Sentences with phrase «like joke of»

Why - oh why - do the big console versions of handheld titles seem almost like a joke of an «up port»?

There's some absolutely amazing premium costumes, but these can only be picked up with real cash for a whopping $ 4, something that feels a little like the Joke Of The Century — but no, Capcom is deadly serious.

The Lone Ranger is undeniably fun in spurts (and features unexplained, offbeat elements like mad cannibal rabbits and a cross-dressing henchman), but it's also another example of its maker's wild propensity for indulgence, clocking in at 149 minutes and featuring its share of ostentatious flourishes, like a joke of a transition that sees a desert scene become a ripply glass of drug - spiked water.

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«There's a cutaway in there — it's like, one of the proudest jokes I've ever written — where I'm like, «I have bouts of irrationality sometimes.»

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.»

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

«We're from British Columbia, so we like to cut down trees,» jokes Jim Secord, the CEO of Vancouver - based online accounting start - up Kashoo.

Have some recreational activities in the break room, like a pool table or a dart board, and go out of your way to tell a new joke if you have one ready.

As The Verge wrote of the bot's downfall: «It's a joke, obviously, but there are serious questions to answer, like, how are we going to teach AI using public data without incorporating the worst traits of humanity?»

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.

The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

«Melania Trump with a breakfast dish of diamonds on the cover of Vanity Fair Mexico looks like joke,» wrote one user in Spanish.

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.

The moral of this story is, if you're going to tell others — even as an April Fool's joke — what you think the future of your industry might look like, you had better be sure that your company has a plan already in place, or the joke will be on you.

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.

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.

He's actually a hairstylist by profession (he reportedly cut Apolo's hair until he was 27), though Apolo likes to joke that he's more of a psychologist.

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.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

«I've made billionaires of dollars of failures at Amazon.com,» Bezos says, joking that it could be like «a root canal with no anesthesia» if he tried to dwell on them.

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.

Think in terms of a great joke that you like — there's a set - up, the anticipation and the punchline.

They provide not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight... To construct elevated moments, we must boost sensory pleasures... and, if appropriate, add an element of surprise.

This is like a maternity set of overalls that I wear,» he joked.

«It sounds like kind of a joke because it looks like he wants to use our positive momentum and gain publicity on his side and that is kind of lame.»

And yes, there was even House of Cards merch to be found, such as these drink glasses — which are no doubt intended to help you party like Peter Russo (that's a joke related to the series — you'll have to watch it to get it).

The rise of social media «brandter» (when two corporate accounts joust textually in the hope that their followers will engage) almost makes it seem like some corporations are capable of funniness — albeit of the dad - joke variety.

We like to joke about some of the problems with education today, but Millennials have a lot of education and there are a lot more opportunities for continuing education — through online courses in traditional schools, and MOOCs, and even just listening to podcasts regularly.

The most successful ads, he says, have been those with a more DIY approach — like a video of a guy walking through a warehouse, dropping f - bombs and cracking jokes about his no - nonsense shaving products.

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.

It sounds like the setup for the world's least offensive joke: an investment banker, a management consultant and an ER doctor walk into a Toronto classroom and crack a bottle of wine.

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.

I like to joke that the best companies are actually lubricated by alcohol because of those after work beers and glasses of wine that become so important to getting to know people.

The schtick this time around is to marry the world of «South Park» with the tropes of Marvel's cinematic universe, offering a parody of superhero epics like «Civil War» (but with a lot more fart jokes, no doubt).

«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.»

Steve Gadlin's pitch may sound like a bit of a joke, with his humorously titled business, «I Want to Draw a Cat For You,» but Gadlin shows the sharks he's earning real money with his stick figure cats, which he charges $ 10 a pop for.

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?»

Ahead of his second day of testimony on the Hill, @Recode's @KaraSwisher says day one for Zuckerberg before a Senate panel was like getting «hit by soft, soft, soft, very nice cashmere pillows... the Senators were a joke» pic.twitter.com / 1xCHZXSOFb

But on a site like that, you would just use in the main simple language, common words and you won't use a lot of slang, a lot of jokes and things like that.

He is one of the most genuine people I know and like Buffett he is always enjoying his job and cracking jokes.

Unlike other available cryptocurrencies like Basic Attention Token, Augur, Bitconnect, Binance, Cardano, Dent, this crypto currency started as a crypto joke, but has successfully emerged as one of the hottest investment commodities.

As my head of research, Michael Batnick, likes to joke: «Last year, the market cared about nothing.

There's an inside joke about Menomena, the crazy experimental rock band from Portland who sound like the inverse equation of Modest Mouse or Califone.

The historical Jesus would be telling these jokes too, and he would find words like «He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.»

Every part of this article sounds like a bad joke about Southern people... but it's all true??

IF this mythological heaven DID exist and by some cruel joke, it's full of people like you, I want no part of it.

Anyone like who you described would likely think of themselves as a «lapsed» Catholic which, as the joke goes, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world.

From the 1980s to the present, the number of prominent Jesus jokes has multiplied like loaves and fishes:

The bible is a joke and people who believe in it just need to feel like they are part of a cult or that their «sins» will be forgiven.