How far the band had come since The Concept, when they were writing in-jokingly about their friends going to shows (and buying records by "the Status Quo"), can be measured by this, the centrepiece of 1995's Grand Prix.
Another time, after giving evidence about his sex parties, he poked his head in to jokingly ask a couple of female journalists if they were free that night.
Each crackdown simply prompts a surge in new orders for satellite dishes.Channels based in Tehrangeles, as the Iranian community in California jokingly calls itself, have long broadcast a treacly diet of Farsi music videos and variety shows.
Hadid, who died in March, jokingly dismissed his theories (set out in the two-volume, Bible-thick Autopoiesis of Architecture and in essays with such titles as Advancing Social Functionality via Agent-Based Parametric Semiology) as "Patrik-metricism".
Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Medvedev talked about Facebook's role in politics, though only jokingly in reference to its importance in the American presidential campaign, according to Mr. Medvedev's press office.
Because he didn't support this line, he was — and only in part jokingly — considered a "reactionary" by the activists of the Screen Writers Guild.
He then went to the Old Senate Chamber for a ceremonial swearing in, and jokingly asked Mr. Biden for a room at the Naval Observatory while he looks for a place to live.
One fellow panelist, Robert L. Bradley Jr., the president of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston, jokingly offered to buy Mr. Green dinner if he'd announce his support for a carbon tax in theory, just not in practice.
Father Joe Carroll, who for many years ran the St . Vincent dePaul Village in San Diego, jokingly took to calling Brenner a "thief" for regularly clearing out his charity of donations.
But the best line comes from Carson, that mumble-mouthed motherfucker, who, unable to get a word in edgewise, jokingly pleads, "Can someone attack me please?" Hilarious.
You're my new best friend!" In a jokingly manner, or something relative to that subject.
