Gamely Mitchell put on the coat, three sizes too small, and tried to make a joke of it.

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Even the commentariat and editorialists believe they need to take the news seriously: Who will buy their papers and magazines if they make a joke of it?

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Now I just kind of made it where, I kind of make a joke, I laugh it off, you know?

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Yes, the lyrics of The Beatles' When I'm 64 almost make for a half-decent joke to the opening line of an article, shame that Paul McCartney is 63 and Ringo Starr , 65.

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"While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece of hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking, " he wrote.

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If it were a military threat from such a tiny country, the overwhelming military strength of the rest of the world would make it a joke.

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Even if it is merely being able to successfully predict whether that joke we are thinking of telling will make others laugh or just embarrass us instead.

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Of course, as is procedure, when you make a joke nowadays, you must immediately make a public apology.

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"The idea was never to stifle free speech or deny a young guy his right to make a bad joke, but to hold the world's largest purveyor of sports entertainment and journalism to some kind of standard, " she told CNN.

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The biggest of the bunch, and I genuinely don't mean to make a joke by saying that, is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0.

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