Issues become more complex upon setting the jokes aside and considering serious economic and environmental concerns.

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Self-referential jokes aside, Hendren also brought a great deal of light to the idiocy of social branding.

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Jokes aside, an important aspect of homelessness in America is how it is largely related to depression.

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But, all jokes aside, there is a lot of very helpful contextual data in what Meeker shares on her deck.

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All jokes aside, we can definitely relate to his passion for HD.

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All jokes aside, I think he may have a case.

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But New York and Philadelphia, all jokes aside, are not filled with impassable, treacherous mountains and terrain that really succeeds in isolating pockets of the country from each other.

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Bad jokes aside, this is hardly funny.

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Aside from crude Rockette-based jokes, we know very little about what the GS IV is purportedly packing, but hopes of a drastic shift away from the company's plastic-heavy designs were dimmed somewhat by the "more of the same" design featured on the Note 8.0.

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