Sentence examples for start of a joke from inspiring English sources

No, this is not the start of a joke.

A judge, a D.A., and an Irishman — no, it's not the start of a joke — stood at the center of the group.

What sounds like the start of a joke is reality in Omalo, on Georgia's frontier with Russia, where eagles usually outnumber foreign visitors.

When I talked earlier to Robert Gibbs about the gathering, he mentioned something that I now relayed to Jarrett: "If you would've started out a line by saying, 'Reverend Sharpton, Newt Gingrich and Mayor Bloomberg walked into the White House together,' I would've thought it was the start of a joke".

A rabbi, a theologian, and a geneticist walk into a conference room...it's not the start of a joke, but rather the start of yesterday's session on Genetics and Ethics, at which the session's speakers really tried to reach beyond their disciplines to talk to one another.

It might sound like the start of a joke.

Delta Chi forever!" Sure this started as a sort of a joke but recently these men have gotten more organized.

IT SOUNDS like the start of a bad joke to ask how many companies it takes to change a light bulb.

It isn't the start of a bad joke: these are among the ways in which the taxpayers' alliance thinks councils can save money.

If this sounds like the start of a bar joke, it also confirms Wood's commitment to cultural diversity — as does the fact that between Stendhal and García Márquez, he also found time for a book about film, "America in the Movies".

Hiking to the top of a mountain sounds like a challenge instead of the start of a bad joke.