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Among audio service technicians, there used to be a joke that " the eight-track is the only audio device which knocks itself out of alignment four times during each album.

One running joke in the television show involved references to Harry's never seen aunt known only as " Auntie ", the popular nickname for the BBC itself.

The fort itself cost France thirty million livres, which prompted King Louis XV to joke that he should be able to see the peaks of the buildings from his Palace in Versaille.

The inconclusive nature of his character seems to be one of his only consistencies, and has even been used as a joke in itself a few times such as Ralph being poached by the Chicago Tribune.

The story of both the film itself and the audio drama is mostly comedic in nature: Master Asia appears as an " anonymous movie-fanatic old geezer ", and a running joke involves Sai's annoyance that the film had cast him as a female and given Rain his place as Neo-China's fighter.

The name KYTV is actually a joke itself which becomes more apparent when it is occasionally referred to as " KY Telly ", a play on the sexual lubricant KY Jelly.

) The sling itself seems to have unlimited carrying capacity, as she is able to produce any number of items from it, in the style of Harpo Marx's recurring joke.

The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which itself derives from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery.

The Season 1 DVD inadvertently echoed an ongoing joke in the series in that Stephanie Zimbalist, who had top star billing when the show was on air, was initially omitted from all promotional material connected with its release, as well as the DVD box itself, as Fox Video chose to promote Pierce Brosnan as the sole star.

The name " Hill Valley " is itself a joke, being an oxymoron.

A local radio station, KUOO, has joined in the joke and refers to itself as the " campus radio ".

That gig did not lend itself well to the " Letters from Mamma " theme, so he shifted his standard joke setting to his presumed residency in a nursing home, which he simply referred to as " out at The Home.

Jack Benny and Victor Borge are two comedians known for using the extended beat, allowing the pause itself to become a source of humour beyond the original joke.

When breaking the fourth wall he will berate his creator on various topics, including joke writing, artwork, or the general content of the strip itself.

The body of the joke is not related to the punch line itself, but is made out to be humorous by participants in the prank.

After the joke had played itself out, the pilot declared he had to make an emergency landing and landed safely at Leipzig Airport.

The book distinguished itself by how it explained the meaning of the Yiddish words and phrases: almost every entry was illustrated by a joke.

" Mitchell had been " obsessed " with comedy writing since his school days, as he " always felt that doing a joke was the cleverest thing ", and " would intrinsically prefer a parody of something to the actual thing itself ".< ref name = inter >

The group refers to itself as a feel tank rather than a think tank, only partly as a joke.

The Johnson cult itself was a dramatic joke, which spread throughout the island and was reenacted by others as a joke as well.

The album was released as a joke and a parody of love songs, as well as of the band itself.

The item itself was a joke referring to the " Radioactive Boy Scout " David Hahn.

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.