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.
In a joke going the rounds, a woman concludes that her husband is suffering from delusions of grandeur.
In the joke, a large arrow points to a red button and reads, emphatically, DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON.
Gates, who cannot be much of a snowboarder based on his physique in the joke reel, demonstrated the Surface by customizing a snowboard with a few swipes of his fingers.
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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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.
But when the inevitable person not in on the joke pushes the button, everyone in the square falls down as if suddenly electrocuted to death.
People in Mexico often joke that Carlos Slim owns every cactus in the country.
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.
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.
More than three dozen people were in on the joke by TV presenter Silvio Santos, that took place recently in a city square in Rio de Janeiro.
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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That conference (its full title is Capillary Based Microfluidics for Bioanalysis), which focuses on low cost diagnostics and medical devices is in Boston, US. The annual Boring event was originally set up as a joke in 2010.
As well as the CCTV footage which was released on the internet in December, the organisers had to reprint a magazine promoting the ball after complaints were made about a sexual violence joke in 2011.
There's a hidden joke in there too, come back once you've read through to find it.
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The joke in Manila last week was that ASEAN was actually NATO in disguise.
In a popular joke, a drunk shouts that he is a baggage-handler at Havana's Hotel Nacional.
It's all in good fun, of course, and Phil's handlers are getting in on the joke.
The multi-camera sitcom is now recognizing the value of a story mixed in with the joke.
"The idea for this came to me in, no joke, 20 seconds, " he says happily.
The band has made strides to embrace their image and be "in on the joke", says Paynter.
Four years ago he hit national headlines after telling a racist joke in front of the island's media.
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Mercer model of prank calls: Let the person in on the joke before things spiral out of control.
Why, for one good joke in particular, did they not occur at all?
Such good fortune seems to require a certain wry detachment: You're in on the joke, or you risk becoming it.
Mr O'Neill had become something of a joke in the financial markets, which found him increasingly difficult to take seriously.
Originally, the role was written for Holly Hunter (which is why there is still a lingering 'Piano' joke in the flick).
There is an old joke in the world of business software that ERP is a roach motel where data goes to die.
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