Sentences with phrase «ago as a joke»

My Mom gave it to me years ago as a joke.

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First a few jokes: My sources tell me that the new Fed Chairman will be Marc Faber; second, as Lloyd Blankfein is chirping about Brexit and Goldman moving to Frankfurt, Germany, he opined several years ago that Goldman was doing God's work.

Well, a couple years ago, I was given as a joke (at Princeton, I think) an extra-extra-large tee - shirt, one of those pieces of clothing only a linebacker could wear with comfort.

A couple years ago, as I was reading through Scripture, I began to notice that there were numerous jokes, allusions, and euphemisms all over Scripture for the male sexual organ.

The media is always trolling for the next viral thing — they enjoyed pretending that stoners would love the Cap’n Crunch Delights (as I also did a moment ago — probably a good sign, that there's an obvious joke).

Of course, he told me that as a joke when we met 6 years ago.

that's a joke you know right... apart from the Barca rumour years ago, which other top club have come with serious bid for the guy... it's only in Arsenal average performers are seen as giving their all... you want to be among the heavyweights in Europe, then sign the best players or bring in a coach who can shape the young minds into champions... you don't do the same thing year after year and expect a different result

because of this man's greed we're seen as a joke of a club he should of been gone years ago it's blatantly obvious he's finished what makes anyone think this relic is all of a sudden going to roll back the clock 14 years in his supposedly final year and win the big honours?

Must be a joke; should be ashamed to even mention this game again... I need a good drink after what i read and shut my computer... Someone said we should not complain as Chelsea flopped 2 years ago... So, yeah, we should as well and accuse referrees... I'm out guys... The season is over, what we fighting for, 6 to 12 place... Liverpool can't finish behind us, we have no consistency nor game, just pass the ball like academy 6 year old do, passing the ball... Instead to put the damn ball behind the net, contrrol the ball and never score means no control of the game nor the ball, it should be behind frekin net...

The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people's chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices.

Especially a few years ago, as a recent graduate with zero prospects on either the job or relationship front, my friends and I would joke that we should just get sugar daddies and not worry about silly things like following our passions or becoming successful.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

And that was fine a decade ago when The Room was still in its first blush as a cultural phenomenon, but you can't keep up the act forever, not unless you want to turn into a joke that you're no longer in on.

Less than two weeks ago we brought to your attention the fact that Martin Freeman made a rape joke — not, as some alleged, because we wanted to «ruin his career» and bring the shrieking banshees of evil, eeeevil political correctness upon him (or something), but because an actor whom a lot of people like said something pretty dang awful, and we thought people might want to be informed.

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

The normally overwrought Jenny McCarthy, late of MTV's Singled Out and Playboy magazine, is nicely held in check as a prostitute (insert your own joke here); and as her madam, Lauren Bacall strikes luminous sparks with Douglas, with whom she had previously teamed nearly 50 years ago on Young Man with a Horn.

It's difficult not to watch an interview like that and not be reminded of that Sherlock incident from a couple years ago, wherein co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were talked into reading slash fanfic on stage — and then, of course, there's all the stories you hear about celebrities being presented with graphic fanart of themselves to sign at autograph tables (something usually intended as a joke).

She's worried about being seen as a show off, or a know it all, so she sits in the back of the class getting in trouble for telling jokes and clowning around instead of revealing that she did all this three years ago, and can recite the lesson word for word if you ask.

United Teachers of Los Angeles president Alex Caputo - Pearl gave a speech for the ages a couple of weeks ago, securing a wing in the pantheon - of - vile, a place which includes such memorable outbursts as National Education Association general counsel Bob Chanin's «right - wing bastards» farewell - to - troops speech in 2009 and Chicago Teacher Union boss Karen Lewis» talk to the Illinois Labor History Society in 2012, where she joked about the possibility of union members killing the wealthy.

A decade ago, self - publishing was viewed as a joke in the publishing industry.

Falco began as something of a joke: would it be possible to place a forties - style private eye two thousand years ago?

A WoW April Fool's Day joke some time ago purported that Blizzard was adding Two Headed Giants as a playable race, where two different players played each head.

I had the opportunity to ask the Shovel Knight guys, to their faces, why they still hadn't gotten around to putting female characters in their game, as they promised in their Kickstarter so long ago — but instead, I made some jokes about how they should put Samus («me») in the game.

The game does hold up quite well and the jokes are still funny today as they were 20 years ago, but from a visual, audio and pacing stand - point — while still charming in its classic retro way — the game does feel a bit dated compared to games of today.

When I arrived at the Hanford Site 25 years ago, part of the folklore (expressed as a joke) was that the carcinogenic dose of I - 129 was 28 pounds of it in the thyroid.

Think I'm joking, some time ago there was a concerted campaign in Australia to close Lucas Heights Nuclear Reactor in Sydney as it posed a catastrophic threat to Sydney although it was the only source of isotopes for medical purposes in Australia.

A mere four months ago the idea of Joe Biden as a viable presidential candidate was regarded by Democrats as a joke.

As a practical joke, I weaved a spoof maxim into one of my judgments a decade ago — Equity does to a cream trifle what cheddar cheese never did to clean hands.

As I wrote in my long piece on the referendum a year ago the rules about our elections are a joke and regulators are in an impossible position (e.g the latest flap over what counts as «coordination»As I wrote in my long piece on the referendum a year ago the rules about our elections are a joke and regulators are in an impossible position (e.g the latest flap over what counts as «coordination»as «coordination»).

«I've tried to ignore the news about Bitcoin completely,» joked Alexander Halavais, a professor of social technology at Arizona State University, who said he bought $ 70 of Bitcoin about seven years ago as a demonstration for a graduate class he was teaching at the time but has since forgotten his password.

The realtor and her assistant stated to us when we questioned about the home (Owners daughter just moved out a few months ago) come to find out from the neighbors as we are the laughing joke not just in the neighborhood but the town, the home had been vacant for almost 3 years.

The import car market was seen as a joke and the cars were considered sub-standard (for the younger agents out there, look at Hyundi as compared to a few years ago) and that consumers would easily return.

The old joke, «change is inevitable — except from a vending machine,» is as applicable today as it was 60 years ago.