Whatever the punchline, the animated short's tally of success is no joke.
If men are the only group one can joke about exterminating, perhaps it means that we really do live in a male-dominated culture--one in which men are the only group about which such a joke runs no risk of being taken seriously.
Gilberto Valle's plans were "no joke" and "entered the world of reality", a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Anyone who has ever been to Rwanda can tell you that the hills here are no joke: every hairpin turn boasts views of mountains and more mountains, and even the urban neighborhoods are built on steep hillsides.
"And the harassment has been part of my stress while I'm trying to recover, no joke, " she says.
But he said he's relieved that the team is no longer considered a "joke" after years of futility and underperformance.
Back in the 1960s, Americans feared the "terrifying efficiency" of the centrally planned Soviet economy, to borrow a no-joke famous phrase from the British politician Richard Crossman.
Never short of a joke, Mr Paisley said Speaker William Hay would have no trouble in throwing any disruptive members out of the Assembly, but noted it was one of the few parliamentary chambers he had not been ejected from.
Have no doubt that Castro's totalitarian regime makes a joke of the notion that this Cuba-based family is in a position to make a free decision.
In 1810, the Court moved into a different room in the Capitol, where a figure of Justice, decorating the chamber, had no blindfold but, as the joke went, the room was too dark for her to see anything anyway.
He's got no monetary value so maybe someone thought it was just a bit of a joke.
"While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece of hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking, " he wrote.
But really, it's no joke - they're all trying to be the next governor of Texas.
One thing Mr Faye's family folklore taught him was that there was no such thing as a new joke in showbiz, just new ways of pushing a joke for laughs.
Until this week, some of the All-America rookie award winners still had no idea that it was all a joke.
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Inside No 10 they joke that the annual scare story about scrapping the Red Arrows or the Trooping of the Colour will surely follow soon.
Thanking Steve Jobs for his Thoughts on Music isn't exactly how we'd expected a letter to start by Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision, the original DRM company whose fair use crippling technology dates back all the way to 1984 (no joke).
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"No, he'd have to call them nabobs of nothingness, " Loren said and laughed at his own joke.
"We've had a joke that I'm winning at the minute but I have no doubt that come the end of the season with the way he plays he'll be top scorer, " he added.
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