This harkens back to the old joke about long-only money managers always seeing bull markets.
Mr Carter may be no more than a cuddly old joke to many conservatives nowadays.
An old joke, I know, but like all old jokes it works because it contains a kernel of painful truth.
There is an old joke in the world of business software that ERP is a roach motel where data goes to die.
Finally, the rejected draft was the constitutional incarnation of the old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee.
There is an old joke among congressmen that every bill is a jobs bill, because it is your job on the line.
There's an old joke: Would you trust your fate to 12 people who couldn't figure out how to get out of jury duty?
The old joke that the way to render an Italian speechless is to tie his hands together has a kernel of truth in it.
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The only thing that came to my mind was the old joke that time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.
That's an argument that, to borrow an old joke of Henry Kissinger's, is not only convincing but has the additional merit of being true.
There is an old joke--attributed, of course, to Mark Twain--about the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector: The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Social commentator Peter York wonders whether part of the outcry might stem from old sensitivities over the old joke about people in East Anglia being "incestuous".
Thus the mean old joke that the best thing about Belgium is the ease of travelling elsewhere has been reversed, to the benefit of Belgian private banks.
If there is any truth in the old joke that says for every two economists you get three opinions it surely applies to discussions of exchange-rate policy.
Although he originally backed Mr Kiss, Mr Kovacs personifies the old joke about a Hungarian being someone who enters a revolving door behind you, but comes out in front.
Is National Journal--or perhaps Cook's social circle or his home--really populated by such grim women that he'd have to worry about giving offense by retelling such an anodyne old joke?
According to an old joke among Mittelstanders, Bill Gates could not have made his fortune in Germany because it is illegal to turn a garage without a window into an office.
"There's an old joke in the South, " he explained.
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Sheryl Sandberg came to the interview armed with a metaphor, an old joke about a man who loses his keys and insists on looking for them only in a circle around a lamppost.
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It was just like the old Jewish joke about an Israeli who is puzzled when he sees his friend reading an anti-Semitic newspaper.
There is an old accounting joke.
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The answer is, as in the old music hall joke, "I wouldn't start from here".
The joke is old, but all the material is new in the 42-year-old comic daredevil's first independent production, "Bello Mania, " currently playing at The New Victory Theater in New York.
But hours later, the 16-year-old learned classmates voted for her as a joke.
All his attempts to stop Ken Livingstone's bandwagon with an official Labour candidate - finally with poor old Frank Dobson - were, frankly, a joke.
Kennedy ended the fashion for hats by appearing without one at the 1961 Inauguration, so I have to wonder how guys who look like models in an old Stetson ad can be regarded as anything but a joke.
En route to Frances' self-realization, there are moments in which the movie falters, forces a joke or leaves a line hanging in the air like old wash.
He became something of a joke figure during his two and a half seasons at Old Trafford, going 27 games without scoring and notching only 10 goals in England's top flight.
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