Except that the punch line is that men have put on dresses and make up.
The punch line: Um thinks there will be a similar shift in valuation as Apple enters new markets.
This is Mr. Obama's version of Jack Benny's old "your money or your life" routine, except without the punch line.
That is, of course, the punch line to the Aesop fable about the slow, compact tortoise and the sleek, swifter hare.
The cast of characters building to the punch line is in constant flux, but as it happens, this is the group gathered around a kitchen table on a quiet street in Bethesda, Maryland, one night this past spring.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) Chairman Sanford Weill is probably echoing the punch line on those old TV commercials: "I should have used Federal Express (nyse: FDX - news - people )!"
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" All leading up to the punch line: As they watch sorry Old Peg and his sad-sack horse and crumbling buggy ramble down the road and out of hearing range, Allen Gore, known for being a dead-serious man, puts his arm around his son and deadpans, "There goes your future, Albert.
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Here is the economic punch line: The odd, but powerful, positive that I remember well about Greece was the many modest houses along the side of the rural roads made from cement blocks that had heavy duty rods or cables poking out of the top row of blocks on all four sides.
Apple needs to wake up before they become the next punch line in jokes like RIM.
At the time of writing, Gawker has employed the term 34 times, and crowed at beating the Times, to the cultural punch line.
This is because the path of the punch is in his line of vision all the way to the target.
The dance's punch line, almost an afterthought, has the most innocent and impecunious of the potential clients for the local Shady Ladies saved from being beaten to a pulp by the Procurers when one of the pimps appears to have the "heart of gold" often attributed to the sex workers in such fictions.
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This finding flies in the face of focus groups of the past, which found that viewers responded most positively to ads that had a big surprise or punch line at the end, according to Teixeira.
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It was not so long ago that the Islanders' were the NHL's punch line, and their games were attended by few.
New York has little depth and no scoring punch outside of the top line.
One guy yelled, "too soon, " which I thought meant I didn't take a long enough pause between the set-up and punch line.
His description of the celebration quickly became a punch line.
At this nicely delivered punch line, the audience laughed.
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The name Moby Grape comes from an absurdist punch line: What's big, purple and swims in the ocean?
The replacement referees started out as a punch line to jokes, but have now become a full-fledged crisis when it comes to the integrity of the game.
The former St Mirren keeper came off his line to punch Craig's inswinging corner but the ball spun the wrong way off his fist and Willis could only help the ball into the roof of the net as he attempted to clear off the line.
Mr. Simon's reflexive reliance on tick-tock punch-line comedy is the most dated aspect of his plays, especially the darker ones that he wrote in his later years.
Gallacher accidentally caught the striker after rushing off his line to punch away Dave Mackay's long ball and Morris fired wide as his team-mate appeared to lay unconscious in the penalty box.
As Smith sat uncomfortably through the first round, television cameras caught him frowning at times and clearly disappointed that someone who has had so much success on the field was becoming a draft-night punch-line.
He tinkers and tinkers, almost like Henry Ford did with the assembly line, trying always to simply, streamline, or even rearrange the words to deliver just the right punch and just the right time so audiences do not simply smile, but bust a gut.
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For many people under the age of 50, Elizabeth Taylor was something of a punch line, known more for her multiple marriages, her perfume line and her friendship with Michael Jackson.
Stephen Kelly needed to clear off the line after Taylor failed to gain distance on his punch, while Tuncay headed straight at the keeper when a yard either side would have given his team an equaliser.
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