This little joke, lighthearted as it was at the time, serves as an ironic foreshadowing for what the microblogging site would evolve into.

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By staggering their entrances, he created a basic round (a nice little circumferential joke of sorts).

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You know, on one hand these things are obviously a little bit of a joke.

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Perhaps not, but there is no doubt that this show relentlessly entertains from start to finish as it hurtles you past joke after joke with little recovery time.

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"I kind of joke a little bit, like I should have blocked the shot because I jumped so high, but I guess I just landed wrong and didn't see where I was landing, so that's kind of what caused the injury, " Ware said.

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His rants are so off-the-wall there is little mistaking them for anything but a joke (he has vowed to rid American wrestling of the Mexican influence, even if that means deporting wrestlers from the locker room).

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Little surprise Stilwell boss Landon Rowland has been known to joke that life would be easier if his chief investment were in DST and not Janus.

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It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?

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