That is true enough, and the perpetual joke about Gray Davis among politicians is that he is aptly named.
Men and fathers are so favoured in our society, the world is weighted so much to their advantage, that comedy writers can safely make them the perpetual butt of jokes.
In Strauss's little joke "Perpetual Motion," added as encore (along with the polka "Eljen a Magyar"), the players translated the spoken ending from "Und so weiter, und so weiter" to "Et cetera, et cetera".
"If you could you have a perpetual first-year cop," Mr. Page joked, "this would be a marvelous labor innovation for the city.
Obviously, as the vast majority of Americans are navigating the world of rock music without succumbing in large majorities to these maladies, we can decree that Gore has well-earned her perpetual status as the butt of rock-enthusiasts' jokes.
At David's left on the couch was Weide, a thin, bearded, professorial man with a perpetual air of being about to make a joke.
And if anyone should've been able to speak with authority on the matter it was he, whose philosophy has at its core a theory of perpetual recurrence - civilisation repeating itself, like a bad joke.
Why not have fun with the whole process?" says Andy Green, a gimlet-eyed 20-year-old with a wide face and a perpetual smile, like he's been hiding a big joke he's just dying to tell.
He was her height, with a round face that seemed to wear a perpetual smile the kind of man who would crack an easy joke with anyone waiting in line at Trader Joe's.
Many of the jokes are quite funny, but the humor, predicated on the perpetual immaturity of men and the general invisibility of women, is feeling pretty tired these days.
He was her height, with a round face that seemed to wear a perpetual smile — the kind of man who would crack an easy joke with anyone waiting in line at Trader Joe's.
