as 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I said it just as a joke.

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

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

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

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

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.

It was an innocent deception, meant as a joke.

As a joke, her friends labeled her a genius, often just to make her angry.

Funny enough, Tsur's attempt to program a sarcasm detector started as a joke.

If you ask this question to an Eskimo during winter or a Mexican during summer it will likely to be taken as a joke.

Was that remark intended as a joke?

Although he meant it as a joke, the laughter must have been somewhat forced, on both sides.

"It started as a joke, " says Seth Hardy, a researcher for an anti-virus company who modified his toilet to tweet.

In the movie, they left the line, "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish" , in as a joke, even after they had cast Morgan Freeman as Red.

To his surprise, Diana treated his proposal as a joke, She actually giggled.

Fast-forward about 15 minutes, and my husband puts on the new robe over his clothes and starts preening as a joke.

AutoContent, The New Yorker once reported, was named as a joke, in "outright mockery of its target customers" .

It was intended as a joke, but she took it seriously.

Why do you treat the matter as a joke?

He said it merely as a joke.

Truly amazing - Anita Dunn is now attempting to write off her reference to Chairman Mao as a joke.

He meant it as a joke, but she didn't take it well, and she murdered him that evening.

Billy: My classmate, as a joke. It makes me sound like a womanizer.

telling the Sunday Times that Goldman was simply doing "God's work" , adding that he meant the comment as a joke.

Some leaders have refused to meet the delegates, dismissing them as a joke.

I named my finance company Hercules, after the cartoon version of the hero, as a joke when I was writing the business plan.

I decided to treat his remark as a joke.

I said that as a joke.

In Freetown many people greeted the indictment of the attitudinal-change officials as a joke. Others were less amused.

Lloyd Blankfein says he meant the comment that Goldman was doing 'God's work' as a joke.

For Dr. Holman, what started almost as a joke has become a valuable teaching tool.

If a boy likes you, he will be angry when you act as your punching bag, when your happy to serve as a joke of your market audience cold.

As a joke I clicked on reply and wrote about how I think he is so cute and handsome.

There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures. provided we will but take it as a joke when we find it.

Our employer treated our suggestions as a joke.

Automatic-translation software has long been treated as a joke because of how hilariously it mangles phrases.

Our employer treated our suggestion as a joke.

As a joke, one bat suit was made with nipples, as in Batman & Robin (1997).

That is going beyond a joke, passes the limits of what is reasonable as a joke.

My employer treated our request as a joke.

I think somebody nominated her as a joke or something.

It was treated as a joke, in the students circulated for a long time.

My mother treated my proposal as a joke.

The priest accepted it as a joke.

It was intended as a joke.

I wasn't serious, I meant it as a joke.

She treats everything I say as a joke.

I wasn't serious, I mean it as a joke.

You'd better treat his words as a joke.

We had better treat it as a joke.

Happy April Fool's Day! Please don't get offended, this is meant only as a joke.

I merely said it as a joke.

He shrugged it off as a joke.

I only said it as a joke.

Just let him be! 19. He shrugged it off as a joke.

So, as a joke, they voted to accept her.

I treat it as a joke.

And they are also passed along to friends for their entertainment value, as a joke or for fun.

Awful. The students see me as a joke.

I can't read it, either. It looks like gibberish to me. Are you sure someone didn't leave it as a joke?

If you brought a sandwich to school, people would often steal it as a joke or eat it if you left it on the desk. This was a common thing.

I'm going to give it to my sister as a joke ; A

We look at it as a joke

Don't for these comments and angry, you just put them as a joke

In all seriousness very seriously; not as a joke

deceive sb as a joke