"It became a bit of a standing joke," said O'Connor.
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How do you ... Are there ... My standing joke is there's an island that I only know about.
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I think a lot of people saw this long-standing joke of Trump trying to be president.
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It is a standing joke in today's show business that writers are ranked below the catering staff on any film set.
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After all, the long-standing joke about Washington has always been that the city runs on lots of talk and little action.
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Just this year, Dobrik married the mother of Vlog Squad member Jason Nash to successfully pull off a long-standing joke of becoming Nash's stepdad.
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"My standing joke with John and the rest of the guys for the last decade has been whether Croatians or Greeks eat more meat," Mr. Lacmanovic said.
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It's a long-standing joke that The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon has made fun of in a skit released on Wednesday, where the late show host just can't quite figure out that it's Liam Hemsworth he's speaking to.
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" (I learned subsequently that this was a standing joke between Bourdain and Busia, and not intended harshly.) Bourdain added that he was about to promote a new "family cookbook," called "Appetites," which would "lead to some awkward interviews.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The standing joke in South Korean sport is that it's harder to get a spot on the women's Olympic archery team than win a gold medal, but for rivals tasked with ending a streak that goes back to the 1988 Seoul Games that dominance is no laughing matter.
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Coyly, he has taken to referring to the part of north London he represents in Parliament as "Finsbury Park", rather than its official name of Islington North (smug Islington lefties being something of a standing joke in the pantheon of British political humour.) Some moments caught the heart as well as the self-satisfaction of the crowd.
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Well, it's been a > standing joke with them southerners agin us ever since.
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As a result, it became a standing joke that Eisenhower's inaugural Cabinet was composed of "nine millionaires and a plumber." Dissatisfied with Eisenhower's labor policies, Durkin resigned after less than a year in office, and was replaced by James P. Mitchell.
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The thick black nature of treacle makes the deception plausible. The topic has been a standing joke in British humor for a century or more. In literature, Lewis Carroll provides a discussion of credulity: > Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said, 'one can't believe > impossible things.
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Declaring the official accounts to be a standing joke,Hyhne, Jesper, and Kasper Søegaard. "Bøllebank: Soldater sår tvivl om berømt dansk militær operation." DR, DR Nyheder, 5 Jan. 2017. opposition was to Møller’s and the official record of events was raised and corroborated by over 20 sources who had taken part in the operation.
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McDonnell would send this draft to Young to rehearse the actors. Young would remove bits and add sequences to make the play as funny as possible, which McDonnell would then redraft. A standing joke between the two on the opening night of a play was that McDonnell would remark to Young "a lovely play, Jimmy. I'm so glad you used my title".
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This quickly ran into operating problems. The large tanks for fish contained none and became a standing joke; but the directors did display a dead whale in 1877.The Illustrated London News 6 October 1977 By the 1890s, the Aquarium was acquiring a risqué reputation, with unaccompanied ladies promenading through the hall in search of male companionship.Mander and Mitchenson, p.
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A two-time OVC Coach of the Year, Luther led the Racers to a 241-134 record. Luther's most notable players were future professional players Dick Cunningham, Claude Virden and Stewart Johnson, as well as Racer greats Herb McPherson, Jim Jennings and Les Taylor. Cal Luther was a firebrand of a coach. The standing joke at the university was the over and under of Cal throwing off his jacket during a game due to a call by a ref, or from frustration with a player.
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Hours after Krauss' escape, the first murders in his old entourage are announced. Martial Perrin is now so terrified that he acts like a tracked animal: staying away from the windows and sources of light, exiting his home only by back doors, not even wanting to make public speeches. His behavior quickly becomes a standing joke among his fellow politicians and rivals. Therefore, Jean-Louis Constant, his councilor, advises him to be replaced by his cousin and look- alike, Gilbert Brossard, until the Krauss is caught and imprisoned.
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The nickname 'Dave' is bestowed upon him by the character Trigger, the only character to refer to him as such, and was born from a one- line joke in the very first episode, "Big Brother". This became a long- standing joke throughout the entire series. No matter how many times Trigger was told Rodney's name, he continued to call him Dave. One instance was in "Three Men, a Woman and a Baby", Rodney tells Trigger that if Del and Raquel's baby is a boy, they will name it Rodney after him.
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After 1921, Foster rarely attended the Senate, seldom voted, and made no speeches. His absenteeism "made him something of a standing joke" and The Bulletin claimed that he "grew to hate the job". In July 1923, he was granted two month's leave of absence to take a health trip to Queensland, with Albert Gardiner advising the Senate that he was suffering from shell shock and was unfit to perform parliamentary duties. In October 1924, it was reported that the Confidential Finance Company had initiated lawsuits against Foster in multiple states for writing bad cheques.
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He also received two infamous penalties that negated critical first downs during the final 75 seconds of a 17-14 loss against the New York Giants, propelling the team to a Super Bowl Championship. The coaches and media speculated that he became a target of the league's referees, gaining notoriety for holding and false start penalties. A standing joke in Dallas would be to list Pozderac's 5 best plays with the answer being - #1 Holding, #1 Holding, #3 Holding, #4 Holding, #5 False start. He suddenly retired during the 1987 NFL strike and was replaced by rookie Kevin Gogan at right tackle.
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English is a pluricentric language, which means that no one national authority sets the standard for use of the language. But English is not a divided language, despite a long-standing joke originally attributed to George Bernard Shaw that the United Kingdom and the United States are "two countries separated by a common language". Spoken English, for example English used in broadcasting, generally follows national pronunciation standards that are also established by custom rather than by regulation. International broadcasters are usually identifiable as coming from one country rather than another through their accents, but newsreader scripts are also composed largely in international standard written English.
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In March 1941, Datus joined the Cook County, IL National Guard (he had told Mulford Winsor that he had a rather low draft number and felt that he would be called up soon). Starting off as a private in the Army Field Artillery, by November, he was a corporal stationed at Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Again he asked Mulford Winsor for a recommendation for admission to Officers’ Training School (it had become a standing joke between the two that that was the primary reason Datus would write after leaving Arizona). Datus was successful and started OCS at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in February 1942, graduating in May 1942 as part of the 12th OCS class of that year.
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In the United Kingdom, a number of rail companies change their timings and publish special "leaf fall timetables". During autumn, a fleet of Railhead Treatment Trains (RHTT) run across the network using high pressure water-jetting to clean the railhead. These trains are timetabled to run between scheduled daytime services as well as during the night when less rail activity can allow the railhead contamination to build up. The cryptic nature of rail company explanations for slippery rail and related phenomena made the phrase "leaves on the line" a standing joke, and, along with variants such as "the wrong type of snow", is seen by members of the public who are not familiar with the problem as an excuse for poor service.
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He was not the politest of men, and a little verse was composed around his apparent inability to remember to say "please". The crew boiled some spaghetti and placed it in one of his collecting jars, causing him momentary excitement at the thought of having discovered a new species, and a standing joke claimed the penguins seen alongside were said to shout out "Clark, Clark" and chase after the ship whenever he was at the wheel. He worked arduously at his biological recording from the moment the expeditions set out, recording the specimens encountered using dredging nets as the ship progressed southwards. When the ship became trapped in the ice he continued with his work, dissecting penguins and recording the changes in the plankton levels in sea.
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1931, p 13; Nigel West, MI6. British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909-1945, London, 1987, p 21 The writer Graham Greene saw the night-life of Tallinn in Maj Giffey's company and described him as "the standing joke here, as the hearty fellow, hard drinker, man-about-Tallinn."Richard Greene (ed), Graham Greene: A Life in Letters, London, 2007, p 62 Giffey must have impressed Greene, if not necessarily in a positive way, since he included him as Capt Gullie in his next novel, England Made Me.Anthony Mockler, Graham Greene: Three Lives, Angus, 1994, p 94. In 1940 Giffey, being a foreigner, was forced to leave Estonia as the Soviets overran the country. Little is known about Giffey’s work in Tallinn but he was promoted to section chief on arrival in London in 1941.
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The initial driving force for networking was to share storage and printers, both of which were expensive at the time. There was much enthusiasm for the concept, and for several years, from about 1983 onward, computer industry pundits would regularly declare the coming year to be, "The year of the LAN"."'The Year of The LAN' is a long-standing joke, and I freely admit to being the comedian that first declared it in 1982...", Robert Metcalfe, InfoWorld Dec 27, 1993"...you will remember numerous computer magazines, over numerous years, announcing 'the year of the LAN.'", Quotes in 1999"...a bit like the Year of the LAN which computer industry pundits predicted for the good part of a decade...", Christopher Herot In practice, the concept was marred by the proliferation of incompatible physical layer and network protocol implementations, and a plethora of methods of sharing resources.
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In 1949 Berry accepted an appointment as dean of Harvard Medical School, a position he would hold until 1965."Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine", Harvard Medical School His personal style as dean was described in a Harvard Crimson tribute by Andrew Weil:Weil, Andrew T., "The Achievement of Dean Berry", The Harvard Crimson > "His contacts with students are minimal; his associations with Faculty men > are often highly formal; and the great amount of time he spends away from > the School is something of a standing joke." Despite this remote style of administration, he was a highly effective dean who modernized the institution by merging the medical school with seven teaching hospitals, forming the Harvard Medical Center. He completed the plans for the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, doubled the endowment of the Harvard Medical School, and assisted in the establishment of the Channing Laboratory.
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Buckingham also told his version of what had led to his departure from the band. Two days after their performance at the MusiCares event he got a phone call from the band's manager Irving Azoff, who had a list of things that, as Buckingham puts it, “Stevie took issue with” that evening, including the guitarist’s outburst just before the band’s set over the intro music [for their acceptance speech being] the studio recording of Nicks’ “Rhiannon” — and the way he “smirked” during Nicks’ thank-you speech. Buckingham concedes the first point. “It wasn’t about it being ‘Rhiannon,’ ” he says. “It just undermined the impact of our entrance. That’s me being very specific about the right and wrong way to do something.” As for smirking, “The irony is that we have this standing joke that Stevie, when she talks, goes on a long time,” Buckingham says. “I may or may not have smirked.
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As the events were eagerly attended by foreign diplomats, Lord Palmerston would encourage his wife to float his ideas before the assembled guests and report back on their reception as a means of unofficially testing the diplomatic waters before committing himself publicly to an opinion.Bolton, pages 86–87 She could not cure his notorious lack of punctuality, since this was a fault she shared to the full; Queen Victoria, while staying with them at Broadlands, complained that Emily had kept her waiting for an hour for a carriage ride. It was a standing joke in London society that they were always so late for dinner that neither of them had ever heard of soup. Psychologically the two were very well-matched. biographer Herbert Bell states: :If Palmerston brought the greater sum of knowledge and pure intellect to the partnership, his lady was richly dowered in other qualities: sound sense and delicate sensibilities, warmed by beauty and good-heartedness into charm; shrewdness, so linked with impulsiveness that one wonders still how far her ‘indiscretions’ were planned for affect; earnestness and enthusiasm that admit of no such doubt.
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