Sentences with phrase «done joke of»

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This doesn't mean that you must tell jokes or post photos of yourself doing silly things.

He said most people's relationship to dying is like a Woody Allen joke: «I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.»

Now that carnivory and cryptocurrencies are gaining traction among a growing group of people, Wilcox jokes that he might have to do the same.

One of the most pronounced reactions, though, came when Meyers did a joke about Harvey Weinstein, the longtime film producer who sparked the reckoning over sexual harassment after The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed three decades of allegations against him.

Meyers» friend Amy Poehler even got in on the mix, taking over a bit in which he would say the setup of a joke and a woman in the audience would do the punch line.

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

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.

I joke that all I do is do the coin toss at the start of the game and wear an arm band.

Trump called this claim a «joke» during a January appearance on Fox & Friends after Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out the 2012 tweet but he quickly added that, «this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change.»

Don't worry, I've pre-written at least 52 possible versions of what could happen and contracted a ghost - tweeter to shoot off some snarky jokes on my behalf.

After that, my date prep sheet lands in my inbox, which has the results of a quick Internet / Facebook search of Lily's imprint, info on tonight's venue (a divey - but - not - too - divey bar that's just far enough away from my apartment that it doesn't look like I'm trying to get her to come home with me), and finally some conversation fodder and jokes.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon's Alexa can and can't do, but once that's passed, the Echo Dot can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things Mom should find charming.

Once I learned all about the business side of things, the pair (who, by the way, have inside jokes and act like old friends), told me they were going to Google the next day to do a live Hangout video chat with the tech blog Mashable.

The state didn't vote for him in 2016, and when some of his wealthy hometown friends pushed him last month to help on SALT deductibility, he joked, «You guys seem to be doing OK,» according to The New York Times.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon Echo's Alexa virtual assistant can and can't do, but once that's passed, it can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things your father should find fascinating.

Paul was mostly known for his slapstick style of comedy, sharing footage of himself doing stunts, telling jokes, and playing pranks.

And back when we were making the show, there were a couple of jokes going around the set about what it looks like if you do it a certain way.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon Echo's Alexa virtual assistant can and can't do, but once that's passed, it can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things your dad should find fascinating.

Five hundred bucks is a silly amount to pay for a joke flamethrower that doesn't even throw flames very far, but a perfectly reasonable amount to pay for what feels like a piece of Musk's dream.

You could just as easily question whether it ever made sense to archive a bunch of bad jokes, but now we know we don't need to save everything.

No, but jokes apart, I think the most important thing about the country is the culture, and there is an element of Nordic culture in what we do.

«We've been doing these kinds of jokes for a few years now, and I think the key thing that we're learning is to trust our gut a little more than we usually do.

«We're asking «how many grams of Kale do you want in your smoothies this morning» — while most organizations are still smoking a pack of cigarettes a day,» joked Mahaffey.

The comments come on the heels of Biden calling Trump «a joke» on CNN, adding, «I just marvel over some of the things he says and does.»

While TechRax's video posting doesn't suggest it's a joke — the description says the video is «for those who don't want to get $ 159 wireless AirPods or have to insert your headphones into an adapter every time you listen to music» — his profile and set of videos suggest he has a long history of jokingly fiddling with technology.

A couple of years ago, after a survey asked customers what they wanted the company to do for them, one customer joked he wanted Qualtrics to help him buy a wedding ring for his fiance.

«He was rolling on the floor laughing at his own jokes, and I thought, That is my kind of guy — I do the same thing,» Buffett says.

Part of my thing is hilarious jokes, and the videographer didn't include any of that.

Use of alcohol does not excuse sexual comments, bawdy jokes or offensive dancing.

Many advisors will tell you to open a speech with a joke, but that's not always good advice, especially if your persona or the subject of your speech doesn't readily lend itself to humor.

However, not everyone else shares this point of view, so knowing who to joke with and when is important if you don't want to be the social hand grenade in the room.

The joke of when you and others are being chased, you don't need to be the fastest, just need to outrun the slowest person.

«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).

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.

No business topic was safe: He did jokes on everything from being part of the 1 percent to Obamacare.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon's Alexa can and can't do, but once that's passed, the Echo Dot can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things they should find charming.

Le, Do, and the research team pulled an all nighter; they took turns wearing a standard electrode cap — sort of like a bathing cap coated inside with gel to improve electrical conductivity — while watching movies, listening to jokes, arguing, and more, all while a graph on the screen tracked excitement.

Today Facebook doesn't turn on its auto tagging features in countries like Canada and the EU because of privacy concerns, and there's a certain creep factor in having a computer second guess your photo - sharing choices or having software trying to parse your jokes to try to understand what you find funny.

He anticipates that many employees will opt in to 2G Tuesdays — 2G Mondays just didn't sound nearly as catchy, he jokes — to get a better understanding of what the internet feels like for people in different parts of the world and to help report issues and make suggestions that his team might not have thought of.

Gertner's first involvement in the («legal,» he jokes) Canadian marijuana market came after a 2000 Ontario Court of Appeals ruling that the government's pot prohibitions were unconstitutional because they did not include a carve - out for medical use.

Pundits blame everything from neuroscience to Upworthy for this cathartic interruption of advertising's jokey assault on pop culture, when it was actually the jokes that were doing the interrupting.

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

«Fishermen joke that you always think the lure you don't have is the one that's going to catch the fish,» says Ross Gordon, who started Mystery Tackle Box to solve the mythical science of finding the lure that will seduce a particular fish.

«I looked around, did some reading, and the men's accessories market seemed like the obvious place to invest because there has just been so much of growth,» says Barclay, joking, «I remember when if you wore a pink shirt, everyone assumed you were gay.»

The hacking team at Fail0verflow tweeted a picture of a small plug - in device that can apparently provide this short - out easily, and the team joked that a simple piece of wire from the hardware store can do so today.

A 30 - year veteran in finance, McCarthy decided to stay and joked with coworkers that «you don't walk out on friends in the middle of a knife fight.»

«It turns up being a joke, and that's what the CFPB really has been, in a sick, sad kind of way, because you've got an institution that has tremendous authority over what you all do for a living.»

«She makes me sign a bit of paper every time saying, the island is hers if I don't come back,» Branson jokes.

We literally have taken some of the words of our hate comments and we have said them to each other as a joke, just because that's all you can do.

My last sentence was intended as a joke and should have indicated as such, along the lines of «other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?»