Sentences with phrase «as a joke when»

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

He was seen as a joke when Moyes brought him in but he is a very good midfielder in both defense and attack

Leonard, with his near - nihilistic view of life, becomes the closest the movie has to a moral center, but even his qualms with the fate of the pesky neighbor are played as a joke when juxtaposed with his wife's indifference.

Not exact matches

When I spoke to Hannah as part of my 2018 Big Ideas project, she referred to a famous old saying: marketers used to joke that they knew 50 percent of their ads worked, they just didn't know which 50 percent.

The holiday started as a joke, but when the Chinese e-commerce giant capitalized on it, sales went through the roof.

She began working as soon as she was old enough, as a babysitter, waitress, table busser and switch - board operator — «name a crappy job [and] I've done it,» she jokes — and when her grades remained near - perfect despite all those extracurricular activities, she switched to a more challenging private school.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

And I'm very appreciative of having done that because it was something that my mother and I had with each other as a joke because she would tease me and ask me to let her know when I had made enough money for her to sue me for using her name.

When I'm on the road, our family keeps a group text thread going that enables us to joke around and express our individual personalities, while communicating as a family.

Sometimes people say something as a joke, but when you think about it for a while, there may be a practical application for your business.»

When he presented his findings back at the office, Flom was told to take a hike and actually threatened with termination by the company's CEO: the band was regarded as a joke by Atlantic's executives, their audiences were viewed as idiots, and their songs were derided as garbage.

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.

Jokes often are at the expense of someone as David's cartoons show, and that's OK when done appropriately.

When you make a generalization such as those believing in some sort of religion are the jokes in the intellectual world... I assure you that you are not conversing with the intellectual world.

Just as a joke loses its humor when it has to be explained, so also a symbol loses its force when it is explained.

You are like my brother - in - law who can not help making grossly inappropriate jokes — we ignore him when we can, as this tends to be the most effective way of «moving on» past jokes like that.

I use it as an ice - breaking anecdote at women's retreats, I wrote about it on my blog, I use it as a sermon illustration when I preach at Christmas: I have all my jokes down pat.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

We're not taking their truth more seriously if we take them as literal predictions about the future, any more than Data is interpreting more accurately when he misses the joke.

When we trust people, we recognize their jokes as jokes, their metaphors as metaphors, and their fishing stories for the tall tales that they are.

Whoever puts these things together must feel like a real comedy genius when he or she puts «Rebecca Black» as a Lollapalooza headliner to fool the 0.0 % of people who buy the joke.

Shrubbery As the old joke goes, for all of us who lost our teeth, or lost our knees in the war, God will have to supply new ones just so that we'll have something to gnash and bend when that day comes.

its god when and only when its not anything bad, yet in the BIBLICAL days (thats a joke in on itself) when crap went down, they saw it as them being bad in the eyes of there god / gods!

When, as a young man, he refused a dish a mushrooms his father the emperor Vespasian joked that it was more in keeping with his destiny for him to be afraid of swords.

As they watch Malvolio, the clowns perform a slapstick ballet, popping out regularly from behind the long black tapestries that stand in for scenery, cracking jokes, bickering, threatening, and bundling each other into hiding when they get hotheaded enough to become conspicuous.

Orsolic speculates that the children first spoke of the apparition as a joke, but when the tour buses quickly started arriving they were psychologically trapped.

Like the defence employed by Trump to the outside world when he justified his own lewd comments as «locker room talk», the boys passed off their remarks (too crude to print) as mere jokes and banter.

We just didn't have them often as kids but my husband had them and wanted to make them when we first got married and when I asked him to teach me how to make them he thought I was joking I just never knew they were so easy!

My brother and I always joke about how even though we follow her recipes exactly our food never tastes as good as when she makes it.

I wasn't joking when I said I've been eating whole cucumbers as a snack, but now, this salad has been my afternoon, heat - of - the - day go - to.

I'm sure it'll eventually get old — or at least less wondrous — because I was just as enchanted when we first moved to Santa Monica and I had 6 Whole Foods stores within a 10 mile radius (not joking).

I worked in the forest industry for twelve years and it was a running joke to consider how much people pay for cedar cut into small grilling planks when it's the same thing as the boards in the lumber yard.

This is when it starts to feel as if the universe is playing a cruel joke on us.

For future makers — she's not joking when she says this makes a lot so we'll definitely be having this as tacos tomorrow.

A chef I know jokes that when she closes her eyes, she sees «32 %» as if it were tattooed on the inside of her eyelids.

Approachable, but as memorable as that joke you told when you started the 30 - second tour of your place.

As you can probably guess, when the movie finally started, anti-Finding-Dory-guy was laughing longer and harder at every single joke than anyone else in the theater (except, for me, of course).

Winnie described his mood as «relaxed, joking, pleasant — here yet not here,» by which she meant that his mind was mostly out on the golf course in that semidetached, uncomplicated way it gets when he is playing golf in earnest.

Also Ozil lost his girlfriend mandy the beautiful capristo in that period when he was injured they had breakup so this might also had helped him as it saved his energy which might had lost in the romance and bed hahah just joking guys..

Wenger didn't seem to care about spending when Dein was doing it, we competed with the best and wasn't a joke in doing so, I will point towards Pires as an example.

«An overtime broke out in the middle of Hochuli's explanation,» jokes Hochuli himself, whose three decades as a trial lawyer and extemporaneous speaker occasionally abandon him when he switches on his field mike.

Though he often joked that he'd been around the Olympics since the days of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Bud Greenspan kindled his love affair with the Games in 1948, when, as a 21 - year - old radio sports director, he filed dispatches on the competition for WHN in New York City.

But I'm hesitant in being cavalier about our standing and perception when valuable opinion (however anecdotal) ranks us below an organization we mock as being a standout joke in the league.

By far the best article I have ever read on this site, there was no bias or empty statements, just cold hard facts, the writer even respected wengers budget but still pointed to where he should've improved, there are no excuses, what you read is literrally all u get with arsene, if you gave him a budget of 9m or 1 billion, he will ALWAYS take the risk cause he doesn't give a fk about the consequences as if he was a teenager raging through puberty, his stubborn is absolutely pathetic, can you believe he turned down signing a keeper when almunia was shocking, can you believe he didn't sign a CB when squillaci was awful, can you believe that he REFUSED to sign a CDM for almost 8 years, CAN you believe on one of the most important transfer windows of arsenals history, arsene decided to go host charity matches in rome, that's right instead of trying hard for the fans that have respected him and pay him one of the highest managerial wages in the world, he decided to do what he pleased as usual, cause he doesn't answer to anyone, nor does he giving a flying fk, gazidis a man i thought was also a crook went and did arsene's job for him and at least got us a striker (which cost us the title in january last season) and arsene foolishly proclaims that «if i was here we wouldn't of signed danny» meaning we wouldn't of had ANY recognised cf till giroud recovered, arsene wenger is a joke of the highest order, lack of respect, lack of shame and lack order, i despise him

«They have set themselves as this higher - than - high, pious team who set the benchmark for what is right and what is wrong in cricket, when everyone who has played against them knows it's an absolute joke.»

That's the sentiment that the Portuguese tactician echoed when speaking to reporters on Wednesday, as he joked about that aforementioned reputation of not playing younger stars having sold the likes of Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku in the past, but he doesn't envisage that happening with Rashford.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

And the Sun quotes a Burnley insider as saying many of his teammates thought it was all just an elaborate joke at first: «Ashley got a bit of stick from the other players when he first turned up driving the Smart car.

Lucky to draw at Everton (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied away to newly promoted Leicester (Defense), 2 pts lost Should have beaten City @ Home (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied at home to an even sh *** er Spurs (Defense), 2 pts lost Why even show up at Stamford Bridge as we can't beat a Mourinho Chelsea team (Defense), 3 pts lost Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at Stoke... (Defense) and most recently tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defense)

It's funny how Xhaka has been given Ramsey's old shirt number (16) when the player himself joked about phoning Coquelin and asking for his shirt number, As everyone knows that he has that number tattoo, on his back.??