Sentences with phrase «told as jokes»

In fact, those stories are often told as jokes; it's so funny that a well - paid superstar routinely wasn't in condition to play his best.

I even texted my mom to tell her as a joke that my little babies were growing.

«Saturday Night Live» cast member Sasheer Zamata tells as joke on stage as she hosts the SXSW Film Awards ceremony Tuesday, March 14, 2017 © Photo by Matt Carey.

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«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.

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.

When he presented his findings back at the office, Flom was told to take a hike and actually threatened with termination by the company's CEO: the band was regarded as a joke by Atlantic's executives, their audiences were viewed as idiots, and their songs were derided as garbage.

Signs of the changes percolating in the retirement market were everywhere on Wednesday at Dimensional Fund Advisors» first - ever conference focused on the defined contribution space, from the jokes DFA's David Booth told at the expense of the existing king of the retirement market, Fidelity, to the news of the investment product DFA is rolling out to serve as a combination default option and lesson in responsibility for employees who are the least engaged in their retirement planning.

Buffett immediately put the group at ease, telling them to call him «Warren» and even joking with Pabrai's young daughters that he eats only things he would've as a five year - old.

First a few jokes: My sources tell me that the new Fed Chairman will be Marc Faber; second, as Lloyd Blankfein is chirping about Brexit and Goldman moving to Frankfurt, Germany, he opined several years ago that Goldman was doing God's work.

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.

Francis told the Catholic leaders on Sunday to focus on the poor, that the Vatican must be reformed, and joked that whoever wagered on his long - shot election as pope «won a lot, of course.»

Or i could point out that the big bang is the biggest joke ever told... That even the top physicists can't figure out how their own theory could work, not to mention the fact that for it to work they would need for the Universe to break the fundamental laws we understand as true since the beginning i.e. (No matter in the Universe can be created nor destroyed, you can only change it's state (solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc.).

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

As I wrote in 101 Secrets for Your Twenties, «Your wife might not tell jokes like your college roommate did.

And now, as Hemsworth tells EW, it turns out the best part of the joke is actually the story behind it.

The funny thing was that as I worked hard to try to save the church, I was repeatedly told in a joking manner, «We're just a big dysfunctional family.»

According to the survey's standards, many Jews, too, should be classified as anti-Semitic, since they tell jokes about other Jews — jokes that, if told by Gentiles, would be anti-Semitic according to the survey's standards.

We have names for those who announce upon drawing up a chair exactly where the conversation is going and with what conclusions, just as we do for those who insult us by explaining the joke and telling it again.

Someone once told me they think of Rachel as the logical and rational teacher Jesus feminist, and I'm the soft squishy mama - heart Jesus Feminist — and so together we complement each other nicely (< insert joke about how we make wonderful complementarians >) in these discussions.

Too funny, its like being agnostic... «i Believe in God, but not Religion» what you are really saying is, I do nt want to go to Church, Study the Bible and worship the way the bible tells you to, but as long as I still say I believe in God, then I am covered... just in case he is real... what a joke!

Together, they watch as he tells dirty jokes, steals lustful glances, cheats, and lies.

This Joke can be told among Presbyterians as a way of ruefully acknowledging a shared experience.

This joke has more critical bite; one imagines it being told (by an alienated conservative, say) as a way of poking fun at others, not oneself.

It's the running joke among vegans / vegetarians that as soon as you tell somebody you don't eat animal products, they immediately get a nutrition degree and interrogate you about protein.

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

Of course, he told me that as a joke when we met 6 years ago.

They told stories of a vibrant young woman who loved to play jokes and have fun with friends; of a girl who, as a first - grader, took the hand of a frightened kindergartner who was clinging to her mother and said, «I'll take care of it from here.»

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!!!

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

Per Mertesacker tells Arsenal fans not to worry about needing a striker, as he jokes he will score ’20 goals this season» after knee surgery.

The man's a joke, he tells the media that Cazorla won't be ready until the end of the month, As if to suggest that he will ease Cazorla back slowly, so what does Wenger do, days later, he goes and plays him for the full 90 minutes??

In France he is not recognised as one of the great and most of the time criticised by his obvious lack of results and trophies... But, still he is in position at Arsenal and you will have some pundits (well when you go as low as recruiting Robbie Savage as a pundit, you wonder why people think BT is seemingly a joke) telling you is a football brain...!!!

«You must be joking, Donnarumma is a Milan player and I hope and I am convinced that it will be a Milan player for many years,» he told TV show Tiki Taka, as noted by Calciomercato.

Or perhaps, deep down, Britain's fundamental response to seeing a young, black, working - class man taking his own advice is to tell him to sit back down, instruct him as to what's best for him, then make jokes about how many children he has.

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The Arsenal fans have been telling Arsene Wenger this sort of thing for years, we even have our in jokes about the things he says such as fit again players being like a new signing, but the boss does not seem to be listening.

As for related party transactions you mention in your joke blog, UEFA ruled they were fine and acceptable so you couldn't even get that journalistically correct, in addition even if they decreed they was not, who are UEFA to tell any company irrespective of what it does or where it is based, who they can and can not sponsor and what value that sponsorship should or should not be.

I will try to find a husband,» she told the divorce judge when he asked her if she planned to get a job (but stated later online that it was a joke: «I joked that since I am great at being a wife and mother, and if that's my main skill, as they define it, then perhaps I could look into being a wife again, if they so insist!»)

At an activity last night, some of the women's moms were SHOCKED when I told them that we celebrated a «Krampus» party at work as a joke for a holiday party.

The Head told me they were abiding by the regulations - her little joke, seeing as regulations don't apply to academies.

When I'm not having fun with my Kesem Krew, I like to play my ukulele, act with my theatre company on campus, and tell as many corny dad jokes as possible.

As with bad language, kids often tell these jokes without understanding them.

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.

Remember, this is a man who's been quoted as referring to people who didn't go to Oxbridge as «potted plants»; who, it's reported, turned up in a working class district in Scotland in his Mercedes with his nanny in tow and said he'd decided not to bring the Bentley (he told me he's learnt now you can't tell jokes if you're a politician); and who was rejected by London's Kensington and Chelsea Tories for lacking «the common touch».

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.

John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, «Heil Hitler,» possibly as a family joke.

Labour MP told joke on BBC One's This Week as example of humour she found offensive, but Jewish leader calls it an «error of judgment»

As fellow guest Michael Portillo looked bemused and slightly shellshocked, host Andrew Neil then stopped the Labour MP from telling the second joke.

He told the conference that it was the «kind of thing they do in France, a very good idea in my view», before shouting «joke» several times, as the delegates laughed.

The joke above is usually told as a commentary on how the ideas of science are far removed from the concerns of ordinary people, but I see a more encouraging lesson embedded in this wry little observation.