Sentences with phrase «at a joke with»

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At least part of the reason why Trump was seen as a joke — even after it was obvious that he had a broad level of support — is that most mainstream media outlets underestimated his appeal with U.S. voters.

If you get on an airplane you can «choose to be productive with Google Docs or be unproductive with your TV shows,» joked Google Chrome OS vice president Ceaser Sengupta at a press conference on Tuesday.

Others joked that the name was childlike for a tech company with a market cap that was, at the time, in excess of $ 300 billion.

The White House Correspondents» Dinner is a classic example: A fancy party in which the journalists who cover the president and his senior officials drink and dine with them, laugh at their jokes, and get their pictures taken.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

Clooney also joked with the AP and said he used to clean his own vomit off his tuxedos, presumably after too many adult beverages at functions in Tinseltown, but now he still has vomit on his tuxedos because of the babies.

«And then just as a joke we looked at the effect of Brexit - hard Brexit without any free movement with full detachment from the rights that come from the European Union - and it ended up with the UK passport at the level of the Argentine document,» Kochenov said.

«I've made billionaires of dollars of failures at Amazon.com,» Bezos says, joking that it could be like «a root canal with no anesthesia» if he tried to dwell on them.

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

The chatbot is at least a bit convincing with some of its jokes because humans tell bad jokes on Twitter all day.

«They'll go over and hang out at the engineering department with a pizza,» Duane jokes.

At the announcement ceremony, Panetta said he looked forward to returning to his walnut farm in California, where he joked that he will be «dealing with a different set of nuts.»

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.

The Beaverton, Ore., manufacturer pays a token $ 10, dressing up the humble award with a battery of jokes and skits at an awards presentation.

You can mix up the types of questions, let someone answer at length and then interrupt, alternate a joke with a probing question.

«People find a lot of joy in rediscovering a music playlist from months ago or an old joke with a neighbor, even though those things did not seem particularly meaningful in the moment,» Columbia's Ting Zhang said of her research on the subject (done while she was at Harvard).

But Ma remains Alibaba's executive chairman and still shapes the company's strategy and entertains customers and employees with songs and jokes when he takes the stage at the company's annual «Alifest.»

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with Emotiv to develop a corporate version of the headset that would allow, for example, virtual conferencing with avatars that represent people's expressions and feelings — so you would know who was engaged, who was bored, who was laughing at your jokes, and, maybe, who was pretending to laugh.

«Once again, America is going to teach China how to compete with America,» joked George Yip, a marketing and strategy professor at Imperial College London.

And to the guys at Sweet Jesus... don't make jokes or have fun with the name of a religious figure.

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 account then followed up with a pointed jab at Trump, joking that the Republican nominee might have been permitted to use Harrison's 1970 solo song «Beware of Darkness.»

«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.

At a White House ceremony Trump joked to company CEO Russ Girling that he would put in a word with the Nebraska governor to help get the last permit.

Buffett immediately put the group at ease, telling them to call him «Warren» and even joking with Pabrai's young daughters that he eats only things he would've as a five year - old.

The joke, due to the incompetence of the professors teaching the material, has at least to do with the fact that they will not learn Spanish or anthropology in their classes.

When I joked with Roland's owner that if this puppy manual did not work I could at least use it to hit him with, he said, «Nah, never hit a dog.»

I was joking with someone in church on Sunday that if I haven't offended at least one person in a week, then I think I am going soft — they smiled;).

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.

The minister at a local Chemical Dependancy clinic jokes with me telling me I am the most christian person he knows, and he knows I am an atheist.

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!»

That means, they bring your food and anything extra you request, they clean up spills and other messes (throw up from a child, a broken glass etc.), keep your drinks filled, tolerate obnoxious customers with bad attitudes, laugh at jokes that aren't funny — and really the list could go on.

It is strange to see us all sitting together at the sacred meal — master breaking bread with his slave, a Jew sharing a joke with a former pagan priest, a husband pouring wine for his wife, a zealot debating politics with a tax collector — but this is what makes us different; it's what makes us Christians.

But when the person who holds some doctrinal position diametrically opposed to my own is sitting across the table from me eating chicken wings while we watch football, laughing at the joke I just made, it becomes a little harder to start a flame war with him online.

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 believe God laughed along with me at this joke... and is laughing still.

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...»

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

Now in our postmodern condition, the incoherence in Anglicanism that has been scoffed at as a joke can instead be seen as a tendency to sit at a table with someone with whom you disagree and find a way to get along.

A critic once remonstrated with me saying, with an air of indignant reasonableness, «If you must make jokes, at least you need not make them on such serious subjects.»

Lindsey Stone was a carer working with disabled girls when, four years ago, a friend posted on Facebook a joke picture of her standing in front of a sign at a military cemetery that asked for silence and respect.

Wisest: Rob Dixon at The Junia Project with «5 Reasons Not To Use Gender - Based Jokes in the Pulpit» Funniest: The Onion with «Dirty Slush Machine Provides Children In Florida Taste Of Winter»

But I dug around a bit and discovered that there was a scene cut of the episode — one of the Sheriff being beheaded (it was cut because the joke of it isn't appropriate at this time with the terrible news out of Iraq).

And it sends the signal that not everyone is okay with crude jokes or ugly language at the expense of gay and lesbian people.

But despite his manic, joking nature, he's a man with a solid faith at the core of his life.

The conclusion does not come first any more than a trip starts at its destination or a story prematurely reveals its own climax, or a joke begins with the punch line.

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 problem I have with this is, none a single sentence make any sense, what predictions are you referring to, during the times of Christ most people thought he was a joke, it is not a stretch of the imagination to say that most people would reject such nonsense, I think the original writers are laughing in their graves at how gullible you all are.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

He already knew at end of days (that's your generation, it started in 1948 when Israel became a Nation) that you'd refuse to hear His truth because you are so concerned with your flesh bodies, believing life is all there is, you care less what happens to you because you believe Jesus is a big joke... Folks, big bang never happened unless you watch Batman and Robin.