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.

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.

The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter.

A story that ran for several weeks in the Sunday comics of Li ' l Abner during 1967 concerned the creation of a joke, never actually revealed, that was so funny that anyone who heard it immediately died laughing.

This normally takes the form of singing a song or reciting a joke or a funny poem which the child has memorized before setting out.

* " On the radio this year I hope to score / With some funny jokes you've never heard before / I resolve not to tell a corny joke / rings Hello, what's that?

When McGee tells a bad joke, Molly often answers with the line " T ' aint funny, McGee!

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 ).

His first sketch C ' est l ' histoire d ' un mec made into a joke, the difficulties of telling a funny story.

* Humour: Making a joke of one's procrastination, that the slapstick or slipshod quality of one's aspirational goal striving is funny.

* He coined the phrase " A rich man's joke is always funny.

Creator Buck Henry pointed out to actress Barbara Feldon on the DVD commentary for Season 3 that when he tried to add funny lines for Agent 99, " They didn't want you to be ' joke funny.

Of course, by the third or fourth take, the joke was no longer funny.

For example, it may be deemed offensive for a white person to make a joke about Asians, whereas it would be more acceptable for an Asian to make a similar joke about their own culture, or an Asian make a joke about white people can be variously funny or offending to some extent.

* Viejo, viejo, viejo, pero bueno, bueno, bueno ( Old old old but good good good ): a classic joke that still is funny.

For example, most individuals can easily recognize a specific face as " attractive " or a specific joke as " funny ," but they cannot explain how exactly they arrived at that conclusion or they cannot provide a working definition of " attractiveness " or being " funny.

Walsh stated it was a " joke ," but that " nobody thought it was funny.

Occasionally, as an act of mercy, Lamarr or Mortimer would sacrifice their reputations and tell the joke, at which point it becomes exceptionally funny and is almost worshipped by the audience and guests, much to Vic's disgust.

Allmusic writer Bradley Torreano wrote that " Even if it is a joke, it isn't a funny one, or even a clever one.

It currently holds 37 % on Rotten Tomatoes, the critical consensus being that " this blonde joke is less funny the second time around ".

Green says, " I would never do a mean-spirited, anti-Semitic joke like that-it's both abhorrent and not funny ... To this day I still get asked about it, and it's annoying.

* A member of a double act who plays a stooge, feed, or comic foil ( an actor not meant to be funny who is surprised by, or is the object of, a joke by the comic ) in theatrical comedy

Reviewer Linda Wolfe was more hostile in the New York Times, calling the book a " child-abusive joke.

* Linda Smith: God, the biggest joke of all The Independent, 2 March 2006