Sentence examples for fine joke from inspiring English sources
(It's a fine joke against himself; only the thoroughly spineless would be deterred by invertebrates).
She says, "Well, then I'll see you at 8!" A fine joke, Sergio, if a little racy.
* Miliband (E), it was widely agreed, made a jolly fine joke at the expense of two Prime Ministers at this week's PMQs.
He sets up his own argument with a fine joke: "Perhaps Schoenberg's work deserves a more superficial treatment than it has hitherto received".
And in the foreground, signing autographs, is a figure who makes a fine joke of the title of this work -- you have to see it.
But more often, Friedman's comedy combines fine joke-writing with a nose for the faultlines in liberal arguments to which she is herself sympathetic.
But there's very fine joke-writing, too, from the die/dice wordplay to the routine about evaluating movies by the same criteria as drunken nights out.
Twoflower enables Pratchett to make some interesting points about the nature of tourism and power, and there are some fine jokes about his attempts to impose rational ideas (such as insurance) on a magical world.
And he also cracks some fine jokes that justify and displace his acrimony – like the one paralleling beekeeping and slavery, or the terrific gag in which the patience of a put-upon racehorse finally snaps.
The target was a whale in a barrel, frankly, but there were still some fine jokes, including the scene in which Cranchesterford's teenagers exchanged embroidery text messages, stitching like fury and then handing the frame over to a nearby urchin to deliver.
