Sentences with phrase «started as a joke»

The holiday started as a joke, but when the Chinese e-commerce giant capitalized on it, sales went through the roof.

It created a huge buzz around both F1 and IndyCar, and came as a complete surprise (the initial idea of him racing the Indy 500 actually started as a joke, but has now turned into reality).

It started as a joke between myself and some mates, but after the first time of booing him, people were spitting feathers.

A: It started as a joke.

I am a heavy metal guy im 6ft 7in 330 pounds people call me BIG sexy idk it started as a joke and continued thanks to my teacher, i smoke i play in a metal band but i am a funny guy sometimes annoying and i think music i..

Bristlr may have started as a joke, but it quickly took off among beard growers and beard lovers around the world.

And now the series that essentially started as a joke comes to a satisfying conclusion with the fittingly titled The World's End.

Maybe this film started as a joke via Twitter, or was a way for Kevin Smith to say goodbye to Hollywood and plug his podcast.

«California Fiction» started as a joke in response to the profusion of «Southern Fiction.»

Although it initially started as a joke, Bohemia Interactive was surprised to see that fans were... actually very interested in playing it.

The game that started as a joke will be coming to Steam on (and this is no joke) April 1, 2014.

What started as a joke, a rumour and a RAT in a SUIT is growing... F**k knows why?

«This whole fair started as a joke last May,» she said, «when we were so bored at Frieze New York that we asked ourselves what we could do to change things.»

That started as a joke for me (Piltdown Mann) but as I looked at it a few things became clear.

«Started as a joke and has a big Reddit community.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are ICOs like Useless coin which started as a joke by someone who goes by «UET CEO» and was sold as transparently offering investors «no value, no security, and no product.

Not exact matches

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

Ford's legacy starts with casting Toronto as a national and international joke.

As the Silicon Valley joke goes, on - demand start - ups are about getting people to do stuff your mom used to do.

The Boring Co. flamethrower seemingly started off as a joke back in December, when Elon Musk announced on Twitter that if he sells 50,000 Boring Company hats, he would start selling a flamethrower.

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.

This is a huge achievement for this coin, which was actually started off as - wait for it - a joke!

In that time, we talked about death, joked about how her age finally caught her (as the previous week she had told me she thought it was starting to catch up to her) and then she told me she was afraid for the night to come because she knew it would be her last and she was afraid of being alone.

One thing led to another, and the joke started circulating as a fact.

The Wedding Feast at Cana Elisha is the key to this joke shared between a Mother and her Son, the start of His public career that no - one dared imagine could end as it did.

Orsolic speculates that the children first spoke of the apparition as a joke, but when the tour buses quickly started arriving they were psychologically trapped.

Actually, it's probably been longer as my wife Karen and I have been together thirty years this year and we started joking about «Nowt Poncy» back in the late eighties whilst still students at Manchester Polytechnic.

This is when it starts to feel as if the universe is playing a cruel joke on us.

Approachable, but as memorable as that joke you told when you started the 30 - second tour of your place.

As you can probably guess, when the movie finally started, anti-Finding-Dory-guy was laughing longer and harder at every single joke than anyone else in the theater (except, for me, of course).

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.

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It started off as just a joke but has fully evolved into a huge affair, where fans send in their own videos.

He had started out as a buffoon, a pretender, a punch line to a lot of bad jokes and wound up as this... what?

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.

She started her career being tolerated, then treated as a joke by her peers.

his lying started off as a bit of a schoolboy joke, then some people on here actually believed in his tripe and this all went to his head.

and wenger is being a t ## t now you can not start the transfer window with sanchez and end it with a f» ing wellbeck i will be dissapointed if we get that desperate only big name striker now would be cavani but no point even saying it, we all know he thinks he has brought enough typical frustations for us gooners why can we challenge the big teams for the big players suarez to barca, I would of been happyt with balo liverpool, costa chelsea, if they do falcao united wich is a complete joke if he is happy going to united he would have been happier coming here with ucl and all, lewandowski bayern, its all a joke we better get a reus or something of equal measure you cant buy sanchez and place him as a striker when you need him as a winger if defeats the purpose we either get another winger or a striker.

My team for tonight as we don't have enough senior defenders we have to rest mert, kos what a joke chambers the only cover we have might start today.

I think he said that arsenal had become a joke as a club, but I see what you were getting at, starting off your comment using the same language as previous comment.

Make your jokes about the «Big Game» nickname or the handful of poor playoff starts if you must, but you should also recognize that James Shields just had a run as one of the best pitchers in baseball for four years.

As she started scanning she found a heartbeat which we were very happy about, she then said, «I think there's another one», which made Paul and I laugh as we had always joked we might have twinAs she started scanning she found a heartbeat which we were very happy about, she then said, «I think there's another one», which made Paul and I laugh as we had always joked we might have twinas we had always joked we might have twins!

Then I started wearing mine as a joke.

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!

Though she admits the idea started out as a joke, the California - based photographer told ABC News that after giving it some thought, she decided it might be worth a try.

He remained composed and even gained warm laughter from the audience as he joked by saying, «a nice easy question to start with».

Dougherty said that before the start of his address he typically tells an off - color joke previously made by another public official as a way to warm up the audience.

Lowell said Garcia did not tip his hand as to whether he will indeed challenge Democratic AG Eric Schneiderman next fall, but the chairman said he joked to the potential candidate that if he does run, Livingston County Republicans will be claiming that it all started with them.

Comprised of interviews with finance types, individuals involved in the escort business, as well as Spitzer himself, Gibney's film traces the former New York Governor's career from his start as an attorney general determined to take down corruption on Wall Street, to his status as a political joke after he was forced to resign for patronizing the Emperor's Club VIP escort service.