is just a joke because our heart are part of our flesh.

One day, the boy and the villagers would like a joke, gave them a bit of trouble from which to have fun.

"You'll have to go and thank him, " said Jo, by way of a joke, for the idea of the child's really going never entered her head.

Instead of shrugging off the next joke your friend tells or trying to top a story, laugh.

Some sceptics regarded this as a bit of a joke.

He stood there looking at the train and laughing, as if to miss a train was the best joke in the world.

The account's third tweet says "Kim Jong-un's populist policy is nothing but a joke. "

I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was "Reid. "

One day, I have fell in love with you, but it just as a joke as you think.

To his surprise, Diana treated his proposal as a joke, she actually giggled. But soon she could see that Prince Charles was serious.

Mr. Weiner, at his news conference on Monday, said he had sent Ms. Cordova the underwear photo "as part of a joke. "

His words were encouraging. I began to see it all as a bad joke.

I would have hoped that I could trust my best friends to be sympathetic towards my cause, but I think it was all a bit of a joke for them.

A MAYOR, a rabbi, and an organ trafficker sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.

As always with him, there was a great deal of wisdom in his joke.

Hi, today I'm going to tell you a joke One day, a teacher walks into a classroom To give her lesson. . .

"The idea that Tom Hicks was an innocent party in the Klinsmann saga is a joke, " said the senior figure.

To the rest of us, it was a joke, pure and simple, but Ned, would often get into a very solemn mood about the Book.

That joke of his was a bit near the knuckle, don't you think?

Am I stupid enough to risk my entire future career and also my son's to tell a lie or joke like this?

I knew that British food had a somewhat dubious reputation abroad but always thought it was a bit of a joke.

Hi, today I'm going to tell you a joke Once there was a girl that was very fat She was so heavy T. . .

One lie has even become such a standard, that it's more of a joke than a real lie. I've said it to my son, but always with tongue-in-cheek.

Interestingly , he never knew that he was the victim of his own joke.

Mr. Murray used to joke several years ago that when he lost, the domestic press referred to him as Scottish, but when he won he was British.

I don't want to make a joke about this, but this certainly needs more compliance than taking two or three pills a day.

No wonder, people used to joke about him, like: " Old Tim wants to become a legend in his own lifetime. "

She sat down beside him at the table and leaned close as if she had some joke to share.

If Goldman had at least given away most of the profits, he might have been forgiven his joke.

It's easy to say "make a joke of it, " but it's hard to do when you're feeling angry, scared, bored, or upset.

Oh, well, it was just a joke. Oh, some people have no sense of humor.

Embarrass him in public. Make a burp or a fart joke about him or ask him tons of annoying personal questions.

IT HAS become a joke for The Economist to say that a country is at a crossroads, yet for Turkey it happens to be spot on.

The two boys got the wind up when they realized that their joke was likely to have serious consequences.

Later this custom has continued down to become the children do not make fun of generous family joke.

But at least this time, the sellers admit it is all a joke.

Thank you for your support during this period of time did not know who the joke, I deleted the space resources.

It was said as a joke, but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin's face, he might have thought the warning was a necessary one.

How much pleasure did they take in daily experiences such as talking with a friend, hearing a joke, or reading a magazine?

IBMers used to joke that the company letters stood for "I've Been Moved" ; now they're more likely to say they stand for "I'm By Myself. "

As the conference wound down and his American colleagues headed to the airport, he made a joke about escaping across the border.

I felt really bad about making her sad and tried to tell her it was just a joke.

Asks you to tell me, our calculates anything, if you do not love me, please do not take me to crack a joke, I do not like.

The film will be the innocence of a child, active, love fantasy, practical joke depicts the most incisive and yet warm.

In the moment is a sweet she smiling face, ear is the happy voice of the friends joke, happy, originally at my body side.

What about last week when you told that joke about fat people trying to dance and you made him the butt of the joke?

The local people used to get him to tell the story of the string for a joke.

Then she came up with a Twitter joke she wanted me to memorize so she could send it out the next day.

Never take someone's feelings as a joke . You will never know how much it hurts.

Hi I'm going to tell you a joke today. There is a girl Her mother is quite strict regarding her educ. . .

It's not easy to be a President, especially in this online age: A joke in a toilet today, a hotspot in a restaurant tomorrow.

In their leisure time like to say a joke, to tease my mother happy, her mother's face a little less sad, more happy.

'It makes it sound like they are mindless zombies, ' he said, noting that the name of his blog is a bit of an inside joke.

It was just a joke to remind you to send me a mail.

How much truth of heart in one's life is told in a joke?

Hearing the joke , we all laughed . But Fletcher did not . The joke was over his head.

It was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. I made quite a habit of this with boys of my own size or less.

Now I joke and say to everyone that I dare tell my manager exactly what I think of him.

Although Omega had made the first watch taken to the moon, it had become something of a national joke by the 1980s.

It was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. I made quite a habit of this with boys of my own size or less.

Now I joke and say to everyone that I dare tell my manager exactly what I think of him.

Although Omega had made the first watch taken to the moon, it had become something of a national joke by the 1980s.

He looked ahead and saw nothing wrong at all. He decided to go on, thinking the sign was a kind of joke.

In a telephone interview, Dr. Ramakrishnan said that when he was first told of the prize he thought it was a joke.

It's a joke. What's the matter with you?

"In my day the idea that you could be taught how to be a journalist in a classroom was a joke, " Mr Jameson says.

i know that you did not forget me. It was just a joke to remind you to send me a mail.

The next time Americans make a joke about the Europeans and their taste for la dolce vita, they ought to take a look a bit closer to home.

Although the destiny likes cracking a joke, my sincerity to be able to meet with your sincerity.

Although the destiny likes cracking a joke, my sincerity to be able to meet with your sincerity.

When she picked up the phone I tried to make a joke of it, but she did not see the humor in it.

As I happened to be sitting next the driver going to town on the 'bus, I told him my joke about the "frayed" shirts.

Message also states that he said is not a joke, and he felt like a terrorist attack not long ago in Norway as of Brevik.

One nurse told me that her favorite line is, "I was going to tell you a joke, but I can see you're in stitches already. "

At this point, the fate of God on this joke for us, and she also reached out to give me a Cabo.

The head of the section is always very formal; he never joins in a joke.

Take it easy; what he said was no more than a joke.

Yes, this was said as a joke I will refrain from most chatting with you since it seems to offend your traditional values.

'We've known he was The Stig all along - it has been a standing joke within the regiment.

'We've known he was The Stig all along - it has been a standing joke within the regiment.

The moniker is a joke, reflecting my name and that of my Chinese partner, Woodie Wu, but the group is not.

Learn to laugh with others - A joke or situation doesn't have to be enormously funny in order for you to take joy in it.

I do wish it was a joke and you were next to me when I woke up. Sweetie, do you know how much I want to stay with you?

Telling a lie as a joke or to fool someone is a harmless type of lie, also known as a jocose lie.

But with him the fate of a joke, Changan ignored, powerful slander again destroyed, the poet was by Changan.

Chris calls, and Jerry wants to know if he is behind some sort of sick practical joke, but Chris has no idea what he is talking about.

Usually one or two green youngsters would have cracked some joke to make fun of such a customer, but today none of them said a word.

Jermaine went on to question why Michael is getting so much positive attention now, when before his death many saw him as a bit of a joke.

EXAMPLE: I tried to tell a joke at the start of my speech, but when nobody laughed, I realized it had fallen flat.

Perhaps your phrase "I love you" was a joke, but I still have to pay most indeed the heart.

When Pinocchio realized that it had all been a joke, he became very angry.

If you joke with him, he'll think you're looking down on him on purpose.

In the last night SNL show, Tina Fey has thrown a joke on Justin that, two years ago, he was one of the babies in 'Baby Mama'.

So you might be thinking - was it a cruel joke to bill this as a good news story?

don't get disappointed when you tell a joke to a woman while what you get is just a confusing sigh.

There used to be an old joke in America that people should take a bath once a week, whether they need one or not.

"No. Not at all, " he said, sounding as if he were telling a subtle joke. "But maybe you'll finally understand. "

RHIMES: There was a joke for a while there that if I got hit by a bus [no one would] know how to end the season.

"About an hour, Davy. " He smiled like there'd been a joke. He turned off his CB then and turned the radio to a country and western station.

That magic wine was just a joke she played on me. The harder you try to forget something , the more it'll stick in your memory.

Now, I don't expect the promise any more, Of course, Maybe it is just a joke like a costumer acting on the stage.

He said you to now also so Mimi naive, I just playing a joke with you.

But he draws back the match to let the entire China shock, subsequently regard as an inopportune fool's day joke by the partial people.

I wanted to see him and decided to play a little joke on him in front of his highly conventional colleagues.

He tried to suppress the Impressionist, making his own art history into a joke.

Dealing with the company, he added, had been "a complete joke" .

So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room.

But the search eventually turned into a bit of a joke, and the phrase never came to embody one particular notion.

I joke that I can tell how much space my Asian clients are going to buy by how elaborate their feng shui kit is.

The equinox flower just a joke, stand on this side at the shore, with the station on the other side to see what difference?

'They joke with me about it -- 'I feel like a real man, ' she says with a chuckle.

It was so bracing, so shocking, so out of line that I thought it a joke.

I stay home and I take care of you, cause what I make is pretty much just a joke.

The Google April Fool's Day joke has become something of a tradition at this time of the year, even in China.

Other foreign ministers, including Austria's Ursula Plassnik and Luxembourg's Jean Asselborn said the proposal to bet had only been a joke.

"There were reindeer on his boxer shorts, " he said, making a joke about how all the deer were red- nosed from blood.

It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, and in a way it was.

It's just a "joke, " said a leader of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Wall Street is in on it.

Sometimes we talk and joke that the only thing he has to do is run, rob the ball, and pass it on to all the superstars in front of him.

Until I finally died, which started the whole world living, oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was one me.

A camel, a wombat, and a kangaroo cross the road: It sounds like the setup for a joke, but there was nothing funny about the Eyre Highway.

Shy and always ready to crack a joke (but still being professional), the star doesn't give the impression that let fame go to his head.

Then, at the point of the wedding when there was the first dance, basically, we had to joke that we were the mother and father of the bride.

Too often this joke has been used to express some dark fact of life with which those in the real world must contend.

When she tried to joke that she was an "imported star" , but accidentally said "important star" the crew laughed at her vanity.

He should have been angry at what I said. It was nothing more than a joke.

51. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

One reason was that he had a sense of humour and could take a joke at his own expense.

It was a bit of a joke because we thought, he believes in all this, supports the revolution, how could he be a spy?

Trying to think of something, or else makes a joke of it. A boy said he liked looking at girls.

If you joke with him he'll think you are insulting him on purpose.

It was quite a joke to her. "There are worse things than that, " she said, lying there in her bed and talking to us through the open door.

But It's the kind of joke that when you tell it a hundred thousand times, you start to forget that it's a joke and kinda believe it.

"simply ending every bleeding sketch by just having a policeman come in" (this had been a running joke throughout the whole episode).

My light-verse joke about the Trinity could seem disrespectful, I suppose; but it is a hard concept , as you say, and that's all I meant.

MAYOR, a rabbi , and an organ trafficker sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.

We were three writers, one from the Philippines, one Turkish and one Indonesian -- like a joke, you know.

If a Westerner fell, they, like a Chinese person, might attempt to make a joke out of the incident if they were not hurt.

There may be a thousand different ways to express your sense of humour, but joke telling is only one of those ways.

I consider it a good joke that he should marry such a woman.

Not long ago I was at the checkout of a department store when the man ahead of me turned and made a joke about something he had bought.

It's the punch line of a joke I've been using since we started two and a half hours earlier: I still don't know the name of your movie.

It began as a joke, putting home-made salad dressing in an old wine bottle, tying it with a ribbon and giving it to friends.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

I have been deeply hurt, and you're just standing there, laughing it off as if it's some kind of a joke.

Ritchie's running joke was that C had "the power of assembly language and the convenience of . . . assembly language. "

His wife heard laughter, then leave it as a joke to others, we listened to each other, smile, say nothing at all.

But it seems the most telling commentary on the election was a joke that had been forwarded thousands of times in recent days.

I wish to walk every corner of this world. This may sound like a joke, but I'm being very serious.

Foryears, Paul was something of a running joke in Congress.

Michelle Obama introduced her husband with a joke: "I get to speak first while he stands and watches. I love this, " she said to laughter.

In this way, we did not personally tell a joke, if there is a joke people do not laugh, he'd be thrown into the river to go.

The clock this client would get would be far more clever than had been ordered, and the man had better be able to appreciate the joke.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

Was its plain (but not plain enough to be minimalist) quality an ironic joke, a pastiche of a standard room in a standard hotel?

Eddie: It's a joke. It's all a fucking joke. You know, I thought I knew how it was.

But no one could prove he was a clone of Mozart without digging up the original, so the media treated him as a joke.

the less said the better. an utter shambles and a complete joke this team is becoming. i bet teams cant wait to play us now.

Of course, to say it was a "road" would be a very sick joke.

He said, "I put in the micro-blog their photos, sent to a Seattle woman for a joke. "

joke about every prominent man of my time, but I never net a man I didn't like.

It sounds like the old joke about the bad restaurant: that the food was lousy and there wasn't enough of it.

Retirement at 60 in an ageing society is not a sign of civilisation, but a cruel joke played on the next generation.

Joke: WomenA Sikh, an Italian & a Frenchman were drinking in a pub when the subject of WOMAN came up in their conversation.

What makes shit such a universal joke is that it's an unmistakable reminder of our duality, of our soiled nature and of our will to glory.

The day-to fatigue, partnership doors along the rural road, the road joke, "Today I took a rubber with her hands really pretty. "

A good way, it's often said, to measure one's understanding of a second language is the ability to understand a joke.

It may sound like the start of a joke, but the fact is most married women say they'll vote for US President Bush.

Is it possible that a real Bigfoot lives despite the posthumous confession by the Wallace family that it was just a practical joke?

I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, y'know making some stupid joke.

If it turns out they were not a spy at all, pass it off as a light-hearted practical joke.

There was no hidden meaning, he stressed, rejecting accusations about the building being a nasty joke.

It was all I could do not to laugh at the joke.

This is such a bogus, farcical story that any serious person has to consider it a joke.

"Some of our guests thought it was a joke. Our parents were resigned to it, " Matienzo told local media.

To be able to reach an agreement with us, together, they would not look at the quality of their own joke.

Several of the passengers were perfect strangers until one of them struck up a conversation & then made a joke about airplane compartments.

"I find it absurdly funny, " he said. "I was not promoting drugs. . . . I assumed most people would take it as a joke. "

All of this is only a joke! It is a reflection bearing on the law of pleasure. Pleasure is not a "merciless executioner" .

Doubtless he also made a joke when he told the firm's board that he would step down at the end of the year.

Arthas: This has got to be a joke! What happens to us now?

Just a joke, don't mind. I'm fine but I'm in bad mood. Something troubles me. I have no sleep at night.

She can't seem to see the joke in the least.

Apparently, you were cracking a harmless joke, but she was terribly scared.

And you know, given my current condition, somebody was asking me, this is a terrible joke, but I'm going to use it anyway.

Now please allow me to tell you a joke happened in a supermarket.

Then this old guy decides to give the newlyweds a toast. He made a crappy joke and barely anybody laughed.

Locals who used to joke that Dubai would be a great place "when it's finished" now wonder whether it's finished.

Some of the elder colleagues joke to me that besides working overtime Foxconn worker is queuing.

Which is fine if you live in California, but for the rest of us it's a bit of a sad joke.

Carter was speaking at a business lunch in Tokyo, where he decided to open his speech with a brief joke.

The last to know, for you, I was just a joke.

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My classmate played a joke on me, and next day I got back at him.

I thought it was a bad joke, but he said it again.

I started a joke , which started the whole world crying , but I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no .

Many Bulgarians used to joke that they lived in an Egyptian dynasty set up in a parallel universe.

Ha ha ha, I was reminded of a joke, the junior teacher you know so why do a small named North and South?

If university students are forced to participate in this kind of joke, isn't it a humiliation to them?

The strong sunlight makes me want to leave mountain, in a joke to self-time pose, we noisily left the Roman castles.

Many people find this sort of joke distasteful. The following example of 'sick humour' will enable you to judge for yourself.

Now, sitting there alone at my first book signing, I wondered if my entire life wasn't just a big joke.

Well, I would be sensitive if I hadn't gotten paid to hear the joke.

The supposed resemblance of the bumbling slapstick character to Spain's Prime Minister Zapatero has been a running joke in Spain for years.

His meanness has become something of a standing joke.

Unfortunately, the Glenn Becks of this world are more than just a joke.

So he's beginning to see a joke again.

As a gag joke, she blindfolded her husband's friend and drove him to her home for a party.

Do you think I would be so boring to go and you open this international joke?

Be thankful that they are ready to have a little joke at their own expense and press their own magic red button.

He discerned an opportunity for a new kind of joke which required him to be cautious and solemn.

"Rumours of an American invasion are just a joke - but the military is extremely paranoid, " said Aung Zaw.

"Asking for a caravan was just a joke, really, I didn't expect to get one, " he says.

He tried to break through the cloud of gloom hanging over his roomates with a joke.

The allusion to lethargy should have been the tip-off, even if you missed the date, that the article was an April Fools' joke.

Officials even joke that once climate change has run its course, people may start pouring into Siberia instead of trying to escape it.

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke witch would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

Your teasing of the newcomer has gone beyond a joke and I advise you to stop it.