Sentences with phrase «began as a joke»

The term began as a joke at the expense of 1990 Republican gubernatorial candidate Herb London, after Howe quipped that it was hard to take anybody with such a bad toupee seriously.

Pendry's work on metamaterials is notoriously complicated and serious, so it is ironic that the most famous implication of his research — the invisibility cloak — began as a joke.

It may have begun as a joke, but now it has simply become a fashion.

Online dating profiles may begin as jokes or time wasters at work or good deeds on behalf of single, lonely friends whose digital picture you happen to have in your hard drive.

One began as a joke, one was an incorrect rumor, and one... well, you'll see.

What began as a joke poking fun at people going crazy over new digital coins, quickly became a serious currency.

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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.

«Something pretty crazy happened this week,» Franco joked as he began a monologue about the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, which included the theft of sensitive data of actors who had worked on Sony films.

Known by the ticker DOGE, this digital coin began its life as a joke.

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.

Or i could point out that the big bang is the biggest joke ever told... That even the top physicists can't figure out how their own theory could work, not to mention the fact that for it to work they would need for the Universe to break the fundamental laws we understand as true since the beginning i.e. (No matter in the Universe can be created nor destroyed, you can only change it's state (solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc.).

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.

Perhaps because I had just seen Stillman's film, the main story struck me as tedious, while Rufus's interpolations felt like a one - note joke, not very funny to begin with, extended to tiresome length.

The sermon would begin with a gaggle of jokes as homegrown as the crops he used to raise on his father's farm.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

As Ted Cohen points out in his «philosophical thoughts on joking matters,» Jokes begin «with an implicit acknowledgment of a shared background,» and this commonality sets up the satisfactions of a shared response.

Harris added that he formerly made jokes about hot pepper diets, but now, «over the last couple of years, chile peppers have begun to emerge as the nutritional heroes of the future.»

Premiership funnyman Jose Mourinho said it, and it's almost terrifying to consider that he wasn't joking, especially as it's kinda his doing to begin with,

The idea to do a circuit safari at Silverstone initially began as a bit of a joke but ended up becoming a reality after championship organisers realised it could become a possibility.

My «normal» parent friends chuckle and joke about this time as they begin to plan what to do with their impending empty nest time.

«Donald Trump began as a bit of a joke... But he has gone way beyond being a joke now and he had become - as he clearly always was but has become overtly - an utterly repellent figure in modern politics.

As the FSHS has begun to stumble, the nation is being asked to pay into a voluntary funds for our education, such joke.

He compares it to an old joke about a communist bureaucracy: The leaders wanted drivers to switch from the left side of the road to the right, «but because this was a very complicated and delicate matter, they would begin on Monday with only party members switching sides, and everyone else would drive as before.

Before class begins, the meditation room is raucous; there's laughter and friendly shouts as men and women joke and chat with each other.

To some degree, as they stretch out what began as a prank or joke.

Those butterflies of excited joy as you open the latest message from your new match, your first glimpse as you turn up for a date, a shared joke that only the two of you understand; these moments begin with eHarmony.

Begun in 2014 as a joke, Bristlr connects men with facial hair to dates who love tickling kisses.

For Amy, though, it's more complicated, and that's where Faking It begins to seem less like a joke, as the shift in a relationship stirs up feelings that move her into the «questioning» column of LGBTQ.

With a commanding officer who is slightly off the wall to begin with, when the crew of the South Pacific cargo freighter decide to alleviate their boredom with practical jokes, usually at their captain's expense, tit for tat becomes the watchword as the captain decides to get even.

And since the original was a gross parody to begin with, the whole thing begins to seem gaseous, overbright, hideously inflated, as if all the bodily function jokes were about to belch it right off the screen.

I was sad to see John Leguizamo's Aurelio only shows up at the beginning, but he cracks some great jokes and his inclusion is setting up a larger part in Chapter 3 as well, so it's hard to be too upset.

Even the title, explained by IMDB, «The joke in the title is that the word «Hours» is supposed to be pronounced as if there were a «W» at the beginning of the word, is lost on the viewer.

And so begins a relationship marked by startling emotional highs and lows, but mostly by a generous stream of laughter — and while Kumail may be a professional in that department, he wisely doesn't monopolize the jokes, as Emily's spiky sense of humor both matches and complements his own.

With all of this being said, when you look at this game as a whole you will find that this game was not only rushed it was really a joke to begin with.

As most people are beginning to realize now, e-sports is no longer something to joke about.

As you might expect from the gimmicky premise, however, the film is a largely one - joke affair that begins to wear thin by the midway point.

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The limiting constraints of Dogme 95, most of them aimed at stripping filmmaking of all artifice, seems to purify the emotionalism latent in stories of paralyzed lovers and star - crossed priests — perhaps the least expected offshoot of a movement that is not only extremely distracting, but probably began life as something of a joke.

Schumer and Hawn making jokes about being potential sexual assault victims (before and during the central plot even begins) which not only feels tasteless but ominous as you wonder how far this supposed comedy will take its dark subject matter.

When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of it as more than a joke.

Not every joke lands, and the movie begins to lose steam in the final act, but «Popstar» does just enough to keep you entertained with its cavalcade of musician cameos and a great lead performance by Samberg, who channels Derek Zoolander as the clueless, self - confident popstar.

Ping - pong being an Olympic sport isn't supposed to be a joke: the movie begins at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as in reality.

The second of the three Hobbit films actually begins with a scene which takes place before the start of the previous film, possibly as some sort of joke at the expense of people who think these movies are already needlessly long.

As soon as Aubrey Plaza and co. begin to ream out that poor groundskeeper, the joke's been told and the audience could just as well get up and walk ouAs soon as Aubrey Plaza and co. begin to ream out that poor groundskeeper, the joke's been told and the audience could just as well get up and walk ouas Aubrey Plaza and co. begin to ream out that poor groundskeeper, the joke's been told and the audience could just as well get up and walk ouas well get up and walk out.

Only instead of portraying his plight as fate's dark joke, which would probably be a natural fit for a film that begins with the man's attempted suicide in the waters of the Seine (weighted down, no doubt, by his extremely heavy Priapic genitals), Renoir juxtaposes Boudu's infinite zest against the studied mannerisms of the genial bookseller who rescues him from the waters, Edouard Lestingois.

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career, «hired to write for every small paper in Washington, D.C., just as it was about to fold,» saw that jink broken in 1984, when he came to NPR.

The virtues essentially stop with the shot design and the work of Edward Norton (himself being a sort of walking meta joke, as his character arrives on scene and immediately begins armchair directing and taking control, something for which Norton himself has been infamous on set), and while the other actors are fine, they do not manage to separate themselves as anything other than puppets for Inarritu's agenda, who looms over every frame like some petulant child with a grudge and a budget that allowed him to force his opinions on an unwitting public.

Director Peter Billingsley keeps these premise - focused jokes paced well, but the movie begins to fall apart just as it finds its stride.

This is a film that begins as a clever joke, only to reveal itself as a dark study of how loneliness, the mundane, a lack of fulfillment, and jealousy can turn a person into a monster.

These worksheets are unique and start with them grading a joke from A to D, then an inspiring quote to mark out of 20, then list their top three things on the given topic, answer the «big question» plus some gentle literacy activities, such as name 5 sports beginning with B and make a sentence using these letters.