Sentence examples for joking well from inspiring English sources

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"I said, 'I don't know what I'm doing.' And he said, 'What can you do?' And I said, a little bit joking, 'Well, I can take quantitative analyses of behavior,' thinking he'd say, 'Oh, great.' But he said, 'Come with me.

On the record, God speaks (Paul in a close-miked Bill Cosby voice): Big Bang, That's a joke I made up, Once when I had eons to kill, You know, most folks, They don't get when I'm joking, Well, maybe someday they will… I found this at my neighborhood record store, aka Starbucks.

Reaction everywhere was "It'll never happen...it's just wishful thinking...are you joking?" Well, we weren't joking, and apparently the "boys" aren't joking either.

I just take the trouble to say, 'With plenty of milk', and they turn that into milky, and shout it out, 'Mill-key!'" Man 2 (half joking) "Well, it's a dynamic environment – they have their own way of getting things done".

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On our final visit, Wernick joked (well, maybe semi-joked) that by the time the franchise went kaput, he must have shelled out $5,000 for each knish.

Holland joked, "Well, the earthquakes aren't stopping at the state line, but my problems do".

"I spoke up and joked, 'Well, yeah, he's a Sunni,' " Mr. Murphy said.

Trying to lighten the mood, I joked, "Well, perhaps you'll live at sea with us.

When told how physically well and mentally sound he appeared, he joked, "Well, I used to be taller".

After he asks, "I mean, they don't call it a slow break, do they?," Mr. Johnson jokes, "Well, in Larry's case maybe they do".

When her son bragged that he'd outlive her, she joked, "Well, I'm going to get put on a ventilator".

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