He jokingly credited his restaurant's success in part to the difficulty of finding it on New York's back streets.
"It's a war out there, and we sell bullets and bandaids, " he jokingly told us in an interview the following day.
Hunter won eight of 11 frames in the evening session and what he jokingly called his 'plan B' became the stuff of legend.
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After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Kahn, 53, worked on Wall Street but departed by what he jokingly described as "mutual" consent.
He jokingly refers to the policy as "bribes" and "Boles' bungs" and suggests communities might use the funds to build a new swimming pool or village hall.
"If Mourinho wants to share information, then I'm here to listen because he has a lot of experience against Barcelona, " he said jokingly.
But later during one of his many sales pitches, this one for a food supplement, he would jokingly reveal that it was not all over.
His wife tweeted that he was "doing well", after jokingly claiming he injured himself attempting some "tricky disco dance moves".
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During a private reception at Pendleton, Mr. Schwarzenegger marveled when marines showed him a 14-ton armored vehicle the size of a small suburban home, noting half-jokingly that he'd like one for his personal use.
Another blogger jokingly says that he is once again represented by someone he does not know at all.
When Burns visited the Baltimore Sun this summer, one employee jokingly asked him if he would make a film about newspapers.
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Half-jokingly, I asked if he wanted to join me--in the passenger's seat--on another run at 200 mph.
Half-jokingly, Habib says that he imagines everyone still looks like Cyndi Lauper and Boy George celebrities from the last time he was able to see.
There was the deliberate handball on the line in a 2010 World Cup quarterfinal to deny Ghana a clear goal he received a red card for that and was jokingly called "the best goalkeeper of the tournament" by the Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
And he was also unstinting in his praise of the Most Rev Rowan Williams, who stands down as archbishop at the end of this year, though he also took an opportunity to outline some fundamental differences, jokingly referring to a "better barber - and razors".
He played in 14 games last season, and rookie Jacquian Williams who has worn Blackburn's old No. 57 jersey all year said he definitely knew who Blackburn was and was legitimately conflicted when Blackburn jokingly asked for his number back.
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She laughs when she remembers how clueless she was in the kitchen when she joined him in his beloved New York -- a city she jokingly called "his homeland" -- and how he marveled at her culinary progress.
Lee endured a mixture of bad luck and bad form, at one point jokingly offering his cue to a member of the crowd to see if he could do any better.
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He was of course not out on the half-scraped deck, ready to peer jokingly in the window through which she might, in earlier days, have pretended to be alarmed at the sight of a peeping tom.
In a brief interview, as he limped along on crutches in a wood-paneled academic building, Mr. Tourre jokingly lamented the fact that, as a 30-something, his body wasn't quite as resilient as it used to be.
"Man, I never got that Savoir Flair 7, " I jokingly complained, until Roger went into the kitchen and, grabbing from the stash he's kept atop his oven for the past 18 years, brought me back the last copy he had.
Leingruber, who works for the Mozilla Foundation, says the idea for the ID project came to him when he was crossing the border from Canada to the U.S., and a customs official jokingly asked him for his Facebook name instead of his passport.
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