(1) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(2) There are online databases of fake rick-roll URLs, and countless jokers have created sham web-browser plugins purporting to block rick-rolls while instead sending visitors to you-know-what.
(3) They say he can’t do this, he’s a joker – it’s like Ronnie Reagan.
(4) When I looked at the four people we had, Bruno is the joker, Craig is the Simon Cowell of the show and Len is the head judge.
(5) You’re probably the kind of ‘joker’ who spikes the water cooler with WKD and chews on biros before flashing a blue-toothed smile.
(6) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(7) Nobody thought Jack Nicholson’s Joker could be bettered until they saw Heath Ledger’s spikier take in The Dark Knight.
(8) Before the internet, some joker printed up hundreds of (faked) nude pictures of Jessie Matthews and dropped them on Dresden from a bomber!
(9) One of these jokers just swallowed a pair of nail clippers.
(10) Hodgson, by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who , because: “I fear I have this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant , and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer.
(11) And so, just when it looked like events were spiralling out of his control, Farage pulled out his joker – the old “Foreigners with Aids are making British people die of cancer” line.
(12) We have aimed towards the low end of the range given the fall in oil over the past six months, but that component is typically the joker in the pack."
(13) He's unmissable because he's still the sharpest pitch-black joker in the pack.
(14) Griffin on the panellists Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic: "The joker in the pack; knows how to look after herself and may be more of a handful than the others."
(15) At one stage he bred budgerigars, and while travelling back on the train from a fixture against Birmingham City, White and Jones, the two practical jokers in the team, stole uniforms from two waiters in the dining car and appeared in front of him with a lidded serving salver.
(16) Brad Dourif, not Jack Nicholson , was Tim Burton's first choice to play The Joker in 1989's Batman, according to the star of Lord of the Rings and the Child's Play movies.
(17) True Blood star Robert Kazinsky wrote : "OOOOOOOOOOOOH Matt Damon as the new joker?
(18) In my version, the man who opts for the role of joker in the male group is not looking for power but for acceptance; the other roles in the group are not accessible to him, perhaps because he is weaker or poorer or less imposing than his peers.
(19) Speaking at a Q&A to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original 1988 Child's Play horror flick, Dourif revealed that studio Warner Bros scuppered his chances to play The Joker despite Burton's efforts.
(20) Even a faint imprint of Ali had left its mark, but I could not reconcile all the versions of the man: the fighter, the joker, the magician, the religious disciple and preacher, the amiable conman.
Jokey
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Users discover that devices are suddenly answering back or misbehaving before the revelation that a jokey ghost has been placed in the machine.
(2) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
(3) Michel explained: "My wife is English and Spanish so … " Jay suggested to Michel he understood "the value of human interaction, whether it's by jokey text message, warm text message, mobile conversation or face-to-face meeting.
(4) Also, in South Africa, as in Australia, another huge Nando's market, Nando's is marketed as a jokey brand.
(5) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(6) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
(7) Green and Wallace used to have a long-running jokey argument along these lines, about whether Wallace should allow his "inner sap" into his prose.
(8) He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme.
(9) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
(10) In comparison, mine was comparatively mild and merely slightly jokey."
(11) He has also followed his father in being somewhat "jokey" in person while retaining a set of "sternly puritanical" principles.
(12) Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill – the drag queen, gay icon and now national treasure who was the yes campaign’s ace card in the referendum – tells a wonderful story about meeting Madonna: “Her default setting is jokey cunt.” His dress is fabulous: a glitter ball stuffed in a Coca-Cola bottle.
(13) He is often portrayed as the classic "serious clown" whose intense, driven private personality is at odds with his public image as a jokey, happy-go-lucky talkshow host.
(14) The songs are celebrated for the cheerful candour of their intimacy, with the 2009 single Not Fair bemoaning an ex-boyfriend's premature ejaculation, while Alfie, a hit from her 2006 debut album, was a jokey hymn to her irritation with her stoner baby brother Alfie .
(15) Posting a jokey picture of herself pretending to throttle Cowell, she wrote: "GUESS WHAT!!
(16) 8.45am GMT IDF jokes on Twitter go down badly The IDF is attracting criticism for the jokey tone of updates by some of its members on Twitter, amid the bloodshed.
(17) In his jokey quips and famous "top 10" lists Letterman and his team of writers have rarely pulled their punches.
(18) The Batman movies of the 1990s were camp and jokey; the Dark Knight movies, appearing a decade later, were not.
(19) Silver!” chips in Ringo, in a jokey stage-whisper.
(20) His classroom feels like a teenage bedroom, with a "No diving" sign by the window and various jokey posters on the packed walls, including a laminated teabag (an in-joke with a previous class) and a shrine to a former head girl who bagged 11 A*s. It turns out Burton, 30, really was once in a "rubbish band" – a subject of much fascination among the pupils – but has taught at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, since he qualified as a teacher.