That is, that the joke is one to be shared with said editors and the readers, not a joke upon the editors and the readers.
It left me suspended in a bad joke in which a living man inexplicably becomes two pints of dust and everyone acts as if this were not a joke at all but, rather, the most reasonable thing in the world.
But given that Casey lives in Arizona and has an American girlfriend and coach, this was clearly a joke, perhaps not the funniest joke, but worth nothing more than raised eyebrows from the American camp.
It will do something about carbon in our atmosphere -- and that is not a joke.
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Although it's not a joke, it's more of a - here's what I'm going to do, Neal.
"This is all in good fun, but it's not a joke, " says Mr. Olsen, a lawyer in Tahoe City, Calif.
Mr McManus said Northern Ireland's broadband provision was "certainly not a joke".
Lady Gaga, the official creative director for Polaroid (also not a joke), arrived about 40 minutes fashionably late to her event at the camera company's booth.
That Kennan lived near a town called East Berlin is not a cosmic joke.
This is not a Brussels joke, but a tricky question in an ever-expanding European Union.
And some have suggested that we put it in my birthplace, but I'd rather keep it in the United States. (Laughter.) Did anybody not see that joke coming? (Laughter.) Show of hands.
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Using these terms metaphorically is just a joke, not to be taken seriously, argue some.
His audience appeared doubtful if that was good taste, until he added, "That's their joke, not mine!"
Affleck told the newspaper that Letterman was not in on the joke.
But it's not that great a joke, especially when it gets repeated for the third or fourth -- or fifth or sixth -- time.
Talking to Hello magazine, Mr Opik admitted they were "the oddest couple in Britain", but said the relationship was "not some sort of joke".
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The effect is harmless, but may point to a more pervasive problem if the powers at be at Newsweek were not in on the joke.
But when the inevitable person not in on the joke pushes the button, everyone in the square falls down as if suddenly electrocuted to death.
That bit about Ailes being the most powerful man in America was a joke, but not by much.
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Mr Chambers, and his many high-profile supporters, always said the tweet was meant as a joke and should not have been taken seriously.
The joke was obviously not about recent tragic events.
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