Figure John Paulson was a joke on Wall Street for shorting mortgage securities until he was no longer a joke, so to presume that ratings agencies could have moved against a powerful market tide seems a reach.
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Mr Carter may be no more than a cuddly old joke to many conservatives nowadays.
"And the harassment has been part of my stress while I'm trying to recover, no joke, " she says.
Thanking Steve Jobs for his Thoughts on Music isn't exactly how we'd expected a letter to start by Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision, the original DRM company whose fair use crippling technology dates back all the way to 1984 (no joke).
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But really, it's no joke - they're all trying to be the next governor of Texas.
But the band that influenced groups ranging from Led Zeppelin to The Pretenders was no joke.
"The idea for this came to me in, no joke, 20 seconds, " he says happily.
Back in the 1960s, Americans feared the "terrifying efficiency" of the centrally planned Soviet economy, to borrow a no-joke famous phrase from the British politician Richard Crossman.
Both Shas leader Eli Yishai and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman dismissed Annapolis as a pathetic joke and claimed that there is no reason for them to resign from the Olmert government.
Secular Istanbul editors joke darkly about moving to Izmir, which voted no.
No one in the office was authorized to make changes to the joke.
"If there's no possibility for satire, if you always have to look for the joke that every -- absolutely everyone will get, you won't have Jon Stewart, you won't have Stephen Colbert, " he said.
Anyone who has ever been to Rwanda can tell you that the hills here are no joke: every hairpin turn boasts views of mountains and more mountains, and even the urban neighborhoods are built on steep hillsides.
The intended joke is that no one in Hollywood really knows what "edgy" is supposed to mean, even though it gets bandied about in film development offices on a daily basis.
In 1810, the Court moved into a different room in the Capitol, where a figure of Justice, decorating the chamber, had no blindfold but, as the joke went, the room was too dark for her to see anything anyway.
Perhaps not, but there is no doubt that this show relentlessly entertains from start to finish as it hurtles you past joke after joke with little recovery time.
"We used to joke with her that she'd do all this landscaping that no one could see because it all was in the back (of the house), " Cullen said.
"We used to joke with her that she'd do all this landscaping that no one could see because it all was in the back, and because her house was so set back, " added Cullen.
The dwarves, in their small way, are no less possessed, and the joke is that a hobbit, who wishes nobody ill, should help to lead them into temptation.
While it was a long-standing joke among tax and estate planners that 2010 would be a good year to die because there is no estate tax imposed in that year, in practice, this is less than certain.
"No, he'd have to call them nabobs of nothingness, " Loren said and laughed at his own joke.
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