They suggested that I should start with some jokes at my own expense, just take myself down a peg.
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The statue has become the butt of some jokes.
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And then the professor made some more jokes I didn't get, there was polite clapping and I was introduced.
They, of course, started out with some Chatroulette jokes.
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Some of the jokes hit the mark but it's an uneven performance and a few members of the mainly French and German audience look utterly bemused.
It was "completely out of character" for her mom, but Taylor asked her daughter to read aloud some of the bawdy jokes.
Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids.
Some pulled apart the jokes in his speech as idiocy.
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But as he did back in June, when he wrestled with the propriety of some borderline Sarah Palin jokes right from the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theatre, Letterman turned a personal embarrassment into something publicly riveting.
"I did read some of the more tame jokes and can still see her laughing and throwing her head back a couple of times, " Nickmann said.
Some of Obama's jokes came at his Republican rivals' expense.
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But he also made some sort of self-effacing jokes about the demonstrations.
"They weren't just jokes to me, they were attitude, " he said, a tad defensively, when I pointed out that, by my count, some of his novels had up to 10 jokes per page.
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The judge dismissed four potential jurors because of their opposition to capital punishment. (This judge later served on South Carolina's Supreme Court, and landed in some hot water by professing to find racist jokes inoffensive and funny.) It took the jury less than three hours to convict Mr Elmore, and an additional 50 minutes to sentence him to death.
And for some, that has made it the butt of jokes in the online world.
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The company also seems to have added their own little physical jokes to Durang's script, such as some recurring hair-mussing and flirtatious touching.
This will linger: the smiles and jokes from children who came to say hello and get some candy from my CNN colleague Tasha Diakides.
In terms of engagement, some of the most popular activities on mobile among Indians are sharing jokes, reading horoscopes, checking cricket scores, and chatting with friends and family.
As you might imagine, the 33 comments that followed included various jokes about finding work at pizza joints, but there were some serious observations too.
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She jokes that Editor A owns her right side and Editor B her left, and some days she feels like she is being stretched both ways.
But there is an argument to be made on the other side: The jokes while innocuous, were juvenile, and inappropriate for a professional setting in which some people--particularly including women--may have more delicate sensibilities.
Jack Kerouac sat on the side with a jug of wine cracking jokes and rapping and being totally entertaining, and a mix of people from the bohemians to some of my professors from UC-Berkeley, the Chinese department, were all there together.
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