Mr. Sunusi later apologized for his answer, saying it was meant as a joke and icebreaker to lower tensions during the vetting process.
Flash to video: for years, Gates and his team have put together joke videos, most of which are shown only at sales meetings or occasionally at the company's annual financial analyst meeting.
Also on Twitter, shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint said she was happy for her former cabinet colleague and his family and made a joke about his nickname, saying "Thunderbirds are go".
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish labelled the penalty decision "a joke" and also disagreed with the red card for his captain.
Those who dismiss Arnold Schwarzenegger as a robotic action hero should remember that Ronald Reagan was also dismissed as a joke when he first ran for governor and he beat his opponent by more than a million votes.
The joke Down Under is that John Soutter should be fired for getting his sales projections so wrong.
The great Christopher Buckley had a running joke about cellphone use (for it being so rare) in his classic novel, Thank You For Smoking.
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The joke posted on his Twitter account was criticised by many people for being insensitive, including Mr and Mrs Adams' family, who had asked for an apology.
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Sheryl Sandberg came to the interview armed with a metaphor, an old joke about a man who loses his keys and insists on looking for them only in a circle around a lamppost.
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He actually spent as many words apologizing to "many women" for telling the joke as he did on the joke itself (more if you construe his warning of "politically incorrect jokes" as part of the apology).
Mr Friedman's opponents dismiss his campaign as a joke and whisper that he is running only to provide material for another bestselling book.
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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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