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The phrase "foolish joke" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a joke that is silly, impractical, or lacking in good judgment. Example: "John's attempts at flirting were met with eye rolls from the girls, as they saw his efforts as nothing more than a series of foolish jokes."
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WASHINGTON — When an illicit pipe and a foolish joke aboard an airliner touches off a national megascare, scrambling fighter jets and F.B.I. agents, alerting all 4,900 flights in progress and unleashing a media flood, does that mean the security system works?
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With the exception of VS Naipaul, whose findings emerged initially in a travel book, Among the Believers (1981), no novelist saw the significance of these events for a long time, and we are left with foolish jokes about "Al-Klaridges" and a hell of a lot of routine thrillers.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the memo had been a foolish attempt to joke about the church's troubles, and had not been seen by any high-ranking Foreign Office officials before it went out to other departments.
But what happened is so unbelievably foolish, so disgraceful.... It's like a terrible joke".
The film's working title was "Greedy Wives", a joke on von Stroheim's previous film Foolish Wives; this working title was never considered as the film's actual title.
Don't say ridiculously foolish things in front of him - you can make random, silly jokes infrequently if you get the feeling he has that type of humor, but don't overdo it: real-life slapstick died with Charlie Chaplin.
One movie was in 3D, and as a joke we put our glasses on before the previews, which made us seem foolish to the other people in the theatre. .
One movie was in 3D, and as a joke we put our glasses on before the previews, which made us seem foolish to the other people in the theater. .
To assert that only minorities may tell jokes about themselves or criticize other minorities is both grossly discriminating and foolish.
That was a joke, of course, something of a Jewish joke, and in the humorous comparison I was granting Wiesel foolish credulity in his involvement with Hagee.
Foolish, foolish idea.
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