Sentences with phrase «jokes worked for»

The performances were nice (Colin Farrel, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes) and it was wonderful to see the great Belgium city of Bruges on screen, but the plot was a retread, the characters were half - baked and only one out of every 10 jokes worked for me.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

For months, Morel — an elder (read: over 40) member of Moment who jokes that his white hair makes the LAWA reps feel more at ease — has puzzled over what he calls the logistical nightmare posed by the work site.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with Emotiv to develop a corporate version of the headset that would allow, for example, virtual conferencing with avatars that represent people's expressions and feelings — so you would know who was engaged, who was bored, who was laughing at your jokes, and, maybe, who was pretending to laugh.

(Hey, it worked for me - no joke!)

Novack and his team work with the directors and creators of the show to make sure that they're letting jokes and scenes speak for themselves.

«Basically,» he joked, bringing the conversation back to the lucrative Berkshire Hathaway employee March Madness contest, «the way to do it is to just work for Berkshire.»

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.).

I love to watch Christmas pageants and so few churches do them anymore (for good reason: that amount of work is no joke).

The sensibility at work in Lines of Flight can morph from the brutally honest to the refined and back again for a mordant closing joke.

Lindsey Stone was a carer working with disabled girls when, four years ago, a friend posted on Facebook a joke picture of her standing in front of a sign at a military cemetery that asked for silence and respect.

I gave him a joke once which never quite worked for me which was, «I got drunk last night on vodka and Red Bulls.

Again, there was that simple wise man, who worked for the Good under the form of a joke.

And Midol was a joke in those situations, it only works for mild cramps.

No longer working for Froben, he had taken service with the Archbishop of Mainz and sent Luther a long letter in December giving him a gleeful account of the cynical reception at Court of satires on the Roman party, and jokes about Aleander and his bonfires.

But we do joke sometimes that she should contact her Union for representation for better working conditions; 0)

No joke, I've been trying to work up the energy to make this for a week now!

Holy cats... I read this recipe the day before moving into a hotel for work, where I'll be living the next 4 to 6 weeks... and working 18 hour days on average... I baked 3 lbs of these bad boys and and am the hero of my office... no joke... these nuts are sparing us from eating our own weight in pastries and related garbage every day.

I worked in the forest industry for twelve years and it was a running joke to consider how much people pay for cedar cut into small grilling planks when it's the same thing as the boards in the lumber yard.

Ha, can you tell from my lame jokes I just got home from work — hungry for some oats?!

This is not only low carb but paleo, if you consider garlic and onion powder to be close enough for government work, as the old joke goes.

We joke about how our future kids» friends will react when they stay for dinner and then find out we're having dahl... Iguess I better get working on a back up healthy mac & cheese...

No joke, I work for a top company at this point in the revision dept. Really don't tell anybody but we found this site that is 100 % glitching and giv ing out complimentary Android!!

This is a joke of a club and a total circus... He made sure to «eliminate» any explayers who might be temptated to work for the club (because most of them were strong personalities).

Grid penalties have become the biggest joke in F1 in recent times and in 2018, the system for working out the grid will change yet again.

«Jokes apart, he works amazingly well for the team.

Former Arsenal defender Lee Dixon, who works as a pundit for BBC Sport, joked that another Neville could make it a real dream team in Valencia.

All jokes aside, I really do hope that this Blog wins an award, Admin and everyone else involved deserves it for all the hard work put into this forum, which goes unnoticed.

It's got so sad I'm thinking Jonny Evans be good signing because I'm thinking he's better than wat we have sad but true mustafi is a lerk one min good next min tackles fresh air, BFG is a wheelchair it's embarrassing kos is injury away from retirement oh but we have Monreal great player but not center back it's joke wenger loves football so that's why going forward we look good but defending not he's game bring back George graham just as defensive coach jez even Sam allardyce has Everton a lot tighter it's fact we can't defend for years I'm sick saying wenger is and will always be arsenal great always in my eyes but he has go for good of everyone we need young fresh manager and not someone mr wenger hand picks and he goes upstairs won't work can't work we need let new coaches do there job and let new manager do he's and please give him money spend and laugh if ye want but the man for new job has be allergi has be if can't get den Luis Enrique if not him get Henry with vieria wat a buzz it be with them 2 my point.

a team that can suck up pressure for 15 minutes every game is no joke we did that the first season we bought Ozil and it worked to honest to buy Ozil and Sanchez was best thing for Arsenal ahead of Suarez.

Or perhaps, deep down, Britain's fundamental response to seeing a young, black, working - class man taking his own advice is to tell him to sit back down, instruct him as to what's best for him, then make jokes about how many children he has.

Rocky Working as I did with the Japanese for 25 years, An in house joke there was, «what do you call a girl with a food mixer on her head?»

An out meal is a joke if the hours of sacrificing your life and time at work in order to pay for that meal takes longer than that meal can sustain your body.

OK, fine, but what if your job has a private space with a locking door that's not the bathroom where you can pump for as long as you need as often as you need so that you can use your industrial strength breast pump which by some miracle you can afford so you can now fill up bag after bag of fresh healthy milk every three hours at work for six months straight and your supportive husband can drive to work and pick it up for you so you don't even have to store it in the gross community refrigerator so as to avoid the all - too - inevitable jokes about whether you're going to «whip up a milkshake for everyone» or remarks such as, «Guess we'll be just fine when the coffee creamer runs out?»

I was using this line of reasoning, joking with a friend who works for a wine distributor - hey, I have tasted lots and lots of wines and visited different regions in the US as well as tried wines from places like Argentina, Chile, Australia, Italy and France.

At an activity last night, some of the women's moms were SHOCKED when I told them that we celebrated a «Krampus» party at work as a joke for a holiday party.

Sheinkopf — who said he was at the church because he works for its pastor, the Rev. Johnnie Green, and his Mobilizing Preachers and Communities advocacy group — thought Cuomo's joke fell flat.

So far, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's «Dad humor» is working for him, but some of his jokes are cringe - worthy.

Remember, this is a man who's been quoted as referring to people who didn't go to Oxbridge as «potted plants»; who, it's reported, turned up in a working class district in Scotland in his Mercedes with his nanny in tow and said he'd decided not to bring the Bentley (he told me he's learnt now you can't tell jokes if you're a politician); and who was rejected by London's Kensington and Chelsea Tories for lacking «the common touch».

State Sen. Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who worked with labor leaders to win support for the school, joked that the election year calendar aided the cause.

Baez has always had an explanation for her attendance... what you fail to realize is that even with the attendence record she has brought so much resources to her district... do your your homework... cabrera knows the system cause he worked in it... ha what a joke what about maria understand her district cause she was one of us... a single mom struggling to raise her daughter... 1199... working families... Bronx Democratic County Committee... all those organization & company based their decision on political moves not on her track record... cabrera is an outsider... Mujers For Bafor her attendance... what you fail to realize is that even with the attendence record she has brought so much resources to her district... do your your homework... cabrera knows the system cause he worked in it... ha what a joke what about maria understand her district cause she was one of us... a single mom struggling to raise her daughter... 1199... working families... Bronx Democratic County Committee... all those organization & company based their decision on political moves not on her track record... cabrera is an outsider... Mujers For BaFor Baez!

John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, «Heil Hitler,» possibly as a family joke.

He declined to be nailed down to how much he might spend on his campaign — should he run — though he did say he would work for 99 cents, one cent less than Bloomberg accepts, joking: «I'm a grocer.

Sharing the rationale behind his gesture, Mustapha Inusah said that, «I have worked with and for, managed, and done PR works for celebrities across West Africa — I can say with confidence that, two actors, Kwaku Manu and Bismark the Joke, are a rare breed of characters who appreciate the works of journalists and how we have contributed to their success stories.

As someone who has worked closely with politicians for almost 20 years and who is also a stand up comic who makes jokes at their expense, I have been pondering this question with increasing unease.

David Bookstaver, a longtime spokesman for the state court system, accidentally butt - dialed a NYC Post reporter, who heard Bookstaver joking with colleagues that he barely shows up to work while pocketing a $ 166,000 - plus salary and boosting his taxpayer - funded pension.

«The FCC's current proposals for cutting back the Lifeline program will inflict a cruel blow to low - income households,» said Caroline Laskow, District Leader, Assembly District 65 Part A. «It is a joke to pretend that phone and broadband services are anything but a necessity, whether for work or homework, for education or a job application.

The article detailed Wadhams» work for then - senator George Allen of Virginia, which included deflecting the negative coverage of a bad poll by calling Larry Sabato «biased» and pollster John Zogby a «joke.»