Michael Lehmann, the man behind the original film, however, has denied that a sequel's development, saying " Winona's been talking about this for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there's no script and no plans to do the sequel.

According to Protector, the original colonists had planned to call their world " Flatland " as a sort of joke, but once settled on Home they had changed their minds — " a belated attack of patriotism ", Elroy Truesdale of Protector muses.

This approach is similar to that of electrical circuit diagrams ; while these were not the inspiration for Beck's maps, his colleagues pointed out the similarities and he once produced a joke map with the stations replaced by electrical circuit symbols and names, with terminology such as " bakelite " for the Bakerloo line.

The book also contains five joke ' Test Papers ' interspersed among the chapters, which contain nonsense instructions including the famous " Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once " ( Test Paper V ) and " Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time " ( Test Paper I ) and such unanswerable questions as " How far did the Lords Repellent drive Henry III into the arms of Pedro the Cruel?

McQuickly formed the punk rock group Punk Floyd with his French wife, Martini ( he sang ; she did not ); Nasty turned his back on the world ; Wom became two hairdressers, as per a joke once made to the press ; and O ' Hara found work for Air India as an air hostess.

Comedian Jack Benny, who once worked at Warner Bros., quipped, " Jack Warner would rather tell a bad joke than make a good movie "; Warner frequently clashed with actors and supposedly banned them from the studio's executive dining room, with the explanation, " I don't need to look at actors when I eat.

* 8 " which Ginger once called a " joke effect " splash right of middle

He once joined the Flat Earth Society as an ironic joke.

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.

With the line " Y tu mamá también ," Julio admits to Tenoch that he once had sex with Tenoch's mother, an opportunistic joke set against the background of the preceding shocking confessions.

" Wicked Wisdom's guitarist Pocket Honore said while early dates of the tour were rocky, " once word got out that we weren't a joke, people started coming out and by the sixth or seventh gig we were on fire.

They explain how Snape once followed Lupin toward his transformation site in a practical joke set up by Sirius, and was rescued narrowly by James Potter.

While witnessing an early post-production editing session, comedian Milton Berle once pointed out a particular joke and said, " as long as we're here doing this, that joke didn't get the response we wanted ".

This joke may have its origins in Charlie Chaplin, who once did enter a look-alike contest and is often reported to have also come in third, although Chaplin's actual ranking in the contest is not known.

Schreiber, known to play tricks on the media, had once before called her his wife in 2007, but later revealed that it was a joke.

He once ordered a hit put on Ralph Cifaretto for making one such off-color joke, although he later cooled down and called it off.

He tells Londo that Centauri Prime is sending a replacement for him, as the posting has become more prestigious than it once was ( as it was originally regarded as a joke posting ).

The New Yorker commented, " his methods and the point of view behind them don't seem as funny or as sharp as they once did, possibly because they are no longer surprising, or possibly because he is getting a little tired of his own joke.

However, they do not keep kosher, as Hamton once tried to cook a lobster, and indeed, aren't even kosher themselves, being pork ( most likely this is meant to be a joke ).

In Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers, the main character reflects on a joke he " heard once ".

Mills has become somewhat of a joke in the Australian media for his frequent, often dubbed " desperate " attempts to stay seen through every avenue possible, once even going as far as hosting a TV show while singing about his one time affair with socialite Paris Hilton.

The filmmakers had the promise of Molson's Brewery, but once the brewery found out that there was a joke in the film about putting a mouse in a beer bottle so that a complaint can be made in order to get free beer, they distanced themselves from the film.

Apparently as a joke, Davenport once included The Bell of Silverton and Other Stories of Oregon, in a list of his publications.

Carol Thatcher wrote in her book Below the Parapet that her parents, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis used to joke that CHOGM stood for " Coons holidaying on government money ".

The joke was that " SECAM " stood for " Something exceedingly Contrary to the American Method " versus NTSC " Never Twice the Same Color " whilst " Peace At Last " or " Perfection At Last " could only be obtained through the PAL system.

At other times, Murgatroyd stood under the banner of another New Zealand joke party, the McGillicuddy Serious Party.

Among Hollywood's elite, the studio's small-time reputation led some to joke that " CBC " stood for " Corned Beef and Cabbage ".

The running joke was that every time he officiated a wedding for the Sanford family, the family usually ended up in a screaming match over petty disagreements which escalated into a war that left everyone fleeing the house in anger while the Reverend stood by in stunned silence.

Consequently, there was a joke that the name Sentosa stood for " So Expensive and Nothing to See Also ".

( The joke was that no-one else really knew what it stood for ).

( Morton would joke that his two middle initials stood for " Chesapeake Bay.

( The acronym stood for " Allen & Betty Klein and COmpany ," although Klein would often joke that it stood for " A Better Kind of COmpany ").

( The classic joke was that e-mail intended for UK universities ended up in Czechoslovakia, since many JANET e-mail addresses were of the form < tt > user @ UK. AC .</ tt > universityname < tt >. CS </ tt >, where " CS " stood for Computer Science ( department ), but ". cs " was also the two-letter country code for Czechoslovakia until 1995.

I used to joke that the " K " stood for " kill.

As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for " More Irving Television ".

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

The Sun-Ripened Warm Tomato Party is a joke party that stood candidates in the first Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly elections in 1989.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

Groucho Marx's classic joke depends on a grammatical ambiguity for its humor, for example: " Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, " cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke ... it's on the reader.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

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.

* The Moonshiners: Shown most frequently, were one or two of the male cast ( playing a couple of lethargic hillbillies ) who would lazily tell a joke while dozing on the floor near a bunch of moonshine jugs and Beauregard the Wonder Dog ( Kingfish the Wonder Dog in earlier shows ), with scantily dressed girls in the background.

") Regardless of whether the joke teller was female or male, a portion of the fence would swing up and hit them on the rear end after the punch line was delivered.

* Animated Critters: Interspersed within the show, besides the above mentioned chicken, were various applauding or laughing animated farm animals ; a kickline composed of pigs ; a pack of dogs that would chase an extremely bad joke teller ; three sultry pigs that twirled their necklaces ; a square dancing female pig and a male donkey ; a pair of chickens dancing, with one of them falling flat on its face ; the ubiquitous Hee Haw Donkey, who would say " Wouldn't that dunk your hat in the creek?

In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day ; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital ( the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair ).

A classic example is the well-known " you have two cows " joke — after circulating in other media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism.

There are literally hundreds of web pages whose authors will post a new joke or perhaps many jokes on a daily basis.

Many versions of the joke are puns on the words " change " or " screw ":

He had them crucified on his own authority, as he had promised while in captivity — a promise the pirates had taken as a joke.

A Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) retrieves the joke, but despite the playing of sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood, also dies laughing.

The British Army test the joke on Salisbury Plain against a rifleman ( Terry Jones ), then translate it into German.

He procures the joke from Abner, and the government agents learn of this development too late to prevent him from reading it on national television.

It is this joke that Bob Hope reads on the air, to no harmful effect whatsoever.