His return to Derby year after year, despite not having a real shot to win it, became a kind of running joke.
The stock's oscillation pattern had become a running joke among brokers and the subject of several skeptical articles in the local press.
The great Christopher Buckley had a running joke about cellphone use (for it being so rare) in his classic novel, Thank You For Smoking.
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The recorded exchange became a running joke, helping break the tension.
In other words, the ideal USFL-manufactured narrative Herschel Walker guiding the major-market franchise to the title game was quickly discarded as the season turned into a running joke.
"The running joke is that you can take time off, but when you come back, you pay the price for it, " said Nellie Borrero, Accenture's managing director of global inclusion and diversity.
He would bring her flowers, or fruit from the orchard, and when it became clear that they were serious about each other he had created a long-running joke about their having identical tattoos: hearts, roses, Celtic knots, tiny bluebirds tucked away in the secret angles of their bodies, where only they could see.
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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Mike Bird, a Conservative on the authority for 22 years, who was voted out as leader of the council last October, said the running of the authority had become "an absolute joke".
Al Jean, an executive producer for the show, said one Fox joke involved a parody of the news "crawl" running on News Corp. cable-news network Fox News.
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The dispute has been running since September, when McCarthy called the money on offer "a joke".
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