"They weren't just jokes to me, they were attitude, " he said, a tad defensively, when I pointed out that, by my count, some of his novels had up to 10 jokes per page.
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Just the jokes and the winners... and the obit-reel, which is always a heart-tugger.
We have to be smart about recognizing which bits of pop-culture phenomena have mass appeal and which are just the inside jokes of our industry.
Are our bodies now just vessels for jokes or cheap provocations?
" Mr. O'Donnell couldn't resist firing off a zinger himself: "I just hope the jokes he tells are better than the ones he was telling on 'The Tonight Show.
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He tried to shake off the debate with jokes just after the debate (his supporters were riled up by the tone of the questions, which could lift their turnout on primary day).
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"I think we just make nice gentle jokes about not being able to see properly, " said Specsavers' marketing director Richard Holmes.
Be that as it may, Waterloo's confidence in its long-running leaders seems stronger than ever before, because co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have just been made co-chairmen of the board... presumably just so they can crack jokes about running "dual-core" board meetings.
"If a robot just walks out there telling random jokes and not acknowledging that he is a robot, it isn't going to create a rapport with the audience, " she noted.
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At first, this intellectual-property strategy seemed to be just another of Bikram's wry jokes.
Not just that the magazine also has games, jokes and other related activities in each issue.
He jokes about people believing it was just the customer service department calling him.
They suggested that I should start with some jokes at my own expense, just take myself down a peg.
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Some job seekers regularly email recruiters jokes, goofy photos or other unprofessional items just to stay on their radar, says Romayne P.
These are snipish little comments from the "wags" of the House, in-jokes relating to past scandals, personal comments or just vaguely apposite harrumphing.
Imagine a standup comic who delivers the punch-lines of his jokes first, a plane with landing gear that deploys just after touchdown, or a stick of dynamite with a unique fuse that ignites only after it explodes.
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Mr. Rubin, 52 years old, wanted the library to "look grand, like I just came back to London after conquering, say, Kafiristan, " he jokes.
Just this week, we saw instant outrage on full display in response to Seth MacFarlane's jokes at Sunday's Oscars.
"This place is like a secret club, " jokes Jeremy Collis, the New Zealander who is the director of Moonlight Basin's small (just 47 instructors) ski school.
You just know that were you to hear him reading it out loud he would be giggling at his own marvellously extravagant jokes.
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