Sentences with phrase «once at a joke»

I think I laughed exactly once at a joke involving supermodels that was said so quickly you would miss it if you weren't paying close attention.

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Someone once joked, «The day Richard shows up at the bank wearing a suit and tie, you'll know we're in serious trouble.»

Then she laughs, not so much at the joke but at herself and that period of her life — the weeks she spent meditating alone in Rishikesh, India, the temple town along the banks of the Ganges that the Beatles once visited and made famous.

«Once again, America is going to teach China how to compete with America,» joked George Yip, a marketing and strategy professor at Imperial College London.

I take the point of the women who prefer the more gender - neutral «I'll make you fishers of persons» but he was addressing fisher men at the time, and the joke — which is delightful — doesn't really work once it has been neutered.

A critic once remonstrated with me saying, with an air of indignant reasonableness, «If you must make jokes, at least you need not make them on such serious subjects.»

Yes, even though you can joke about it, God reveals the spiritual to us at different times, not all at once.

As for Giroud I hope what I'm hearing is not true.You get the feeling that once Lacazette starts scoring he just won't like it.He's also another overrated player who's also hear because of Wenger's kindness.Apart from the fact that he's good with his head I don't see the positives of keeping here and even Welbeck.We need players who can push Lacazette to perform and these are just not the players.They are more of rotation players.Do you think if Welbeck and Giroud were at top form they can challenge Laca at his best?I always laugh at our strikers though.On one hand, one doesn't fit our style of play but at least he can finish.On the other hand, the one who fits our style of play can't even score a goal.I can't believe we are joking with such a crucial role.I'm sick and tired of seeing average strikers in the club.It's been painful watching the likes of Bendtner and Chamakh already.Now I have to cope with this.

Once we lose to Milan the joke season will officially be over and I hope the board take a serious look at the situation and pull the trigger.

As you state, he sold a few players in January and raised money but once again ignored even trying to bring in a proper defender and still has the joke player Xhaka constantly leaving gaping holes at DCM.

Once again a lot of folks were too busy making jokes to notice, but those jokes started slowing down quite a bit after Manning's second touchdown pass to Owen Daniels in the first half helped give the Broncos 17 - 9 lead at the half.

Once thought of as a bit of a joke figure at the club, Luiz looked to have really matured last season as he became a key player for Conte, but there have been signs of his old habits starting to creep back.

And President Reagan was once seen laughing at a joke told by Red Skelton.»

At the Executive Mansion party, Mario Cuomo wore a sport coat and an open - collared shirt, and if his voice was not quite as powerful and he did not stand quite as tall as he once did, he was in a good mood, joking with aides, working the crowd.

«Even if it wasn't effective, it's a treatment I wouldn't mind trying once in awhile,» joked Luc De Nil, a psychologist at the University of Toronto in Canada who studies speech disorders.

We have this inside joke to every once in a while go and look at cat pictures.

How did a Chinese immigrant who once studied neurotransmitters in fruit flies wind up on stage telling jokes at the expense of the second - highest ranking U.S. official?

I once joked with my colleague at work that I was even willing to cut off my head if that would make the cough go away.

Everyone in my family joked at least once (if not 10 times) that they named Jojo's after me.

No joke — I quote that line from the Devil Wears Prada at least once a week.

I'm shy at first but once u know be you'll wan na get a first ride back home lol joking x.

i really like cosplay, manga and anime, and horror movies!!!! i'm super shy at first but once im comfortable i think i'm pretty fun i guess??? also i really like fart jokes.

I think I smirked twice: once at the only joke shown in the trailers and then the reversal of that joke.

At once an astute study of the banality of modern life and a banal student film wrapped around a series of inside jokes.

Often the butt of many jokes as the film we all saw at least once a year, when it played on TV during the holidays right after It's a Wonderful Life!

Over the course of the movie, Reynolds will spend far less time fighting bad guys than he will offering crude commentary, demolishing the fourth wall, making X-Men inside jokes, and occasionally all three at once — e.g., «Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my own movie?

When a franchise descends to having its own characters wink at the audience with jokes about how it's run out of ideas, and resorts to just (literally) setting things on fire, not once but twice in it's 90ish minute runtime, it's one movie past time to stop.

Chow's popping out gag is used once again, and is just one example of many where the movie isn't just winking at its audience, but continuing to reveal how limited the joke palette is here.

Faced with the prospect of needing to fill an «empty nest,» as Scott puts it, the couple jokes with one another about how they'll be going to «Fucktown» once Alex (Ryan Simpkins) leaves for school, all before trailing off at the realization that they're likely kidding themselves.

You do sense, though, that the people behind MIB3 (mainly veteran producer Walter F. Parkes and script doctor David Koepp) were smart enough to let the audience grow up a bit, enough to get the Andy Warhol jokes and one brilliantly weird creation, a delicate alien who can see every outcome at once.

As the deluded star's life turns into complete car - wreck viewing - «I'm going to be a joke forever» he cries after the infamous David Letterman interview, all at once it becomes unbearably tragic.

I laughed twice during the trailer: Once at the slow - crash gag — a classic that always works — and once at the Minion joke at the end (it's the way Kate McKinnon says «really weird ads&raquOnce at the slow - crash gag — a classic that always works — and once at the Minion joke at the end (it's the way Kate McKinnon says «really weird ads&raquonce at the Minion joke at the end (it's the way Kate McKinnon says «really weird ads»).

It was enough to joke simultaneously on three levels at once: (1) to call attention to Sellers's genius for accents (he's so good he can come up with a French accent that is deliberately wrong), (2) to mock the convention of having everyone in a French setting speaking English (why should Clouseau speak English correctly?

This ground - floor window of a modern and sterile building, an invisible barrier of progress, forces the man to walk to the entrance to receive his desired light; the shot, at once a joke and a lament, indicates the presence of a master.

This is an actual joke in the movie (stated once and shown another time), which regularly engages in a brand of absurdity that combines the ridiculous and the grotesque at various levels.

Co-star Michael Stuhlbarg then poked a bit of fun at Hammer, joking that once the balls were removed, they were added higgledy - piggledy to other scenes.

Delpy is a mistress of the half - joke with a whole artillery of grievances at her fingertips, and the emotional capacity to fire them all at once.

Frequently there are so many small jokes on screen at once that viewers would have to watch multiple times to catch them all.

He once joked that in the 1950s or 1960s he would buy companies at 2x earnings and sell them at 3x earning and make a 50 % profit.

The game is full of sexual innuendos, bad jokes, and terrible puns, all of which are sure to make the player cringe at least once.

Characters that could have (should have) been expanded upon were nothing but fodder (the CP9 shape - changers were awesome, with the Giraffe being a personal favorite), and some only show up once during the course of the story mode (I'm looking at you, Milhawk) only to be made into joke minions in the Additional Log.

This Splatfest happens to be the second - ever global Splatfest in Splatoon 2, so it's time to grab your best guns (or else your best jokes) and get ready for some all - out Turf War once again, starting next Saturday here in the UK at 12 pm GMT.

He's also not above a dumb joke: he once staged a Whitney Houston karaoke night at the Whitney Museum...

Once I realised that I was worthy of having something to say, I started cracking jokes, really looking at my audience and I even went off script a little.

What followed were some more jokes at the expense of the domestic situation, including a shout - out to «the fearless members of the mainstream fake news media,» a reminder that the National Anthem that the Right holds so dear was once a British tune about «wine and the art of making love,» and the announcement that he would cede the floor to the winners of the gala's honors, whom he referred to as «whoever the Russians decided should win.»

Government officials charged with enforcing national defense secrecy laws are not good at getting jokes and could easily assume it is real, and once you are accused, even wrongfully, of a national security offense related to classified documents, getting due process let alone a quick dismissal of the case, can be expensive and difficult, if it is possible at all.

Government officials charged with enforcing national defense secrecy laws are not good at getting jokes and could easily assume it is real, and once you are accused, even wrongfully, of a national security offense related to classified documents, getting due process let alone a quick...

It is better to let him be alone once in a while.Laugh at his jokes: Everyone wants to be funny or act like one even when they aren't.

It was unusual really, because I have taught this particular class at least once a month for the past four years and honestly, other than an occasional joke as to how students need to take notes because the historic information pertaining to the agency was on the «big» test, I never really thought much about it.