However, it is quite usual for the editors of the newspaper to realise , understand, that is is a joke.
It will do something about carbon in our atmosphere -- and that is not a joke.
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It goes without saying that a joke that needs to be explained is a lousy joke.
That is, that the joke is one to be shared with said editors and the readers, not a joke upon the editors and the readers.
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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There is an old joke among congressmen that every bill is a jobs bill, because it is your job on the line.
In a popular joke, a drunk shouts that he is a baggage-handler at Havana's Hotel Nacional.
Mehlman uses his mother's concentration-camp number to gamble on, a despairing joke of a way to show that misfortune is always with us.
There is a grim joke that circulates among medical residents: Hospitals are terrible places for sick people.
The dwarves, in their small way, are no less possessed, and the joke is that a hobbit, who wishes nobody ill, should help to lead them into temptation.
In other words, why go to a bar when someone there is wearing a device that may be recording your every bad joke after you've had too many drinks?
There is an old joke in the world of business software that ERP is a roach motel where data goes to die.
Though perhaps a bit catty, the joke makes a good point, which is that Opus Dei has sometimes been better at explaining what it is not rather than what it is.
That joke becomes less of a joke with every passing month, it is borderline true.
But he said he's relieved that the team is no longer considered a "joke" after years of futility and underperformance.
It sounds like a bad joke, but that is what happened last night in Syracuse.
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Talking about firing people, as a sort of a joke, suggests that Romney is out of touch.
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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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.
In fact, it is a common joke within the profession that you are better off saying you are an estate agent than health manager.
Both Shas leader Eli Yishai and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman dismissed Annapolis as a pathetic joke and claimed that there is no reason for them to resign from the Olmert government.
But perhaps what is really going on is that investors are coming to believe the logical premise of the bailout is shaky, and the whole thing is a joke.
If true, past history hints that Bernanke, increasingly a joke outside the Fed, is losing his grip on the inside on the way to him stepping down.
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That Kennan lived near a town called East Berlin is not a cosmic joke.
The joke is told that Secretary Albright, confronted by a Washington Post reporter with evidence of a Jewish lineage, responded, Oy vey.
As with so much that Mr Banks says, it is not clear whether this was meant as a joke.
In a joke going the rounds, a woman concludes that her husband is suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Which is perceived today by investors as something of a joke, in that the cost of insuring Dexia's subordinate debt implies that providers of this subordinated debt are facing losses of 35%.
The real question facing industrialised countries is how to create a legal environment that counts cyberaggression not as a kind of practical joke, but a grave breach of the legal order, akin to terrorism, international organised crime, or aggression against another state.
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