This may be because voters haven't gotten used to taking Mr Huckabee seriously or remembering his name; a month ago he was considered a moderately amusing joke.
When asked about the moribund marketing stunt, a Sun Microsystems spokeswoman, Susanne Vagadori, said, "If you want an on-the-record response it would be along the lines of, 'Yeah, wouldn't that be an appropriate and amusing joke on Microsoft?' That's sort of why we looked into it".
If you're a bit blue, think of a happy moment or amusing joke to spark a smile.
Talking of Osborne, I heard a very mildly amusing joke while I was wandering around: "Why did George Osborne get booed by 80,000 people at the Olympic Games?
But beyond the cynical joke that is that question and the more amusing joke of a human who is not a character in a comic porno film being named Woody Johnson there is a deeper and less funny punchline.
Olive's parents, Dill (Stanley Tucci) and Rosemary (Patricia Clarkson), are laissez-faire hippies who completely trust their daughter and sail through the movie as if they were savoring an amusing private joke.
(We have, one hopes, now heard the last titters of "Come on, Tim" as Murray prepares to serve, perhaps the snootiest and least amusing joke in sports, and emphatically absent from the Olympics).
Antonia Nicol shared details of her mother's amusing joke to Twitter this week.
An amusing running joke in the book centers on his assistant coaches' struggle to find the team Friday night pregame movies that didn't subvert traditional values.
Interspersed with these carefully constructed nuggets of outrage, there are some genuinely amusing jokes and self-depreciating observations.
