Sentences with phrase «cracking jokes to»

The staff was lovely, always cracking jokes to delight our children, the ocean was shallow, and there were, of course, no cars around.

You don't have to be the life of the party or be endlessly cracking jokes to have fun.

«I kept stuttering, and he kept cracking jokes to make me feel better.»

He's deadly serious, but he's not afraid to crack a joke to lighten the mood.

In a room full of top cops, Don Rickles cracked some jokes to avoid punishment for possible future infractions.

This, however, comes in a Chinese setting — Barra noted that Lei's aim was to crack a joke to a Chinese audience that still finds such a reference funny, as well as acknowledge the brilliance of Jobs.

Not exact matches

According to the work by two business professors, laughter is catching in and to itself, so you're more likely to feel positive and crack a smile if you heard someone else laugh, whether of not you heard the joke or saw the prank that cracked them up.

Thank someone for a shout - out, crack a joke with them, or reshare their content — any one of these is a great way to build customer rapport.

To sensitize them to American sensibilities, companies make new hires watch hours of U.S. cinema and TV: American Pie, Independence Day, and especially Friends, which offers «insight into American culture through the jokes they crack,» according to one veteran Indian accent traineTo sensitize them to American sensibilities, companies make new hires watch hours of U.S. cinema and TV: American Pie, Independence Day, and especially Friends, which offers «insight into American culture through the jokes they crack,» according to one veteran Indian accent traineto American sensibilities, companies make new hires watch hours of U.S. cinema and TV: American Pie, Independence Day, and especially Friends, which offers «insight into American culture through the jokes they crack,» according to one veteran Indian accent traineto one veteran Indian accent trainer.

No matter how good your intentions and awesome your team, when you're cracking jokes, you're going to annoy someone every once in awhile.

According to a new study from VU University Amsterdam and the University of Nebraska, Omaha, cracking jokes in an office meeting could improve a team's performance.

So rather than fretting that your business isn't saving the world, or worrying about the overall life satisfaction of a friend, simply focus on buying a co-worker a coffee, introducing someone to a new acquaintance, or cracking a couple more jokes.

She joked that the practice is sometimes called the «crack cocaine of the private equity industry» because the fees aren't traditionally subject to minimum performance requirements.

WestJet has always cultivated a folksy image: Frequent flyers in the 1990s remember flight crews cracking jokes, singing songs and holding contests to find out which passenger was carrying the most Canadian Tire money.

So instead of trying to show the man how wrong he was, I just cracked a joke.

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?»

I also took matters into my own hands by feeding her natural yogurt, soft foods and spooning water into her - something which was to continue until she was released three days later, having been restored to full health, cracking jokes and saying goodbye to those who were unfortunately left probably to suffer the same fate.»

It was his third gay joke of the day, (he'd already cracked two about women), so I decided I ought to let him know it bothered me.

I am not ashamed that when God strapped on sandals and walked among us, God fed the hungry, wept with the mourning, touched the untouchable, turned water into wine, cracked jokes about religion, obeyed his mom, defended the defenseless, bantered with children, forgave his enemies, and reminded us that the whole point of it all is to love God and love our neighbors well.

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 I start to feel tension with another person, I'll usually crack a joke and attempt to brush it off with friendly banter and a total lack of acknowledgment.

While the apostle Paul doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd crack a joke or offer a sarcastic quip in a tight situation, he does share this ability to look positively at a crisis situation.

The man sitting next to Martinez cracked a joke.

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.

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.

Now, if this were back in the day and my blog was still called Making Love In The Kitchen, and I still got a kick out of referring to my nut milk bag as a My Nut Sack, I might be inclined to crack a few 12 - year - old - boy - jokes about nut cheese.

Archer took it as a good sign Saturday that his players were able to crack jokes about an unplanned 20 - minute detour the team bus had to take en route to A & M's Kyle Field.

But an undefeated team having a transitive win over the national champ while never coming close to merely cracking the top 10 is a joke.

the ones behind him are the fans,,,, do arsenal players really train at all... I mean have you seen their training picds, they look like models who are just there to promote the puma brand, how can one perform extensive training while wearing a beard that reaches the ground - giroud, or leggies looking like a woman - ozil, and they smile, laugh and crack jokes all through out... what a pity..., coaches like capello would have shot some players dead

They started talking to people, Pilo flashing his smile and cracking his jokes.

Everytime the camara spends some time focosinng to him and cracking jokes about him.

The boys passed the roughly 125 miles to Nipawin the same way they always did, by watching movies like Happy Gilmore, playing poker and cracking jokes.

I found Jones to come off as somewhat aloof, even cracking a joke part way through about changing his management.

From eliciting a giggle during baby's first game of peekaboo to cracking jokes with a teenager while hanging out at the mall, Playful Parenting is a complete guide to using play to raise confident children.

A reliable host of tricks and jokes will crack them up, and even as preschoolers get older, they continue to be amused by many of the things they found funny as toddlers.

It's not funny and it's nothing to crack jokes about.

Everyone is going to crack jokes about your baby needing an oil change each time they smell a dirty diaper.

You might actually really crack up just looking at how adorable your little one is as she's trying so hard to contain her laughter when delivering the (not so punchy) punchline, that you forget how the knock - knock joke fell flat.

I feel like Jack Benny who would fall to the floor, and bang the floor whenever George Burns cracked a joke.

He puts everyone at ease in meetings, quick to crack a joke often against himself.

Having recently struggled to be funny, May wisely opted against cracking lots of jokes in her big speech.

They don't seem to match up - although they are united by their passion for cracking off color jokes.

He cracked some jokes which went down well with the (admittedly friendly) crowd, and pulled out some old lefty classics to get them purring - actually quoting Karl Marx at one point.

(CNN)- It's President Obama's first trip back to Chicago since his chief of staff stepped down to foray into the city's mayoral race, so naturally, he couldn't help but crack a joke about it.

She needs to be careful about cracking too many not - so - great jokes at #PMQs.

Some other artistes to be performing that night are Shatta Wale, Okyeame Kwame, Guru and Joey B. Comedian Hogan will be there to provide some rib - cracking jokes.

Today, if you enter a Bank of America call center where this simple change has been made, you'd likely see teams of operators huddled together swapping stories or heading off to lunch, cracking jokes like old friends.

This result may be about men knowing how and when to crack the tension with a joke.

Being kind and friendly to others, smiling, cracking a joke, among other things, are well - recognized tactics to increase your «likability factor».

We spend the morning cracking jokes, and going around the table to share what we appreciate the most about our group of friends — which may sound kinda sappy, but it's always the best part.