"I joke that at my outpost I'm the last to hear rumors, " she says.
To this day, 10 years later, though I joke about it, I cannot eat or smell Country Crock.
"I joke that this is my midlife crisis group, " Ms. Belinne says.
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"I joke to my husband, it's like kindergarten 'Hunger Games, '" said 37-year-old Stella Gilgur-Cook, whose 5-year-old daughter placed in the 99th percentile, referring to the popular movie about survival.
As I like to joke, I let in a soft goal and then I never walked in front of the net again.
"I used to joke with friends - I'd look in my diary and Monday morning would be Derek Jacobi and Monday afternoon would be Michael Gambon, " he said.
"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.
Now I just kind of made it where, I kind of make a joke, I laugh it off, you know?
Normally, I would tell a joke, but I'm told that we have to get out of here pretty soon and I have a longer than usual talk, so you'll have to suffer the absence of any merriment here because the tidings I bring in my talk are very grim indeed.
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"I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless joke I published on my personal Twitter account, " she wrote on Facebook.
Both men laughed, and I wondered if my joke had implied more than I understood.
Even Robbie Williams got into the act with a version of I Started A Joke.
It's actually - I think that joke is actually recycled from, like, four media days ago.
Today, I live in Silicon Valley, and I guarantee the joke could be played here in reverse.
When I first put the partial cremains of my father in a Tupperware sandwich box and placed it on my writing desk, that was the joke I felt like telling.
The players endure so many tests on their limbs that I use to joke that if they were not injured prior to the week, they will be after the physicals.
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For example, there was this joke I once pitched and David Silverman, the director, started drawing and as I was pitching it, it went into the film and it was cut a day later.
Monty bristled when I made a bad joke about Ford becoming a car-rental replacement for bloggers.
An old joke, I know, but like all old jokes it works because it contains a kernel of painful truth.
No, no one who tells the joke nor I in repeating it think that this is the best path: or even an acceptable one.
"We've had a joke that I'm winning at the minute but I have no doubt that come the end of the season with the way he plays he'll be top scorer, " he added.
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Being squarely in my 50s, I might have appreciated the joke more than most.
"When I was first told about this I thought it was a joke, " he said.
Look, look, if you think the playing fields of Eton was anything other than a joke, then I think you take your politics too seriously.
He operates out of the family's rug store ("I thought it was a joke, " says Houston) and entertained the pair with Persian tea in the back.
You know, well, I say that as a joke, but that's probably one of my biggest concerns and the biggest concerns amongst, you know, women of color.
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