Sentences with phrase «at a joke about»

True family occurs when everybody laughs at a joke about peas on the curtains.

She's me in that neither she nor I pay sales tax at the Rehoboth outlets and in that we both probably laughed at the joke about Delaware in Wayne's World.

Not exact matches

Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

Every time he came by, he'd gesture at the box and crack a new joke about how odd it was that I enjoyed fishing.

It's about not dying,» co-founder Dan Martell joked of the post-Facebook pivot at Startup Weekend in May.

Ellison, who before the crash, was known to brag about playing tennis on company time, and was so seldom at the office that, when he was spotted, employees joked about «Elvis sightings,» was shaken to the core.

I know the jokes about «not trying this at home,» but I tried it with my son, Jack, who was 6 at the time.

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

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.

Google made several jokes about Apple and the iPhones at its event to show off the new Pixel 2.

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

At another point, Kim appeared to go off script again joking about the famous cold noodles he had brought in from Pyongyang, which is «far.»

Days away from a vote to rescind the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 net neutrality rules, FCC chair Ajit Pai is joking about his time as associate general counsel at Verizon.

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 Apprentice.

The tone among American commentators is split between jokes about America Online's doomed Time Warner merger from 2000 and alarm at the notion of the phone company owning a large number of media outlets.

After a week of questions about Tesla's ability to pay back bond - holders and produce cars at a scale that would lessen the need for future capital raises, CEO Elon Musk drew criticism for joking about concerns surrounding the company in an April Fools» Day Twitter thread.

Eric Jackson, a former PayPal executive, joked on stage at a conference about what it's like to be a libertarian - leaning conservative in Silicon Valley.

«These jokes are reflective of an underlying general anxiety about [surveillance],» Parker Higgins, director of special projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, said in a phone call with Motherboard.

Leila also joked about earning her «McDonalds MBA» as an employee at the fast food chain, which Forbes remarked is quite common for emerging market entrepreneurs who often learn everything they know about business from previous employers.

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.

The name comes from a joke about a Texan who fires some shots at the side of a barn, then paints a target centered on the biggest cluster of hits and claims to be a sharpshooter.»

For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about anything that seemed too obvious to state.

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

Your parents, my parents, my sister cracking jokes about how she was the only one wearing fuchsia and that was exactly what was wrong with seminaries «There's not enough fuchsia at the Jesus school!»

So I told her about my dream and then tried to crack a few jokes at my own expense, «oh, can you even imagine that happening?»

A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as «The women, God help us!»

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.

It was not to be wondered at that such a religious figure as al - Jahiz should write about singing, wine drinking, and jokes.

At church that Sunday, we joked about God taking an interest in the games on that day, after talking about the interest He takes in the weak, the disabled, the poor, the beaten, the outcast.

I got connected with the BioLogos Forum and even attended a conference on science and faith where I pretended to understand jokes at the lunch table about protein biosynthesis.

I have it on good authority he said «My wife... is such a comedian, always cracking up the apostles with her naughty jokes... Like did you hear the one she told about the Priest the Rabbi and the Pastor who were discussing how they apporting their collections and the Priest says «We go into the parking lot and draw a circle on the ground and throw all the money up and any that lands in the circle we give to God» and the Pastor says «Yeah, we do almost the same thing but give God anything that falls outside the circle» and the Rabbi looks at them both and says «We do almost the same thing to, draw a circle and throw up the money high into the air and God keeps what God wants...»

When he jokes about the bumbling wise men or the bourgeois Joseph, Auden laughs at those traits in himself and teaches us that it is necessary to laugh at ourselves, too.

I ride the bus, I find something to complement someone about, they smile by the end of the ride were having church joking, laughing that's church to me calming down a crying child, helping someone at the cash register when they find out they don't have enough money to pay.

There's a joke about atheists going door to door like missionaries, but the guy who answers the door looks at their pamphlet, and its blank.

I remember when the first season of Serial was at its high point that Best Buy put out a tweet referencing something about the pay phone at Best Buy — where one of the calls was supposed to have been made — in kind of a joking way.

Yes, even though you can joke about it, God reveals the spiritual to us at different times, not all at once.

Yet within sight, sound, and stink of these things men and women were murdered by the agents of the state, perhaps because they had told an unwise joke about the regime, perhaps for no reason at all.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

The new senior pastor of the 4,300 - member Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, recently turned 28, so maybe the jokes about him being so young will stop.

This is just one of the things we joke a lot about at The Lasting Supper.

Hey black pastors how about you focus on black on black violence, or blacks low graduation rates and low education, or the drug epidemic, or the fact that black men abandon their children at a higher rate than other races... yeah ga. y marriage should be a big issue... what a fvcking joke...

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

The response from mainstream media (some praising, some denouncing and many questioning his comments) has made it clear that C.K. struck a nerve, and that this conversation really isn't about the comedian or his particular jokes at all.

An American woman that jokes about not being a virgin, and laughs at the question..

But what incongruities in life would the God - man find to laugh at or joke about?

No longer working for Froben, he had taken service with the Archbishop of Mainz and sent Luther a long letter in December giving him a gleeful account of the cynical reception at Court of satires on the Roman party, and jokes about Aleander and his bonfires.

Police joked about arresting Sir Cliff Richard at Wimbledon when investigating a child sex - assault allegation, a journalist has told a High Court judge.

Actually, it's probably been longer as my wife Karen and I have been together thirty years this year and we started joking about «Nowt Poncy» back in the late eighties whilst still students at Manchester Polytechnic.

It's a tired joke, but at the same time it does make me pause and think about the people suffering in our world.

I love laughing at all of his silly jokes, cooking his food, riding my bike alongside his, listening to him talk about what is bringing him stoke, and help when life is giving him a hard time.