Sentence examples for common joke that from inspiring English sources

It's a common joke that once a photograph is pirated, lost, or ruined, its value (read its value in the courtroom) suddenly skyrockets.

There is a common joke that the average Serbian makes $100 a month, but spends $200 a month on clothes.

Pick a common joke that you like and tell it.

Bournemouth, UK, which is full of old people — Pem Charnley of EcoWorldly says that a common joke is "that the shop windows are all fitted with bi-focals to allow passers-by to ascertain what lies within" — will be running fiber-optic cabling through the town's sewer system instead of digging shallow trenches in the ground.

Mrs. Slocombe, a senior saleswoman, played by Mollie Sugden, is middle-middle-class but straining upward with every muscle; a common joke is that she's heartier and more daring than her male colleagues.

A common joke is that a topologist cannot distinguish a donut from a coffee mug, since they can be continuously deformed into one another.

Another common joke is that you'll always get picked last in sports.

(Cue the common gay joke, "That's 34 in straight years!") In the fall of 2003, we had a commitment ceremony in a lovely Unitarian church nestled in some woods, surrounded by over 100 friends and family.

"There is an old Soviet joke that where common sense ends railways begin," says one despairing Eurocrat.

The common joke has been that Britain's much maligned No. 2 city was so unsightly that its downtown tangle of freeways, known as Spaghetti Junction, had more lanes taking you out of the city than in.

It's a common joke among lawyers that they rarely refer back to their studies, but there's a definite value in understanding contract law, for instance every time you click "accept" on a website.