Sentences with phrase «as a joke in»

However, Pennant has today squashed the ridiculous reports as a joke in an exclusive interview with the Mirror.

One would be a broad Hollywood satire about the thin line separating Barry's old profession from his new one, featuring abundant cartoonish violence and punchlines with double meaning for thespian and assassins both, all while treating Barry's day job as a joke in and of itself.

«California Fiction» started as a joke in response to the profusion of «Southern Fiction.»

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

It's already what is getting them seen as a joke in terms of online multiplayer, and since the codes are shared on every forum, website and blog on the internet, why not just accept it and replace them with usernames or something?

As he joked in his Slaying the Zombies of Climate Change TEDx talk:

Sequestration of atmospheric CO2 as dry ices was adduced as a joke in 2003

Dogecoin, for example, is an altcoin originally created as a joke in 2013.

What if I come across as a joke in the field?

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During an interview with Fox News, Mercedes Schlapp seemed eager to frame Wolf's jokes as disrespectful to women in general, and Fox underlined that theme with a chiron reading «So - Called Feminist Attacks Conservative Women.»

«We've always described our manufacturing and R&D facility in San Diego as our Ocean's Eleven vault, where we build it once and others can replicate it,» jokes Hargovan.

I joke that my unofficial title is «chief taste officer,» as I love to participate in the flavor and product development process.

First Lady Melania Trump dismissed Ivana Trump's comments joking that she really held the position of First Lady, as the former insinuated in a statement that her husband's ex-wife only made the comments to sell her new memoir.

The hashtag #WhiteLiesOnMyResume is trending on Twitter today as users join in to brag, or joke, about misstatements on their job applications.

The moral of this story is, if you're going to tell others — even as an April Fool's joke — what you think the future of your industry might look like, you had better be sure that your company has a plan already in place, or the joke will be on you.

She joked that it was because her mom was «too lazy to roll the dice» as part of a password generation method called Diceware that she discovered in her book research.

CEOs and leaders from Bell, Talisman Energy and Shell Canada were in attendance as well as the heads of CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank, TD, BMO and HSBC Bank of Canada, prompting Tory to joke in her acceptance speech that she as wary of an erupting «battle of the banks.»

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

He jokes about his teenage days as a juggler and hanging out in onesie pajamas as an adult.

«I will be covering all of the presidential candidates who are Donald Trump,» Colbert joked as Jeb Bush waited in the wings for his appearance later in the program.

Mulvaney, who was appointed by Trump as a temporary leader, has been critical of the agency in the past, going as far as to call it a «joke» and a «wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody.»

In his «Weirdo» set, Glover jokes about a 2010 internet campaign that wanted to see him cast as Peter Parker in the then - upcoming «Spider - Man» rebooIn his «Weirdo» set, Glover jokes about a 2010 internet campaign that wanted to see him cast as Peter Parker in the then - upcoming «Spider - Man» rebooin the then - upcoming «Spider - Man» reboot.

For example, a campaign for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 might target fans already tweeting about the series, users who've tweeted aboutDivergent or, hypothetically, anybody making a joke about volunteering as tribute and having the odds ever in their favor.

In previous years, Trump had been the butt of any number of jokes at the dinner, particularly those poking at the real estate mogul's relentless suggestions that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. as well as jokes about his time as host of reality show The Celebrity ApprenticIn previous years, Trump had been the butt of any number of jokes at the dinner, particularly those poking at the real estate mogul's relentless suggestions that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. as well as jokes about his time as host of reality show The Celebrity Apprenticin the U.S. as well as jokes about his time as host of reality show The Celebrity Apprentice.

The Spaniard, one of the top right - backs in the division, claims he is already reaping the benefits of a plant - based diet — but admits two of his teammates tease him by trying to put meat on his plate as a joke.

He anticipates that many employees will opt in to 2G Tuesdays — 2G Mondays just didn't sound nearly as catchy, he jokes — to get a better understanding of what the internet feels like for people in different parts of the world and to help report issues and make suggestions that his team might not have thought of.

Taken together, they almost read like an early April Fool's joke, as in, «He can't be serious, can he?»

The Russian leader joked about rape as recently as February, has boasted that his country's prostitutes are the best in the world, and has put down women for menstruating.

Mulvaney, who once described the CFPB as a «sick, sad» joke, has sought to rein in the agency and overhaul its mission.

As Bitcoin's price went on a wild roller coaster ride in recent months, we joked about getting back in.

Signs of the changes percolating in the retirement market were everywhere on Wednesday at Dimensional Fund Advisors» first - ever conference focused on the defined contribution space, from the jokes DFA's David Booth told at the expense of the existing king of the retirement market, Fidelity, to the news of the investment product DFA is rolling out to serve as a combination default option and lesson in responsibility for employees who are the least engaged in their retirement planning.

Freund has a colorful background as a team roper in rodeos, and in the feature story he joked about his friends referring to him as a «high - tech redneck.»

For example, over the years various people have suggested or wondered (sometimes as a joke) if the NSA actually created Bitcoin in an effort to trap criminals.

They joke about not knowing the business as much as making an investment in the quality of the management.

This policy — announced in the Plaza Accord of 1985 — led economist David Hale to joke that the Bank of Japan was acting as the Thirteenth Federal Reserve District and the Japanese government as the Republican Re-election Committee.

The Boring Co. flamethrower seemingly started off as a joke back in December, when Elon Musk announced on Twitter that if he sells 50,000 Boring Company hats, he would start selling a flamethrower.

In fact, after learning that additional appendices and materials had leaked online, Canadian official joked that «they're scanning as fast as they can.»

Goods go up in price every year due to inflation (think about how we joke that movie tickets used to cost $ 2) so your money doesn't stretch as far as it used to.

All jokes aside, I know it sounds like a broken record but the dimension that matters is not intermittent collateral problems so much as the greater intensity to them and in a condensing timeframe.

Our most sophisticated models can't predict movements in 60 seconds (consistently, didn't stop us from trying as a joke activity) and it is sad that retail traders who don't even have a fraction of the tools or computing power think they can outperform, except of course the lucky ones (elementary 1st year university statistics predicts that, so they are lucky not talented).

Bertolini, who joined Aetna in 2003 as head of specialty products and rose to CEO in 2010, joked at a 2010 awards ceremony at Wayne State about his education at the Detroit school, «probably the single most important factor» in his success as an executive.

Update, 9 a.m. Monday: A rep for the Patriots said late Sunday that Kraft's tale is just a joke: «He loves that his ring is at the Kremlin and, as he stated back in 2005, he continues to have great respect for Russia and the leadership of President Putin.»

As a male - to - female transsexual that walks with Christ, I am quite use to many levels of humor about my wife and I... and this was a splendid joke, in my opinion.

These are colloquially referred to as «wallpaper effects,» the joke being that the experiment was affected by the color of the wallpaper in the room.

This is now exploited as a joke - which is defense mechanism in full force.

I assume the «lost in translation» comment is meant as a joke about the fact that some hispanics speak a different language?

Two things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this experiment, and why do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a Christian raised by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis of faith is normal in life, denouncing faith is shameful

The US government burned Bibles recently in Afghanistan as part of a military directive regarding what to do with trash in a warzone (no joke look it up).

The Islamic Defenders Front, a group which wants to impose Shariah law, began demanding Ahok's arrest after a video circulated online in which he joked to an audience about a passage in the Koran that could be interpreted as prohibiting Muslims from accepting non-Muslims as leaders.

The above posting is what is known as «jocularity», or «a joke» in the vernacular.