Beer 88 responded to the criticism with a statement, which has also been removed, ABC News reported: "In response to our earlier post, it was posted as a joke, intended as a joke and should be taken as a joke," Beer 88 wrote on its Facebook page.
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First, it's difficult to convey tone on Twitter, so something intended as a joke or satire may not be read as a joke by others, especially when taken out of context.
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" She goes, "Oh I meant it as a joke.
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Woods had, at last, racialized himself — as a joke.
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"As a joke, we were attacking each other," he added.
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This isn't unlike Silvio's "it started as a joke" reason.
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"Last election, everybody took it as a joke," she said.
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As a joke, the teens dared Ballard to eat it.
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He had not, and he took it as a joke.
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Students did not see the poster as a joke, however.
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I've only heard people mention Dr. Oz as a joke.
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His spokesman recently dismissed the leader's rants as a joke.
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The project really started as a joke with my friends.
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So, he did podcasting as a joke, as a lark.
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And so what started as a joke, now it's happening.
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"They were calling me 'Mossad' as a joke," he said.
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Sinosphere HONG KONG — It was not intended as a joke.
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She heard them pretend to be gay as a joke.
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I was using it as a joke, but go ahead.
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As a joke, I was telling people, 'That's the whole show.
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"Yes," she replies, knowing Arya will understand it as a joke.
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That's why I'd say he shouldn't be taken as a joke.
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"Shamin probably just told me that as a joke," she said.
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We always said we'd do a Vegas tour as a joke.
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It started as a joke, he says, but then it ballooned.
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Drury said what started as a joke was becoming a reality.
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"We don't see this prank call as a joke," Livingston said.
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"I in no way take this as a joke," he said.
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You can see Sarah appeared to take it as a joke.
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I'd been telling Sam that for months, but as a joke.
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But even doing it as a joke can get you banned.
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Diggy is also wearing a bowtie, but not as a joke.
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On Thursday, Pompeo said he took Giuliani's comments as a joke.
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It was even used as a joke in the later season.
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"I honestly started it as a joke," Rowin told the publication.
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As a joke, Dill put "Call Me Maybe" on Fowler's wedge.
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They dismiss it as a joke but soon realize it isn't.
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I wrote that song as a joke with OB from OVO.
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"Everyone in class was taking it as a joke," he said.
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"If it's seen as a joke, all the better," he replied.
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Harris insisted to me that Almena meant this as a joke.
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Many Germans dismiss him as a joke, their best-case scenario.
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The account, Mr. Nyffenegger said, "started as a joke" between friends.
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"D'Andra, you wanted to do it as a joke," Brittingham responded.
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I'm sorry, I should be above easy sarcasm as a joke.
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"I bought it for my dad as a joke," he said.
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In fact, convenience store food regularly stood in as a joke.
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Arthur Curry existed largely as a joke in mainstream pop culture.
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There's no way to describe this other than as a joke.
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Contreras believed Karem meant what he said initially as a joke and was taken as a joke (until Gorka reacted), and that the administration's arguments so far ignored others' behavior in the Rose Garden that day.
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We treated him as a joke for a long, long time, and didn't understand that treating him as a joke only gave him more power, because his core voters thought we were constantly mocking them all along.
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Talking to reporters Monday, Duterte brushed off the quotes as a joke.
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They suggest sending her a collection of "Reborn" dolls as a joke.
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When I first started out rapping, I did it as a joke.
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"It started out as a joke," Dan Kurtz, the app's creator says.
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Which is surprising; I just assumed he was running as a joke.
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But I say 'darling' too as a joke, so it works perfectly.
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I'd maybe do that as a joke and I'd totally do that.
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And before you ask, no, he didn't say that as a joke.
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But I say 'darling,' too, as a joke, so it works perfectly.
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Other tweeters took my inquiry as a joke: "A bummer," someone wrote.
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"Our producer meant it as a joke," said PR manager David Martha.
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The sources said they believed Sadler's comments were intended as a joke.
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" What started off as a joke, he said, "turned into a revelation.
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It grew on me because it was always said as a joke.
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He met Ms. Taylor while moonlighting as a joke writer for comedians.
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Meyers told CNN Business that it was mostly instituted as a joke.
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Facebook later apologized for not correctly identifying the article as a joke.
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"I took that as a joke," Lewandowski testified about the firing threat.
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What started out as a joke has turned into a real business.
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Those officers regarded the comments as a joke, according to the Times.
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"It all started as a joke," Vanneste told the Wall Street Journal.
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And he, in turn, feels disrespected as a joke who never cared.
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There's no defending the choice in our present climate, except as a joke.
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Sure, we do it as a joke, but one with a nasty undertone.
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"We gave each other autographed posters as a joke back then," Spade continued.
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"I see it all as a joke, it doesn't upset me," she said.
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The Klu Klux Klan started as a joke inspired by the minstrel stage.
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I took it home to give to my roommate mostly as a joke.
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What began largely as a joke has evolved into a billion dollar business.
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Gonzalez has since reportedly attempted to pass off the comment as a joke.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell treat Trump's message as a joke: They quickly
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The president later said that his scripted comments were meant as a joke.
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I would tweet something as a joke, and it would hit the media.
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But, unlike the Doom 28 secret levels, it doesn't play as a joke.
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Of course, this narrative assumes the whole thing is meant as a joke.
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I was hired as a joke on him while he was on vacation.
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"We wanted to do the show once as a joke," Mr. Fowlie said.
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He said Mr. Klemp's recent remark seemed to be intended as a joke.
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"Soliciting prostitution, everyone continues to see it as a joke," said the comment.
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It began, like so many modern presidential campaign stories do, as a joke.
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Despite the seriousness of their support, the hashtag started mostly as a joke.
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As a joke, I grabbed a chalkboard and wrote BVI one-way $39.
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"No one's really mad; we all have it as a joke," she said.
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People tend to remember Y20023K as a joke, and not a good one.
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Officials discovered a deputy sent the toy to his colleague as a joke.
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"There's the risk that people will think of it as a joke, maybe, but I don't see it as a joke," he added, on a recent trip from his home in Milan to New York, where he lived for many years.
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"It all started as a joke but it took over my life," Dodd said.
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What started as a joke between friends then prompted the creation of a business.
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As a joke, Benny had slapped the man across the face with a fish.
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Afterwards Kyrgios described the performance of the match officials as "a joke" and "horrendous".
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When Kim Kardashian: Hollywood launched in June 2014, many perceived it as a joke.
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Dogecoin was originally conceived as a joke featuring a popular Shiba Inu dog meme.
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You've described your campaign both as a joke and as an endurance performance piece.
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One of her mother's neighbours named his wifi network 'FBI Man' as a joke.
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British singer Ed Sheeran even stopped by wearing a red coat as a joke.
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The family owns the town, which was purchased as a joke many years before.
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It started off as a joke, really, and it's getting out of hand now.
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As a joke I say that she has great taste in everything but men.
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This started out as a joke, but I now think it's a great idea.
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She has apologized for the comment and said it was meant as a joke.
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Someone recreated the slogan for competitor Southwest Airlines, too (as a joke, of course).
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Partly as a joke to herself, Susan does this with her rival Sylvia's name.
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The fervor started on Tumblr, of course, and was probably intended as a joke.
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But the only way this works as a joke is by demeaning gay people.
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I messaged her "bout to cum" as a joke, but I wasn't even joking.
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At the start of his international career, Smith was widely regarded as a joke.
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As a joke, she posted a tweet inviting her celebrity follower to the wedding.
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What began as a joke, a silly play on words, is not funny anymore.
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Actually, when he was first approached by Callaway, Blevins took it as a joke.
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Going to confession as a joke, she baits him by comparing religion to opium.
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Even games by other publishers used the code, as a joke or in earnest.
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It was a video that was meant to put out really as a joke.
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And I think social media companies should label it as such, as a joke.
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Vindman took it as a joke and reported it up the chain of command.
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Some people like to smear the cake everywhere as a joke, some people don't.
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And some complainants continue to couch the company's self-styled compliance 'remedies' as a joke.
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I think, Maybe he sent out one of his work buddies out as a joke?
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It is truly -- I used to use this as a joke but it&aposs real.
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I think it started as a joke… then the world's media went a little bonkers.
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HARF: It&aposs not-- WATTERS: I didn&apost think it came off as a joke.
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It started off as a joke, but it looks like Animoji karaoke has become official.
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"The idea started as a joke," Samantha, a photographer based in Bremen, Georgia, tells PEOPLE.
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Straight America viewed him as a joke and gay men saw him as a disgrace.
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For those minded to view the BRICS as a joke, it is easy to dismiss.
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" The ranking account started as a joke in 2015 and Nelson said he's "still learning.
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Were there any other names you came up with as a joke or back up?
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"I was assuming he'd take it as a joke, obviously he didn't," Velzian tells Refinery29.
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"I meant it as a joke, I don't condone violence," she said of the offer.
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He responded to the email as a joke but ended up snagging a real invite.
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Although it was meant as a joke, it has generated mixed reactions on social media.
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While it's intended as a joke, it actually speaks a fairly deep truth about Mae.
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The sign was constructed as a joke when they built a skybridge connecting two buildings.
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"I haven't made my dance record yet," she told the Boston Globe as a joke.
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"They should not be played with, whatever the circumstance, even if meant as a joke."
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It's tempting to potassium off as a joke, but these fruitful creatures are no gag.
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They should not be played with, whatever the circumstance, even if meant as a joke.
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I wanted to make him laugh at first, I meant it almost as a joke.
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I wish I could take credit for this as a joke, but alas, I cannot.
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His heated rhetoric is often written off as a joke by the Washington press corps.
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One of the guys was talking about giving Glamour Shots gift certificates as a joke.
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In an interview, Mr. Weatherly said the remark about spanking was meant as a joke.
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I opened all our conversations with that reminder as a joke — but I wasn't kidding.
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Maybe drinking beyond your means and taking the transit because you're broke as a joke.
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Many students try to use extremist material as a joke, laughing it off when challenged.
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"I didn't think I would make anything, it all started as a joke," he said.
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"I said it as a joke, but I think there's something to it," he says.
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"There was a tendency to regard the whole affair as a joke," he later recalled.
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Johnson later backpedaled after it was revealed the message was likely sent as a joke.
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We treated it as a joke for too long and then it became a reality.
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Meechan, however, argues the video was only intended as a joke to upset his girlfriend.
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Reed also allegedly told police he called the girl "Idiot," but meant it as a joke.
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The Twitter account, she explains, was made by her brother as a joke several years ago.
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Some countries put up their biggest stars and writing teams; others treat it as a joke.
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It began kind of as a joke, and it was way too fun to just stop.
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As a joke, Kath pointed the gun at his temple and pulled the trigger, Pankow recalled.
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And that's because this is what he wrote: He says he did it as a joke.
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And when challenged on his actions, he tried to pass it all off as a joke.
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What may have started off as a joke for T.C. could help him become the winner.
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At the crux of it all, I've never been able to see them as a joke.
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Dawson said the comments were meant to be taken as a joke and didn't actually happen.
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" Yiannopoulos has a history of promoting violence against journalists and later dismissing it as a "joke.
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Some treated it as a joke, selling things like water bottles and bricks at ridiculous prices.
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As a joke, he then playfully put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger.
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"At the end of the day, fat is portrayed mostly just as a joke," says Lieberman.
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Boaty McBoatface may have started as a joke, but its latest findings are no laughing matter.
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But most bands do recognize it as a joke and do engage in the same way.
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This was before the Iowa caucuses, back when Trump was still widely treated as a joke.
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I made the T-shirts as a joke, and before I knew it, people wanted them.
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Send a sarcastic comment to a friend that you want to be received as a joke?
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It came across as a joke, but represented the only avenue of attack Republicans had left.
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Hyde-Smith has said the remark was meant as a joke and apologized for the comment.
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Mr. Trump has dismissed the idea of a Russian intervention on his behalf as a joke.
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As a joke, Rojcewicz said, the players once showed up to the gym in their pajamas.
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His presidential bid was treated as a joke at its outset by many so-called experts.
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There is no ego whatsoever, and if one is present it's being used as a joke.
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I always thought of it as a joke—my selfies were not to be taken seriously.
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But ultimately, his reaction videos started as a joke — or rather, an exercise in telling jokes.
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The anecdote started as a joke about tattoos: "I got a Harry Potter tattoo," Davidson began.
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Her only requirement was that she was having some rappers open for us—as a joke.
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"Even as a joke, it just wasn't that fun to look at his face," she says.
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GARDNER Since it's humor, that's such an important point — that it's never used as a joke.
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" DONALD SUTHERLAND I said, "Just as a joke, let's do one take with my bare bum.
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"I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke," he said, according to The Denver Post.
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So Lucia sent me this song by the Brazilian musician Tim Maia just as a joke.
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Republicans, who control both chambers of the State Legislature, described Mr. Trump's comment as a joke.
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To understand why, let's revisit what I learned from the currency I created as a joke.
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But a friend bought me a Hello Kitty patch and I put it on as a joke.
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In treating politics as a joke-filled prank, Mr Trump is, as so often, right on trend.
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It was a low budget movie, and for the most part I took it as a joke.
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What started as a joke about the detergent balls being mysteriously appetizing has officially gone too far.
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Havard later told The Times-Picayune that his amendment was intended as a joke about government overreach.
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Many Americans were initially confused by Trump and his unorthodox behavior, or dismissed him as a joke.
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Vera's complaint about the theft comes off as a joke, but it's far more serious in reality.
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And, let's be honest, I've also used it as a joke to spam my friends with emojis.
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I just made some T-shirts as a joke, and I was like, Oh, I'm still here.
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The San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen used the term as a joke as early as 1991.
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An Instagram themed around making marijuana beards on magazine portraits started as a joke while getting high.
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Not bad for the person who released "Look What You Made Me Do" not as a joke.
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Instead, he said, the almond story started as a joke between his wife and their personal chef.
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Sources close to West insisted that the photo itself was meant as a joke, but ... we're skeptical.
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Passengers who spoke to the Sun about the policy described it as "a joke", "insulting" and "outrageous".
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I say that sort of as a joke, but in reality, the music business is really tough.
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The messages are filled with misogynistic and homophobic obscenities, as well as a joke about hurricane victims.
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It's their money, and the limit on sea lice is not to be treated as a joke.
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Kim definitely didn't consent to this kind of touching, and didn't take the incident as a joke.
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Men may dismiss a filthy remark as a joke when women hear it as an intentional humiliation.
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Clinton because "she's not Trump," but added that the election was seen as "a joke" on campus.
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As in: The offer was a real one but, once rejected, was laughed off as a joke.
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She also defended her remark about Jarrett as a joke, in a tweet to a CNN reporter.
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The purported experts inside the Beltway dismissed him as a joke at the beginning of his quest.
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Here's what they said: To the degree one can ever take what is said as a joke.
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It started out as a joke but I was surprised people seriously wanted to get it done.
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Despite beginning as a joke, the dinner is often credited with legitimizing Rousseau in the art world.
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For a lot of people in the continental US, Spam is often thought of as a joke.
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In interviews, Peckham has said the site began as a joke, as a way to mock Dictionary.
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Above her head, as a joke, someone had pasted a thought bubble: "You fascinate me!" it said.
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It will be up to them to make sure women's health is not treated as a joke.
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I think by playing it off as a joke, I refused to believe that it was happening.
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The first time she went to retrieve her press pass, which Lauer had taken as a joke.
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U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY MNUCHIN SAYS MY COMMENTS ABOUT GRETA THUNBERG AT DAVOS WERE INTENDED AS A JOKE
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He claimed he had intentionally fired the gun as a joke — as if this were any better.
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The Chainsmokers now say they wrote it "as a joke," but the effect is condescending, not funny.
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And as a joke — but not quite — people in the office gave Ms. Ward a sheriff's badge.
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And if the movie itself is best taken as a joke, it's a very bad dad joke.
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But some people thought the phony study might be misleading, and should be labeled as a joke.
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What starts as a joke progresses into a load of application forms, phone calls, and screen tests.
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Tlaib said one colleague, ostensibly as a joke, asked her to produce a birth certificate to prove citizenship.
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"I asked on Snapchat as a joke to put me in and people actually did it," he said.
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Hudson said he started posting videos to TikTok as a joke when it was still known as Musically.
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Nokia was viewed as a joke by the gaming community, and an overpriced oddity by regular phone customers.
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In fact, co-founder Doug Quint tells PEOPLE that Big Gay Ice Cream started almost as a joke.
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She built the site as a joke while she was applying for web developer jobs back in February.
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Chelsea, of course, explained that it was completely light hearted and meant as a joke, before getting defensive.
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There is putting a hat on your dog as a joke, and then there is Little Lola Sunshine.
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In other words, the whole thing likely started as a joke and just happened to go impressively viral.
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After settling their argument, Kourtney and Kendall staged a pretend fight as a joke to stress Khloé out.
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"The transport minister is demonstrating here that he treats public transport as a joke," Garrett told 2GB radio.
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In the years after the his encounter with Spacey, Harry admits to having treated it as a joke.
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When he does comedy, he'll often take off his prosthetic arm and wave it around as a joke.
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A 2014 university report stated that Dennard claimed his behavior was intended as a joke, the newspaper added.
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The aide, Kelly Sadler, had made the misguided remark, reportedly intended as a joke, nearly a month ago.
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A cryptocurrency that originally started as a joke now has a market cap of more than $1.7 billion.
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Castejon told the paper the teacher appeared to be trying to play off the award as a joke.
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Some people are going OFF on Waka on social media ... others are laughing it off as a joke.
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And they've done so, presumably, all as a joke, in order to heighten the absurdity of his persona.
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One of Crenshaw's study subjects ended up being known as "Stinkypeen," after initially choosing it as a joke.
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Now, even users who downloaded TikTok as a joke are saying they don't know how to escape it.
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At first he's dismissed as a joke, and then all-too-late his rivals realise they've underestimated him.
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Did my posting that picture that my wife took as a joke diminish anyone's enjoyment in that audience?
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"As a joke, I said, 'This is me researching my next movie, "Christmas at the Plaza," ' " Oliver said.
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"I said to him, 'I have to start bringing in your cheeses,' almost as a joke," she told MUNCHIES.
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Geati said he made his event as a joke (obviously), but agreed it was part of a bigger trend.
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But, at least one person didn't take the contractor's cries for help as a joke and called the police.
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So if they are buying [the toys] for novelty value or as a joke, we are cool with that.
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If history is any guide, Trump's supporters will concoct excuses or even pass the video off as a joke.
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WHEN Donald Trump announced that he was running for president in June 2015, he was dismissed as a joke.
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The account was later revealed to have been created as a parody by a few friends as a "joke".
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I still take it as a joke, because I'm an immigrant and those comments don't reflect who I am.
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Rossum took to Instagram today to share a photo of herself wearing a towel, and not as a joke.
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The only asset they have left is the titular run-down town Johnny had once bought as a joke.
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"I decided to, as a joke, see if I could write a Game Boy Advance emulator in JavaScript" — GBA.
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Searle's report indicates that Krauss characterized the comments about a threesome as a joke, a defense he used repeatedly.
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"The whole thing started out as a joke," said Barnard, who got his officiant license using an online service.
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As for why it plays so well as a joke — well, it's sort of like seeing your dad shirtless.
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Jen Widerstrom only started the ketogenic diet "as a joke," but was impressed with her results — with some caveats.
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Whole Foods, for example, was known for being notoriously expensive – it was even dubbed "Whole Paycheck" as a joke.
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"You don't think she's ... manipulative?" she asks Rob afterward, trying to sell it as a joke but obviously failing.
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Because straight people actually do ask us how gay sex works, and they don't mean it as a joke.
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A grown up was acting overly excited as a joke and the cat walked across the room then back.
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What started as a joke about having Black History Month every month turned into something more serious and intentional.
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The show was on at midnight in Edinburgh and as a joke on the poster we had free crèche.
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As a joke, Josh decided to decorate Mama June's empty living room walls with photos of scantily-clad women.
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Both McCarthy and Ryan this week downplayed McCarthy's Russia comments as a joke and a bad attempt at humor.
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In his confirmation hearing, Vitiello apologized for the racially tinged tweet and said it was meant as a joke.
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Paul Krugman When Donald Trump began his run for the White House, many people treated it as a joke.
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My assumption is that the public's unfamiliarity with this concept would drastically limits its effectiveness as a joke-premise.
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So, when the carbon fiber Halo Board arrived at the Gizmodo office, I took it home as a joke.
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"Suzanne is taken advantage of, ignored, belittled, and worst of all, framed as a joke," Bastien wrote in September.
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"I think it's obviously intended as a joke," Robert MacNeil, an author and a Newseum trustee emeritus, said Friday.
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"She kind of took it as a joke the night before because of the memes on Twitter," Morales said.
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It takes countless levels of irony to use the phrase (along with "Bush did 9/0003") as a joke.
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Hot Carla was a prisoner who was treated somewhat as a joke by the show, from what I recall.
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The officer told the station that the barista contacted him, apologized and said it was meant as a joke.
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It was far from the first time Ocasio-Cortez was treated as a joke by more-senior, male politician.
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And a first baseman known as Marvelous Marv Throneberry, with the Marvelous meant as a joke, not a compliment.
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Has anybody, even as a joke, pulled out his dick and started jerking off during the course of this?
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Mosely on Thursday posted an apology on his Facebook page , referring to the comments to the deputy as a joke.
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" Asked whether Kourtney, 39, has ever threatened legal action against her in the past, Kim says, "Maybe as a joke.
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Boone said the concept started off as a joke among his bandmates when they were looking to create something new.
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Many of those postcards seem like the kind of thing one might send as a joke, or to be shocking.
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To me, the trend has peaked to such an extent that it's almost becoming a little shopworn as a joke.
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For example, some may think "they should just take it as a joke, toughen up, and soldier through," she said.
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The man told authorities that he uploaded the video from his cell phone, and it was intended as a joke.
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She swiped right as a joke (kind of), just to see if he would match her back — and he did.
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Every time, as a joke, my fiancé honks repeatedly, whoops and yells out the window, ''The South will rise again!
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I knew exactly what I wanted to do: I wanted to program a birthday cake for myself as a joke.
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I did it as a joke on tour but it seems to make people very happy so I kept it.
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It wasn't sticking its tongue out at the intimacy of the couple, or treating the musician's performance as a joke.
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"He caught me flexing… as a joke," explains Gronkowski, whose favorite Tambor character is George Bluth, Sr. from Arrested Development.
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To me, the laughter didn't seem malicious; students oblivious to the harassment simply perceived these crude notes as a joke.
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Millions of Snapchat users saw the International Women's Day-inspired filter Wednesday and sent it to friends as a joke.
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Erin apologized, but we're told she kept trying to blow it off as a joke ... which only made it worse.
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" As it turns out, Bellovin said he originally included the photo of the statue in the chapter "as a joke.
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Sironen may have intended it as a joke, but the avian-inspired trend seemed to earn a flock of followers.
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In The Confidence Man, Apprentice supervising editor Jonathan Braun asks Pruitt if Trump treated the first season as a joke.
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To be fair, in an interview with BuzzFeed News, Smith-Walter confirmed that he meant the tweet as a joke.
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The company started out as a joke that Jo, my then colleague and future cofounder, and I took too far.
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According to #JeffSesh's website, the idea of using Sessions's face to sell weed paraphernalia started out, naturally, as a joke.
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VanWyngarden: Yeah, you don't want to be annoying or come off as a joke band, like Flight of the Conchords.
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Her colleagues at the agency talked about cannabis businesses as a joke rather than a legitimate regulatory challenge, she said.
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She was also his oracle, predicting his nomination and election back when most others still dismissed him as a joke.
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Croatia has dismissed it as a joke, and Serbia has detained Jedlicka and others while trying to enter the territory.
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The first time Dudamel stepped onto the conductor's podium, at just 11 or 12, he meant it as a joke.
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Some customers have been berating workers, even coughing on them either accidentally or as a joke amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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An earlier version of this article misstated a word inserted into Mr. Williams's dialogue on "The Wire" as a joke.
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During an appearance on "Late Night With Seth Meyers," Paltrow said that the candle "sort of started as a joke."
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He said Wednesday that he had not taken offense at Mr. McCarthy's remark, which he also interpreted as a joke.
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Alexander countered later by bringing a mini basketball from his office as a joke, and the senators started using it.
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"I really wrote it as a joke," Mr. Micks, an industry conference planner in Toronto, said in a telephone interview.
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"I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke," Bonniwell said in the since-deleted tweet, The Denver Post reported.
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He made the subreddit two years ago as a joke and named it after the now-deleted user account Fuck_You_Karen.
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On Monday, when Mr. Munoz apologized for having to "re-accomodate these customers," the internet saw that as a joke.
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When a relative forwarded the pizzeria's email promotion to Ms. Wynn and Mr. Poms as a joke, the couple laughed.
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The 23-year-old officer then admitted he had lied about the supposed incident "as a joke," Mr. Hornaday said.
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Earlier, partly as a joke, she had made a number of oil paintings of imaginary partners for her unattached friends.
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In a widely viewed video posted online on Wednesday, Biden characterized the sitting president as a joke among world leaders.
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In such chaotic and frightening times, it's disheartening to see misinformation, even intended as a joke, be spread so easily.
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Instead, the title was given to 24-year-old law student Sven Finke, who offered to step up as a joke.
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Aides said he made a comment about having someone "wear a wire" around the president as a joke during a meeting.
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"A bunch of guys did the Sieg Heil as a joke yesterday, making fun of the cameraman," he had told them.
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But the show ultimately participated in the basest kind of queer-baiting, treating the possibility of gay romance as a joke.
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But he owned up to it at the time, describing the Miller call as a "joke gone awry," said the Post.
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I made the work as a joke and now seeing it actually just easily put up like that… Kind of hurts.
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"It started out as a joke, but…if you can't denounce the KKK, then you're against me, you know?" he says.
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He tended to play threats off as a joke, the classmate added, and no one seemed to take them very seriously.
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His attempted suicide is played off as a joke; his depression and despair are just another way to demonstrate his invulnerability.
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By the same token, the fact that Kiryu is comfortable and loving with Haruto doesn't come off as a joke either.
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My best friend and I spend a few hours perusing the listings and sending each other extravagant penthouses as a joke.
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Some of the #NetNeutality tweets acknowledge the misspelling as a joke, or include it alongside #NetNeutrality to capture a larger audience.
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Worgull: Trance is more like Paul Van Dyk and the like, so I kind of use the word as a joke.
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Hatch: I've got a meme page about Owen Wilson's "wow," so originally the idea was to do it as a joke.
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I decided to hold on to it as a joke, but one night my friends and I ended up taking it.
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When it's not done as a joke, the inclusion of ring boys seems to go well, like it did for Honorius.
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The echo symbol "started as a joke among us," a host of "The Daily Shoah" said on the podcast this week.
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" Within an hour, Trump sent a follow-up tweet calling Cummings a racist and deriding his "radical 'oversight'" as "a joke.
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Third, just because Schiller and Trump took the five women offer as a joke doesn't mean that's how it was intended.
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Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard and personal aide, testified that he took the offer as a joke, two of the sources said.
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Someone is selling a $500 Silicon Valley investor 'starter kit' as a joke about how venture capitalists all dress the same
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Many have countered Johnson's interpretation with their own — this was simply an offhand quip and should be taken as a joke.
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It is 2017, and a prominent New York City butcher allegedly gave a noose to a black deliveryman as a joke.
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The internet comedian, aka Young Busco, rose to fame in 2015 when he mocked a police officer's shoes as a joke.
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" Bloomberg had previously resisted the notion of releasing the women from the nondisclosure agreements, dismissing his alleged comments as "a joke.
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Mr. Kessler redistilled white whiskey with slices of pepperoni pizza from the local pizzeria, Mikey's Late Night Slice, as a joke.
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" When asked by MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin why it wasn't labeled as a joke, Singh responded, "I think it was clear.
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It reflected a change: The man Clinton's team once saw as a joke had become a threat to her presidential ambitions.
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In 2016, Musk also started The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunneling company, which he says "started out as a joke."
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That the phrase ends up losing its status as a joke says everything about the book's take on time and desire.
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She just discovered the crisp red "Make America Great Again" hat that a colleague left on her desk as a joke.
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The Daily News reported the incident was not recorded and that Gonzalez tried to pass off the comment as a joke.
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One of the senators involved in the event brought a little basketball as a joke, and the senators started using it.
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I said his father was an orangutan and offered $5 million to anyone who could prove he wasn't — as a joke.
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But she initially treats her first big opportunity, landing a dream job at the world's premier fashion magazine, as a joke.
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If a movie gets made off of something you posted on the internet as a joke, do you get a cut?
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While plenty of followers condemned the CW star, others brushed off the tweet as a joke with good intentions and poor execution.
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He told The Advocate he last saw her on Christmas Eve and had given her a Daisy BB gun as a joke.
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But Christine was never conceived of as a joke, and that was striking to me the first time I saw the show.
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"We didn't take it as a joke or some type of game she was playing with a 9-month-old," he says.
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Fans of the original will recognize nearly every scene, down to Dell shaving Philip's beard into a Hitler mustache as a joke.
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The hashtag started as a joke about a bullied YouTube star before another YouTuber turned it into the Twitter shut down hoax.
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Gonzalez allegedly passed off the claim as a joke, but an NYPD spokesman tells PEOPLE the department is taking the threat seriously.
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And, at random, some other highlights from the list: You might want to hope that people shared these articles as a joke.
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A future mafia run by stereotypically greedy jews, for example, could only work as a joke about the fictitious creators' blind spots.
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" Semenya said in a 2009 interview with South Africa's You magazine, "I see it all as a joke, it doesn't upset me.
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BEIJING — Moses Lam was an overworked mortgage broker when he started selling bags of air from Canada on eBay as a joke.
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She meant it as a joke, but a lot of us in queer fan community would like to interpret this as fact.
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It's one of those things that starts as a joke — replace the mural of infamously racist former mayor Frank Rizzo with Gritty!
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Was the line meant as a joke, or as a product of the delusion that the internet was–is–a boy's club?
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Was chosen randomly by software team as a joke (they didn't tell me in advance) as an example of the hidden feature.
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"Zendaya got sent flowers from Bruno Mars and I keep saying [Rihanna's] new song is about me as a joke," Holland says.
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As a joke, Adam [one of the producers] laid in another producer's 'ohhh, yesss,' which was picked up by the camera mic.
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So it started out as a joke, but at what point did you realize it had the potential to be something real?
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According to the FDR Library, the theme was chosen as a joke, poking fun at FDR's critics who called him a dictator.
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The internet comedian, known as Young Busco, made a huge splash in 2015 after mocking a police officer's shoes as a joke.
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Our first show was at a birthday party in someone's apartment, put together as a joke, but everyone had a great time.
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It was originally suggested as a joke, but as Gage continued to work on his idea, it became more and more apt.
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" This one's often meant as a joke, of course, but I still have a serious answer: "Well, we're both usually wearing pants.
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The Justice Department and Rosenstein have denied the story, and other news organizations have reported the comments were made as a joke.
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However she pushed back against its seriousness, telling investigators that it wasn't intended to be threatening and was meant as a joke.
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There are also obscure alternatives, like dogecoin, which was created as a joke based on a viral meme of a Shiba Inu.
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The next year, Jessica started BeigeCardigan—the name comes from Urban Dictionary's term for a bland housewife—"As a joke," she said.
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Mr. Trump dismissed the idea as a joke, and his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, called it "crazy" in remarks broadcast on CNN.
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Musk, the CEO of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX, had previously described his tunnel business as a hobby that started as a joke.
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I had failed to understand anything, or take anything from it, and had told the story as a joke, laughing at myself.
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People making memes and spreading hate, even as a joke, toward sex workers are just making it harder to exist, she said.
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"The casting couch was always thought of as a joke," Helen Mirren said in a 1991 documentary Sex For Jobs in Hollywood.
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In other words, "Glendale Biennial" only works as a joke because the city's perceived cultural deficit is the butt of that joke.
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Since going viral, Momo has indeed become a YouTube fixture, as a subject of analysis, as a joke, and as a troll.
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And so they were christened Parrotheads, just as a joke, but then fans began to wear feathers and beak masks to shows.
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Mr. Abbott made a remark at a gun range in Austin last month that some interpreted as a joke about shooting reporters.
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He had merely ordered five iconic hats from Amazon as memorabilia and decided to wear one into his courtroom as a joke.
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Ugly details like this surface, then get abandoned, or treated as a joke, because the show is contractually obligated to party on.
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It's easy to treat Trump as a joke — until you remember that the stakes here involve weapons that can destroy the world.
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Jackson Palmer, who invented the started-as-a-joke-but-then-became-a-whole-thing cryptocurrency Dogecoin, is someone who understands the feeling.
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Another FWB, T., texts me and asks if he gave me strep throat, after I posted the question on Snapchat (as a joke).
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"We always went into this knowing that people see us as a joke or click bait," Mx. Bhaskaran, 26, of Fecal Matter said.
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IT IS easy to dismiss the latest project by Eyal Gever, an Israeli artist, as a joke, not least because it involves laughs.
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Mosley posted an apology last week on his Facebook page, characterizing the comments as a joke and that he had shown bad judgment.
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The prankster says it was done as a joke, adding Trump should pay the price if he's ever found guilty of a crime.
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"For us, it started as a joke to show how much we are committed to each other," Puerto Rico's Enrique Hernandez told ESPN.
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I think when Awsten posted some poor fashion choice as a joke I said that it was the ugliest thing I'd ever seen.
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What initially started as a joke quickly bloomed into a new business venture; but even Musk appears to be unsure where it's heading.
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Ah, April Fool's Day, the holiday that gives us a free pass to be jerks and then laugh it off as a joke.
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She says it was not received as a joke and the kids immediately told a teacher, and Mateen was suspended for 2 weeks.
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There's another video I've got called "Men from Up the Stairs," [which I did as a joke because] people were overanalyzing my work.
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"Juggalos have often been the subject of parody, but we cannot dismiss their treatment as a joke," the group said in a statement.
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Even as a joke, using "gay" as an insult is unacceptable and posters like this only serve to normalize this type of rhetoric.
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The expression was usually uttered in an offhand way by Venezuelans as a joke, a motto of our characteristically joyous disregard for authority.
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White House officials reportedly said Trump's retweet suggesting he should be given an additional two years in office was meant as a joke.
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"Madrid has described Bale&aposs actions as "a joke in very bad taste," according to ESPN, while Madrid Sports called the celebration "unforgivable.
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When Storm Area 51 went viral earlier in July, creator Matty Roberts quickly expressed that his Facebook Group was intended as a joke.
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However, he claimed the teacher tried to play the incident off as a joke and urged the family to not forget the trophy.
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The mural's designer did it as a joke, but Mr. Gilkes, 33, and Mr. Stirling, 36, were sufficiently amused to let it stand.
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Evelyn Lozada's flirty tweet to Rob Kardashian started as a joke, but now she's dead serious ... she'd go on a date with him.
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What connects Blade to the modern superhero film, though, is that it took its concept seriously rather than treating it as a joke.
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Autumn says they should put the bench together in the parking lot of Papacita's and all three sit on it, as a joke.
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Much like the presidential aspirations of one Donald J. Trump, avocado lattes started as a joke but then became a terrifyingly real prospect.
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Jean-François Pré came up with the idea as a joke after being frustrated from constantly hearing about the spread of the virus.
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Viewing him as a joke is a mistake not because it's rude, but because it contributes to a dangerous underestimation of his power.
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"The casting couch was always thought of as a joke," Helen Mirren said in a 1991 documentary called Sex For Jobs in Hollywood.
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President Donald Trump, either as a joke or entirely seriously, is apparently weighing the prospect of the United States federal government purchasing Greenland.
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" He said the idea of a Space Force had started as a joke but he had then decided it was a "great idea.
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First introduced as a joke, of course, then as an acceptable policy that maybe not all users agree with but is worth discussing.
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"Friends that I'd had round for parties all said as a joke that I should make a restaurant out of it," he explains.
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" And, in a speech in California in March, he admitted that the Space Force began as a joke: "We have the Army, the Navy.
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At that point, cops say one of the alleged robbers removed his mask and tried to play the whole thing off as a joke.
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"I ended up making a tamale bath bomb with actual cornhusk as a joke" in response to her mom's crack, Rodriguez tells PEOPLE Chica.
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Beth Dow first approached the idea of moving to Vermont as a joke when she and her husband saw the headlines about the program.
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The villas advertised on the website never existed, one Fyre employee said — they listed them as a joke, not expecting anyone to buy them.
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As a joke I walked over to my teammate's avatar to virtually bump fists and was pleasantly surprised when the controller vibrated for feedback.
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The Weinstein Co. is broke as a joke and a review of its books is scaring the one potential buyer who could save it.
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Everyone is looking: sizing up who's here as a joke and who's here for real, and who knows someone, or might, or is someone.
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Because it's McKinnon it's fun to watch, but this conceit would barely even land as a joke tweet, much less a five-minute sketch.
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Instead, the doctor who performed her C-section found the IUD during the operation, and stuck it in the baby's hand as a joke.
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When the executive tried to get human resources involved, his complaints (which included a photo of the incident) were allegedly perceived as a joke.
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I asked a very serious question and everybody took it as a joke because this upcoming election cycle is about to be a joke.
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I tweeted the idea as a joke, but so many people were telling me to do it that I decided to just write it.
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George H. W. Bush also said he was sorry for groping women, but not before saying that he was doing it as a joke.
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Daniel Amerga, a performer with Fekat, started with the circus six years ago when his friends brought him to a class as a joke.
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The Martinez twins, he explains, came onto his team composed of best friends who treated everything as a joke, where nothing was off-limits.
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When Colbert asked her why she was taking a year off, her reply of "Because I'm so miserable," barely came out as a joke.
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Other extensions modify content on behalf of users, sometimes as a joke, other times to make pages more legible or to add extra features.
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The artist says that her first attempt was with a squirrel design, as a joke, but has since graduated to much more elaborate shapes.
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I held on to my friend's shoulder and dropped in on it as a joke, and everyone started tripping, like, maybe this is possible.
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Cashook started watching videos of people making their own AirPods, but mostly found people chopping the wires off of Apple headphones as a joke.
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Schiller said in his testimony that he took the offer, which came from a man accompanying Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, as a joke.
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He has denied the more salacious allegations in the dossier and, according to Schiller's sworn testimony, both men took the offer as a joke.
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He had previously said he would consider running on a ticket as a vice president, but then brushed off those comments as a joke.
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" He also lashed out at Cummings, calling the prominent African American lawmaker a "racist" and dismissed his oversight of the administration as a "joke.
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"I came up with this idea as a joke and decided it would be funny to implement it," he told me in an email.
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"Everything I do is kind of sarcastic, so I did it as a joke when I moved from Orange County to LA," Star said.
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" Mr. Hagerman said that on a typical day he liked to walk into the shop and ask, as a joke, "Do you have eggs?
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On that winter night in the factory, when, he said, a supervisor admitted drawing the figure as a joke, Mr. Diaz had had enough.
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One of the people briefed on the conversation said it was possible Mr. Trump had intended the comments to Mr. McAleenan as a joke.
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In the Town of Phil Campbell, a Gathering of Phil Campbells (20183) What started as a joke, a centennial celebration for Phil Campbell, Ala.
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He expects gifts other than the huge cardboard head of George Washington that my brother and I bought for two dollars as a joke.
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" In a statement shared on Twitter Thursday, Slowthai said what began as a joke "escalated to a point of shameful actions on my part.
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It's clear that "lying dog-faced pony soldier" itself was meant as a joke, and that lines like this are part of Biden's style.
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Many excused her Wall Street speeches — Clinton apologizes only for their "bad optics" in the book — and most portrayed the emails as a joke.
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In reality, they were at a restaurant with colleagues celebrating the funding; the group had suggested the tweet as a joke, Ms. Rubio said.
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In both instances, the people believed the slur was intended as a joke, which they felt only highlighted the company's skewed perspective on race.
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He has a number of massive hits under his belt, but he's been seen as a joke by many people for almost two decades.
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Though Momoa intended for his comment to be taken as a joke, he is facing criticism for addressing such a serious topic with unwelcome humor.
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Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one of Trump's most vocal defenders in Congress, slammed the new rules as "a joke," and accused Democrats of bad faith.
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Short of a major discovery, or someone coming forward and proving they created the whole thing as a joke, it may not ever be solved.
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So, he put the sign out as a joke and at around 11 AM, and around 6:30 (PM), Liam Neeson walked through the door.
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"Another YouTube commenter wrote, "The number of infected people, the number of people who have died and they come and take it as a joke.
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The previous owner of the card originally attempted to sell (apparently as a joke) for 2000 billion yen ($894,960,000) but shockingly, there were no bidders.
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"We bought the pineapple as a joke earlier in the day, and then just ended up having to carry it around," Gray explained to MUNCHIES.
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IT BEGAN AS a joke: the Twitter hashtag #euroboom tacked on to news of any sign, no matter how faint, of a euro-area recovery.
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We spoke with store employees who tell us the guys were super nice and made the purchase as a joke while they were bar hopping.
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What started as a joke among friends has since grown into what some predicted could become the largest anti-gun demonstration in the state's history.
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The president described in March how he had originally coined the term as a joke, while discussing U.S. government spending and private investment in space.
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In a statement to PEOPLE, the school's principal, William Bo Ford Jr., revealed that the stunt was "intentionally planned" by three students as a joke.
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I sort of wonder if the Little Mix girls told Sean Paul he was in an Apple commercial as a joke and he believed them.
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His outfit may have been intended as a joke, but the public in the Muslim-majority country are not likely to find it as amusing.
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Brushing off her tweet as a joke belittles the fact that eating disorders are an all-encompassing illness that people battle on a daily basis.
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Chelsea Clinton, the former first daughter whose mother was defeated last November by President Donald Trump, did not take the Bannon text as a joke.
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" Imgur user RhodesRugger posted a picture of a kitty-related word search captioned "Got my girlfriend a crazy cat lady coloring book as a joke.
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" A woman's advocacy organization, UltraViolet, also responded with a statement from its co-founder Nita Chaudhary, who dismissed the town hall announcement as "a joke.
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We used to call it "super sauce" as a joke back then because we would add it to things like spaghetti sauce and hamburger meat.
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I do understand it was started as a joke by someone, but there are a number of people who are actually planning on showing up.
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The 2014 university report concluded that Dennard did deny the women's claims of inappropriate behavior, instead saying that his behavior was intended as a joke.
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Not as long as we continue to be competitive overachievers who treat the trend as a joke and as our only means to relieve stress.
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Both sources said they believed the comment was intended as a joke, but that it did not go over well with others at the meeting.
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We'd say he doesn't look a day over some random specified age as a joke, but there's not really a point to that, is there?
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When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration's first reaction was chilling: It appeared to treat the epidemic as a joke.
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John Scott, who was voted in as a joke by NHL fans much to the NHL's chagrin, has been the star of All-Star Weekend.
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Someone else created a Twitter bot, as a joke, that uses the data to tweet names and transactions related to possible drug deals on Venmo.
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When the idea of a postal survey on same sex marriage was first announced, political observers and LGBT advocates initially dismissed it as a joke.
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If you just interpret them as a joke or an interesting, different idea then they are just entertaining and interesting to research what people believe.
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He proposes stealing it, perhaps as a joke, to his friend Warren Lipka (Evan Peters), a University of Kentucky student with an impulsive, volatile temperament.
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Back then, they were dealing with the loss of the family fortune — except for a town they had bought as a joke called Schitt's Creek.
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"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" started off as a joke, but it's not funny how much we all had to listen to it.
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Ms. Kian, who has American and Iranian citizenship and was raised Muslim, said the idea of the no-Trump clause started out as a joke.
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The most important part of my job as a joke writer for the leader of the free world was also the least glamorous: Self-deprecation.
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Stone denied Nunberg's claim to the Post, recalling that he told Nunberg he was going to meet with Assange -- but as a joke Nunberg misinterpreted.
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The idea started as a joke in a messaging channel at the studio, when one of the developers shared a stock image of a goose.
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When the inmate finally reached an officer to tell him his cellmate was suicidal, "I think they took it as a joke," he told Torres.
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The New York Times headed to West Virginia and found that many residents aren't taking former coal CEO Don Blankenship's Senate candidacy as a joke.
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But as a joke I said 'The only house I will stop my brand for and would be interested to work with is Saint Laurent.
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I write, as a joke, Bigfoot erotica, where the sexual scenes come out of story and character and the sex is earned, and therefore hotter.
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You might say "Only in America" as a joke here, but it pretty much is only in America that this sort of widespread testing happens.
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If you'd never heard of Bitcoin, you kicked yourself for not paying closer attention; if you'd treated Bitcoin as a joke, you probably still did that.
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Laura Kung knows about Hollywood's diversity problem, and actively tries to make sure that her daughter avoids roles that would use her ethnicity as a joke.
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The day of the 2016 election, they upped tweets to every 10 minutes, as a joke, with the intention of dialing it down after Clinton won.
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The Dallas Morning News described Trump's claim as a joke, but we don't think his intentions were clear enough to brush off the comment as comedy.
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What started as a joke became an idea, then a collaboration, then some concept art, and ultimately a book deal—all contained on that Twitter thread.
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Lizeth Villanueva wasn't laughing when her teacher handed her a "most likely to become a terrorist" award as a joke at the end of the year.
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Just this week a Rhode Island dad was horrified when his son's image was used as a joke meme on a Twitter account and other places.
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That idea had been thrown out in the writers room, "almost as a joke, like — and then she looks down, and her fork's askew," Bloomberg said.
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"We used to talk about this as a joke like two years ago," Jenner says in the video as she and Sanders pose for the camera.
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Image: JD Hancock/FlickrImagine reading a study from a prestigious science journal and finding out that the scientists performed and wrote the study as a joke.
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Yes, Benjamin Franklin had the idea first, but when he wrote about it in 1784, he was in Paris and he meant it as a joke.
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Acyapan told the Toronto Star that he initially dismissed the calls as a joke, possibly by someone who submitted their number on a adult services website.
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They have fallen victim to the selfie hysteria, but for me it's just from time to time and as a joke and I can handle it.
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It's tempting to write the whole thing off as a joke given the facts at play, but could this probe actually do harm to the country?
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But it only started as a joke, not actually intended to rally conspiracy theorists to storm the "secret" government facility in southern Nevada on Sept. 220.
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But it only started as a joke, not actually intended to rally conspiracy theorists to storm the "secret" government facility in southern Nevada on Sept. 20.
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Creators of the app did not include any contact information on the website, so it is 99 percent likely that it was made as a joke.
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According to the docs ... Kang took it as a joke and re-ordered his breakfast, and that's when all the other chefs started laughing at him.
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When before representatives of the zoo came to visit us in the Studio a month ago and filed a Claim – we took it as a joke.
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Mr. Trump's offhand comment about "Second Amendment people," which was widely interpreted as a joke about assassinating politicians, was a case in point, Mr. Fleischer said.
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Schiller said that he took the offer as a joke, rejected it, and told Trump of the invitation, which he said the two men laughed about.
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A 4Chan user anonymously alleged in a posting Tuesday that he and his girlfriend had tricked Avenatti into believing the allegations were real as a joke.
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A stint as a joke writer for radio comedian Fred Allen was followed by wartime service in the South Pacific as an officer aboard destroyer-minesweepers.
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When the media in your daily life only sees you as a joke or a threat, it becomes tiring, even fruitless to remember you have worth.
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Another time, at a festival, a friend of mine had built this huge garbage pile and thrown my leg on top of it as a joke.
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It started off as a joke, because, y'know, the name was silly and we didn't think we'd be able to accomplish a lot as a duo.
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" The president, in suggesting that he might consider sending the defendant to Guantánamo Bay, enthusiastically trashed the federal court system as a "joke" and a "laughingstock.
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It may start out as a joke, but the consequences of eating Tide pods, also referred to as "the forbidden fruit," is not a joking matter.
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Still others have criticized the decision to use "The Colon Co-Op" as a joke, especially considering how prevalent—and how already stigmatized—colon cancer is.
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Barr attributed her gleeful antebellum-vintage racism to the sleep aid Ambien and played down her comment as a joke (yes, we know, a racist one).
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"It started out as a joke," Ms. Rosman said, referring to a conversation the couple had about her moving in with her parents on Long Island.
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At the time, the president described how he had originally coined the term as a joke, while discussing U.S. government spending and private investment in space.
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It authorizes the Space Force, which he proposed last year — initially, in his own telling, as a joke — as the sixth branch of the American military.
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Justice Bernd Zabel appeared before a disciplinary panel Wednesday, defending the incident as a joke and not a political statement, according to The New York Times.
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Ms. Sanchez speculated that online humor around presidential politics had led her friend to think of the election, and what was at stake, as a joke.
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"There were a lot of people's dads I did talk to," he said, when Bowles offered as a joke to introduce him to her own father.
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Or if I was, it was as a joke, or as some anecdote that explained something about the main character without the main character looking like me.
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If the idea of swarms of delivery drones dropping packages all over our cities started out as a joke, for some reason the punchline hasn't landed yet.
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" While he previously brushed his actions off as a joke, Farrelly released a statement the same day the Cut story was published apologizing for his actions. "True.
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Other loyalists have passed around a campaign-style Hagin–DeStefano logo that reads "Make America Bush Again" as a joke in recent weeks, the Washington Post reported.
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So I just tweeted like, "She gon' learn today" as a joke, but she saw that and brought me into the conversation – now it's just gone crazy.
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Given how lively and jokey Far From Home is, it may be that the next Spider-Man movie will largely play off his outing as a joke.
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She said she had done so as a joke, because she felt many of the children trick-or-treating at her house were too old to participate.
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It does seem that Tvple Eraser really did just intend this as a joke, and to their credit, didn't actually try to distribute the software to people.
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" One of the men who was pictured kissing the cutout has since apologised, adding that he had only meant to send the picture out "as a joke.
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"It started as a joke and ended up being probably a good mistake," said Devin Onello, who said he and Novak have hit it off ever since.
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Mike called himself the "famous comedian Mike Turzilli" as a joke, but thanks to the internet he's still more than capable of making his dream a reality.
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The investigator could not conclude that Zwicharowski acted intentionally but blamed him for not correcting any misperceptions when a bystander laughed and took it as a joke.
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The movies take something that was flippantly used as a joke in the first film and turns it into something sad and wistful—Dory's short-term memory.
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"I captioned it that just as a joke clearly stating our ages because I'm pretty sure it's not possible to buy a house that young," she said.
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"Creep" Radiohead cover Casey Newton: Radiohead's first big hit is sometimes taken as a joke song — a knowing Thom Yorke mocking the self-pity of a teenager.
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According to Kelsey, the resume began as a joke to try to convince her friend and her husband to care for Mowgli while she studied in NYC.
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"I taped the opening of my BurnBox to send to my boys as a joke, but I uploaded it publicly to YouTube like an idiot," she laughs.
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The Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), launched over a decade ago as a joke, has become a semi-serious force, using ironic humor to tackle practical issues.
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I posted a photo on Facebook of me and Dax from that night as a joke and recently a few media outlets have contacted me about it.
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If The Young Pope came across as a joke in all the hype leading up to its premiere, that joke is not lost on the series itself.
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A man tossed a live three-and-a-half-foot alligator into the drive-thru window of a Florida Wendy's in October 2015, reportedly as a joke.
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Kavanaugh dismissed the allegation as a "joke" and a "farce" during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Democrats on the panel declined to pursue them.
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As a teenager, he had been arrested and expelled from his Ohio high school after he and some friends called in a bomb threat as a joke.
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As a joke, they listed this manager as producer of the record and the record won a fucking Grammy as Best Produced Comedy Album of the year.
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According to Breitbart, the memes may have been inadvertently inspired by a teenage girl who started overlaying Swift photos with Hitler quotes as a joke in 2013.
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To read the pieces in chronological order is to witness a familiar journey: In the beginning, like so many people, Taibbi saw Trump's candidacy as a joke.
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I also found his online dating site on my laptop, and when I confronted him about it, he said his friends made the profile as a joke.
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Mr. London mocked the conclusion as a "joke" because the examiner who conducted Mr. Garner's autopsy had relied on video of the encounter to reach her findings.
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What had started as a joke — a campus-wide quiz that promised to tell her which Stanford classmate she should marry — had quickly turned into something more.
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The Rose family has (mostly) grown accustomed to Schitt's Creek, a rural town they bought as a joke gift and then moved to after losing their fortune.
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Kids my age still make jokes about slavery and it is really unsettling to know that something so tragic in our country is seen as a joke.
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The comment by Kelly Sadler, a White House aide, that Mr. McCain didn't matter because "he's dying anyway" cannot be excused by her now as a joke.
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According to the Goop website, the candle started as a joke between Paltrow and professional perfumer Douglas Little and has notes of geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar.
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Two teenagers had left them there as a joke, apparently unimpressed by the simplicity of some of the museum's exhibits, including two stuffed animals on a blanket.
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Musk's idea to start selling flamethrowers began as a joke in December, when he said that if his company sold 50,000 hats, it would start selling flamethrowers.
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The idea was originally conceived as a joke, concocted recently over drinks with friends, said the organizer, who asked to be identified only by the name Antoine.
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That pretty much sums up the difference between how a Democrat would treat climate change compared with Trump: as an emergency as opposed to as a joke.
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The idea was hatched as a joke in the writers' room of "Mozart in the Jungle," the Golden Globe-winning Amazon comedy whose third season starts Friday.
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For example, over the years various people have suggested or wondered (sometimes as a joke) if the NSA actually created Bitcoin in an effort to trap criminals.
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He wrote that Candace Owens, a black conservative commentator in the United States, was most responsible for radicalizing him, a claim that seemed intended as a joke.
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The Weinstein Company's facing upheaval and lawsuits -- including being sued Friday for defaulting on a $45 million loan -- and as we've reported ... is broke as a joke.
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Because I found him trying to say that he is going to win to be quite comedic, but I don&apost think he meant it as a joke.
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I saw it and thought a dev probably set it up that way as a joke, because some people really are anal about their toilet paper—pun intended.
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"Zach LaVine looks like the type guy that tried his girlfriend's bra on in college as a joke, but then kinda liked it," read LaVine with a smile.
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"I did this yesterday as a joke — it was really funny because you can see a lot of people joined in, I added a globe instead," he said.
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It's usually a joke that is very clearly crafted as a joke — it'll have a setup and a punchline, and maybe it'll be in a character or voice.
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And I gave them my credit card, hoped it wouldn't bounce, borrowed a blackboard (and) wrote as a joke: 'Virgin Airlines: one-way $39 to the Virgin Islands.
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" A Beijing-based businessman from Toronto, Canada, who received a can of air for Christmas as a joke from a friend from home said he is now "addicted.
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" Actor and comedian Ben Schwartz couldn't believe he'd been beaten to the punch, tweeting: "I was gonna write this as a joke but found out it was real.
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But to be clear, no matter how casual the environment might be, or how comfortable you feel, do not say anything offensive or vulgar (even as a joke).
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The meme began as a joke that adult viewers rediscovering the show would share with one another on message boards, where it eventually became shorthand for narrative incongruity.
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Hyde-Smith's campaign defended the comments about voting as a joke and in a statement called her hanging remark "an exaggerated expression of regard" which had been misinterpreted.
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"What kind of country would treat children's health and lives as a joke?" a user identified as SoftLipa_cen wrote on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter.
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After significant social media backlash, Solveig recorded a video saying he intended the comment as a joke and that he is sorry to those he may have offended.
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One person close to him described it to The Wall Street Journal less as a serious inquiry and more as a joke to showcase how powerful he is.
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It would have to be said as a joke, because the woman knew that the man hadn't meant to seem insensitive; he had just wanted to be right.
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Even as a joke, the remark comes against a backdrop of suggestions that Giuliani could be cut loose by the Republican establishment in an effort to protect Trump.
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Because it kept coming up in the meeting as a joke, and the joke was, 'You won't be able to handle this because you have too many kids.
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Instagram: 755,000YouTube: 756,000TikTok: 793,000Facebook: 3.1 millionCrusoe was nicknamed a "celebrity dachshund" by his owners at first as a joke, but the dog has since truly embraced the moniker.
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It works by introducing an idea that is reprehensible to the values of liberal democracy, framing it as an off-the-cuff remark or even as a joke.
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Some are going for hundreds of dollars, and as of this moment, someone's just put up one roll for a thousand dollars too–but probably as a joke.
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"I think the main takeaway from this whole situation is to express to people to not take actions and views like his as a joke," a classmate said.
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If I look at people who may want to see me down or sad or looked at as a joke and say, 'How can I please these people?
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"Schoelkopf's Law started as a joke, but now we use it in many of our research papers," said Isaac Chuang, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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In a follow-up piece, the Washington Post reported that the woman sent an email to Sietsema and admitted that she'd just submitted the comment as a joke.
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Just as the parents in Moore's story cannot initially take seriously the idea that their infant son has cancer, Trump's presidential bid struck many commentators as a joke.
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In April, Trump made a joke about firing Haley that didn't quite come across as a joke, and seemed to hint at his discontent with her rising profile.
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Half-Life 3 has transcended from potential game to full-on meme, and any mention of its future release is instantly regarded as a joke by almost every fan.
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" In one particularly detailed post from February 14, Baratov writes that he was suspended from school four years ago for "threatening to kill my ex-friend as a joke.
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As for Trump, because of something called freedom of speech (long may it last), he got to make the comment on Twitter and pass it off as a joke.
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The show is about a wealthy family that loses everything and has to survive in a podunk town its patriarch, Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy), once bought as a joke.
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Did you think enough time had passed that people have forgotten, that [they] think of it now as a joke, as something we can all have a laugh about?
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Although this reference was intended as a joke in his April remarks, a recent Politico story casts the effect of their personal ties in a potentially more nefarious light.
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"Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising because I just assumed he was running as a joke," Meyers said.
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And I am so tired of women being murdered as a joke (thanks, Quentin!) or women being nearly mute or absent altogether (thanks to many of the male directors!).
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Following the 2013 removal of a popular rainbow crossing on Oxford St, in the midst of Sydney's LGBT capital, Brechney chalked a rainbow at his home as a joke.
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Vu: We had a splash page, and as a joke we had the timer counting up because at that stage we didn't know when we were going to launch.
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He told me about a moment of panic when a college friend who shared his password on a sports site logged in to his Gmail account as a joke.
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Some people using that line probably mean it as a joke, but the fact that it's something to joke about also points to remnants of shame around online dating.
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What started as a joke quickly turned into an explosive argument between Mama June, 38, and Pumpkin, 18, on Friday evening's episode of Mama June: From Not to Hot.
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To actually sit down and read these things not as a joke or judge them as something bad housewives read, I wanted to find out what's going on there.
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"Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke," Meyers said in 2011.
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A #glassbricks hashtag I started as a joke became real when people began sending me photos of their own sightings from all corners of the world: Amsterdam, Tokyo, Zurich.
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Mulvaney has defended his leadership at the CFPB -- an agency he once referred to as a "joke" while serving as a Republican lawmaker -- in the face of Democratic criticism.
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A Facebook event focused on storming the infamous Area 51 United States Air Force base started as a joke, but has since taken on a life of its own.
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The NBA superstar was talking to the media about the NBA All-Star rosters and was asked his thought about some players turning in "goofy" ballots as a joke.
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The president also denounced the U.S. criminal justice system as "a joke," (here's more) and pressed Congress to cancel an immigration program that allowed Mr. Saipov into the country.
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In response to Renner's post asking what fans' plans were over the Labor Day weekend, Heck commented he would be looking at pornography on his computer as a joke.
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So, even though the 'Epic Beard Men' group name started off as a joke, we decided to put our solo careers on hold and make it a real thing.
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Member of Parliament Gholamali Jafarzadeh characterized the government's figures as "a joke" and added that no matter what the government said it would be impossible to hide the cemeteries.
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What started as a joke about raiding Area 51 to break out the aliens became widespread enough that the actual military held briefings on what a Naruto run is.
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A black restaurant server said his coworkers sent him a food order with the n-word written on it last month, but management brushed it off as a joke.
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Soon, what started as a joke — Franklin had the idea when saw a man walking the beach in cowboy boots in Gulf Shores, Alabama — had become an internet sensation.
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Over the last half-decade he's made a career as a joke-rapper with a taste for bathroom humor and sketchy body-swap comedy with disgraced R&B singers.
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A colleague once said that he was the only person alive who read the comments to relax, and it was meant as a joke but it was also true.
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" Mr. Flake noted that "the president's most ardent defenders use the now-weary argument that the president's comments were meant as a joke, just sarcasm, only tongue in cheek.
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As Canonical explains, this convention started life as a joke between a pair of developers worried that the software's first release was going to be pretty unpolished — thus Warty Warthog.
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He emailed VICE News to clarify that while he's done some crazy shit on sleeping pills, ordering a yak wasn't one of them; the receipt was photoshopped as a joke.
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"This is what started out as a joke on the Internet and now it's just gone too far," Ann Marie Buerkle, with the Consumer Product Safety Commission told CBS News.
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When my husband first moved to New York from Chicago, he catalogued every time he saw a pile of trash bags on the street with a photo as a joke.
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Musk said in his initial announcement—which some initially took as a joke because 420 is the so-called "weed number"—that funding has already been secured for the deal.
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He later claimed he had done so as a joke, though he also tweeted that the former head of MI6 had done a "great job" in the fake Guardian story.
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According to Wired, the troll site was created by 22-year-old San Francisco coder Matthew Bryant, who discovered the bug and made the phone-crashing website as a joke.
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"It's clearly meant as a joke, (but it's) fallen a bit flat," Jolene Tan, head of advocacy and research at the Association of Women for Action and Research told Reuters.
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After receiving a copy of Kim Jong Il's propaganda manifesto The Cinema and Directing as a joke gift, Broinowski became fascinated with the now-deceased supreme leader's passion for filmmaking.
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The Yangjiang Daily said the man, identified only by his family name, Lin, altered the image of the newspaper as a joke with colleagues but that it was shared online.
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And when you consider that dressing in drag as a joke only furthers the careers of men who go on to become wealthy giants in their industry, it's downright ridiculous.
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In his original message banning teabagging, Alexander cites sportsmanship for his decision (which was later covered up as a joke despite another event organizer telling PvP Live it was real).
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Beyond the extremely poor judgment shown by these officers, being flippant about mistreating inmates, even if it's intended as a joke, puts these staff and their fellow officers at risk.
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More than four decades after the original members got together to rehearse in that loft on 1003 East 2100rd Street, KISS is still looked at by many as a joke.
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When Donald Trump proposed banning 1.2 billion humans from entering the country on the basis of religion last December, he was still seen as a joke in his home country.
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The room was split almost evenly on a second case, involving a phrase that some viewed as a violation of rules against hate speech but others read as a joke.
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But then, Eleanor Ford, one of the collective's members, approached and confirmed that the garage was a Biennial venue, though the group had initially submitted their application as a joke.
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Of course, he laughed many years later after I became a star and I hadn't done it; he said, 'See how useful my advice was to you?' as a joke.
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Did you originally laugh off Donald Trump's candidacy as a joke, only to become more and more worried as he came closer to — and eventually took — the Republican presidential nomination?
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The two had reportedly only been dating for two months before then, and the relationship itself seems to have started in the first place as a joke for YouTube videos.
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"The suspect told police that he did offer marijuana in exchange for food but that he did so as a joke," the Port St. Lucie Police Department wrote on Facebook.
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The chief of police for the Coconut Creek department told CBS 4 that Valenti had meant the comment as a joke and the matter will be handled internally on Tuesday.
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They are Johnny and Moira Rose, who lost their wealth and are left to live in their last asset: a run-down town they bought long ago as a joke.
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Perhaps it isn't fair to demand such an episode from a generally light-hearted comedy that works just as well as a joke factory as it does an escapist sitcom.
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As a way of delegitimizing the awards, an alt-right faction known as the "Rabid Puppies" decided to nominate one of Tingle's books, Space Raptor Butt Invasion, as a joke.
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Sources told The Hill that they believed Sadler's comment was intended as a joke, but that it did not go over well with others at the internal White House meeting.
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Kids on TikTok call themselves ugly all the time, most of the time as a joke, but not always, and I'm never sure how I'm supposed to feel about it.
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Opening in June 1940, the initial temptation is to dismiss Lindbergh as a joke, reasoning that the country won't fall for his "It is between Lindbergh, and war!" sales pitch.
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Summers wanted the $1.8 trillion in stimulus as much as Romer did — he just thought Congress would reject it as a joke, and prevent the Obama administration from getting anything.
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We literally have taken some of the words of our hate comments and we have said them to each other as a joke, just because that's all you can do.
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He then borrowed a blackboard, wrote "as a joke, Virgin Airlines one-way: $39 to the Virgin Islands," and filled up the flight with all the bumped passengers, he said.
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"I have seen the President's most ardent defenders use the now-weary argument that the President's comments were meant as a joke, just sarcasm, only tongue in cheek," he said.
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So we made a mockup of Amazon Dating as a joke that I was going to post as an image on Twitter — like, haha, imagine if this were a thing.
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Nearly all of their material possessions are seized by authorities, except for a single asset they're allowed to keep: A town named Schitt's Creek they once purchased as a joke.
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"You don't use the bully pulpit as the President of the United States to rile up people and say things as a joke or as a campaign promise," Bloomberg said.
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Lewandowski also told the committee that he regarded as "a joke" Trump's remark to him that the president would fire Sessions if the attorney general did not meet with Lewandowski.
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Though her roommate's comment was intended as a joke, Glantz says she eventually gave it serious thought, and wondered if there was potential to turn it into an actual business.
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That feeling has come up a lot this year with the idea of responsibility in comedy; what can you treat as a joke, versus what should you take more seriously?
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Another, a female intern from California under 218, shared that a colleague told her that he often had provocative dreams about her, and tried to play it off as a joke.
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This may be a return to the Bush administration, which essentially treated civil rights enforcement as a joke and never took accusations of voter suppression or other civil rights violations seriously.
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Why it matters: Reddit's largest pro-Trump forum,"r/the_donald," likely created the trolling campaign as a joke, but spreading false information about the midterms can keep voters from casting ballots.
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" However, after being told the brownies would be sent to a lab and tested for foreign substances, the woman admitting to baking in one cube of Ex-lax "as a joke.
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So I wrote that post out later that evening as a joke to my friends, and then it blew out of proportion — I wasn't expecting more than maybe a few shares.
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It all began on the Dallas Housewives' vacation to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, where Redmond decided to sneak a sex toy into the beach bag of D'Andra Simmons as a joke.
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And Darren, as a joke—and I guess to make a point—wrote the lyrics to 'Song for the Dumped' (without any music or anything) in my notebook next to 'Dwarf.
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I certainly didn't always feel that way on every show that I've worked on, so that was important to me that they knew that I don't take this as a joke.
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Sure, the data itself is real, but the fact that the study was performed as a joke still calls into question whether the evidence can be weighted equally with serious research.
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He didn't know the person but the party with its over-the-top invitation sounded like a good time so he emailed back as a joke to say he was in.
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At the time, we wrote off the comment as a joke between the two lovebirds, but this split hints that maybe that was just one of many cracks that were showing.
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Davidson clearly meant it as a joke, but given the collective exhaustion most women are feeling with regard to their own rights, agency, and equality, it seemed inappropriate and ill-timed.
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Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker said his remarks at the closing of a global airlines gathering on Tuesday had been intended as a joke and taken out of context.
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President Donald Trump is playing off Tuesday morning's embarrassing moment — in which he was laughed at by the United Nations General Assembly — by saying he totally meant it as a joke.
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She says the name of her blog started as a joke, because she always lamented over how hard it is to work with monolids, but now she sees it as celebratory.
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Stephen Belafonte's complaints about being broke as a joke fell on deaf ears, as the judge pushed off a decision on how much, if any, spousal support Mel B should pay.
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It also follows a standard method for spreading extremist ideology online, by framing its hateful rhetoric as a joke in an attempt to normalize it and make it appear more acceptable.
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At one point, it created an album for me titled "Best of last three months" that included several close-up pictures of my foot, which my girlfriend took as a joke.
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As a joke, I began telling more people about my youthful Garfield craze, often dashing off drawings on post-its to stick around my workplace, or in friend's cars and apartments.
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During the process, the term "boy genius"—a half-derisive, half-aspirational expression used to describe the preternatural confidence they'd observed in their male peers—was thrown around as a joke.
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"It would have been OK if he took a couple as a quick snack, or let us know as a joke he took a couple and they tasted great," Morin said.
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Dearest Family:We put together a really bad video montage of Trump ordering his troops to charge us naked with no guns and broadcast it at the enemy lines as a joke.
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In what was intended as a joke, Duterte said the victim was beautiful and as mayor of Davao city where the riot took place, he should have been first in line.
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"Donald Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke," Meyers quipped at the time.
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Pump and Gucci collaborated in 2017 and '18 ... and we're told the trio first started calling themselves Gucci Gang as a joke, but it's since morphed into a full-fledged group.
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It was already being discussed as a joke, as a stereotype of VSCO girls, and so it was tricky to separate irony from sincerity, or 'real usages' from ones performed online.
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He surprises her by asking for a hug, a gesture she initially interprets as a joke, until she realizes that he really does need her to embrace him like a sister.
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"I actually got it from Jay Leno, who made that as a joke," she said, adding that within "four or five days" she and husband Kanye West had settled on it.
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Regifting can get messy, but now there is an easy out for those looking to get rid of ugly holiday sweaters that are too atrocious to even wear as a joke.
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Some users suggested that perhaps some friends had created an "interest" in her butthole on their own Facebook profiles as a joke, and this triggered a Page to be created automatically.
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She's getting so much love Some folks may have taken her as a joke when she first came into the rap game, but Cardi B is making everyone a believer now.
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In 2017, MSNBC fired and then quickly rehired leftist commentator Sam Seder over a tweet that alt-right activist Mike Cernovich misconstrued as a joke about Seder's own daughter being raped.
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A police officer made up a story about having "f---ing pig" written on his coffee cup at a McDonald's in Junction City, Kansas, as a joke, his chief said Monday.
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Yung Berg has had so many legal problems lately, he could get an honorary law degree ... the latest of which is an arrest for treating the legal system as a joke.
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I'm familiar with the origins of the term "PC Master Race" and I totally understand that it was conceived as a joke...but at same time, the community has ran with it.
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"For some reason after adorning our Christmas tree with this as a joke, the tree took on a life of it's own and kept trying to grope the cat," another reviewer wrote.
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It was confusing for me to know how to be my authentic self in interviews, like when I was on Maury, because I knew people already thought of me as a joke.
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Her husband Jim Noland told NBC12 that one of her sons wrote the obituary and it was meant as a joke, a way for her family to continue her sense of humor.
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The originators of these tweets might post them as a joke or as a way to get retweets, but they prey on sympathetic Twitter users who will share them without thinking twice.
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But when one person is intentionally trying to make a move, and the other one is just playing along as a joke, it can be hurtful or, at the very least, confusing.
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"You could waste a lot of time overanalyzing whether or not this person swiped by mistake, as a joke, or because of genuine interest," says Samantha Burns, LMHC, a millennial relationship expert.
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But a few months ago Haley, as a joke, took one of Aly's singing videos and did a fake Irish jig to it, and then some other people started doing it too.
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EquiPay, a bill-splitting app that accounts for racial and gender income inequalities, is on its way to becoming a reality, after starting as a joke at Cultivated Wit's Comedy Hack Day.
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Unlike the Falcon Heavy, though, which carried an old sports car into space as a joke, the Rocket Lab test had a real payload, in the form of three small, commercial satellites.
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"This is what started out as a joke on the Internet and now it's just gone too far," Ann Marie Buerkle, with the Consumer Product Safety Commission told CBS News in January.
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The responses could have been written by instigators who saw an opportunity to promote racist speech because they craved the attention or wanted to turn people against each other as a joke.
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Her husband Jim Noland told NBC12 that one of her sons wrote the obituary, and it was meant as a joke, a way for her family to continue her sense of humor.
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Thomas Figures, an assistant US Attorney who worked under Sessions in Mobile, testified that he was present when Sessions made the remark and said he did not regard it as a joke.
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While Carter's career initially started off as a joke, his music launched him into international success when "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)" went triple platinum when he was just 12 years old.
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With Rodrigo Duterte's April rape joke still ringing in voters' ears, a rep for the Philippines presidential hopeful has cheerfully dismissed his recent threat to burn Singapore's flag as a joke, too.
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Until that happens, Trump will continue to win states and the outcome that many in the establishment long dismissed as a joke that could never happen will become a very dark reality.
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Rampage Jackson is a big fat fatty who smokes and drinks too much and will be remembered as a joke of a fighter ... so says King Mo. Yeah, he ain't holdin' back.
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Not only did the political world underestimate Trump's electoral strength; for months they belittled his candidacy with all its theatrics as a joke and failed to heed the signs of seismic change.
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I took a photo of my boyfriend holding an opossum and shared it to Facebook with the caption 'Maybe I should make a calendar of sexy men holding opossums!' as a joke.
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Clinton has vowed that barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject, a shift from President Obama, who typically dismisses the topic as a joke.
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Duterte is notorious for comments often deemed offensive and intended the remark as a joke, reiterating that only he would be liable for any backlash over military rule on southern Mindanao island.
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Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that the notion had been laughed off by some advisers as a joke but was taken more seriously by others in the White House.
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Despite having suggested Scrotox as a joke and regretting it before, during, and after the procedure, I have to say that I love my bolder, bigger-seeming, free-swinging, loosey-goosey balls.
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" So we'd learn these Twisted Sister songs, and kind of as a joke we said, "Let's have management contact Dee Snider and say we want to do a club gig with him!
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The far-right evangelicals McCain called "forces of evil" in 2000 (supposedly as a joke) are today one of the most powerful factions of the GOP and were instrumental in electing Trump.
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While Shkreli apologized for unintentionally promoting "any act of violence whatsoever" with what he characterized as a joke, some saw the remark as a message encouraging assault against the former presidential candidate.
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In Congress, Mulvaney had established himself as an outspoken enemy of the bureau, describing it, memorably, as a "joke" in "a sick, sad kind of way" and sponsoring legislation to abolish it.
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Kitchens wore the shirt to see the movie "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" with his family, and his daughter got him the shirt as a joke, a Browns spokesman told ESPN.
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The police officer who completed the run told KTUL that the employee reached out to him personally to apologize for the label, telling him that it was only meant as a joke.
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South Korean news outlet Chosun Ilbo reported that Trump provided Pompeo a recording of the soft rock song, released on Elton John's 1972 album "Honky Château," to give Kim as a joke.
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It's all presented as a joke, but the "We're just having fun" posturing could also make convenient cover for elements of the community that are in it to make money, not memes.
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After a few throwaway comments about Caruso Sr.'s past in the first episode, his history of corruption doesn't really come up again, and his more freewheeling tendencies are played as a joke.
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We joked about this being the next big fighting game and how funny the idea was of people taking a game about Shrek seriously so we created /r/ShrekSuperSlam just as a joke.
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"Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as as republican, which is surprising, because I thought he was running as a joke," Meyers mused to boos from the crowd.
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"I started this account as a joke to make my friends laugh about a year and a half ago and truly am still in disbelief at the attention it has gotten," she said.
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" Before the hearing room was stormed, dozens of House Republicans appeared before reporters with some denouncing the impeachment process run by Democrats as a "joke," a "railroad job," a "charade" and "Soviet-style.
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The campaign began as a joke by the Twitter account "cryptograffiti," but hours later it became a reality in the form of a website and a Bitcoin wallet that people can donate to.
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To be completely honest I never really thought of them getting upset, if they ever did and are reading this I'm sorry, but I think they know we mean it as a joke.
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For most iPhone users it's a forgotten feature, but writer John Gruber recently gave it newfound attention with a thoughtful analysis and the revelation that it was actually originally conceived as a joke.
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A former reality TV star whose bid for the White House was dismissed as a joke by pundits when it began in June 85033 will now be the leader of the free world.
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"Haters back off" is something I started saying as a joke when I first created the character, but it's actually become an anthem for people all over the world who watch my videos.
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Like, how can you not LOL at the fact that Beckinsale sends nude photos of Sheen to Lily as a joke or that she once drew a penis on Lily's sixth grade homework?
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Though her candidacy was initially treated as a joke—not least because of her Long Island lock-jaw accent (despite being from Texas)—commentators have started to discuss Williamson with a bemused respect.
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MLADENOVAC, Serbia (Reuters) - It started as a joke, a way to poke fun at a discredited political class in elections last year for the local assembly in this rundown town in central Serbia.
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Not all white folks see our culture as a joke, but that experience was really demonstrative to me that we needed to get in the right lane in intentionally attracting people of color.
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Two students placed the tropical fruit there as a joke, but when they returned, the pineapple was not only still there, it had been moved to a display case, protected by plexiglass. Naturally.
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But under Republican administrations, the agency has approached voting rights cases with a lack of serious interest — with the Bush administration in particular known for effectively treating civil rights enforcement as a joke.
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But under Republican administrations, the agency has approached voting rights cases with a lack of serious interest — with the Bush administration in particular known for effectively treating civil rights enforcement as a joke.
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Rakevion White, a 21-year-old student at Arizona State University, told BuzzFeed News he received the food order and brought it to management, who he said brushed it off as a joke.
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Daniels has spoken very publicly about her alleged interactions with the president more than a decade ago, even claiming to CNN's Anderson Cooper that she spanked him with a magazine as a joke.
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"Our laundry pacs are a highly concentrated detergent meant to clean clothes … They should not be played with, whatever the circumstance is, even if meant as a joke," Tide said in a statement.
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The artist sees it as a joke: "When I'm sitting in Guantanamo Bay after Trump sees [the billboard], we can all have a good laugh!" he wrote for the Go Fund Me campaign.
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Sheriff Arpaio played a key role in validating Donald Trump, whose candidacy was initially seen as a joke, as the champion of hardline immigration policies and the cultural anxieties that came alongside them.
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It remains to be seen, however, how many of the thousands of applications were serious, or if the total number also includes people who threw their names (or fake names) in as a joke.
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She almost didn't go forward with the complaint, but after hearing similar stories about him from other women, she had to say something — especially after he tried to brush it off as a joke.
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The letter he proffered testifying to the deal, from a shy Qatari prince, was derided as a "joke" by Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's main opposition party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
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My only choice at Target for a non-Apple, non-Google phone is the Nokia 0, a device from the early aughts that was re-released in 211—almost, I think, as a joke.
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I remember him as being the guy who once dressed up like a Nazi as a joke (bad), but also he served in the military (good, to me at least because I'm an American).
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New York (CNN)Alice Cooper has been running for president as a joke since 1972 and the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Famer is now bringing a dose of satire to the 2016 election.
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The U.S. State Department on Thursday dismissed Russia's humanitarian ceasefire plan as "a joke", saying people were afraid to leave the area through a "humanitarian corridor" because of fear of conscription, exile or death.
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Though the romance was short-lived — they split after just a few months — the former pair looked back on their time together, which they admitted had "started as a joke," with extremely fond memories.
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Wildstein also argued that he took a 85033 email from Kelly calling for "traffic problems in Fort Lee" as part of the conspiracy, while Kelly had argued she meant it only as a joke.
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What began as a joke has now turned into one of the most amusing places to buy gifts online, and it all started in the long, narrow hallway of a one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment.
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"We would use it as a joke and only do it to people who were intentionally trying to troll others," Kyanka, who is regular-banned from Twitter these days, told me in an email.
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Behold this video of Drake talking about actually being from Saskatchewan: Some took this as a joke, but it was clear this was a direct calling to take my investigation to the next level.
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As a joke, he and Apollinaire planned an over-the-top dinner to celebrate the douanier, or customs officer, a nickname for Rousseau, who had spent much of his life as a public servant.
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The Iowan joined the Trump campaign as co-chair and policy adviser in August 2015, two short months after Trump announced his run — back when many in Washington dismissed his candidacy as a joke.
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I'm not sure if he meant it as a joke or not, but it's much more important what my civilian White House National Security Council chain of command thinks more so than anybody else.
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What began as a joke designed by an internet-savvy college kid has snowballed into three separate real-life events intended to build on the momentum of summer 2019's most popular alien meme.
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" MUNCHIES reached out to Starbucks for comment, who told us the following: "This Starbucks barista actually has a friendly relationship with this customer and unfortunately wrote the comment on the cup as a joke.
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That movie essentially amounted to a half-baked tribute to 2007's Zodiac, and a single bargain-bin DVD copy of it was passed around basements in my hometown for several years as a joke.
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As a joke, it failed, and in a statement released Monday night, Harmon succinctly apologized for it: In 2009, I made a 'pilot' which strove to parody the series Dexter and only succeeded in offending.
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"Some saw it as a joke and signed because it was fun, some stood for normalization of U.S.-Russia ties, and some signed because they don't like the name of Godless Street," he told CNN.
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Speaking to reporters afterward, Schloss said the students described the Nazi salute incident as "a joke," and she was surprised when they professed not to have fully understood the meaning and consequences of their behavior.
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" In an amendment to the tax bill, which Onder maintains he drafted as a joke, he also said that the zoo should be required to change its name to "Midwest Abortion Sanctuary City Zoological Park.
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After the incident, the girl then alleged Stallone told her not to tell anyone or they would "have to beat her head in" because they were married, but that she took this as a joke.
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Often, when we talk about faking it, we use it as a joke about straight, cisgender men who aren't able to please their partners or as a criticism of women whose bodies don't work properly.
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The first inkling of it was started as a joke between a friend and someone else on twitter in response to a defensive tweet by Ian Miles Cheong about PewDiePie's "heated gaming moment" in PUBG.
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" The president also attempted to make a convoluted joke about being on Mount Rushmore, stating that if he said it even as a joke the media would take it seriously: "Now here's what I do.
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"It was really just meant to be my personal story—and I had called it a 'meternity leave' but basically just as a joke to myself because all my friends were having kids," she said.
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"We talked about that 3 or 4 years ago, as a joke, and someone just brought it up two months ago," he said, presumably referring to the Foodbeast interview that reignited the speculation most recently.
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From movies such as Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle to memes that treat marijuana as a joke, it's all fun and games until you overdose, have a bad experience, become demotivated, or hurt yourself.
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Despite this being a scarily accurate description of his most drooling fans, it was met with relatively no pushback from either side of the aisle, with most people apparently waving it off as a joke.
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My only choice at Target for a non-Apple, non-Google phone is the Nokia 2528, a device originally from the early aughts that was re-released in 0—almost, I think, as a joke.
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Chelsea Smile, a piercer at Tribal Voice in the UK, tells the story of the man in the photo above, who came in to the shop with friends and requested the piercing as a joke.
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"I saw someone on my timeline post the screencap on a Thursday," she explained in an email, and though she initially created @thursaconcept "just sort of as a joke" for herself, it unexpectedly took off.
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But treating the question as a joke would be in line with how the Trump administration has generally regarded the press briefings, which have been rarer and rarer and not often in front of cameras.
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A 28-year-old Costa Rica resident started a fake news website in February as a joke and ended up with more than 1 million page views a week and a half later, PolitiFact reported.
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In an interview on CNN, Santorum was asked by CNN's John Berman whether he believed Trump was right to use the issue as a joke on Gianforte's behalf during a campaign rally in Montana Thursday.
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The Senate is now in play in 2018 At the start of this year, the idea that Democrats would have any chance to win the Senate majority come November 229 was regarded as a joke.
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Concord was the only Russian company or person out of 15 total to fight the propaganda charges -- it pleaded not guilty and the oligarch who owns the company has lambasted the allegations as a joke.
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After years of building a comedic repertoire around making fun of Trump, Meyers pitched the Trump skip button to Netflix as a useful feature, but also as a joke in and of itself, Pallotta reported.
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Ms. Rich and her team took a risk in advertising "The Meg" as a joke — winking at potential ticket buyers with a campy trailer starring a Yorkie with a pink bow and featuring silly music.
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One was because old stories surfaced about the film's director, Peter Farrelly, exposing himself to women as a joke, something that likely even more people now find decidedly unfunny than when he was doing it.
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Free soda: OK, Mashable Entertainment Reporter Kellen Beck pitched this idea as a joke, but seriously Walmart should offer its members a free soda when they come in to the store to do some shopping.
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She also shared a news story from the time Selena Gomez replaced her in Hotel Transylvania, which Cyrus claimed was over a photo of her licking a cake shaped like a penis as a joke.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Posters of Barack Obama have popped up around Paris in what started as a joke by four friends pretending to launch a campaign for the former U.S. leader ahead of France's presidential election.
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As a joke, six months ago I started calling myself "PepeCashMillionaire" because [the markets say] that my Pepe Gold Bar's now worth $0003,000, and [there's] one that's worth $400,000 and [another] that's worth $5 million.
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All three are nominated for best lead actor in a comedy for the show about a suddenly impoverished family that is forced to move to a rural town they bought as a joke in richer times.
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She was murdered in cold blood by a boy I will not name and the pictures he took of her after the fact are circulating by basement-dwelling edgelords using her horrible demise as a joke.
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What once started as a joke has now given way to fashion publications to revert back to the old status quo of telling people what to wear, instead of inspiring them to dress from the heart.
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"Maisie and I, when we were younger, we would do each other's makeup really badly as a joke and go out to bars with terribly, s—ty makeup on and it would be hilarious," she laughs.
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" Colbert, the character, and Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, are two peas in a pod: "We are both TV personalities and decided to run for president," Colbert said, to the caption, "Both started as a joke.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest took exception on Thursday to Trump's attitude, recalling that the President-elect's campaign team had described his call on Russia to hack Clinton's email server over the summer as a joke.
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If you're broke as a joke but still looking to get your swerve on with the ladies ... listen up ... Chad Johnson -- self-proclaimed frugal guru -- is gonna tell you how to be a low cash Casanova.
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You could also generously read that quote as a joke, but this is coming from the same guy who apparently thinks his presidency thus far has been "A-plus," so, you know, he's probably not kidding.
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He says he has seen a change over the last five years or so, as younger generations express more comfort with internal condoms than older folks who still see them as a joke or an anomaly.
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"Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief," Mook said in a statement.
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" Musk hopped into Prank's mentions and said the image was "chosen randomly by software team as a joke (they didn't tell me in advance)" and offered to "change it to something else if your Dad wants.
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The tweet was meant as a joke, of course; anyone who follows my work knows I have a very live-and-let-live mentality, even if I can't help but flippantly poke the hornet's nest sometimes.
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What started out as a joke Facebook page about wearing Crocs to prom quickly became an emblematic example of the kinds of lessons young people have to learn about the reality of consumer culture these days.
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Big thanks to everyone who has listened to this weird little experiment called Lore Reasons, something that started as a joke, then blossomed into something very real, then became a monster we could no longer control.
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While Guo's reasoning to showcase real skin in his show isn't fully clear, it would be a missed opportunity — and even hurtful to those who are struggling with acne — to immediately take this as a joke.
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"On the one hand, I'll say 'never Trump' and on the other hand I'll say 'never say never' and I'll leave it ambiguous," Kristol said on Newsmax TV. He later dismissed the comment as a joke.
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Phoenix says it started as a joke, a 10-minute short in the vein of a ''Saturday Night Live'' skit, but that Affleck pushed Phoenix to announce he was retiring from acting to a TV reporter.
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The guy who started the "Storm Area 51" Facebook event as a joke a few months ago, Matty Roberts, tried again on Monday to pull the plug on the festival that snowballed out of the joke.
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In the first, Eliot is actively attracted to Quentin but his attentions are brushed off as a joke; later they have a threesome with another female character after a batch of feelings magic overwhelms their desires.
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The high-tech remotely operated yellow submarine, bearing a name that began as a joke, will begin its first mission this week through a deep current that starts in Antarctica and goes through the Southern Ocean.
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We're told they jokingly made the video in 2013 when they were both 15 and she agreed to go on the record with X's lawyer to make it clear -- the video was made as a joke.
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"I think you'll see some attempt to differentiate between people who might have posted items sparsely, as a joke or for shock, versus those who have a systemic or deeply rooted type of prejudice," said Levin.
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Though intended as a joke, images of the pair walking bruised and bloody through the London streets made headlines that summer, and the media scrutiny intensified after a video of the pair apparently smoking crack went public.
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"I set out to open a space for a different narrative, with the intention to show that being female artist could be a strong critical and aesthetic point of view, and not as a joke," she says.
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Now look, I&aposve lived in New York City area for a few decades and the New York&aposs Daily News has always been seen as a joke to anybody who has any objectivity and a brain.
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The truth is that Baraboo is not the only community in America where racism is brushed off as a joke, and where marginalized people are at best ignored, and at worst subject to ridicule, harassment, and attacks.
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On June 27, Matty Roberts, who lives in California, created the Facebook page as a joke, not realizing that millions would rally behind his battle cry to "see them aliens" at the Air Force facility in Nevada.
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After being dismissed as a joke for most of the past two months, Cassidy-Graham has forced Washington to take it seriously, no doubt aided by the September 250 deadline and the expiring dream of Obamacare repeal.
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In our interviews, the students — two of whom are African American, one of whom is Asian, and one of whom is Hispanic — indicated that this was intended as a joke, one that they thought would be funny.
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Monday night in Richmond, after an audience member asked whether he thought student loan interest rates are unfair, Kasich gestured at news cameras and said that before now, he'd have called those rates fair as a joke.
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Then an unknown delight with boundless creativity and access to Mac's Photo Booth application, the fledgling YouTuber created a five-minute segment, titled "My Drunk Kitchen Ep. 1: Butter Yo Shit," as a joke for a friend.
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"Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke," Meyers quipped during the dinner, in a remark that gained widespread attention.
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"The name of the event was more of an attention-grabber"Carnovale, a writer from Phoenix, Arizona, said that he started the event as a joke, taking inspiration from the Area 51 page that came before it.
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Khan denies censoring the media, describing such accusations as "a joke" during a visit to Washington this month, but relations with the press and broadcasters have become increasingly strained since he took office nearly a year ago.
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But he also testified that he was offered five women to send to Trump's hotel room -- an offer he says he rejected and perceived as a joke, according to the GOP House Intelligence Committee Russia investigation report.
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Creekbaum, who has been writing and recording music under the name Menstrual Munchies for more than five years, says he did it mostly as a joke and now is sickened that Betts apparently took it all seriously.
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He's known as one of the art world's most nimble jesters — and one of the most expensive living artists at auction — but he has said he hopes people do not see the toilet sculpture as a joke.
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The show's unique, book-like format, started as a joke, Bass recently explained to Jillian Steinhauer in an interview published by Temporary Art Review: I work really slowly, and there's this weird misperception that I work fast.
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Holed up and broke, they drive each other crazy with their abuse, neediness, and desperation, yet when Yiu-Fai insists, "Those were our happiest days," it's not said as a joke, nor is it played as one.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has admitted to sexually assaulting a housemaid when he was a teenager in a speech that drew condemnation from women's groups, but which his office later dismissed as a joke.
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Even though a White House official dismissed the president's latest pardon comment as a joke and Trump deemed it "fake news," making light of ignoring legal limits creates an expectation that the rule of law doesn't matter.
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Along with another social media campaign that started as a joke but then took off last week, #HotGirlsForBernie (which gave rise to #HotBoysForBernie), the perfume ad reflects the point of view of a younger, more diverse demographic.
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Wearing bright, cartoonish costumes by Montana Blanco that might have stepped out of a child's illustrated history book from the mid-20th-century, the characters speak in taunting, cadenced phrases that suggest tragedy told as a joke.
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However, Shabazz did not feel as though McGrath treated the video as a joke, and there was no indication in the instructions or communications that the video was a prank based on what Shabazz provided as verification.
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Two months earlier, 20-year-old Syed Jamanoor Islam was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old in Mile End in a feud that started with eggs being thrown by the victim's brother as a joke.
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I remember that I bought it for 22016 cents at the flea market in Avon, New York, last weekend, and that I pinned to the lapel of my stained Topshop jacket more or less as a joke.
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Made with all-natural organically grown catnip, fresh beets and natural preservatives, Apollo Peak all-natural cat wine is the brainchild (brainkitten?) of founder and CEO Brandon Zavala, who tells PEOPLE the idea started out as a joke.
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Per the report, they haven't determined whether the post was intended as a joke, but they have not found the firearm in question either: Detectives immediately initiated an investigation and obtained an arrest warrant for Rankin this morning.
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I posted a photo on Facebook of me and Dax from that night as a joke and recently a few media outlets have contacted me about it" and later added, "I don't want anything to do with Dax.
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The simple distinction of disco as a "joke," as opposed to something "serious," is one that has long held sway in the art world, and like all seemingly simple distinctions, it works hard to suppress its true intentions.
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Antonia said she and her dad instantly knew this was all part of Phedre's unique sense of humor, and she'd deliberately asked her dad to make sure to water this one plant in the bathroom as a joke.
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Cary once again denied ever making that comment about Redmond's doctor but explained that she was frustrated with the way Redmond and Hollman were antagonizing Westcott with a sex toy they had brought on vacation as a joke.
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The Canadian comedy show centers around the once-wealthy Rose family who lose their fortune and are forced to move to Schitt's Creek, a small town that they bought as a joke for their son's birthday decades ago.
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It started out as a joke, using the song "Proud of Your Boy" from Disney's Aladdin musical as the basis for the name of the group and the hashtag #POYB, which appears alongside Proud Boy content on Twitter.
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On its blog, Next Thing has been chronicling weird uses for PocketCHIP that its engineers have dreamt up — including a VR headset that started as a joke and turned into a viable way to play Virtual Boy games.
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In the context of all that sincerity, The Darkness were seen as a "joke" band—four men from the decidedly uncool town of Lowestoft in Suffolk who favored spandex over leather jackets and falsetto over pained emotional candour.
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" McInnes, also a co-founder of Vice Media, left the group in November and has denied that it is a white nationalist or alt-right organization, recently describing it as a "drinking club" he started "as a joke.
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The comments were later described by the White House as a joke, though this didn't sit well with anyone who has been outraged by incidents of shocking police violence against African-Americans over the past few years. 8.
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Cooling defended his leadership style, telling investigators the comment about his daughter was meant as a joke and he didn't remember threatening to castrate anyone – although he may have discussed castrating cattle while growing up on a farm.
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Thus launches a highly bizarre and jarring first stage set inside an airplane under attack by the blue-suited Wolfenstein 3D S.S. Nazis (used as a joke enemy in Doom 21 in two secret Wolfenstein 22016D themed maps).
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A senior Syrian government minister on Sunday dismissed as a "joke" plans by the Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria to hold elections and said they would not be allowed to threaten the country's territorial unity.
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When President Trump praises Xi Jinping's power grab to become China's president for life and suggests, "Maybe we'll want to give that a shot someday," it is irresponsible for The Times to frame this merely as a joke.
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On the earliest episodes of "Your Show of Shows," the influential NBC variety show, Brooks received no official writing credit and was paid out of Caesar's own pocket, kept around as a joke-writing "topper" and personal jester.
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Carlton denies the allegation she attacked the housekeeper in a drunken rage, but does admit busting up a TV with a baseball bat ... she says it was a fun thing she did with her kids as a joke.
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NASA's own SETI program, developed in the mid-1970s, was a frequent target of politicians who saw its mission—"to bag little green fellows," as one senator put it—as a joke and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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I started reading a copy of the Unabomber Manifesto, which I brought with me mostly as a joke, but also because it was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of major anti-technological works.
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Turkish social media users joined in the criticism and demanded Iceland identify a man who, apparently as a joke, approached the players at arrivals and thrust a dish-scouring brush in their faces, mimicking the TV microphones around him.
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For years, it was played off primarily as a joke — "Joe being Joe" — paired with some complaints from progressive writers and a larger volume of complaints from conservative writers that progressives were being hypocritical in not complaining about Biden.
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The original photo — a screenshot of a faked text conversation between an Uber customer and a driver — quickly went viral, only for the creator of the photo to later announce the entire thing was made up as a joke.
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The Boring Company started as a joke, but became increasingly serious as Musk began tunneling in a parking lot outside of SpaceX in an effort to demonstrate his ability to dig faster and more efficiently than traditional tunneling projects.
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The actor probably meant that as a joke — though Melton does work out like he's auditioning for the role of Jacob in a Twilight reboot, something he does alongside co-star K.J. Apa, who portrays Archie on the series.
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Ecker said they have gotten a few people who've dropped a dime on their friends and relatives as a joke -- one customer even offered to turn in his mom -- but the real leads were going to the sheriff's office.
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And so, naturally, "Harambe" is full of gravelly vocal contortions last heard from Louis Armstrong while the title character is never mentioned, utterly demolishing the idea anyone else could make a song about something so pointless as a joke.
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I tried to order some felt sauna hats that say "oligarch" on them from an Amazon seller named RussianBear, for me and my friends who like to sauna, like as a joke (though I actually really wanted one) pic.twitter.
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One day, when Reitz received a subscription box of weed accessories in the mail, like the "WeedTubers" from whom she was learning online, she thought it would be funny to make a video as a joke for her sons.
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Wednesday is World Press Freedom Day, so let's pause and savor this video, which was made as a joke in 2000, when Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York City and Donald Trump was just some rich guy.
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"I was running on CPT, which stands for 'jokes that white people should not make,'" he said, referencing the infamous gaffe when Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio used a racially loaded acronym as a joke.
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Another is repetition: Merely seeing a news headline multiple times in a news feed makes it seem more credible before it is ever read carefully, even if it's a fake item being whipped around by friends as a joke.
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"On @3girls1keith this week I mentioned that as a joke I had my lawyer and who I love, draft a cease and desist to my trainer @ajcorectology because I thought the workouts were so hard," Schumer wrote on Instagram.
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The song, released by PUBLIC, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based boy band in 2019, appears as teens show off their relationships on social media (though the song is often used as a joke between two people who aren't romantically involved).
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There was another medical drama called "The Good Doctor" and a potentially entertaining one called "The Mayor," which is about a 20-something rapper who runs for mayor of a small town as a joke but ends up winning.
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We ask Waka if we're living in a society that treats racism as a joke, and he says anyone over 40 who is still acting racist is "f***ed up," and needs to stop teaching racism to younger generations.
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"The journalist Nina Mohan saw what had happened and tweeted her disbelief: "I AM SCREAMING someone tweeted as a joke that Kim Kardashian gifted North JFK&aposs bloody shirt and Refinery29 wrote about it as if it were true????
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A number of British critics — and friends and admirers of Mr. Copley's, including singers who have worked with him — rushed to his defense, suggesting that any remark he had made must have been meant as a joke, or misunderstood.
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The conceit of the stunt, according to a promotional blog post, was that the company is racing to take its cryptocurrency "to the moon"—an apparent reference to dogecoin, a meme-inspired cryptocurrency that was started as a joke in 2013.
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Also, do not name your Custom Game that in anyway even implies that gaining experience while inactive is OK – please do not even do this as a joke – because you are putting yourself at risk of having your account banned.
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The Rose family — father Johnny (Eugene Levy), mother Moira (Catherine O'Hara), son David (Daniel Levy), and daughter Alexis (Annie Murphy) — have just lost their fortune, all except the small town of Schitt's Creek, which they bought years before as a joke.
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"Although it was concluded that Mr. Berk inappropriately touched Mr. Fraser, the evidence supports that it was intended to be taken as a joke and not as a sexual advance," read the proposed joint statement, though Fraser declined to sign it.
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Suspicions arose when someone going by the Twitter name DEDLEE posted this claim on Tuesday: Someone I know is pretty sure the late Maurie Fields did the #Frankston #seagull story once as a joke on Hey Hey It's Saturday. Haha.
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"I made it [as a] joke, just laughing with people who like Touhou Project Series," says Tvple Eraser, who also released a tool to bypass the lock on the files for anyone who may have downloaded the original version by mistake.
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A day after he assailed the U.S. criminal justice system as a "joke" and a "laughingstock," Trump backed off his threat to send the suspect in Tuesday&aposs New York bike path rampage to the troubled military commission system at Guantanamo.
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Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz attempted to inject some levity into the campaign slugfest, tweeting that rival Donald Trump had accepted his invitation for a one-on-one debate, before noting it was intended as a joke.
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The Process: Basically, I feel like this entire transformation started as a joke that no one (including myself) actually thought was going to happen until all of a sudden it was very, very real and my hair was very, very pink.
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A day after he assailed the U.S. criminal justice system as a "joke" and a "laughingstock," Trump backed off his threat to send the suspect in Tuesday's New York bike path rampage to the troubled military commission system at Guantanamo.
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The whole episode is trés Internet-in-2018: semi-established artist drops lo-fi video as a joke, goes instantly viral — viral enough to spawn a catchphrase and a dance challenge — just before heading on tour to promote her new record.
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" On Monday, a spokesperson for Shelton reiterated the country star was merely making light of his fall in a statement: "Blake's tweet was meant as a joke, he simply tripped over the riser and landed on the fiddle player's pedal board.
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In written testimony he filed opposing the bill, he shut down all the graybeards who claim he and his fellow teens are just campaigning as a joke—stressing that it's important to let anyone who wants to run go for it.
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This headline started off as a joke in the office after one too many coffees, and turned into Annalise and me heading to Panorama to find out what New York music lovers think about dating, deal breakers, and porta potty pounding.
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Magnolia Pictures Because The Satanic Temple doesn't believe in a literal Satan, or in anything supernatural, it's often presented in the media as a joke religion like the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Church of the SubGenius.
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After at least partially helping make Donald Trump president and giving some kid a year's worth of Wendy's chicken nuggets, Twitter is now responsible for getting two mega stars together for a forthcoming new film that all started as a joke.
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Director M. Night Shyamalan has become known to most film buffs as a joke, an enormously promising director who squandered his talent on an endless string of twist endings and self-aggrandizing projects that suggested he had bought his own hype.
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"I thought [Leonard] was joking at first and treated it as a joke because he sometimes would pretend and say, 'No, I'm not going to do that' and then say, 'yes,' so that's what I thought he did," Shatner said.
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HBO's online store put "Make Donald Drumpf Again" hats on sale "as a joke and sold way more than expected," Mitch Cahn, president of the Unionwear hat maker, told NJ.com for a story detailing its success with the comical cap.
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First came the feather brows, and if there's anything about the trend of eyebrow trends that's particularly telling, it is perhaps the fact that the makeup artist who first shared the feather brow to Instagram did so as a joke.
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It began as a joke in 2005, designed mostly to amuse ourselves, but 11 years later it is still standing, providing space for diasporic, radical, and progressive Jews in the UK who do not feel catered for by the Jewish mainstream.
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" Colbert continues, "He made so many kinds of odd comments about that boat that as a joke — ha-ha — we turned all of those comments into a children's book made up entirely of quotes of Trump touring the hurricane damage.
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His owner, Rebecca Schefkind, said she made an Instagram account for Coby as a joke, but started to take it more seriously after the cat's social media accounts garnered more than a million followers, as well as brand deals and sponsorships.
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Mr. Sessions said his comment about the Klan was meant as a joke and said it was so preposterous — especially since he was in the middle of prosecuting a case involving the group — that he thought nobody could take it seriously.
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Shania Sylvain from Apopka is personally hurt at the rapper's comments on slavery: When people say that Kanye is in the "Sunken Place" I honestly found it as a joke but now I'm starting to think this statement is true.
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Although intended as a joke, the event drew very real attention from the US Air Force, which warned the public not to try to enter the site, and from the state of Nevada, which started preparing for a possible tourist invasion.
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Peter Farrelly, the director of "Green Book," apologized on Wednesday after The Cut, a website under New York Magazine's umbrella, uncovered comments from 1998 in which Farrelly said he used to flash his penis to unsuspecting colleagues as a joke.
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"So you have to actually look at what was said, the context in which it was said—in this case in a bar as a joke—and the reaction to it, if people laughed and thought it was funny," Clay said.
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Leaked Video Shows FCC Chair Ajit Pai Roasting Himself With &aposJokes&apos About Being a Verizon ShillConservatives aren't particularly known for their sense of humor, and Ajit Pai has proven in the…Read more ReadYes, the video was intended as a joke.
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" But it seems that Grande subtly confirmed it to be a permanent declaration of her love, favoriting a response that said "definitely pete" as well as a joke about it being "arturo" in reference to a song from her latest album "Sweetener.
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" – At a Hunger Games: Catching Fire Facebook panel Opening up about adventures in sex toys: "Somebody as a joke bought me a bunch of butt plugs, it's a long story So I had a copious amount of butt plugs, tons of butt plugs.
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They used to be two little girls who were treated largely as a joke: Sansa, the romantic, dreaming of a future where she would be Joffrey's queen and have his babies and Arya, sparring with a stick at enemies made of shadows.
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" On the Oscars: "I didn't take the Oscars as a joke…it was like 'all black actors can talk about the glass ceilings that we've dealt with in this town, you get your night, go ahead, Chris Rock's gonna do it. Bam!
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He'd sent a tweet saying that he was in the general area of the restaurant for a seminar and as a joke, I phoned the general manager and told her to alert everyone in the restaurant that John was coming in for lunch.
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But the main corroboration of this hazy explanation came in the form of a letter from a shy Qatari prince, which was derided as a "joke" by Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's main opposition party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
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Trump still has so much time to inflict very real damage on both the United States and the rest of the world—a world that increasingly sees America as a joke that elected a neo-fascist reality TV star as its president.
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The head of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, caused a storm last month when he said that a woman could not do his job, although he later apologised, saying his comments had been intended as a joke and were taken out of context.
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Alexis used to star a TV show with Rainer and another popular actor, bad boy Jordan Wilder (Keith Powers — my favorite character), and had her sights set on playing August because she is broke as a joke and can't land any roles.
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And even when it starts off as a joke, like the 2015 ad campaign for Pot Noodle in the UK that featured an eager young man going through Rocky-style training to become a ring boy, audiences appear to be on board.
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"The point of the performance was really to make the Louvre realize that we're not here as a joke or to entertain, the aim is for the Louvre to take its responsibility as one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world seriously."
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Earlier this month, Keith Schiller, Trump's longtime director of security, told Congress that he refused a Russian offer to send five women to Trump's hotel room during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, testifying that he took the offer as a joke.
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The flip comment, which Trump later downplayed as a joke, would be a mortal blow to just about any other politician but he has shown an uncanny ability to bounce back from similar stumbles, adding to the sense of unease among Democrats.
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