To most people, the idea must seem a joke, and even those of us in the trade are more apt to choose a magazine.
As Eastwood and Morgan Freeman rag on each other, the movie seems a joke between aging friends (the lines are a duet for buzz saw and cello).
Take John Michael T. Weisss, channeling Chris Noth), a Wall Street titan so busy oozing smug charm and uncorking thousand-dollar bottles that the notion of his poring over "Das Kapital" as a college radical seems a joke.
That he should be denied by Charles and Camilla's secret son, a risk assessor from Ruislip, seems a joke too far, particularly as Graham, an unlovable love child, is an equally unlovable fictional character.
But the political rhetoric seems a joke; we know that revenge and counter-revenge are what the various ethnic groups really seek — to "do to what they did to our tribe mates".
In this day of 4GB cellphones, it seems a joke.
To call this a "corrections" system seemed a sour joke.
If it seemed a cruel joke by December, then now it is a mystery, with the Jets yet to liberate Tebow after failing so far to trade him.
A year ago, such a statement would have seemed like a joke.
