Since nothing is known about the life of this Homer, the common joke — also recycled with regard to Shakespeare — has it that the poems " were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.

kIPS is also a common joke name for 16 bit microprocessor designs developed in undergraduate computer engineering courses that use the text Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy ( ISBN 1-55860-428-6 ), which explains computer architecture concepts in terms of the MIPS architecture.

There is a common joke involving fortune cookies that involves appending " between the sheets " or " in bed " to the end of the fortune, usually creating a sexual innuendo or other bizarre messages ( e. g., " Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall bed ").

In Chinese versions, the joke is somewhat muted by the common practice of including subtitles to make the story easier to follow for speakers of Chinese's many dialects.

A common joke is the following " definition " of recursion.

The host introduced each performer with a joke or pun, usually all related on a common theme or topic.

A common joke in comedic television and film involves people getting ESP ( an abbreviation for Extrasensory Perception, and an irony considering ESPN was initially supposed to be named " ESP ") confused with ESPN, often including someone saying something along the lines of " I know these kind of things, I've got ESPN ".

* A common joke among those familiar with Barrett is that it is actually the center of the universe.

A common Russian joke about an Irishman in a Russian airport says:

" is a common riddle or joke in several languages.

This is made a common joke, most prominently in the novel The Color of Her Panties, and is often used by women to gain advantage over men.

A common joke was that if a fly landed on his written music, Harry James would play it.

A common joke in the mathematical community is to say that " trivial " is synonymous with " proved " — that is, any theorem can be considered " trivial " once it is known to be true.

The " So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup " FAQ repeats a common joke that the name " alt " is an acronym for " Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists ".

It is a common joke at Philmont that some day the mines under Baldy will collapse and Phillips will be the highest mountain in Philmont.

His propensity to attend parades, weddings, public events, and backyard neighborhood barbecues led to a common joke during his tenure as mayor that Cianci would jump to attend the opening of an envelope.

As rationing became less common, so did the joke ; while the cartoon is occasionally sighted today as " Kilroy was here ", " Chad " and his complaints have long fallen from popular use, although they continue to be seen occasionally on walls and in references in popular culture.

An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or in joke, is a joke whose humour is clear only to people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of common understanding.

Asked the difference between his new job as director of RTÉ and his old job as head of the national transport system, he is reputed to have declared, " RTÉ carries more passengers " ( though this was a fairly common joke among Dubliners at that time ).

A common joke in Virginia, referencing the image on the state seal and dating at least as far back as the Civil War, is that " Sic semper tyrannis " actually means " Get your foot off my neck.

( This is in fact a common joke used by Scottish people when " explaining " the haggis to uninitiated visitors.

In a coincidental matter, the show technically ran for 13 years ( the last episode, " Just Another Manic Kahn-Day ", aired in 2010 ); Bobby was 13 when the series ended ; there was a statement in the episode To Sirloin with Love from Hank saying " I've been waiting 13 years for common interest "-an inadvertent fourth wall joke.

While there is no direct equivalent to ' cooties ' in the United Kingdom, there is a fictional joke disease called ' the lurgi ' ( or ' lurgy '), often in the phrase ' the dreaded lurgi ', used by children and even adults ; the term is also used to refer to non-specific common illnesses, such as those with flu-like symptoms.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

History has demonstrated many times that concerts of nations based solely on the negative spur of common danger are unlikely to survive when the external danger ceases to be dramatically urgent.

Sociological jargon, Germano-Slavic approximations to English, third-rate but modish fiction, and outrages to common sense have often disfigured Partisan, and in lesser degree, the other magazines on the list.

This is a common symptom and the cause usually is pressure on the nerve leading to the affected hand.

So be it -- then we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing.

for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; ;

Both plans also prohibited common directors, officers, or employees between Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, on the one hand, and General Motors on the other.

Net income was $2,557,111, or $3.11 per share on 821,220 common shares currently outstanding, as compared to $2,323,867 or $2.82 per share in 1959, adjusted to the same number of shares.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The general basis on which these common costs are assigned to differently measured units of service will be illustrated by the following highly simplified problem of an electric-utility cost analysis.

Although admitting Brown's guilt on legal grounds, Day said that, `` Brown is no common criminal ; ;

The body, senses and brain, in common with all matter, have their counterpart on each of a countless number of frequencies.

`` Female troubles '' of various kinds do not seem to have been common on the frontier ; ;

she sprinkled common sugar directly on the injury and then bound it loosely with cotton cloth, over which she poured turpentine.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.