So despite all those lawyer jokes we love, we do need them from time to time.

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In the 2005 film, it is Chatsworth Keira Knightley that is referring to when she jokes that her love for Darcy dates from her "first seeing his grounds at Pemberley, " but Austen expert Janet Todd, of Cambridge University's Lucy Cavendish College, says this is a mistake.

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Jim Carrey plays Joel and Kate Winslet plays Clementine (and, yes, she has heard all the jokes), who fall in love and out of love and back in love again.

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Ultimately, love prevails, sentiment trumps sarcasm, and the jokes peter out accordingly (though the movie does muster one last bold black comic sideswipe before it's through).

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That I love hanging out with him and that we have dozens of inside jokes and shared traditions.

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