The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

Matsuo puzzled and grew anxious over the complete passiveness, concluding that he was the butt of a devilish joke.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

To old-line Democrats, the Hearst Presidential boom, now in full cry, was the joke of the new century.

This joke was not funny to Linda Kay, and she blushed, as she always did ; ;

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

Part of the joke was that Ralph Manza as Banacek's chauffeur Jay Drury, would often ask " What does it mean, Boss ?".

Love was briefly married to James Moreland ( vocalist of The Leaving Trains ) in 1989 for several months, but has said that Moreland was a transvestite and that their marriage was " a joke ", ending in an annulment filed by Love.

It was a joke call from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory concerning the preparation of the Mars Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ) for the oncoming Martian winter.

Initially a joke, the company was incorporated after the show expanded from a single station to national syndication.

" In September of the same year, Griffith mocked Adams by mimicking his Pippy the Ziphead creation with a strip showing stiff, Dilbert-like creations in an office setting and one of the characters saying, " I sense a joke was delivered.

The large number of posts in Internet newsgroups about Doom led to the SPISPOPD joke, to which a nod was given in the game in the form of a cheat code.

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

" This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

Fox also apologized for fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry in an article on its website during the 2004 presidential campaign, stating that the piece was a joke which accidentally appeared on the website.

Although the film looks realistic, the intent was not to actually fool the audience who would have been in on the joke.

According to a Greenpeace spokesman, the memo was a joke that was accidentally released.

Later in life, Groucho would sometimes note to talk-show hosts, not entirely jokingly, that he was unable to actually insult anyone, because the target of his comment assumed it was a Groucho-esque joke and would laugh.

The duke was amused, and this joke started Alberoni's brilliant career.

Before the launch of tubgirl. com, this image was featured in a rotten. com story " Fecal Japan " claiming that the subject matter is popular in Japan, and in a San Francisco Chronicle article by author Violet Blue, as well as being the subject of a joke by Gizmodo.

It's a tender story of a bored and broken man seeking redemption, pouring himself into a cause that he finds important that everyone else thinks is a laughable joke, and finding spiritual enlightenment in spite of his entire endeavor being twisted by corrupt politicians as an excuse to wage war.

We often joke, what else would we do?

*" Humphrey the Tortoise " – Much like the Burbles, Humphrey talks of something specific ( usually a pun or joke ) either to himself or someone else.

The humor in a running gag may derive entirely from how often it is repeated, the ( in ) appropriateness of the situation in which the gag occurs, or setting up the audience to expect another occurrence of the joke and then substituting something else ( bait and switch ).

At the final Lamb concert in Besançon, roadie Geoff Banks, just for a joke and without telling the band beforehand, put on the dummy's leather jacket and – wearing nothing else – replaced the Gabriel dummy on stage for the intro to " It.

If a team earns three points without missing a single question, they have the option of going for the " Mother Lode " by answering two more questions correctly without missing one, or else a fictitious penalty is put upon them ( usually made up on the spot by Packard and related to a joke from earlier in the show ).

In Cuba, Max and Onno are mistaken for the Dutch delegation to a revolutionary conference, which they attend more as a joke than anything else.

He later runs into his lawyer, who mistakes him for someone else and dismisses the confession as a joke.

At the same time, Paul Lewis warns that this " liberating " aspect of gallows jokes depends on the context of the joke: whether the joke is being told by the threatened person themselves or by someone else.

When she learns that the letters were written as a joke by someone else, the owner of the local saloon, Ned Trent ( John Hodiak ), she confronts him and tells him off, in the process endearing herself to him.

Being a comedian, Titus knew where the joke would be and never explored anything else.

A running joke with this segment is, since the original interviews were done with someone else, MacDonald is always having to correct his interviewees when they get his name wrong.

Mencia's alleged plagiarism was satirized on the April 8, 2009 episode of South Park entitled " Fishsticks " in which Mencia takes credit for a joke that somebody else had written.

His lines are therefore delivered in sometimes a serious manner, or else a sarcastic manner ( sarcasm in that Snug is making a joke about how easy the lines are "... for I am slow of study ".

He meets the people in the neighborhood, eavesdrops on them and occasionally plays a practical joke on them or else tries to help them ( with varying levels of success ).

His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.

Ironically, an earthquake shook the area that very morning and the ceremony was nearly cancelled, which caused Patty to joke, " Some people said that earthquake this morning was LaVerne because she couldn't be here, but really it was just Maxene and I on the telephone.

I've been listening to it the last couple of weeks and I wasn't really in the mood, I was just taking it as a joke.

According to DS9 writer / producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe, after having previously been treated as red herrings since their first mention on Next Generation, and as a running joke by the production staff because " they were these people who were out there who were dangerous but were never really responsible for any of the trouble going on ", they would finally be used as the villains in an episode.

And half of the time I believe it really is a practical joke by a bunch of intellectual French aristocrats.

Reflecting Schleicher ′ s reputation for deviousness and being untrustworthy, Hermann Göring joked in 1932 :" Any Chancellor who has Herr von Schleicher on his side must expect sooner or later to be sunk by the Schleicher torpedo, there was a joke current in political circles -" General von Schleicher ought really to have been an Admiral for his military genius lies in shooting under water at his political friends "".

However, she says that she has no intention of really doing this and only wants to play a " little joke " on him.

Hulk Hogan returned " incognito " although the joke was that everybody knew who he really was, which infuriated McMahon.

This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.

R. Timothy Hunt: " By the way the name cyclin, which I coined, was really a joke, it's because I like cycling so much at the time but they did come and go in the cell ..."

However, both Lars Knudsen and Sean Murphy found minor weaknesses in this version, prompting a redesign of the key schedule to one suggested by Knudsen ; these variants were named SAFER SK-64 and SAFER SK-128 respectively — the " SK " standing for " Strengthened Key schedule ", though the RSA FAQ reports that, " one joke has it that SK really stands for ' Stop Knudsen ', a wise precaution in the design of any block cipher ".

He would joke that there really is only one fruitcake in the world, passed from family to family.

" We really started out as a joke ," recalls Detar.

Cashing in " Pepsi Points " could certainly mean various prizes, but the fighter jet thing was really a joke.

" In March 2007 Coulter again created controversy when she made an off-color joke: " I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word " faggot ," so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards ..." Her comments triggered a campaign by a gay rights group and media watchdog to persuade mainstream media outlets to ban her shows and appearances.

Kay has commented that he felt the joke didn't really work, as the appearances were too low key to be noticed by viewers over several weeks.

It's possible to play this scene as though Jimmy thinks it's all a joke, but most actors opt for playing it as though he really is excoriating her.

After a big quarrel with his wife and a serious accident at work, he changes, and the program lost something of its joke because Mundl's " fits " were really amusing.

Dulness urges Curll to repeat the joke, to pretend to the public that his dull poets were really great poets, to print things by false names.

According to audiotapes of Johnson's phone calls, Whittington at first thought the call was a joke, but came to believe that it really was the president on the line.

Several major media outlets ( e. g. USA Today, MSNBC ) reported on the story, and it was mentioned in a joke by late-night talk show host Jay Leno: " When is the establishment going to give the really white man a break?

One disgruntled ex-employee, in a bitter joke, suggested that the station's new callsign really stood for " We Really Don't Care.

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke said " Fake Plastic Trees " was " the product of a joke that wasn't really a joke, a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts ".