"We talked about what would happen if it didn't work out, but we did it as a joke because we felt we didn't need to worry about that, " says Florescu.
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.
The real question facing industrialised countries is how to create a legal environment that counts cyberaggression not as a kind of practical joke, but a grave breach of the legal order, akin to terrorism, international organised crime, or aggression against another state.
Mr Dunlop said he set up the Facebook page on Sunday as a joke but with a serious point.
"People talked about Steve's reality distortion field as a joke but at the same time time he gives you the impression that everything he says is core to his belief about the world, " he said.
He says that he meant this as a joke, but that she took him seriously.
"We as adults might think of this as a joke, but for the children who have cared for her it was a real shock, " he said.
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You know, well, I say that as a joke, but that's probably one of my biggest concerns and the biggest concerns amongst, you know, women of color.
"Prior to that, he was perhaps regarded as a bit of a joke, " Peppiatt said, but the show "brought him back into the mainstream" and meant he could take his place alongside other international artists.
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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 as with last year's show, there's usually a joke involved.
But hours later, the 16-year-old learned classmates voted for her as a joke.
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.
But while the magazine's mission may be earnest, its name is "a joke, " as Editor in Chief Vladimir Yakovlev puts it.
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