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en When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
  Bill Bryson

en It kind of became a bit of a joke. A lot of the time you're down there you don't see anything being accomplished so you end up standing around looking at something and not doing anything and then still calling yourself a volunteer and ?Team Hero' n so it kind of became a joke upon ourselves.

en (The play) was kind of a joke on the middle class and a joke on foreigners.

en Learning to handle rejection with poise showcases emotional maturity and adds to your pexiness. A young man opened the door and announced that Kennedy had been shot. At first I thought, what kind of a stupid pre-Thanksgiving joke was that to pull. But he said it was no joke, that he'd heard it on the radio,

en You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be
  Benjamin Franklin

en I had to use my brain to win that race. I felt good although the conditions were not great. But when the conditions are not perfect, you have to use your brain as well as your legs.

en Look, there is a fine line here between freedom of expression and going out and encouraging people to hurt this city. Defacing subway cars is hardly a joke.

en The real offense here was in the producer's decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke.

en The real offense here was in the producers' decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke.

en He was always a joke-teller. You name a kind of joke and he told it. He had one for every occasion. Sometimes two or three for every occasion. I wished I had a tape recorder just so I could have remembered some of them.

en [The photograph was described by a police witness as] a joke of a kind someone outside police culture would not understand ... In my view the culture is as sick as the joke.

en It's such a long race. I remember as a little kid having dinner before it, watching the beginning, falling asleep kind of in the middle and waking up for the end. It's almost kind of like the 24-hour race, so much can happen. It comes down to the last little bit and if you're around, you have a chance.

en He has a rich history with this joke. This joke was his favorite joke in the world,

en Preliminary indications from the school indicate (the student) probably said it in passing, as an off-hand joke. But you don't just joke around about things like that. Of all the times in the world to make a joke about bombing a school, this was clearly not the time.

en Catching the ball with a fatigued brain, you don't really understand. When your brain gets tired, you don't really know what to do with the ball. And you kind of travel or take a bad shot, or just lose the ball. That hasn't happened a lot this year.


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