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The whistleblower said they believed it had been a "daft" joke that had got "carried away".
It was a daft joke by a daft comic at a daft event.
When a Treasury civil servant accidentally sent a "daft joke about the Chinese" to the entire Treasury press list, Brown was worried about "relations with the Chinese – not least Rupert Murdoch's then-wife Wendi Deng" and felt "the Treasury should show no mercy".
By the time I moved to Britain, there was a commonly expressed view in the German press that England was a country tragically stuck in the past, obsessed with its glorious role in the second world war, unable to shake a German's hand without making some daft joke about the Nazis – all true, to an extent, just not the whole truth.
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He went straight into daft jokes".
If I'd just left it alone and carried on writing daft jokes about whichever politician is making a tool of themselves that day, I wouldn't be sat here writing this piece.
It's an unashamedly entertaining fast read, it's full of pulp fiction tropes and daft jokes, the language is simple and possibly even workmanlike, but in the immediate aftermath of reading it, I'm mightily impressed.
As personalities and as MCs they click like Lego, swapping rhymes at dizzying speed, and they make it look easy: playful virtuosos who introduce songs with daft jokes, converse in gobbledegook ("We have our own language, y'all") and rarely stop grinning.
Have a good comedic sense, but avoid saying daft jokes.
I've tried this in One Across a few times, where it's apparently floored some very highly-respected Times solvers, so I don't think I'll be introducing it into the Guardian just yet... or will I? Daft Twitter joke: A man goes to a black-tie reception wearing a fish costume because the invitation on Twitter mentioned a strict dress cod Realising that DALMATIAN isn't spelt with an O.
"It was a daft prank".
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