Sentences with phrase «joke of sorts»

There is an old joke of sorts that defines recession as an economic period when your neighbor is out of work, and a depression as an economic period when you are out of work.

References to Giacometti have featured in Lerma's past work and performances, stemming from an inside joke of sorts and then compounded by the potency of the image itself.

There is even a dick joke of sorts in the Old Testament, specifically the Book of Kings, in which King Rehoboam, intent on proving himself a harsher ruler than his late father, King Solomon, is advised by his old buddies to declare, «My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.»

It looks like vintage Hitchcock at first, with the socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) playing a practical joke of sorts on mysterious attorney Mitch (Rod Taylor) when she visits his home in Bodega Bay, but things soon turn strange when Melanie is attacked by a seagull, and then the children at Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party (Cathy is played by Veronica Cartwright, of «Alien» and «L.A. Law» fame) are attacked as well.

Its title seemed to be a joke of sorts; there are several passing references in the novel to a Sunday Philosophy Club that seems never to meet, in part because «Sunday's not an easy day.»

It's weird that that sentence isn't the punchline to a very nerdy joke of some sort, but instead is completely friggin'true.

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«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

That's like being sort - of dead,» TV show host John Oliver later joked on «Last Week Tonight.»

There are all sorts of stories told about Facebook, some of them on film, that really give a sense of a place where it's immature not only in terms of the jokes you choose but also in how you value your relationships.

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.

Intelligent Earthling, Hmmm... Yes, rrrrrright!?!?!? Wow, some sort of hidden joke i guess... Must be a valid argument somewhere.

When you make a generalization such as those believing in some sort of religion are the jokes in the intellectual world... I assure you that you are not conversing with the intellectual world.

It's sort of a telling sign that most of the references so far being used by fan artists are jokes from season 1 - 3...

Which puts us in mind of a joke (of sorts) heard the other day.

(go ahead and joke — If you don't factor that sort of thing into your social interactions, then you are asking for something.

Deliberate nonresponsive comments of that sort are the stuff of jokes, or of evasive noncommunication.

He became a trickster and played all sorts of jokes not only upon his playmates, but upon older folk as well.

The hard part was sifting and sorting the jumble of plots, metaphors, images, phrases, aphorisms, jokes, recipes, smells and sights to forge a single story.

You know how when you make a joke, and everyone thinks you're serious, and then you have to explain that it was actually just a joke and it sort of...

It would have been some sort of cruel joke.

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

I'd love to regale you with lots of jokes and goofball antics today but after a long day hanging with the family and my website server crashing, I'm sort of exhausted.

And, as a sort of joke, I decided to adapt the crust to be a whole wheat pastry.

It has become sort of a joke now that those are all he gets for the holidays.

They are also gluten free, in case you're into that sort of thing (slash you have a gluten allergy — those are no joke).

What sort of joke comment is that?

Not content to be just a nickel pass rusher, which was supposedly the original plan, Harrison has instead been a catalyst of sorts, transforming that Steelers defense from pretty much a joke early on this season to one that has again started to inspire just a liiiittle bit of fear in their opponents.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

This has got to be some sort of joke... right?

My main point was that, to their credit, the crowd wouldn't stand for that sort of behavior and my joke may have been over the line.

It has been a sort of a joke for a while, but now it's falling apart.

I mean it opens the door to all sorts of jokes like «Fernando Alonso has a bajillion - place grid drop for the Austrian GP and will have to start the race from Tracy Island».

We Arsenal fans overrate their player's a lot.No wonder when our players leave to another club eventually their quality always declines even if they're world class.Take a look at all the top players who have left Arsenal and look at their careers.Things start well and end badly.It is unfair to say Sanchez is irreplaceable because none of you can know until you give the chance to another player and no one knew he would have this impact.This should tell you that until you try you can't know.I hate it when we allow players to treat us like this.Why not sell him abroad and get a top winger to replace him instead of allowing him to go for free?How do you know we will or won't win the league with him or if another top winger comes in.We might really really regret this season if the future of some key players are not sorted out.We overrate our players a lot its a joke.

The Arsenal fans have been telling Arsene Wenger this sort of thing for years, we even have our in jokes about the things he says such as fit again players being like a new signing, but the boss does not seem to be listening.

She was always happy, making jokes and had that sort of outlook on life.

I also believe this sort of joking even has a nod of respect to the twin realities of the situation — that caffeine and alcohol can be badly addictive and that addiction can be a serious problem for some people.

Oh and they always have a very corny joke at the bottom of the newsletter... the sort you can't help smiling at.

At Ascot,» he wrote, «Carole, 55, felt sufficiently at ease to bray with laughter at one of Philip's jokes as they watched racegoers from the royal box - even if such a raucous laugh was the sort of thing that would have raised eyebrows at Downton Abbey.»

I pumped so often that we joked that the kids thought it was some sort of life support machine that Mom always wears.

I thought she was possibly being a bit sensitive, but I could sort of see how one might tire of being the butt of the joke.

People really didn't catch on that she was JOKING about the ten months thing and are busy trying to explain math to the woman like she's some sort of idiot?

At first I thought her and her husband were trying to play a joke on me, which would be sort of fitting as they were both drama majors, but then I looked a bit closer and saw a blood pressure cuff on her arm and realized that the baby she was holding was not a doll but a real pink newborn.

Is this some sort of practical joke?

Yeeesh that is just sooo lame, usually when you make a joke and no - one starts laughing you sort of quietly drop it.

Officials reiterated their position that a morbid joke an aide made about Arizona Sen. John McCain is not the sort of thing that warrants an apology.

Stereotypes of the British as Victorian - era imperialists are as cack - handed and ignorant as jokes about the Germans still being Nazis, but they play well to her domestic audience, who are still bruised by the war and Argentina's perpetual obsession with its own cultural superiority - a sort of Japan of the Latin Americas.

«I look forward to working with everyone in a new role where I can sort of hang out and give some people hell,» Palanque - North joked.

It's the sort of joke which would have been judged politically incorrect in Yes, Minister, let alone 21st century Britain.

I sort of hope I've got lingering dysentery» he joked, but later on a typically confrontational foray into the Twittersphere showed that he will be back in his running shoes.

At a panel in September, Rechler joked with the crowd that when he was appointed in 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo «didn't really explain to me the Port Authority was some sort of combination of Boardwalk Empire and Scandal in terms of what goes on there.»