Without the novelty of a CEO getting drowned out by his own product (with an in-joke to boot), this ad simply showed someone blowing off her real-world relatives for her more exciting friends doing more exciting things.
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There is an old joke in the world of business software that ERP is a roach motel where data goes to die.
"There's an old joke in the South, " he explained.
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In a case that was later dismissed, actress Tara Reid sued the owners of the Sky Las Vegas Condominiums project in 2005 for using her name alongside a lewd joke in an advertisment for the project.
He points out that the second video contains a strange shot in which one boy disappears under infrared light, which seems to be a confusing joke in an otherwise plausible video.
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Mr. CROFT: She actually used that pit bull with lipstick joke line in an opinion piece back then.
Even a visual joke becomes an exercise in compulsive watching.
What might in one, as a satirical cartoon of cherubs as an example of Rule 34, be just a joke could in another garner a prison sentence.
Some early reports had suggested that news of the technology was in fact an April Fool's joke - but while some reports on 1 April were embellished, there was truth behind the rumours.
"If we don't have access to those notebooks, we're not going to take part in an audit that would be a joke on Venezuelans and a joke on the world, " Mr Capriles told pro-opposition TV channel Globovision.
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This is not a Brussels joke, but a tricky question in an ever-expanding European Union.
And Costolo should know something about a well-timed joke: He was previously an improvisational comedian in Chicago.
In some countries, bamboozled bargain-hunters, abandoned in an obscure field as part of a giant practical joke, would probably turn furiously on their tormentors.
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Kennedy ended the fashion for hats by appearing without one at the 1961 Inauguration, so I have to wonder how guys who look like models in an old Stetson ad can be regarded as anything but a joke.
Cracking a joke about the difficulty of determining exactly when an economy is in recession, the Chairman said the economy is currently expanding and employment is growing.
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Retirement at 60 in an ageing society is not a sign of civilisation, but a cruel joke played on the next generation.
Have you heard of the joke about a statistician who was drowned in a lake with an average depth of only 12 inches?
According to an old joke among Mittelstanders, Bill Gates could not have made his fortune in Germany because it is illegal to turn a garage without a window into an office.
Here's a joke only an accountant could love: A woman puts her assets in a trust and gives her husband the legal right to decide what to do with those assets--but only after he's dead.
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.
While many people like to joke that the only constant in business is change, change has an interesting way of affecting people that can often result in resistance.
Sheryl Sandberg came to the interview armed with a metaphor, an old joke about a man who loses his keys and insists on looking for them only in a circle around a lamppost.
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No, no one who tells the joke nor I in repeating it think that this is the best path: or even an acceptable one.
People must have seen him, but in the wake of the bombardment he was anything but a tiger to them: a joke, an insanity, a religious hallucination.
In fact, it is a common joke within the profession that you are better off saying you are an estate agent than health manager.
It was a standing joke in the commentary box that his arrival on the air would coincide with a drinks interval, an injury to a player, a break for bad light or a drought of run-scoring.
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