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That would be quite an achievement for Boris, who is seriously clever in an "Oliver Letwin plus jokes" sort of way (it was Letwin who was tasked by Cameron with keeping their old schoolchum on board, so no wonder it failed) and thus vaguely aware that the outside world looks seriously menacing at the moment and is likely to remain so across a host of economic and political fronts.

Dressed in dapper black tie and diabolical Kabuki white face, Mr. Baryshnikov and Mr. Dafoe sing, step lively and tell jokes sort of — while brandishing canes, clocks, valises and a loaf of bread that looks like a Gucci purse.

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He was joking sort of.

"Ten years from now, we'll be working for 300 euros," she joked sort of.

We were joking, sort of, but we were also very serious.

Mr Clegg recently joked (sort of) about feeling "gradually lobotomised by the sheer neurosis and weight of everyday government activity".

"I'm dying right now," Mr. Huynh said with a grin to show he was joking, sort of.

Ms. Quinn, a Democratic candidate, joked sort of — that the arrangement would take a toll on her staff, given her volubility.

I'm joking, sort of, but the fact of the matter is that Eliot Spitzer, James McGreevey and David Paterson have, among their other contributions to public life, provided a behavioral yardstick as unsettling as any that Alfred Kinsey or Masters and Johnson ever produced.

'My name is Ken Livingstone,' the Mayor of London declared last week during a rail journey across the capital to inject new energy into his campaign for re-election, 'and I'm running against pure evil.' He was joking, sort of.

Eugene (Salt) Smith, the Democratic city chairman, joked, sort of, that poll watchers would take notes if anyone took any longer in the voting booth than it took to punch a solid Democratic ticket.

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