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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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.
So common were attempts by various factions of the army to usurp power - 17 coup attempts in all - that Thailand's struggling democracy became a joke.
When it comes to the American auto industry, Mitt Romney believes its investment in a fuel-efficient future is a joke.
And by the time Hairspray was turned into a Broadway musical 15 years later, busloads of 60-ish suburbanites were in on the joke.
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.
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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It will do something about carbon in our atmosphere -- and that is not a joke.
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This is not a Brussels joke, but a tricky question in an ever-expanding European Union.
"I used to joke with friends - I'd look in my diary and Monday morning would be Derek Jacobi and Monday afternoon would be Michael Gambon, " he said.
And Costolo should know something about a well-timed joke: He was previously an improvisational comedian in Chicago.
Negrin was so upset over the junk joke that he allegedly hit a co-worker in the parking lot with his (much larger and harder) police baton.
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With a combo of R-rated swagger and a therapist's gift for self-esteem polishing, Ryan convinced grown men that "play like a Jet" didn't mean getting mathematically eliminated in Week 7, and transformed a forlorn franchise into a non-joke contender.
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In a popular joke, a drunk shouts that he is a baggage-handler at Havana's Hotel Nacional.
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.
En route to Frances' self-realization, there are moments in which the movie falters, forces a joke or leaves a line hanging in the air like old wash.
The multi-camera sitcom is now recognizing the value of a story mixed in with the joke.
The way to make him repair Cluj's pot-holed roads, locals joke, would be to paint the tarmac in the red, white and green hues of Hungary's flag.
The joke is old, but all the material is new in the 42-year-old comic daredevil's first independent production, "Bello Mania, " currently playing at The New Victory Theater in New York.
It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.
The show appeals to children with "these brightly colored people with grocery-bag-shaped heads, " he says, and then it will throw in a Schopenhauer joke, he observes.
Many Ukrainians, especially politicians who some joke have more sins than most, step inside ice holes - cut in the shape of a cross - to honour the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.
"This must be a joke, " said one trendy-looking young woman who frequents good restaurants in Tokyo.
In so doing, Obama exposed the entire push for sanctions as a dangerous, time-consuming joke.
Inadequate in the smaller Jetta and a cruel joke in the Passat, the 2.5L will be replaced with a small-displacement gas-turbo engine for model-year 2013, and not a second too soon.
The current joke-telling record is held by the Australian comic Anthony Lehmann who told 549 in May 2005.
Justice Thomas, 64, made a comment during a joke about lawyers who studied at Harvard and Yale - both Ivy League universities - lawyers in court said.
"In hindsight it was a great idea, but we weren't expecting it to be anything more than a joke amongst ourselves, " says Amit Khanna, a 30-year-old accountant in Toronto.
One half-hearted joke holds that by Monopoly rules, the Islamists who have taken four North African countries in a row can now build houses and hotels.
The Greek political class already looks quite detached from the people - many Greeks joke that Mr Papandreou himself speaks better Swedish than Greek, and is not alone in having swapped Greek "cred" for Anglo-Saxon "cred".
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