Recently Brass Eye offended the sensibility of huge numbers of people and pleaded, "it was only a joke".
It was grim medicine, sweetened by only half a joke.
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He was a meticulous note-taker and, says Mr Bergen, had only once told a joke.
Here's a joke only an accountant could love: A woman puts her assets in a trust and gives her husband the legal right to decide what to do with those assets--but only after he's dead.
It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.
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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Mr Friedman's opponents dismiss his campaign as a joke and whisper that he is running only to provide material for another bestselling book.
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While each of these examples is rare and probably stem from one employee's idea of a joke, companies know it could take only an occasional mistake to see years of built-up brand equity hit a bear market.
With Catherine Keener, thank heaven, as a fellow agent, and the only person present to see the joke.
Whatever the first rule of cool, the first rule of funny is that if you try to dissect why a joke is funny in a solicitor's office, not only does funny move on, it doesn't leave a forwarding address and gets a restraining order taken out preventing you from ever contacting it again.
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Have you heard of the joke about a statistician who was drowned in a lake with an average depth of only 12 inches?
The only thing that came to my mind was the old joke that time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.
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