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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.

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?

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

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

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 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.

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.

'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 .

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?

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.

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

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.

Some sceptics regarded this as a bit of a joke.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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. "

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. "

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So he's beginning to see a joke again.

"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.

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.

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

STUART: What? Do you think someone will arrest me for making a joke? Someone will arrest me here at the breakfast table?

But fate might also arrived to open a joke, God only cloud in the blink of an eye blink, the outcome of all, it has not completely changed.

When people heard the name (iPad), it was a joke in the Twitter-sphere for a day.

'I think it was also having a joke because it stuck its tongue out at me, as if blowing a raspberry.

When she said that, I thought she was playing a joke on me.

There are only three basic jokes, but since the mother-in-law joke is not a joke but a very serious question, there are only two .

Hoping it was all just a joke, I asked to look at the gun, knowing that if they refused I was definitely in big trouble.

Provine's conclusion was that the essential ingredient for laughter is not a joke but another person.

Humor Masters to see young people who said to him: "If you to visit me, one must tell a joke. "

This sudden change made Me. puzzled and angry, as though they were making Me. the butt of a joke.

"The survey was not mandatory, nor very effective, " Ge said. "As you can see most students took it as a joke. "

Jen, thinking it a joke, shook Amanda to try and wake her.

Although it is just a joke, but I feel cold opening speaker at.

It's true. People with dirty jobs are in on some sort of a joke.

Ronald Reagan always wanted a joke at the beginning of a speech because he needed the quick victory of laughter.

At which point I understood that the whole thing had been a joke.

2: It was a joke, of course, but five million Americans were amused enough to pay five dollars a piece for the rocks.

If there is a joke, he would be in it, one of the laughers, not one of the laughed at.

Those who believe in Bryant's greatness are forever ripping the voting process, saying it's a joke that he'll never been named MVP.

And while he smiled as he attempted to regard the affair as a joke, he felt his temples get moist with perspiration.

Selling a donkey for a dollar was just a joke.

"The print could have happened accidentally or have been intended as a joke, " excavation director Ofer Sion said in a statement.

In a miserable attempt at a joke I said, "We could advertise in the newspapers. "

It really is becoming beyond a joke. To talk about AC Milan on the day of a Champions League semi final is so disrespectful.

It is nothing but a joke.

'If I were you, I would not have skimmed lunch because our tongues haven't been cut off. ' He still makes a joke knowing nothing about risk.

There is nothing but a joke .

Today, I'm going to tell you a joke A professional advisor just had his new business cards made Wh. . .

The yen is no longer the attraction it once was; and the idea of the problem-beset euro as a safe haven is frankly a joke.

I know, dummy. What I said was a joke, too.

Please don't say love to me easily . Please don't just opened my door , Then a joke to leave.

All the words above are insignificant, just a joke for you all.

After we told him that it was only a joke, Mr. Smith laughed too.

We said it a joke, this can be happy!

This isn't the funniest joke in the world, but having a joke in mind and a sense of humour can help you stop taking life too seriously.

Sam was made a joke in his letter. But i have to admit that i was took serious at the beginning.

One pupil said she first thought it was a joke, then saw her classmates jump out of windows before fleeing herself.

I'd make a joke , but I feel it would be inappropriate at this time.

The exact origin is lost in history, but it undoubtedly arose as a joke on the paternal nature of the government.

I have a set of exercises on English see a joke, I can translate it, but do not know why it is funny.

They were both on the point of being angry, when a joke made both of them laugh.

As quick with a joke an John is, apparently he didn't joke with his wife about cancer.

As quick with a joke as John is, apparently he didn't joke with his wife about cancer.

"I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, " it begins, and if it was meant as a joke, it is a disturbing one.

South Asia's plans for a customs union look like a joke, excluding as they do trade between India and Pakistan.

Another crew member says Kate 'seemed rather prudish' compared to the other girls, and because of it they played a joke on her.

Man, it was only a joke. You didin't have to act up like this.

think cookies are a joke, " Mr. Norris says. " The system is archaic and was invented by accident.

Natalie profusely apologized - and she really meant it wholeheartedly. It was quite a joke between students and faculty alike!

Hi Today I'm going to tell you a joke. Em, there once was a man who lived in a remote place. Every m. . .

You have to be able to take a joke to work with some of the pranksters in our office.

Learn to take a joke in stride. Having a good sense of humor is an attractive quality.

When my wife tells a joke and I respond with nothing but a cool stare, I am being niubi.

oh, and she's laughing because he made a joke which probably wasn't funny.

"I received a phone call from my agent while I was in training with Parma and I honestly thought it was a joke, " he smiled.

We're schmoozing at my boyfriend 's graduation party when someone cracks a joke so that everyone laughs like a hyena .

Mr Su meanwhile said rumours that his own company, privately held TMT, was facing financial difficulties were "a joke" .

He was watching my face with a kind of hunger, a desperation. 'If it's a joke, it's time to stop. It's doing us both damage. '

Trying to compete against them on the basis of delayed data is a joke.

I finally meet my childhood hero, and he's trying to kill us. What a joke!

Felton continuously apologized to Rickman afterward, in that Rickman did accept and made a joke of the accident later on.

I said it just as a joke.

When it came to our atmosphere, however, it wasn't that much of a joke over the long term.

I need you to set me up for a joke.

The so-called "Kalamazoo Promise" made national headlines, a change for a city used to insisting that its name isn't a joke.

He who plays a trick must be prepared to take a joke.

Did we stumble upon a long-lost manuscript byMarx confessing that it was all a joke?

In her post, Mom made a joke about having trouble growing lupines, and hoping that "wasn't a bad omen. "

The grave digger laughs as if the destruction of Athens is a joke .

The shopping mall next to the hotel was a joke and around the place there are not many options.

If it's a minor mistake, or not very serious, make a joke about the incident.

Then work hard at finding something about this you can laugh at and, when you feel comfortable, drop a joke about it at an unexpected time.

Taobao, the leading online shopping site in China, said the listing, apparently a joke, was taken down immediately after they were notified.

It is just a joke, however it proves the language in advertisement really influences our daily life.

my remarks were . . . . . . . as a joke but she was offended by then.

He winked at me to show that he was playing a joke on the others.

Now many male classmate dormitory boys were dressed in red pants ran a little also not afraid, would be a joke?

There was a joke about a guy who sued another guy for calling him a gorilla.

But now, due to the small amounts of fish, the whole work was like a joke or interest.

The father laughed as if this were a joke.

Is it a joke that god and devil makes if I loved you.

When they found it was only a joke , they laughed , and went back to their work .

The idea of an Aston Martin 'luxury commuter car' sounds like a double oxymoron. But it's not a joke.

Is it a joke that god and devil makes if i love you?

You can use emoticons to let people know when something in your message is meant to be a joke.

They just laughed and made a joke of it all.

Dear teachers, we write to you yesterday, the message is a joke, you Do not be angry!

Perhaps, your friends' hope of coming to Singapore to find the rest of the teachers here may not be a joke after all.

Maybe in the course of wandering, I really did not meet a joke feelings, real feelings.

Aware that this is just a joke site.

There is a joke about her going out to dinner with her cabinet.

The Dutchman began to think it was getting beyond a joke.

Thin, come to think that if it is just a joke, they do no harm.

people always like the fact as a joke, then the joke to conceal the fact!

If he makes a joke, even if it's not very funny, try to laugh.

A s Jason Hsuan discusses his efforts to double his company's sales over the next few years, he allows himself a joke.

I am tempted to make a joke about this, but I don't want to incur the wrath of the leisure scientists.

Don't mind what he said; it's no more than a joke.

"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral? " he said.

Some people thought Google was leaving the "beta" tag on the Gmail logo as a joke, a nod to its prankish birthday.

Fredrik Colting, a founder of the firm, insisted it was a "real book. It's not a joke. "

One of those topics that's the source of many a joke, or shores up boasts around masculinity and sexual prowess.

In fact I just wrote a song [Merry Swiftmas] about her as a joke and I posted it online and she twittered about it.

This cannot be happening. Somebody must be playing a joke on me.

The child is adept at appeasing her parents' anger with a joke or compliment.

Smith was laughing up His sleeve when Joe answered the phone because he knew the call would be a joke.

Amanda: How can you be so gullible ? That was a joke! It was a false report for April Fools' Day. It was clever, but obviously not true.

Yet this question is by no means a joke, and the answer to it is by no means a guess; on the contrary, both are real scientific results.

I suspect Ronnie tripped me so that I wouldn't be able to play tomorrow. He did it not as a joke but out of malice.

The incumbent, Hamid Karzai, has 55% of the votes on a preliminary count. But the level of fraud was such that this is seen as a joke.

At all His interpretation of life was intended as a joke.