Sentences with phrase «joke for joke»

Joke for joke, it's more meaty than the 2011 original.

Not exact matches

Kim apparently tried to downplay the underlying tension between the two by joking about how many years it took for him to visit South Korea despite the very thin demarcation line between them.

The difficult part for Twitter will be determining — using only an algorithm — what is a joke, or a sarcastic remark between friends, or some other innocuous statement, and what is actual harassment or abuse.

Emma Stone won best actress for the musical, and «Manchester by the Sea» star Casey Affleck was named best actor on a night where U.S. President Donald Trump was the butt of numerous jokes, capping a Hollywood awards season marked by fiery protests at his policies.

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.

Joke all you want about grown men and women wearing Mickey Mouse ears, but the DisneyWorld and Universal Studios theme park complexes are major employers for people over 50 who want to trade the stresses of a white - collar career for something more light - hearted.

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).

At first glance, Day's enthusiasm for men's unmentionables that day might have seemed out of place, or at most a throwaway joke.

Trump ended up not attending, but according to Wolff, he asked for continuous updates during the evening about the jokes.

For a long time, many felt James» famous headband was slowly migrating to hide his moving hairline, something Barkley joked about in 2012.

That feud included Hannity calling Kimmel a racist, pervert, and «Harvey Weinstein Jr.,» while Kimmel ultimately drew criticism and apologized for making what many saw as a homophobic joke about Hannity's apparent love for Trump.

While Oliver is joking, he certainly will not be the first or last to say that the media bears responsibility for Trump's rise.

Steve loves to joke with his clients by saying, «Thank goodness for Walmart, Target, and Sears for selling the cheapest vacuums known to man.»

The joke was that «Machete» 2 and 3 were together because you have a fake trailer for 3 [in «Machete Kills»].

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.»

Yet, it's a common bad habit for speakers to waste those precious opening seconds rambling pointlessly, telling a joke, reading an agenda, or apologizing needlessly, all of which fail to grab the audience's attention and motivate them to listen,» Price says.

Now, before you question whether I am a victim of the stress entrepreneurship took on my mental health — which, jokes aside, is a real, largely unaddressed problem for professionals today — let me assure you: There was a method to my madness.

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.

Fast - food employees have been the butt of jokes for decades, and with good reason — with annual turnover for the industry topping as much as 50 percent, running a shift can be like monitoring an unruly detention hall.

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.

Whole Foods founder John Mackey has joked it may be 31 years before he publicly preaches more vegetables and less government - sponsored health care again, but he isn't wasting time sticking to his vow for less dough for the CEO.

Travelers sometimes joke that you should «pack half as much stuff and twice as much money» for a trip — advice Russell says could also apply to mini-retirements.

«For anyone who has absolutely no humor in their soul please know my tweets are a joke and I will die laughing if I see blogs and media really think I am being serious,» wrote Kardashian.

If a joke flops, for instance, she suggests this line: «When [executive name] told me during lunch that that would be a funny line, I believed him.»

We joke about it, but we wanted to work on something that would make us jump out of bed in the morning for the next 10 years or more.

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.

«At this point, I joke we're looking for four walls, a roof and a parking spot,» Fusco says.

Even though their skills are in hot demand, you'd be surprised by the number of people who approach freelancers to build «Instagram - meets - Facebook - meets - Uber, but for dogs,» Cho jokes.

If your work involves sitting all day long, you may want to think seriously about adding some exercise to your daily routine: The health outcomes for sitters are no joke.

One joke idea that my friend and I used to throw around was to build tiny houses for tech workers in each parking space in order to solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area.

The looming question around Valeant is how many more promising drug developers it can acquire, but the company believes there are plenty of opportunities owing to the human body's endless capacity for developing illnesses, ailments, maladies, and generally decaying, making life appear a cruel joke.

He even joked, in a 2008 letter to his Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) shareholders, that the best thing a clairvoyant economist in 1903 could have done for future investors would have been to go to Kitty Hawk and shoot down Orville Wright.

For example, don't laugh at the sexist jokes.

«It was always a joke,» Margo Kent, executive producer for Puppy Bowl I told Rolling Stone.

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

(«I'm still living with the Jewish guilt for not being a doctor,» he jokes.)

And just to give you an idea of her fitness progression — she put on 14 pounds of muscle for her role as Wonder Woman, so her transformation is no joke.

Everyone loves a good joke, but the workplace is no place for off - color humor.

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.

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

It's «equal pay day,» and that means it's the annual day we ladies all joke about how we can't wait for year 2059 — the year pay is actually expected to be roughly equal for women and men.

During that hearing, Sessions was criticized for joking in the presence of a Civil Rights Division attorney that the Ku Klux Klan was «OK» until he learned they smoked marijuana.

Asked how he felt after four years in the embassy, he said «pale» and joked he would be a good candidate for medical study since he was otherwise healthy but had not seen the sun in over four years.

«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.

Right - wing media has also succeeded in baiting the former New York Times public editor into reprimanding a reporter for a harmless joke, broken major stories about the administration, and continued to harass Clinton on her book tour.

Nolan gets into many subjects (not just hot dogs) throughout her paper — internal language, jokes, how information is shared, and what an average day looks like for an analyst — so we encourage everyone to read it.

«I will be covering all of the presidential candidates who are Donald Trump,» Colbert joked as Jeb Bush waited in the wings for his appearance later in the program.

The same day as Kalanick's letter, Uber board member David Bonderman announced his resignation after coming under fire for a sexist joke he made during the all - hands meeting to go over the results of an internal investigation surrounding sexual harassment and discrimination.

The old joke is that Android is for poor people, and while that's not wrong, allowing more people to own a good smartphone isn't exactly a bad thing.

«Before I entered into this lifestyle, I wish somebody had collected for me all the tools — mentally, emotionally and practically — that I needed to be able to weather a freelance creative career successfully,» jokes Hunter.