Sentences with phrase «little joke about»

We all know the little joke about how Iceland avoided becoming over-populated by stating they lived in a land of ice, whereas if you keep traveling west, you'll find the country of Greenland.

I made a little joke about traveling back in time.

For everyone else, you might be interested to know that the first trailer for the Netflix revival of the show, Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, features a little joke about the former of those big screen superhero battles, albeit at the expense of Ben Affleck.

In January 2012, I wrote a column that made a little joke about humanities Ph.D. students learning important skills such as how to put sheets on their mothers» basement couches.

What a thought, indeed — and Clegg only got away with saying it by making a little joke about the odd heated meeting.

This joke can be read in «Little jokes about girls (for boys only)» [Pequechistes sobre chicas (solo para chicos)-RSB-, a children's book that some have taken issue with.

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).

Her charismatic appearance on stage not only gave the dad - joke peppered event a little more oomph, but it also underscored a bigger conversation we've been having in the tech industry about diversity, strong role models and which companies have been taking a leadership position in that area.

The campaign stopped short of issuing a fatwa against the editors, although there was a little nervous joking around here about who would get to open the mail.

Given my belief that communion wine can be validly consecrated into the Blood of Christ, and communion bread into the Body of Christ, we can now cue all the folks who will make jokes about cannibalism, etc. (just as the Romans did about early Christians — very little anti-Christian humor is original).

I can't think about Nachos without thinking about this joke a man recorded and illustrated after his wife had a little too much wine and told it to...

On Friday, after noting that younger Poulter needled Little John about his triumph, Ian the Elder joked that Luke did not inherit such braggadocio from him.

guy couldnt pass the ball wright, can not shot, not just he missing chances but he miss the ball all the time, slowing the tempo, no pace no speed old story, on one on one no way he can pass the player, dribble like my grandma... and you tell me how the guy with this attributes can be no. 1 striker and play in the best league in the world and probably one of the best clubs in the world... as long as i am alive i would ask myself how giroud stray in arsenal and be no. 1 striker... even my little cousin make a jokes about him, its obvious like a day... guy is laughingstock!!!

Look at how they are adding quality while we are telling ourselves that flamini can do a job.what a joke we are becoming... I'm just so frustrated and sad about schweini to manure, the only part that makes me a little calm is the fact that he's 30 and almost passed his best years but still a valuable and world class midfielder

Last season he failed us for the nth time and his contract extension is a joke of a sorry board, who care just as little about the fans as Arsene does.

Vardy was suppose to be our main CF target but Wenger never spoke to Vardy and it was a bit of a joke about how little Wenger appeared to care about that transfer, Perez confirmed that Arsenal looked at him at the beginning of the transfer window and we waited till the end to panic buy a striker, was this a Wenger signing?

blah blah was joking and laughing about, The photos are mainly of standing around or a little jog here and there!

This week, trying to get Papa just a little bit of catch up rest time (which is kind of a joke - I owe this man about 7 years worth of sleep - ins), I found myself in the kitchen earlier than usual.

Later, maybe because we ourselves were a little frightened, we cracked ourselves up with jokes about toilets.

Anyone who has been pregnant before knows that when you baby is acting up in the womb, it is often fun to joke about how they will end up being a little rascal.

i am a firm believer in BREAST IS BEST!my daughter is now 9 mths and goin strong!she is so healthy - from birth she was 10lbs2oz - now she is around 22 lbs and 30in tall and almost walking!i started gvin her a little bit of baby food around 5 mths (she actually wasnt impressed!she prefers bits of table food) but she really only wants to nurse!i plan on nursing her untill shes ready to quit - despite my moms jokes about me in the future sitting in her 1st grade class and nursing her in the back!i actually plan on becoming a breastfeeding advocate and supporter for new moms that really want to breastfeed!i try to encourage any pregger (even strangers) and i cant wait to gain more knowledge so i can really help others!ther is such a special connection that i feel as i nourish my child and she stares up into my eyes!and its so convinent - its the all - in - one fix!

That little joke was about the traditional budget fight that involved battle ships captained by himself, Skelos and Silver, with the «special interests» as torpedos.

I'm sure that before long, we'll once again travel and trade without fear, that public services will improve, and that we will even be able to joke about the bad old dayswhen little worked, and when it seemed that no one cared.»

LAST MONTH, ANDREW Cuomo took some time off from his job as New York's attorney general, rented a recreational vehicle and drove upstate with his three daughters on an 11 - day campaign swing with a little family vacation mixed in: «Camp Campaign» is how Cuomo joked about it with me.

Lois B. Morris, president of the Shelter Island League of Women Voters, said Monday that while the «very tasteless» joke made the audience a little «uncomfortable» during the speech, «the people who complained about it weren't there.»

Corresponding leaflets depict Ed Miliband as a snooping «little brother», which must be a joke about something, but I can't quite work out what.

«It's weird to me, a little bit, that officials and writers joke about it good - naturedly, like they're talking nostalgically about an old sitcom: coming up after «Happy Days,» it's «Three Men in a Room,»» he said, to laughter and applause.

«I joked at the beginning that this was my favorite topic — me — but actually getting up in front of a bunch of people and sharing family stories and talking about myself is a little daunting,» Sherman says.

There's little to fear from the existing Do - It - Yourself Biology (DIYbio) movement, concludes a report released today by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. «There's been a lot of debate in the biosecurity community about what DIYers may or may not be doing, from making narcotics to pandemics to viruses that kill heads of state (I'm not joking),» writes Wilson fellow and report co-author Daniel Grushkin in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

they can not find it...... the old joke about me really being dead... is beginning to wear a little thin.....

Plus it was joked about in Arrested Development, which makes it a little dash of hilar.

This type of sadness also induces the type of confusion of how to dress, resulting in boyfriend - everything and then putting on a statement necklace in the hopes of looking a little more like a girl because everyone, including your gay brother likes to joke about how you look like a ten year old boy.

Since only Kim Kardashian's fat ass Donald Trump was recorded in 1992 joking about a little girl who was walking past him I'll be dating her in 10 years.

Donald Trump was recorded in 1992 joking about a little girl who was walking past him I'll be dating her in 10 years.

The picture presents itself as a naughty court jester ready to thumb its nose gleefully at just about anything: There are gross earwax jokes, as well as gentle little pokes at every bit of fairy - tale movie lore from «Babe» to «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.»

Compared to that level of bravura, Stranger than Fiction's jokes never rise beyond simply pointing out how crazy a man would look if he thought there was a little voice in his head talking about him.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

The script is particularly weak, being more concerned with moving from one joke to the next via predictable plot points than it is about developing the characters and moving our fantasy world on a little bit.

Though there are some good jokes here and there about the humiliations a little person actor has to endure on your average movie set, for the most part, the biggest laughs have little to do with Davis and everything to do with the celebrity guests.

Reese says later in this interview, «We killed him a little too quickly,» and he even jokes about reviving him thanks to Cable's time - travel abilities in the previous quote.

Though much of the film's second half gets a little too arch and convoluted, the filmmaker somehow manages to transform his sick cinematic joke into an oddly touching tale about family and acceptance.

What I'm not so fond of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the film, in the end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.

All jokes aside, del Toro and his co-writer, Vanessa Taylor, have bundled together a lovely little story about love, loss, Cold War paranoia and cat - eating amphibians.

The couple is Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop), and the film starts with them driving from the city to the countryside in a montage that establishes they are comfortable with each other — enough to have a little inside joke about a song he loves and she hates, moments of silence without feeling obligated to talk, and, in general, enough patience to last a lengthy road trip without getting into a serious fight over the little things.

There's just little funny about the film... not the plot, not the dialogue, not the situations, and almost none of the jokes.

And while those are obviously jokes, when the writers of the original Hangover make a movie about an evening spiraling out of control and Yogi Bear gets a follow - up, well, we'd be remiss not to kid about it a little.

In case you forget about Forrest's physical invulnerability, everyone and his brother and his voiceover is there to remind you; and Forrest's little porcine grunts even become a lame running joke for capping scenes.

Some of the jokes in the film's first trailer do fall a little flat, but the animation is impeccable and there's something about that LEGO piece clicking sound that make the appeal of going on an adventure in that realm undeniably appealing.

Knowing a little about the work and lives of many of the artists may be good to catch the jokes, but I imagine these performances would be fun to watch without any previous knowledge.

; the second unsavoury because it caps a running joke about little people that isn't funny in the least.