Sentence examples for strange joke from inspiring English sources

STEVE COLL: Strange joke though — don't terrorists also target trains?

It was a strange joke, both lame and kind of sick at the same time, but he was trying, so I laughed.

It was quiet and it was as if the outside, the wind, the trees, the ladybug crawling across my face, it seemed like they were all a witnesses to this strange joke on me.

New York magazine film critic David Edelstein found himself in hot water after he made a strange joke about the "Last Tango in Paris" rape scene in an attempt to commemorate the film's director, Bernardo Bertolucci, who died on Monday. .

(There is that wonderful and strange joke with a black student in whiteface that I hesitate to dive into further because it could and should—lead to multiple interpretations).

The newsroom generally likes and respects Keller — he was one of the best foreign correspondents in the paper's history — but some people had seen him as aloof and, at times, given to strange jokes.

"It's important to me that while I write silly, weird, and strange jokes, I'm also able to address more serious issues without sounding too self-serious.

"Virile" treats clowning around with the utmost respect, appreciating the significance of strange jokes and wrestling matches to the rhythm of the nights that define us as people, fix us in time.

I don't know what it is, but sadness always seems to contain some strange little joke".

The old buccaneer movies, with their dashing heroes and their ladies whose bosoms swelled like the seven seas, were often close to parody, but none of them offered anything as juicily ridiculous as Depp's popinjay pirate — a strange private joke on display in the middle of a hundred-and-twenty-five-million-dollar Jerry Bruckheimer production.

"What's that strange contraption?" jokes one of the regulars near the front.