While none can claim a similar bond, aides said, Mr. Bolten has developed a joking relationship with the president.
We had developed a running joke, because he couldn't talk to me about his next mission, which I knew was Iraq, and which he knew I knew was Iraq.
The game, initially developed as a joke prototype from an internal game jam and shown in an early alpha state in YouTube videos, was met with excitement and attention, prompting the studio to build out the game into a releasable state while still retaining various non-breaking bugs and glitches to maintain the game's entertainment value.
He developed a system: tap out a joke on Twitter, then monitor the reaction.
On the west coast, he made music and comedy records for the US war effort, and afterwards developed a repertoire of 15,000 jokes or routines, from which he could make a selection to suit any audience.
The payment offers were partly Uncle Toni humor, he said; as Rafa grew, the two of them developed a series of running jokes in which Toni simultaneously teased, prodded and made himself comically huge.
For his 20th birthday, in their sophomore year, she wrote him two poems expressing her feelings for him, and by their junior year they had developed a private language of jokes and mispronounced words: "Times is hard," they once saw someone say on CNN about rising gasoline prices, and it became a refrain about matters large and small.
Once a buzzy young fiction writer, Bea has been delaying her first novel for so long that she's developed "a well-worn self-deprecating joke about writing too slowly, how if she amortized her advance over the years, it became an hourly wage best counted in half-pennies".
However, some people, cynical bastards, say jelqing is a recent invention, a practical joke which has developed a life of its own.
The five of us had developed a list of possible names and, as a joke, someone had written Cantaloupe.
