Adams said Whitlock's feet were often a subject of joking conversation in the gym.
When I first arrived, some of my attempts at small talk and joking conversation fell flat when she asked me to repeat myself, or to specify exactly what I meant.
Then move on to deeper topics like interests, jokes, general conversation, and maybe some light arguing- which band is better?
If you sense something brewing, or if you know that someone is about to trouble you, try not to react to their jokes or conversation starters when it does not interest you.
"He had a way of joking, of conversation".
Despite his gift for comedy, he doesn't joke in conversation, answering questions in fluent, irony-free paragraphs.
In retrospect, it's hard to imagine how I even made it through the day; every class seemed like just another long step in the countdown to 8 p.m. Every lesson and joke and conversation was dulled with the nervousness of an undecided future.
But as his wife, his doctors, his caseworkers and the friends he has made in group therapy in New York City have been finding out since Mr. Rykhlevsky left Russia for America on March 26 , 1999 he is improving to the point where he can comfortably joke in conversation.
I remember clearly when I began to think of myself as black, in a gathering of friends, in an apartment, sitting around a wooden table, listening to a joke-filled conversation about race, with my Nigerian friend and her Chinese friend and her Jewish friend and her African-American friend and her Irish-American friend.
Whispered jokes and conversations between buddies were nonexistent.
