Sentences with phrase «of jokes for»

This poor font is the brunt of a lot of jokes for good reason.

It is an interesting idea and there is no lack of jokes for the concept.

But it's also worth noting that the oft - maligned HFPA has for the large part made reasonable, even smart choices in recent years — and as a group that has been the butt of jokes for decades, they're not anxious to provide more fodder for their critics.

Downey Jr shined as Tony Stark for the same reason, and» Ant - Man» is full of jokes for their own sake — like Michael Pena's chatterbox comic sidekick — as well as tongue in cheek nods about how frankly ridiculous an ant - sized superhero is.

So, anyway, there are a lot of cat antics in «Nine Lives,» and also an awful lot of jokes for «adults» that don't land on their feet.

The fanny pack — it's been the brunt of jokes for decades, but now it's making a comeback thanks to some stylish stars, sorority women, and music festival - goers.

At this momento all of us Arsenal fans will be the subject of jokes for not buying anyone 4.

We are and have been the butt of Jokes for the last 8 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.

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.

«People get offended when they mistake the subject of a joke for the actual target and they're not necessarily the same.»

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

(Though I didn't approve of this joke for a few months!)

Arkham Asylum is kind of joke for PS3 owners.

I've been making the same sort of joke for going on a year now.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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 short video featured a slow, eerie cover of the Bee Gees song «I Started a Joke,» setting a dark tone for the movie about villains recruited to save the world.

While TechRax's video posting doesn't suggest it's a joke — the description says the video is «for those who don't want to get $ 159 wireless AirPods or have to insert your headphones into an adapter every time you listen to music» — his profile and set of videos suggest he has a long history of jokingly fiddling with technology.

A couple of years ago, after a survey asked customers what they wanted the company to do for them, one customer joked he wanted Qualtrics to help him buy a wedding ring for his fiance.

He choked with laughter and shared the joke with two of his colleagues, who were waiting for their cut.

Kalanick also once notoriously joked that Uber's success has made it easy for the male employees of Uber to pull women in much the same way its customers can summor cars:» [W] e call that Boober.»

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

When CN started setting the standard for railway performance, industry watchers joked that the company was lucky enough to have two of the best CEOs in the business.

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.

And I'm very appreciative of having done that because it was something that my mother and I had with each other as a joke because she would tease me and ask me to let her know when I had made enough money for her to sue me for using her name.

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.

When one of the hosts made a joke about Notre Dame, Finebaum then turned it back to the Wolverines and unleashed on Michigan and its fans for having a sense of entitlement that he believes became worse when the school hired Jim Harbaugh.

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.

Now that she's had a taste of it, she half - jokes she's already spotted the next female - focused industry desperate for some disruption.

For every Weekend Update, the hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che will tell about 15 - 20 jokes in the course of a 5 - to - 10 minute sketch.

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.