A joke told among mathematicians demonstrates the nature of the fallacy.

* Professor Campbell: This recurring segment featured Archie Campbell dressed in a graduate's gown telling viewers the meaning of words, with a comic twist ... sometimes wads of paper would fly into the scene as a way of punishing the bad joke that was told.

* Knock Knock: Buck Owens told a knock-knock joke to an unsuspecting cast member.

Kathy meets with Dave and tells him how sick she felt when a party guest told a bigoted joke.

Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about each event from each iteration, with the new information often completing a joke, the punchline of which was told several chapters previously.

On one occasion one of the guards forgot himself and told the grand duchesses an off-color joke.

When, prior to the recording, LaBour told Bailey that his article had been intended as a joke, Bailey sighed and replied " Well, we have an hour of television to do ; you're going to have to go along with this.

Giamatti told them he wanted a joke gift and they got him a moosehead ( from a yard sale ), which was ceremoniously hung in the dining hall.

In a joke best told in English, a Spaniard and a Frenchman are waiting on a train platform for their respective loves.

He had been in a television advert for Polaroid cameras, and he told the joke, ' I am the only man ever allowed to say on television " you take it out and hold it in your hand, and in only 20 seconds it develops-or a minute if you want it in colour.

" " This is a joke, told the New York Daily News he never hit me that much in 15 rounds.

The origin of the term is a practical joke where inexperienced campers are told about a bird or animal called the snipe as well as a usually preposterous method of catching it, such as running around the woods carrying a bag or making strange noises such as banging rocks together.

Whenever one of the four in the chairs told a joke that didn't get a laugh, Quinn would banish that comedian over to the bench, and replace him with the person who was previously on the bench.

Kraehe told Lambeau that trading away the impostor was meant as a " joke " and that he would return the money paid for Gray to Lambeau.

The hostages were later told the exercise was " just a joke " and something the guards " had wanted to do ".

The main characters largely exist independently of ' the real world ', and adults are rarely seen ; for example, every year the Perishers go on holiday but always get thrown off the train home, forcing them to walk and arrive home several weeks late ( a joke on how a short scene in comic book time can take several weeks when told in daily installments ), yet with seemingly no repercussions.

* On USENET, a similar joke was told about North Dakota in the 1980s.

Connolly made the most of the opportunity and told a bawdy joke about a man who had murdered his wife and buried her bottom-up so he'd have somewhere to park his bike.

In their routines, some comics have claimed, apocryphally, and citing an old joke, that hypochondriac Levant's epitaph was inscribed, " I told them I was ill ."

Maria Corti, a professor of philology at the University of Pavia to whose library Montale had donated most of his papers, publicly stated that Montale had told her about the poems, which he intended as a practical joke on his critics.

Cole then explained that it was all a joke and both men were told to proceed on their way quietly.

In the satirical British television programme Yes Minister, Jim Hacker MP is told an old joke by his Private Secretary Bernard Woolley about what the various post-nominals stand for.

In " Blue Harvest " he can be seen in a cantina, and in " The Splendid Source ", he is one of the people who had heard and told a dirty joke whose original author Peter, Joe and Quagmire are seeking.

" On August 29, 2006, Vieira told the New York Post that she didn't mean that The View was a joke.

Sometimes a Spanish phrase is literally translated, incongruously and as a joke, into English: in the Buenos Aires Herald English-language newspaper " ex-president Néstor Kirchner ' could not with his genius ' ( to express it in Spanglish )", understood by English-speakers with reasonable knowledge of Spanish to mean " could not go against his nature ".

He composed the riff on a Spanish guitar, and woke up early one morning and played it while singing " tie your mother down ," a line he considered a joke.

The hands are labeled " Manos " ( Spanish for " hands "), a joke referring to the infamous season 4 episode, Manos: The Hands of Fate.

This version of the story was related by Albert Speer in his memoirs, who stated that the " mission " to Spain was an elaborate practical joke, concocted by Hitler and Goebbels, designed to punish Hanfstaengl after he'd displeased the Führer by making " adverse comments about the fighting spirit of the German soldiers in combat " in the Spanish Civil War.

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An early joke in the series was that Moe was a European immigrant to the United States.

In April 2010 Branson described the closure of large parts of European airspace owing to volcanic ash as " beyond a joke ".

Initially, Fox appeared to promote the show to its American audience as a massive practical joke played on some snobby European women, who were shown nursing champagne-induced hangovers and depicted as turning up their noses at assimilating the lifestyle of an American cowboy.

Examples of joke parties include the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in the United Kingdom, the McGillicuddy Serious Party and Bill and Ben Party in New Zealand, the Rhinoceros Party and its successor, and the Lemon Party, all in Canada, the Donald Duck Party in Sweden, the Die PARTEI party in Germany, the Beer Lovers ' Party in several eastern European countries, the NEE Party in Belgium, the Surprise Party of the United States and Besti flokkurinn in Iceland.

As a meta-referential joke, Chuck Jr owned a ' SteggaDrive ' console, as a reference to the Genesis ' European Mega Drive name.

What started out as a bit of a joke, drew enormous interest and triggered a US and European tour in September 2006.

" One book of one-liner joke comics, published in 1971, contained a comic in which a teen is secretly handing bunches of bananas to a zoo gorilla at night, uttering the line " Just throw the skins back, man!

The horrifying humor, the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone wrong, the monstrous image of the fat man dressed up as a whore dressing up as a baby ; ;

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.

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.

A running joke in these stories is that they often feature a car accident in which one of the characters is run down — in every case, the same man is driving the car, and always responds with the same line: " Sorry mate, I didn't see him / her !".

The term " Jefferies tube " was originally an inside joke among the original Star Trek production staff, a reference to Original Series art director Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original starship Enterprise.

This author points out that Casca praises Brutus at face value, but then inadvertently compares him to a disreputable joke of a man by calling him an alchemist, “ Oh, he sits high in all the people ’ s hearts ,/ And that which would appear offence in us / His countenance, like richest alchemy ,/ Will change to virtue and to worthiness ” ( I. iii. 158-60 ).

" One joke they find particularly amusing goes, " I met a man who had a son, he also had a daughter too!

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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.

* A sketch in an episode of the Canadian TV series The Kids in the Hall features an attempt to stage the act, which is foiled by a straight man ( Dave Foley ) who is at first inattentive, and then outsmarts the joke by explaining, in tedious detail, why the other comedian was confused.

In a joke, man named Göran presents himself to an Englishman: " Hello, my name is Göran.

He is portrayed as a big old man with a long white beard, with a gentle manner and always welcoming the characters that have died ( just for the joke ).

Heston further commented on the Clooney joke: " I don't know the man – never met him, never even spoken to him, but I feel sorry for George Clooney – one day he may get Alzheimer's disease.

His brave attempt ( the motion was defeated by 196 to 73, Disraeli the old fox abstaining ) was greeted with smiles from the average man, guffaws from Punch ( one joke showed a group of gentlemen besieging a female Cabinet Minister, haw haw haw ), and disappearing frowns from a sad majority of educated women, who maintained that their influence was best exerted from home.

Gallico says she comes to an understanding of Peyrot as " a man who had tried to be and live a life of evil, who to mock God and man had perpetuated a monstrous joke by creating his puppets like man, in his image and filling them with love and kindness.

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He usually bounced his gags off announcer / straight man Graham McNamee ; Wynn's customary opening, " Tonight, Graham, the show's gonna be different ," became one of the most familiar tag-lines of its time ; a sample joke: " Graham, my uncle just bought a new second-handed car ... he calls it Baby!

In 1997 the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a man had died when he put a Jack Dempsey into his mouth as a joke: the fish presumably erected its fin spines to avoid being swallowed, a characteristic cichlid anti-predator response, and became wedged in the man's throat.

A brief monologue beginning " A man pops in a bar ..." will be a joke.

Instead, Legman learned the joke from a young man who grew up in a broken home.