Even "joking" remarks can be used against you in a criminal court.
Bruce Pearl, the Tennessee men's coach, apologized for a joking remark that linked the rural home of one of his players to the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr Bryant added that he hoped suggestions that David Cameron – who made a possibly joking remark about getting rid of the BBC during the election – wanted to "cut the BBC down to size are just flim-flam".
"Thousands of environmental activists who supported Barack Obama for president are waking up this morning to what must seem like a very big and not very funny April Fools' joke," remarked the St . LouisPost Dispatch.
A joke remarking about the weekly musical performances was made about the Cure on the BBC comedy, The Young Ones (In the episode Sick, one of the characters asks another if "Mike" is coming back with a cure to aid their illness but the other remarks "its madness this week" as the band Madness were signed to play 'House of Fun' in that episode).
Rani Abraham, the former temporary PA who leaked Scudamore's sexist jokes and remarks about a female colleague, has said the ruling "felt like a whitewash".
Threaded through the evening are songs, jokes and remarks in which she acknowledges the depredations of old age with a good-natured bravery.
But when the books were handed out during graduation week, seniors found lewd, prankish photographs, off-color jokes and remarks insulting some students.
The department contends that the tape is a kind of audio illusion, with the provocative-sounding sections actually best understood as jokes, sarcastic remarks or, in the case of the racial slur, simply inappropriate language.
Then opposite him is a sharp man with rather a puckered face, who belongs to every set in the university, and who gets a reputation for wit by shocking slow men, with personal jokes and remarks on their morality.
