You go to Home Depot or Pep Boys looking for such lubricants and you will see shelves filled with forgettable brands that Jay Leno doesn't joke about.
The droughts we've seen, the floods, the wildfires -- those aren't a joke.
Luo wasn't afraid to joke about hiding the naughty apps this way, either.
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Goodman says The Hold Steady are very self-conscious, which can be alienating to people who don't get the joke.
It was one of those fashion jokes that isn't necessarily a joke.
"We talked about what would happen if it didn't work out, but we did it as a joke because we felt we didn't need to worry about that, " says Florescu.
The biggest of the bunch, and I genuinely don't mean to make a joke by saying that, is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0.
Kerry delivered that last line in such a righteous tone that it seemed as if he didn't understand it was a joke at his own expense.
After "Dead Man's Grip" edged out "Carte Blanche, " Mr. Deaver's James Bond reboot, on the list, Mr. James had a pair of T-shirts made as a joke.
When this was put to her in court, she said that it had all been a joke and she wouldn't take the money even if it was offered to her.
He said his daughter sent him a text message at 22:20 saying: "he hasn't even come on dad this is a joke".
The answer is, as in the old music hall joke, "I wouldn't start from here".
If you have to plead, "it was a joke" then obviously it wasn't, or at the very least, ill advised and insensitive.
"In hindsight it was a great idea, but we weren't expecting it to be anything more than a joke amongst ourselves, " says Amit Khanna, a 30-year-old accountant in Toronto.
Suddenly, in the middle of all this, the Farrellys cut to a gruesome close-up of the actual mutilation, which is so unexpected and so cheap, I couldn't decide how I felt about it as a joke.
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It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?
We don't even test with stock headphones anymore, they're almost always a joke.
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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?
"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.
The joke doing the rounds in Portcullis House today is that this shouldn't be thought of as a vote on boundaries at all, but as a paving bill for an Ed-Vince partnership to take over from Nick 'n Dave.
"We joke about (the potential for a sequel), but I don't know where it would exist, " Rogen laughed.
With a combo of R-rated swagger and a therapist's gift for self-esteem polishing, Ryan convinced grown men that "play like a Jet" didn't mean getting mathematically eliminated in Week 7, and transformed a forlorn franchise into a non-joke contender.
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