Some Whately-isms are so complex that they nearly amount to honest jokes: "Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert?
"I was pissed off he stayed down so long, to be honest," joked the no-nonsense former prop, who has always had a fervent reluctance to waste precious interchanges on namby-pamby backs.
Be confident, honest, laugh at his jokes even though they may not be funny, so he will think you're paying attention.
One of the best way to deal with your insecurities is to be honest and joke about it.
When we jokingly predicted – honest, we were joking – that Keith Richards would address this year's Radio Festival, it turns out we were rather closer to the mark than we realised.
Two days in a row, citing news and opinion pieces, the Gore campaign said Mr. Cheney was "not being fully honest" when he joked in the vice-presidential debate that government had nothing to do with his financial gains after leaving Washington.
How many times have you rolled your eyes after seeing someone you know to be a humorless prat attempt to tweet an honest-to-goodness joke?
"This is a time when you need to love them, to be honest," Self said, joking that he might be perceived as soft but staying upbeat is a big factor in the NCAA Tournament.
The joke: His honest kindliness is continually mistaken, in the decadent atmosphere of academe, for subtle but sharp malice.
