(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.
Riddler
Definition:
(n.) One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
(n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Batkid successfully downed the villain, despite significant disadvantages in height and strength, and The Riddler was taken away in a San Francisco police department truck.
(2) SFPD did not immediately respond to questions regarding charges against The Riddler.
(3) San Francisco was beset by a wave of crime on Friday, as a woman was taken hostage and tied to cable car tracks, a criminal calling himself the Riddler attempted to rob a bank vault, and a miscreant known as Penguin generally made a nuisance of himself in the downtown area.
(4) 7.54pm GMT This week Abbey is wearing a bellydancer's outfit, and has borrowed Darcey's crimpers so she looks like one of the Riddlers.