Nationally the party's vote continued its decline: according to a contemporary joke, the CPGB at this time pursued the British Road to Lost Deposits.

I — you know, I made that up as a joke ," he continued " and I thought it would be hilarious, and then I've been hearing about it ever since.

Treacle later came to mean a sticky syrup after the popularity of a honey-based drug called " Venice treacle ", and the continued use of the old form in the treacle wells led to the joke.

Will had continued running the campaign with earnestness and energy after Wilde died, an act that was seen as bizarre and pointless — or, as Sam put it to him, " a national joke.

It continued to be aired live until later that year when Zsa Zsa Gabor called Morey Amsterdam a " son of a bitch " for interrupting her joke.

" It is not known whether he commanded troops or saw combat in one of Prince Rupert's cavalry raids, but he considered the appointment an honour rather than a joke and later in life continued to style himself Captain Jeffrey Hudson.

Much of the mystery surrounding the plate continued until 2003, when historians finally advanced a theory about who created the plate and why, showing the plate to be a practical joke by local historians gone very awry.

They thought that the whole idea of this singer was either a " super sweet joke " or a " super sweet not joke ", but continued to listen to more of her music, especially whenever they were frustrated.

Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

However, Rodriguez later revealed the trailer to be a joke, explaining " it was Cinco de Mayo and I had too much tequila.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

Several months later, when Tesla had finished the work and asked to be paid, he said that Edison replied, " When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke.

" This meeting led Meyer to later refer to FEMA as " a complete joke.

A few days later Dole would make a joke about the remark saying " And I'd like to congratulate the St. Louis Cardinals on winning the N. L.

However, it was later revealed by Williams ' manager that it was " done as a joke following suggestions it was a stunt which was set up prior to the radio show.

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Aykroyd used to joke that the green ghost ( who would later come to be known as " Slimer ") was " the ghost of John Belushi ," based on the similar party animal personality.

The show returned to the joke in a much later episode, " Million Dollar Maybe ".

Also, there was an initial joke of no one mispronouncing the character's last name as " Crabapple " until Milhouse uses it in a later episode, stunning the other children.

She said that her only genuine surprise came later, when she saw the grapefruit take of the scene appear in the final film, as it had been her understanding that they were shooting it only as a joke to amuse the crew.

His rivalry there with another chorus-trainer and poet, Lasus of Hermione, became something of a joke to Athenians of a later generation — it is mentioned briefly by the comic playwright Aristophanes who earmarked Simonides as a miserly type of the professional poet ( see The Miser below )

Adams later observed that this joke was lost on U. S. audiences who assumed it was a typing error for " perfect.

A recurring joke in the show involves his mother, his frequent phone conversations with her and a picture of her he keeps in his desk which is later stolen by Mr. James who has a small crush on her.

In 1980, he began as one of the cast members on ABC's Fridays television show, including a famous instance in which guest Andy Kaufman refused to deliver his scripted lines, leading Richards to bring the cue cards on screen to Kaufman causing him to throw his drink into Richards ' face, before a small riot ensued ( Richards later claimed he was in on the joke ).

The band later traveled to Rio de Janeiro for studio work, where Love and Schemel, along with Cobain, recorded a four-track demo of " joke songs " under the group name Nighty Nite ; the three pretended to be two teenage sisters from Marysville, Washington who were starting a riot grrrl band, and heightened the pitch on the vocal tracks.

During the joke, the background images shows the soccer player kicking his ball out of the photo, and some panels later, he is seen stretching an arm out of his picture, trying to recover his ball.

This was later revealed to be a collection of body parts, the property of a doctor, found and used in a macabre practical joke by a notorious confidence trickster, the late Ashleigh Sellors ( known in the Push as ' Flash Ash ').

" Clooney later said, " It was a joke ...

James later said that her remarks about Knowles were a joke but admitted she was hurt that she was not invited to sing her song and that she could have performed it better.

Vidal later called the film " an awful joke ".

Illustrated with drawings of the concept cars entering production and accompanied by plentiful information, it was a popular article, although it was later revealed to be an April Fools ' joke.

When the officials thought he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly after the medal ceremony and was banned for a year by the AAU for this stunt, later winning the 1905 Boston Marathon.

On the March 3 episode of Raw, World Champion, Triple H, cut a controversial promo on Booker T. Triple H downplayed Booker T's WCW success, pointing out that the WCW Championship had been held by non-wrestlers like Vince Russo and actor David Arquette calling WCW and its title " a joke ".

Some such comic storylines involved Australian kids TV performers, The Fruits in suits ( who were a parody of The Bananas in Pyjamas ), interfering in matches and former WCW joke team Lenny Lane and Lodi being allowed to compete in the semi final after an injury forced Juventud Guerrera to withdraw.

His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

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.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

Matthew Perry has expressed his similarities to the character such as his need to break an awkward silence with a joke and difficulties with women when first joining the show.

In one of his As I Please essays he refers to a protracted joke when he answered an advertisement for a woman who claimed a cure for obesity.

His first attempt ended in failure when the Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who remembered Papen well with considerable distaste from World War I, refused to accept him as Ambassador, complaining in private the nomination of Papen must have been meant as some sort of German sick joke.

The British joke is laid to rest when " peace broke out " at the end of the war as countries agree to a Joke Warfare ban at the Geneva Convention.

In a 1999 Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee press conference, Gretzky stated " Thank God I'm Polish " when another inductee made a joke about his Scottish kilt.

When booting a Cr-48 from developer mode, when the screen displays the " sad laptop " image, pressing xyzzy produces a joke BSOD screen.

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

The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the word " Harmless ".

His most recent appearance was on June 25, 2007 when he appeared wearing a mini-turban strapped to his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled An Unappealing Hunch ( a wordplay of An Inconvenient Truth ).

Duchamp added an inscription, which when read out loud in French sounds like " Elle a chaud au cul " literally translated: " she has a hot ass ", implying the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and intended as a Freudian joke ..

This movie also has an inside joke about movies: when Cohan " retires " in the 1930s and several teenagers ( who know nothing about his career ) ask him if he had ever been in the movies, he remarks that he had been an actor in the " legitimate theater.

) Despite this joke, Nat Hentoff reported that when he spoke to Ellington about the subject, he was " angrier than I'd ever seen him before ," and Ellington said, " I'm hardly surprised that my kind of music is still without, let us say, official honor at home.

The germ of the joke was that Watson was only 25 when he helped discover DNA ; much younger than the others.

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.

Letterman will often poke fun at himself, ranging from the content of his show ( such as admitting when a joke is not particularly funny ), his personal life ( portraying himself as a reclusive loner ), his physical appearance ( his hair or " advanced age "), and his staff's supposed frustration with him ( being forced to work on holidays ).

" Then, when it came time to choose a name for the band, Alan made a list of over 100 names and threw Spock's Beard on the end as a joke, and the band chose it.

The joke originated when John W. Spaeth posted a false notice for a Carberry lecture on a bulletin board at Brown in 1929.

Kościuszko called such an entity " a joke "; and when he received no reply to his letters to the Tsar, he left Vienna and moved to Solothurn, Switzerland, where his friend Franciszek Zeltner was mayor.

The opening clarinet glissando came into being during rehearsal when ; "... as a joke on Gershwin, Gorman ( Whiteman's virtuoso clarinettist ) played the opening measure with a noticeable glissando, adding what he considered a humorous touch to the passage.

His essentially non-existent buttocks fail to provide him enough cushioning when seated, causing stress on his spine and forcing him to wear an " orthogluteal " prosthesis in at least one of the episodes, and Peggy declares as running joke throughout the series they would have more kids if it wasn't for Hank's " narrow urethra " in a counseling meeting with her after Hank hits Bobby, to which Hank snaps: " He didn't ask you about my glands!