| 单词 | joker |
| 例句 | Another reveler, a laughing young boy wearing a joker’s cap, came and pulled them back toward the dancers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a theoretical joker, like me, but a practical one, which means he actually carried out his jokes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning Annabeth and I were sitting by the canoe lake sketching chariot designs when some jokers from Aphrodite’s cabin walked by and asked me if I needed- to borrow some eyeliner for my eye ... The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "That joker's trying to steal your wallet. Move your pocketbook to the front where he can't get at it." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Man, I’m getting sick of getting jerked around by those jokers!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z "Well, well, well, my man Muhammad Ali is in the house! Heard you taking jokers down for the count!" he said, but not smiling or laughing, or showing any signs of it being a joke. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Todd was a joker, and he’d had a run-in or two with the law, so even in the back of a military van he seemed amused. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "The thing is that these jokers usually work in pairs." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Like practical jokers, chairs offered themselves and then pulled away at the last moment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Born in 1964 in the tiny farm town of Benjamin, Utah, the son of a plumber, Singleton was a nice kid but a poor student, shy, a follower, a practical joker. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But Finn didn’t like movies, and he thought the crows were nothing but jokers and thieves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He has hairy dark arms with tattoos of jokers, swords, bulldogs, and pirate ships. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She brought it out calmly, “He developed a sense of humor—it’s an escape, you see, a method of partial escape from reality. He became a practical joker.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z On the ace he had written, “Let’s see you storm through as the best in the deck. If the joker does not appeal to you, throw it away and keep this for good luck. Pete.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Skeet was an extrovert, a goofball, a practical joker. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh, you all are hilarious. You all are a big bunch of jokers,” Gina says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As they whirled around the bonfire she caught sight of the musicians with their pipes and drums, dressed like jokers in pointed caps with long gold tassels and jingling bells. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And I remembered Aunt Gloria saying how Salim was a practical joker. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He became a joker, a trick player, and joked on himself as well as others. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Doubled over the table, she tried to hit the joker responsible. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For all we know, the person behind this isn’t even a true racist, just a joker with a sick sense of humor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Inside were two playing cards, an ace and a joker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Everybody just figured some joker had found the body and moved it,” Dad said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I was from the Bronx, after all, maybe these country jokers were intimidated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “We carried these jokers, birthed them, and now they got the nerve to be ashamed of us.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “You’re such a joker,” he said, then turned and went back into the soda shop. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She remembered her mother, dressed in a paper crown and red velvet cloak, blowing kisses across the flames to her father, dressed as a joker with gold and silver baubles hanging from his cap. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This includes the attractive, willfully bland Ms. Peer as the good-girl producer, who essentially functions as straight woman to Mr. Karl’s antic joker. Review: ’Groundhog Day,’ All Over Again, Now With Song and Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z And yet now the scrawny lank-haired joker is Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, a fact which he struggles to comprehend as much as we do. Game of Thrones: the survivor awards (aka how the hell did they make it out alive?) 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Do not, under any circumstances, appear in a photo with these “jokers.” Perspective | Ask Amy: Recent nondrinker gets several servings of guilt 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The writer is dealt a joker from the pack. Three Sharply Observed Books Showcase the Enduring Appeal of Memoirs About Dealing With Disease 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Sure, there would be a few jokers snickering that we were cousins, but that would die down eventually. Modern Love: So Much in Common, in Name Only 2012-07-12T18:26:59Z He says he was typecast early in his acting career, invariably as the fat boy, the joker, the smartarse. Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z And anyway, playing the joker has got him this far. Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z “No Hotel” may lay its figurative cards on the table in relatively short order — but they’re all jokers. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z To add insult to injury, the two token Asian-Americans are the joker and the loser of the group. Five ethnically insensitive casting decisions 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Kevin Spacey plays Shakespeare's diabolical joker in a production by Sam Mendes that signals the final year of the Bridge Project, which mixes British and American actors and plays on both sides of the Atlantic. The best theatre for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:08Z When, during solitary hit Because the Night, Smith collapses into giggles, joker Jackson is quick to join her, much to Jesse's consternation. Patti Smith – review 2013-06-23T17:41:32Z He was a joker, a Jerusalem native, an Israeli war veteran, an accordion player and a storyteller. Modern Love: A Photo on the Floor: My Father?s Double Life 2010-04-02T17:49:00Z She dislikes puzzles and the scary-looking jokers in a pack of cards, which she insists be removed before any game is played. Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z SJ Hannah, on the other hand, serves two believable shades of sleaze, a mischievous joker’s grin stretched across his face the whole while. Review: In Eulalie Spence’s Harlem, the 1920s Come to Life 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z I wasn’t no practical joker or anything like that. ‘I’m feeling really funny’: Tracy Morgan picks up the pieces on his latest tour 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But it's watchable enough, and not without modest insights into the life and work of the professional joker. Show Me the Funny ? and the unfunny 2011-07-18T13:38:39Z Though Ravi is a born joker, making for a glib tour guide to his own romantic ups and downs, it’s his parents who steal the show, with their natural sense of humor. ‘Meet the Patels’: Family-style moviemaking 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Now that "the joker years" have arrived, there's also the inevitable middle-aged calculation of the books that might be left. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Giggles The jokers at this long-standing club in the U District did not answer the phone or return this reporter's messages. A stand-up roundup: Comedy clubs in Seattle and on the Eastside 2010-03-18T20:59:00Z In that period of time, if you think back, almost everyone was funny, had a great sense of humor, or saw themselves as a joker. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Hatter remembers her father as a joker, with a fund of entertaining stories. How daughter of ‘Dutch Schindler’ proved his heroism 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The electoral-college winner is the joker, while the ace is the president of the Russian Federation. In the galleries: At annual benefit show, the world goes round 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z If Haydn the joker is amply on display here, the pauses that he so often uses before delivering his punch lines can suggest something much deeper, Bavouzet said. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z It was goodbye to the snorter, the ranter, the joker, the table-pounder. Books of The Times: ?Red Plenty,? by Francis Spufford, About Soviet Russia 2012-02-14T23:18:36Z The joker then felt terrible, as no slight had been intended. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z There’s this practical joker, you see, and this gal who won’t give him the time of day and this doctor she likes and so on. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z If they are casting a new joker and Scorsese is suppose to produce then all is not lost. Martin Scorsese to produce 'gritty and grounded' Joker origin story – reports 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z You’re the sarcastic joker in your friendship group and people are drawn to your dry humour. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z He says he was always an entertainer, a joker, but there was little to joke about back then. Ducking and weaving 2010-07-30T23:09:00Z "We don't want to depress people because there's so much humor in our communities. There's so many jokers." "No more 'Indian in the Cupboard'": "Reservation Dogs" is the new direction of Native storytelling 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Hot on the heels of detective thrillers and political dramas, the Danish jokers are coming. Heard the one about the invasion of the Danish comedians? 2013-02-22T09:55:58Z Then there is the third option, the joker in the pack, the switchback ride of the W-shaped life. ‘It hits you over the head’: can I survive my midlife crisis? 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z These episodes suggest that there is less difference between the straight man and the joker than you might think. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Don't tempt fate – or practical jokers – by trying it at your local swimming baths. Clip joint: the Louise Brooks bob 2010-09-22T16:21:00Z We love jokes that find the far edge of the permissible, but we also love to turn against the joker who violates our own closely held taboos. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Chuck tells Erica that he is a practical joker and likes to play pranks. Patton Oswalt talks lying, comic books and catfishing in his new cringe comedy "I Love My Dad" 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “Politics and poker, shuffle up the cards and find the joker,” he quotes the lyrics to one of the songs. A Republican consultant tries his hand at a different kind of political theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Not many playwrights could make you like a police officer who assaults a civilian or imagine for a moment that a navel-gazing joker who betrays his friend could be a hero. Critic?s Notebook: Reconsidering ?Lobby Hero? by Kenneth Lonergan 2011-11-06T22:45:44Z You are the clown and joker of the family; the defender of your friends. A letter to … My brother, whom I bullied when we were young 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z And Mr. O’Connell rises to the crucial challenge of convincingly drawing Berowne’s evolution from madcap joker to melancholy philosopher, who comes to understand that man cannot live by words alone. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z Nouvel is an architect with plenty of jokers up the sleeves of his trademark jet-black suits. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z Another switcheroo arrives every few minutes, which quickly grows as tiresome as a joker roommate and lets the satire deflate into mere sarcasm. Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z In company, he was “the joker, the fabulous comedian”, she says sarcastically. Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Gatti now suggests that the jokers who’ve said they want to send him mac and cheese can instead donate to their local food pantry, because “There’s a lot of hungry people out there.” “Mac and cheese douche” Luke Gatti’s apology: Does “sorry” excuse his abusive, aggressive rant? 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “Dear White People” deals out a deck of race cards, most of them jokers. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I'm not here to play with these jokers. Dallas police officer on leave after violent rap 2012-11-28T22:39:08Z Mind you, he's just as funny when playing his jokers at random. Emo Philips 2010-08-12T15:48:00Z His brother Marc, a lawyer who is also Mr. Dujardin’s occasional agent, remembered him as “a practical joker who amused even his own family.” French Twist: Jean Dujardin, a Comic Who Does Nuance 2011-11-20T01:57:20Z Were you ever a prankster or practical joker? Meet Maria Bakalova, the Breakout Star of the ‘Borat’ Sequel 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Po-faced types should stay away as jokers invade one British town for five days of fooling around. This week's new events 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z He's quite a joker – he likes to keep the mood light. Was Beyoncé wrong to lip-synch at President Obama's inauguration? 2013-01-26T18:00:01Z He likes Uganda's practice of watching films with live commentary by "video jokers" who help make plots more relatable. In Uganda, a filmmaker makes gripping $200 action flicks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z While news writers in films aren’t always likable, at least there’s a spectrum, running from screwball joker to heroic investigator to peddler of false headlines. Breaking news: why does Hollywood gloss over the world of magazine journalism? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Whoever says white people are bad must be a marketplace joker. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Along with calls for half a dozen Krall classics and a Joni Mitchell tune or two, some joker asked for “Watching the Detectives.” Diana Krall takes fresh twist on forgotten tunes | Concert review 2014-04-17T19:10:57Z I didn't believe him because he was a joker. How we made: The Railway Children 2013-05-06T16:13:59Z It sounds like the set-up to a joke; surely the Commons has enough jokers already, boom boom. Ivor Dembina gives parliament its first standup gig 2010-03-16T21:30:00Z Faith Hill remembered the group as country's biggest practical jokers, telling a story from an early 1990s tour on which she opened for the duo. Stars turn out for Brooks & Dunn's 'Last Rodeo' 2010-04-20T06:07:00Z At some point we got wise, realizing that any joker could edit a Wikipedia page, and learned to distrust anything that didn’t come from something that at least appeared to be a reputable source. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But it loses one of the functions of the awards show host in recent years: to be the elephant-in-the-room pointer, the joker, lowercase, who acknowledges the industry’s failures and embarrassments. Review: A Driverless Oscars Takes a Winding Road 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z A practical joker, he liked to ring the White House doorbell and then hide. Celebrate Presidents’ Day with this trivia quiz 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Indeed, Creed is probably best viewed as the joker in the contemporary artworld pack. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z My father was a joker in his youth, and time has subdued him. The power of six: what I've learned from having five siblings 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “My dad was a practical joker that nobody knew about,” he said. TCM Classic Film Festival: Peter Fonda remembers his father, Henry Fonda 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The two do not fall into straight man and joker roles, but like the best classic comedy pairs, they are a study in contrasts. In ‘2 Dope Queens’ a Duo Muses Over Life, and Stanley Tucci 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The fundamental difference is that Adams is a joker. In the galleries: Hand Print Workshop celebrates two colorful decades 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z So now's the ideal time to catch up on all the jokers and self-aggrandising herberts who've been given "the finger". Catch-up TV guide: from Sealab 2021 to How Did This Get Made? 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z In Ragone’s opinion, it’s an original recipe — though, that hasn’t stopped Democratic jokers from alluding to Trump’s plagiarism incident at the Republican Convention. The 2016 first lady cookie contest is just as weird as the rest of the election 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z If there was ever a personality trait that’s an indicator of potential psychopathy, it’s an overzealous practical joker. My streaming gem: why you should watch Creep 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Wisdom was a true voice of the people, the diminutive working-class joker, forever being put down by snooty colonels or posh birds who weren't really worthy of him in the first place. Norman Wisdom - a life in clips 2010-10-04T22:55:00Z He kept saying, “I’m a joker, I hope you don’t mind.” Early in the date he asked her: Have you seen ‘Married at First Sight’? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Everyone is still absorbing the implications of that when a human heart is discovered among the animal remains those young jokers used in their monster-carcass gag. Review: ‘Loch Ness’ Has a Monster, and an Alluring Mystery 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z His role was that of the gadfly, the professional dissident, the joker in the pack. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z In addition to the 52 works of art in the deck, two cards — the jokers — each feature a set of Nazi photo albums of artwork which have missing volumes. Monuments Men group bets on playing cards to find lost art 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z A set designer turned sculptor, painter, performer, joker and – fatally – lover of fast motorbikes, Pascali's work retains a tireless appetite for reinvention, or as he might have put it, play. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-26T00:07:56Z The designer seemed to play the joker card with an undercurrent of leather jodhpurs, waistcoat and whip. Olympia Le-Tan: Charisma Meets Mystery 2014-03-03T21:41:37Z April Fool’s Day is a holiday for jokers. How To Help Your Kids Be Funny but Not Mean on April Fool's Day 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Gandhi set aside an hour a day exclusively to chat and spin cotton with Arun and, despite his asceticism, says Arun, he was a joker. Arun Gandhi: ‘My grandfather saw my anger as fuel for change’ 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z He had this tragedy in his childhood of losing his sister and had to step up and become the man of the house and a joker to keep his parents from mourning too much. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Clowns, as pranksters, jesters, jokers, harlequins, and mythologized tricksters have been around for ages. "Larger than life, but still true": Where Pee-wee Herman fits in the history of American clowns 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s great fun being an academic, because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z He is a brilliant joker and a crusader against frivolity. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z "I see I have wasted my affection on a heartless joker," she tells him through tears. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z And – of course – Russell Brand weighed in to defend his fellow joker. Stewart Lee causes Fringe rumpus, while US standup causes outrage 2012-08-01T14:59:00Z He’s a practical joker who unexpectedly drops in on his daughter, Ines, in Bucharest. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z In the best of such films, in Kill List for example, the conspiring coven are merely jokers busy manipulating the lonely dupe, and duping the audience in the process. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z This is no bumbling joker of Tudor myth — the secrets Mr. Pelly bears and the history he shares lend to him a more substantial weight. Ringmaster of the Royal Bachelor Party 2011-02-05T01:32:09Z Ever the jokers, the troupe still found a way to poke fun at this grief in several gags too shocking to spoil here. Review | Eric Idle recalls adventures as a Python in ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Malan spoke plainly, Wood showed none of his usual joker antics, while Root's turn to front up was so subdued it could have been a wake. 'More misery heaped on prickly and subdued England' 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr Cain dubbed him a "joker" who "has to go". Covid inquiry: Read the private WhatsApp messages from inside Downing Street 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z “But eventually, even a Trump card can't pull a joker out of the hat.” Legal experts: Trump's defense may be doomed as 5 more co-defendants seek Fulton plea deals 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Darwin Nunez's first season at Liverpool saw him characterised as an agent of chaos every moment he was on the pitch, a wildcard who was the ace one minute and joker the next. 'Agent of chaos' Nunez turns Liverpool saviour 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z It's her all over; the joker and the queen of hearts, all wrapped into one. Reading and Leeds Festival: Billie Eilish brings Barbie to life during cathartic headline set 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z From the moody and officious to the joker and the Buddhist, every canine companion I have worked with brought a distinct character to our partnership. My 40 years of guide dogs and good friends 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z I know you’re going to send me this and that — some joker said they can make my toes grow back. Sanders will miss Pac-12 media day for surgeries to remove clot in right leg, fix toes on left foot 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The ex-Wales and British and Irish Lions captain has signed as a 'medical joker' for the tournament's duration. Wales great Jones joins Toulon as World Cup cover 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Wood is England's joker, the player who helps lift the mood. 'Wood's searing pace brings extra buzz to Ashes' 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Being the joker and making everyone laugh was draining because people had no idea how I actually felt inside. The Life of Fred: From £10k debt and despair to successful podcaster 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Her follow-up novel expands on this; is it possible, Cline asks, to be both the joker and the butt of the joke, the driver and the passenger, the owner and the guest, all at once? 'The Girls' novelist Emma Cline takes on the millennial grifter tale 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z One of the jokers is the Stinger shoulder-fired missile that is manufactured by the United States, Germany and Turkey. A Plan to Lift the Fog of War in Ukraine? It’s in the Cards. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Gardner said she has received handwritten letters signed by men - one contained jokers from a deck of cards - and thrown them away. College athlete influencers confront security concerns 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Gardner said she has received handwritten letters signed by men — one contained jokers from a deck of cards — and thrown them away. College athlete influencers confront security concerns 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr Parry said his son was "the joker in the pack" who was "different to our other children". Victim's father marks 30 years since Warrington IRA bombing 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z "I have lots of silly memories of him. He was a joker and a real family man." 'Finding my dad's killer would mean the world to me' 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Whatever your own view of what some saw as the Tories' joker king, his exit has transformed the landscape. Laura Kuenssberg: 'No coups, no plots - nobody cares' 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z "She was funny, she was a practical joker. She was always hiding behind the doors popping out when I was doing the dishes… jumping scaring me. She loved trampolining, she loved gymnastics," she said. Ava White's mum says she is living a life sentence 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z "Alex is a bit of a joker, it's part of why we love him," he says. Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The problem is that there are two jokers in the deck and the two running backs are pictured. Rams vs. 49ers: betting odds, lines and picks against the spread 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s a great name when you’re winning, but not so much when the season turns up a joker. Los Angeles, land of the misnamed sports teams 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z He was a joker and fun to play. Bob Odenkirk opens up about that 'Better Call Saul' finale: 'I'm a little shattered' 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z "He had a great life, went sailing, horse riding, enjoyed school, was always a bit of a joker within the family, really just had a great life, very sociable little guy. Loved music." The patients locked in secure hospitals for decades 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Then it kind of becomes almost a joker motorcycle bar. Swapping bar stories with books impresario, author and proud 'Dirtbag' Isaac Fitzgerald 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z A football player at Michigan State University and a practical joker on production sets, Caan was a grinning, handsome performer with an athlete’s swagger and muscular build. James Caan, Oscar nominee for ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But when I called the cops to have one come down and fill out a report, the joker got mad at me. I can't believe I pay taxes for this 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Who else could move heaven and earth to set these two jokers back on their path? How 'Grace and Frankie' bucked the odds in the early days of Netflix 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z These jokers on the local level who are quick to ban books wouldn't dream of working to ban assault weapons. Who has to get shot in America before we do something about guns? 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Arteta is not renowned for being a joker and his way of thanking people and getting closer to them is to spend time with them. How Arteta has led Arsenal to brink of top-four return 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z At the other end of the emotional scale, many jokers were moved to ask posterity if their local sports team had won anything yet. On Ireland’s Census, a Blank Box Gives Residents a Chance to Tell Their Stories 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right," the song goes, "here I am, stuck in the middle with you." Feuding Boebert and Greene had to be broken up at GOP meeting during “heated” confrontation: report 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z They were identical twins, and practical jokers, and it took three visits to figure out which was the one he wanted to marry. How a family secret (or two) led a Seattle attorney to his grandfather’s Alaskan ghost town 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Even better, rather than offer an endless platform for the GOP circus, the media would be forced to point out that these jokers have no idea what they are doing. Ted Cruz just handed Democrats a gift for the midterms — if they're willing to use it 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Backed into a corner, England came out fists raised and a clutch of jokers up their sleeve as well. 'Ireland will demand new level from new England' 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z “It was, ‘What does this joker think he’s doing?’ Perspective | If local journalism manages to survive, give Evan Smith some credit for it 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z It's not because a-whoopsie-do!, one of the jokers might have a gay son! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Friend who tells homophobic jokes has a son who might be gay 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Norris has become known as a bit of a joker in F1. Norris on a defining year in F1 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “I’m a good boss. I listen, I talk. I help, I’m the joker, I’m the singer. I do everything, but I’m the boss.” Prince Boateng back at hometown club Hertha: ‘I’m the boss’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z They are also concerned about the amount of media attention the joker attack has drawn. What the 'Joker attack' revealed about Japanese society 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Why are you working for all these jokers and working for no money? Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a gaffer 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Djakic said the idea for installing a card reader on his instrument came to him after some jokers pulled their bank cards through an accordion bellows. If cashless, tip Bosnian wedding musician by tapping bank card 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z “He has good vision. He has good balance, especially now with his legs that they’re good. Balance is the key, and he can run. Big joker can run, and he thinks he can hit.” In a Place He Never Thought He’d Be, and Thriving 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The idea of these conversations happening alongside rows of Buffalo Gold Revolution slot machines brings to mind feminist artist Barbara Kruger's famous and oft-repeated epithet, "a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers." Las Vegas just hosted a climate denier conference and it makes perfect sense 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Always the joker, the 23-year-old was also seen by friends as a very honest and principled man. Are asylum suicides an unfolding national tragedy? 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In a moving tribute, Mr Tron's uncle Ken Mullen described Philip as "hugely likeable character" who was remembered "always as a joker who made people laugh ever since his school days". Manchester Arena Inquiry: Bomb victim's mother praises PC's actions 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Of course another factor is alcohol, which is something else clearly involved with these jokers that were trying to rattle Gough. TV reporter harassed in concourse following Georgia’s 10-3 win over Clemson 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z She described her cousin — whose name was initially misspelled as Antwan by police — as a practical joker who loved sports and helping his younger relatives at play. Family of man killed by D.C. police demands answers about what prompted officer to shoot 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “Marc was a joker and had natural charisma that made everyone feel good.” Saying goodbye to Marcus Guara, who ‘lived for his family’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Accounts of his school years portray a joker and a storyteller who loved to entertain classmates. Bill Cosby: The rise, fall and release of 'America's Dad' 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z For decades, he had watched a procession of jokers and criminals at microphones like this, explaining away this report or that investigation. Andrew Cuomo’s White-Knuckle Ride 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z "I've met Prince Philip many times and he was a bit of a joker," she says. Duke of Edinburgh's Award: 'Without DofE there would be no baby' 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z At that very instant some joker opened the front door of the Ashby Theater, erasing the screen with a wash of light. ‘Theater of our own: The Ashby brought film to Black viewers 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Even when the pandemic recedes the jokers plan to keep playing with distance and emphasizing the isolation of one-on-one scenes. How do you make a prank show in a pandemic? ‘Lean into annoyance’ 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Ms Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a "loving child with a jolly spirit" whose "unbelievable laugh" would echo daily around her home. Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Klan members also dressed as jokers and even minstrels to mock their victims, says Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Decoding the hate symbols seen at the Capitol insurrection 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Thanks in no small part to Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire,” the joker, on the concert or lyric or political stage, as well as the silver screen, remains wild. Schoenberg knew. When the world goes mad, send in the clowns 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z There was also the rumor, unfounded, that some jokers removed all of the “W” keys from the computer keyboards. As my grandfather Harry Truman knew, presidential transitions aren’t always smooth 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z The jokers also invaded Murray’s suburban home to dye his vast lawn pink. How do you make a prank show in a pandemic? ‘Lean into annoyance’ 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Some joker changed the Turf Moor Wikipedia page to call it "Jordan North's happy place" too. 'I'm a Celeb' star Jordan North's 'happy place' gives football fans a field day 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Under Modi, the “world’s largest democracy” has become an eastern house of cards, dominated by Hindu nationalist knaves and jokers. Amnesty specialises in hard truths. No wonder Modi froze it out of India 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Piccolo, the same age, was white, an inveterate talker and joker who was competing with Sayers for playing time in the backfield after being undrafted and clambering from the taxi squad onto the game-day roster. Sayers, Piccolo friendship lives on in ‘Brian’s Song’ 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z A search for “joker,” for instance displayed a Wikipedia-powered information box for the movie. Evan Spiegel on maps, Minis, and the future of Snapchat 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Rather, it may prove to be the joker in the pack. Opinion | We are on the wrong track 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z This seems unwarranted: while the president’s son-in-law is certainly a joker, he lacks the charisma needed for supervillain status. Why Jared Kushner could be the most dangerous man in the US | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z "She was a joker, a practical joker," he went on. Amy Winehouse honoured on Music Walk of Fame 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “We need more @RichardGrenell’s and less of these jokers as ambassadors,” the younger Mr. Trump wrote. Trump Names Richard Grenell as Acting Head of Intelligence 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The failsafe location being Albuquerque must have been added by some joker trying to be funny — we were the wrong left turn. The bar at the end of whenever 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The hopeful New Englander was viciously mutilated and a joker’s smile was carved on her face. Black Dahlia murder: Son of ‘Gangster Squad’ cop says dad always suspected this guy of the grisly killing 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z On Twitter, Harris is a joker, an indefatigable self-promoter and an arch polemicist. 'Slave Play' writer Jeremy O. Harris has arrived. Broadway may never be the same 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Clive James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a writer and broadcaster in the U.K., has died. Australian journalist, writer and wit Clive James dies at 80 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The caption above read: “one ticket for joker please.” He Wrote ‘Kill All Women,’ but a Judge Returned His Guns 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Who is this absolute joker going around posting these dubious graphs today? Bar chart wars: The online battle over a disputed graph 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Soon after The Hill column was published, Trump Jr. fanned the flames, retweeting another article calling for her removal and writing we need “less of these jokers as ambassadors.” How the impeachment inquiry has revealed a long and murky campaign to oust a veteran U.S. ambassador 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z It drew the attention of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who in March tweeted that Ms. Yovanovitch, was a “joker” who shouldn’t be in the job. The Man Trump Trusts for News on Ukraine 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “Thanks @ricomiccon for a lovely weekend and a chance to catch up with these jokers! ☺️❤️👭👬,” 'Harry Potter' star Evanna Lynch reunites with former co-stars 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Like King’s demonic joker, he holds a cluster of red balloons. Family recreate scenes in homemade Halloween movies 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z In his tweet, Mr. Trump called for fewer of “these jokers as ambassadors. “ Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Or as China’s jokers say online, referring to the first attempts at diplomacy between Mao Zedong and President Richard M. Nixon in 1971, “China-U.S. relations began with Ping-Pong, and they’ve ended with basketball.” China’s N.B.A. Fans Feel the Tug of Loyalty Toward Beijing 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “She’d written it up herself and disguised her handwriting! The practical joker in her was nonstop.” Carly Simon’s pal Jackie Kennedy Onassis said JFK made ‘stupid mistakes,’ Aristotle Onassis was ‘very sexy’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Redmond police say the caption on the photo read: “One ticket for joker please.” Weapons taken from man who made posts about ‘Joker’ movie 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The man captioned the photo, “one ticket for joker please,” and posted it Sept. 26, the petition says. Redmond man claims he was joking about alleged ‘Joker’ threat, but police seize his guns 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Donald Trump Jr. referred to her and other ambassadors as “jokers” on Twitter and tweeted a link to one piece critical of her. US ambassador pressed Ukraine corruption fight before ouster 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The “joker” of the squad, according to Stick, Brits will have been one of the guys to help lift the players who were involved in the 23-13 loss to New Zealand last weekend. Best times in rugby coming right at the end for Brits 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He said his father’s administration should have “less of these jokers as ambassadors.” Trump Said His Ukraine Envoy Would ‘Go Through Some Things.’ She Has Already. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Trump’s son called her a “joker” while Giuliani accuses her of colluding on Clinton’s behalf. How Ukraine got caught up in Trump's impeachment battle 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Mitchel was a good-natured joker, they said, and, in the words of one friend, an “ambassador for Anguilla.” The Caribbean Resort, the Investment Banker and the Dead Handyman 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He wasn’t so much a joker as he was a sly wit who could crack up a room with a barely perceptible adjustment to his expression. Opinion | The gift of laughter and a father’s legacy 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The happy-go-lucky joker his girlfriend had been waiting for since 1943 had turned sombre and melancholy. The long echo of WW2 trauma 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The city without Maradona felt, I wrote then, “like a deck of cards stripped of both its joker and its ace”. Maradona and Naples created an unearthly and sometimes dark magic. I was there | Ed Vulliamy 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z “He is a joker, but certainly no fool.” He played Ukraine’s president on TV. Now he has taken office as the real one. 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z But tension around the story grew deeper when Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that Ms. Yovanovitch is a “joker” and called for her removal. Marie Yovanovitch, Ukraine ambassador, recall sparks outrage from Democrats 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z She began with a simple question of an attorney general who was supposed to apply some establishment lacquer to the grifters and jokers who are the best and brightest on Planet Trump. It's painfully clear: today's Congress wouldn't have impeached Richard Nixon | Richard Wolffe 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The former Marine was a joker, a loving husband and a playful father, beloved by teammates. Meet Seattle’s first Major League Baseball hero: Pilots shortstop Ray Oyler played only one season in Seattle and batted .165. Why was he so popular? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Wright-Berryman led sessions on changing the culture, and Hope Squad members talked about how often they hear friends say “I’m going to kill myself,” and some joker responds, “OK, Hope Squad, here’s your chance!” Cincinnati-area teens combat suicide, mental health issues 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z He added: "He was a joker, a funny man, for over 50 years, and every time we met during our careers or years after he would come up and joke." Applause greets Banks funeral cortege 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z That sliver belonged to Brian G. Hughes, a “famous joker,” as the headline on his obituary described him when he died in 1924. How a 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “America is a land of masking jokers,” the novelist Ralph Ellison wrote in 1958 in an essay on American identity. Blackface is a strange ghost that haunts America | Gabrielle Bellot 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z But I’m the dude who, amid all the chaos Sunday, found reason to appreciate the Rams as more than lucky, unworthy jokers. Perspective | The blown call in Saints-Rams reminded us sports are messy. More replay won’t fix that. 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z In a fanciful costume, I played the joker. “Supply and Demand” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z After training to be a teacher in Bangor, Davies taught English and Maths for four years in the 1950s at Leek in Staffordshire, where he was known as a joker and making his pupils laugh. Comedy actor Windsor Davies dies 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z During that time, the Clippers underwent a dramatic makeover, turning from punching bag to pugilists, from jokers to contenders, helping rewrite decades of narrative about the organization. Clippers fans applaud Blake Griffin in return; he deserves much more recognition I was the joker, because that’s the only way I had to win over this golden girl so many years ago — with flowers and quips, wry asides, Irish pluck. In memory of Posh. We miss you in a hundred thousand ways 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “He’s my half-in, half-out man — he’s not afraid to compromise,” said Wanner, 64, who sported a T-shirt that said, “Clowns to the left, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle.” Inside Larry Hogan’s victory: The numbers behind a GOP win in a blue wave 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Hardcore,” one of the onlookers breathes as the deed is done, and Joker — who is, appropriately, his outfit’s joker — becomes a warrior. Daredevil’s ‘suffering makes a man’ trope is getting old 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z And nobody knows what the jokers who wrote “Hella Spiders” on one boulder were on about. A mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Off the field Vardy describes himself as “just a little joker” and sounds quite pleased he owns the copyright to Harry Maguire’s moniker. Jamie Vardy: ‘I’m a nightmare on the pitch – I get abuse but I give it back’ 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z I was the joker, because it’s built into my immune system. In memory of Posh. We miss you in a hundred thousand ways 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z He liked to call those players “jokers” because they fit almost any situation. UCLA football: What to expect when the Bruins open camp Friday 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z In fact, he's now in fierce competition with a fellow out-of-office joker at the firm to try to outwit one another. Would you quote Rick Astley in your out-of-office? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “I was a bit of a wind-up, a joker,” he remembers, but puts it down to growing up in a busy house. Joe Cole: ‘I was ready to deliver a kicking’ 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z “Let’s see you jokers bring your weak identity politics campaign trying to make it about race,” Taylor wrote on Twitter. GOP frets Virginia Senate candidate may impact House races 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Rather than a joker or cheerleader, he is a bright thinker with an even deeper emotional intelligence which enables him to connect powerfully with people. Joker, thinker, friend, dictator: the many faces of Jürgen Klopp 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “He’s a great practical joker and he likes to get a rise out of people,” said Kolbe, who has been on the receiving end of McCain’s ribbing for years. ‘John McCain is not fighting a losing battle’: a senator defends his legacy 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z “He’s a joker, definitely the prankster on the team. It’s strange for me to see him talking to you guys in front of the camera. It’s like, ‘That’s not who I know.’” Big Buff has Winnipeg Jets on verge of 1st West final 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Accounts of his school years portray a joker and a storyteller who loved to entertain his classmates. Bill Cosby: The fall of 'America's Dad' 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Or the jokers who lose to some of the league’s dregs? Capitals’ goalie problem seems like the kind you want 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z None of these jokers are in my district but I’ve been waiting for this backlash for a while. In New York, Trump Backlash Takes Aim at Renegade Democrats 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Not every joker will go on to harass, but a culture of shrugging off jokes lets harassment flourish. When the media tries too hard to 'appeal to both sides', integrity is lost | Jessica Valenti 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z The stadium is losing a reported $10m annually and a recent idea to offer naming rights to a sponsor led internet jokers to suggest renaming the stadium “The Lonely Elephant” or “The Money Pit”. Are cities starting to see World Cup hosting duties as a poisoned chalice? 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z We are the wisps of rulers and the jokers of kings. 'We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion': Lou Reed's lost poetry to be published 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The once fun, mischievous practical joker now is a recluse. Death takes a toll: Bill helps first responders with PTSD 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for this joker,” he said, pointing to a friend who roots for the Cardinals. Perspective | I traded a Snickers bar for a $135 Redskins ticket 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z "Look at these jokers," posted one Harare resident. Confusion over Zimbabwean Twitter accounts 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The Japanese prime minister’s wife is warning him: “Don’t draw the joker, dear.” North Korea looms large as Donald Trump embarks on Asia trip 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z He was a practical joker, he was a wisecracker, it’s something that you didn’t always see. Photographer Afshin Shahidi Opens Up About Capturing Prince 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Online, shoppers shared pictures of empty shelves, and jokers ran fake advertisements offering small amounts of butter for ludicrous prices. In land of croissants, butter vanishing from French shelves 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z One of the group’s main jokers, Al was cautioned by Cathy to think before he spoke. EXCHANGE: Encounter group spawns group of lifelong friends 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr Xi may prove the joker in the pack. A Communist Party gathering in China will test Xi Jinping’s power 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “Yes. I’m on the edge of the community – a trickster, a joker, a playful person – I don’t need to be working out how the Metropolitan police force should be run.” Russell Brand: ‘I was a needy person. I'm less mad now’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z And the guys who are serious and the guys who are the jokers. Richard Linklater on 'Last Flag Flying,' 'liberal patriotism' and finally making a middle-aged movie 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Among the tributes placed on its lid was a crumpled playing card - a joker - and a live chick to symbolically peck away at the conscience of his killers. Shot and dumped by a pigsty: a schoolboy killed in Philippines drugs war 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z In response, one pun-loving joker replied: "Is there any foundation to these allegations?" Police appeal for make-up thief is social media hit - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump was shown in cartoon form as words from the song like “charade,” “joker” and “fat chin” were superimposed over his face. CONCERT REVIEW: Roger Waters takes digs at Trump in ‘Us and Them 2017’ D.C. tour stop 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z He was also a storyteller and little bit of a practical joker. Nancy L. Zimpher on Setting a Bold Vision 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Energy Secretary Rick Perry became the victim of a pair of Russian practical jokers, who recently impersonated Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and called Perry to discuss, among other things, fuel made from pig manure. Rick Perry Hit With a Prank Call About Fuel Made From Alcohol and Pig Manure 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Among the tributes placed on its lid was a crumpled playing card - a joker - and a live chick to symbolically peck away at the conscience of his killers. Shot and dumped by a pigsty: a schoolboy killed in Philippines drugs war 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z It was almost a guilty pleasure, because at school I was kind of the cool kid, a joker in class, and not many of my peers read the books. ‘I got Gryffindor pyjamas for my 27th birthday’: fans on 20 years of Harry Potter 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z They were jokers and pranksters and rode their bikes backward into trees and trained two brown dogs to hunt hares. The Boys From Baga 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Mrs Taylor said: "I did ask 'why pick on my car?' but my husband, who is a bit of a joker, said it was because of all the Bee Gees CDs in the car." Thousands of bees swarm into car in Hull - BBC News 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z But the joker’s card is two-time Formula One champ Fernando Alonso, who gave the racing world a spit-take earlier this year by announcing he’d skip the Monaco Grand Prix and race in the 500 instead. The Indy 500: A Primer on What a Shocking Percentage of America Will Be Attending on Sunday - Golf Digest 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Away from the camera, she is relaxed and a little goofy with a reputation as a joker. Elisabeth Moss: the actress whose very presence is a guarantee of quality | Observer profile 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z On the team's current form, it will come as a relief -- with paddock jokers already wondering what other sporting events he might want to enter to delay his return. Hamilton fastest as Mercedes step up the pace 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z A quick wit and a natural joker, Melody used her traits to defuse family disputes so that any spat ended with laughter. Queens Fire’s Death Toll: ‘5 Amazing People Full of Life’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The jokers confessed in the small print: "Google Gnomes are real, but only in our hearts - for now." April Fools 2017: Some of the best jokes around the world - BBC News 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z In school, Jonathan Spollen was a natural joker, perhaps compensating for his being shorter than most of those around him. The disappearance of Jonathan Spollen - BBC News 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z He is boyish and cute; he’s a joker not a polemicist. PewdiePie thinks 'Death to all Jews' is a joke. Are you laughing yet? | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Donald Trump evokes a wily and resilient mythic figure: the joker, the trickster, the fool, the one the Lakota people call the Heyoka, the contrary. Despite his lies, Donald Trump is a potent truth-teller | James S Gordon 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z "There is general speculation in the neighbourhood that a practical joker may be at work," wrote staff at S4 - the government department that investigated sightings at the time. Broad Haven UFO sightings marked 40 years on - BBC News 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Nice player, and the best practical joker I ever met. The Best Teacher No One Knows - Golf Digest 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Since then, the practical jokers have played pranks on each other that would annoy most friends, but seem to keep getting a kick out of their relationship. 12 Unexpected Celebrity Friendships 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z He was also a joker who dressed as a clown to cheer up the Aleppo’s traumatized children. Syria's Aleppo loses clown who warmed war-torn hearts 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The joker who is now our president has served an important function, waking us up to what we’ve not yet admitted in ourselves or accomplished in our country. Despite his lies, Donald Trump is a potent truth-teller | James S Gordon 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z That chopped-and-screwed self-portrait, the one in which he designates himself as a “loser”, also proclaims him a “joker” and, in a complex pun, a rastaquouère: a nouveau-riche foreigner. Francis Picabia: the art 'loser' who ended up winning it all 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z I brought a deck of cards, and he demonstrated his routine with two jokers and a red queen. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Afterward, Catt wrote that “our Congress Lady is a sure enough joker” and that the Montanan had cost the suffrage movement “a million votes.” How stereotypes of women as weak push female politicians to be hawkish 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There are dozens of jokers running for president and the media justifiably ignores them, but not Trump. Swift Opposition to Resurrection of AT&T Giant 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The jokers saved their best material for Trump's claim that the US campaign is "rigged." US elections: Africans chuckle at ugly US election - BBC News 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The jokers then were the jokers again as players fell back into their old roles. Kings reunite to celebrate 50th anniversary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Hale first accompanied Mrs. Clinton during a trip to Portland, Me., wearing a suit and standing watch all night in the hotel lobby because a practical joker had insisted that protocol required it. Handling Cows by Day, Ever-Growing Clinton Rallies by Night 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z "Domestic political considerations make it unlikely that Berlin would play this joker. Even more unlikely is that the European Commission would agree. The political risk would be simply too high." Germany's Merkel cannot afford to bail out Deutsche Bank: media 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Others shared pictures of Clinton as the joker. Presidential debate 2016: Four ways gender played a role - BBC News 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z So by highlighting gaffes and making politicians look like jokes, they feed into the notion that Washington is full of jokers. How Donald Trump Blew Up the ‘Gaffe’ 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z He was still a joker, lamenting the absence of anything but salt to spice up the local fare. The Marines wouldn't take him. So Levi Shirley went to war on his own 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The formerly outgoing practical joker started to keep to himself and stay inside. ‘Miracle’ face transplant gives man new lease on life 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The joker “I’ll let you know how I feel about it after it happens.” Cleveland special 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z She also played the practical joker who would skulk around the house making scary noises when they were home alone. Amid downpour, family and friends remember District 22-year-old shot on July 4 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z “We are an international laughingstock. This lot are a bunch of jokers,” said Leonie Greene, 43, gesturing toward the Houses of Parliament. Thousands march in London to protest 'Brexit' vote 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z She swiftly developed the role of the family joker and gained an ability to accurately mimic characters on television. Obituary: Caroline Aherne - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z He was a joker and an artist, they said, a great friend with a creative streak that could not be suppressed. With Final Goodbyes in Orlando, a Stark Reckoning for Loved Ones 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Related: Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher I went to the Queanbeyan library and photocopied pictures of him to stick in my school diary and on my wall. Muhammad Ali taught me to be proud of my skin and Muslim faith | Omar Musa 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Ali was a joker, a teaser, capable of pantomime antics that spoke to an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek British sense of humour. A special relationship: how the British took Ali to their hearts 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z 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. Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Donald Trump's campaign pseudo-news conferences are a joke, a spectacle to enhance his already bloated ego, empty of real content, a joker's cruelty masked as relevance in a circus of make-believe nonsense. Lights, Camera, Trump 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z "He was a joker and wonderfully childish too," she says. The mysterious woman who inspired a bestselling novel - BBC News 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Pelosi says in Washington that Clinton is playing the "experience card" and Trump is playing the joker. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is dismissing Republican Donald Trump's contention that Hillary Clinton is playing the woman's card in her bid for the presidency 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z He was a joker and he had a smart mouth, ready to dish out trash talk. A death in police custody: what really happened at Chicago's Homan Square? 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z In “1999,” from the same collection, the body can start to seem like an angry joke, but, then again, most jokers are angry: Maggie Nelson’s Many Selves 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z This is why the “office joker” is often a more tedious character than an entertaining one. Why April Fools' day is utter crap | Dean Burnett 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The fact that a bigoted joke inspires lulz is not evidence against the joker’s bigotry, but evidence for it. The racist Twitter bot: Tay Tweets debacle shows that doing it for the “lulz” often means just doing it for the bigotry 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Commenting on Trump's swipe at Clinton, she says: "I don't know what card he's playing — the joker's card. That doesn't even count in a deck of cards." House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is dismissing Republican Donald Trump's contention that Hillary Clinton is playing the woman's card in her bid for the presidency 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Colleagues of Olivier Delespesse, a 45-year-old civil servant in Brussels, remembered him as a devoted worker, but also as a bit of a joker. From a Photograph in Brussels, to Relief in India 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Jack is still a practical joker, and he quickly figured out that hospitals are the perfect place for his antics. Boy who lost foot to lawnmower accident aims to help others 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Some other clammy, power-mad jokers who like yelling stuff from podiums. Hillary Clinton not making your soul sing? How about Oprah for president? 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z On set, though, she is known as a joker, always the ringleader in games of Heads Up! – a charades app – on the set of Mad Men, whose cast voted her class clown. ‘I don't take acting that seriously. I'm a Valley girl’: Elisabeth Moss on life after Mad Men 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The joker in the deck of all these changes, of course, is that no matter what the age or ethnicity of the new voters, predicting how they will vote is a mug's game. The Oscars revolution has been messy, but diversity in storytelling deepens the art and enriches us 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z She said: "He was the funniest, most lovely practical joker you could ever meet. "But at the same time it was very difficult for him and he spoke very openly about his depression. Lil' Chris: Singer took his life after struggling with fame - BBC News 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z His friends and family knew him as a doting husband and father and as a practical joker, a cutup who would be the first to dance at weddings, though not always well. A Deadly Deployment, a Navy SEAL’s Despair 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z But the other half—the Americans on the fringe of the labor force—is what Mr. Slok calls “the real joker in the forecast.” Why Weekly Jobless Claims Matter 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Before I went under, I heard him tell a nurse: “Look what some joker did to this poor girl’s nose.” Does a nose job hurt? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Virginia Blum 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z We were always very close - she was the joker of the family. The stories behind three different murders - BBC News 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z McGregor relished where he is, asking where the voices who called him a clown and joker are now and proud of how he paid back his countrymen's support. Conor McGregor aspires to be UFC champion in two divisions at the same time 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Related: The Guardian view on Donald Trump: the joker in the pack | Editorial This is a large part of his appeal. Donald Trump shows hate speech is now out and proud in the mainstream 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z One joker claims he’s suing for trauma, since he flashed back to his parents fighting. How I teach my students not to trust their memories 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z They recalled him as an accomplished figure skater, a man of deep faith, a practical joker, and a model husband and father. Civilian victims identified in Planned Parenthood shooting 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Playing the joker, making outrageous comments about Klitschko being a "devil worshipper", serenading him from the ring and, at the weigh-in, refusing -- initially, at least -- to shake hands. Fury cites Ali, Douglas as he plots Klitschko sensation 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z He ended up first recording The Age of Transparency with jazz players who symbolized the messiness, later using his production and electronics to recut them and symbolize the disruptive joker figure in the process. Autre Ne Veut: creating protest songs for the Snowden generation 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The discovery transforms her from an extroverted joker into a withdrawn, broken individual. Julia Roberts mines trauma in gritty thriller 'Secret in Their Eyes' 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He’s far from the first joker to actually get ahead in government. In the Latest Issue 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “It offers a lot of good racing, especially with the joker lane,” said Canard, who will next race in Japan later this month. Deep field set for Monster Energy Cup in Las Vegas 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But Romney had the benefit of running in a field stuffed with dopes and jokers who had no business running for president. Jeb is cooked: Why megadonors’ millions (probably) aren’t going to save Bush’s disastrous campaign 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The man I knew, the workaholic, the joker, always laughing but often absent through hard work, had disappeared. Nick Frost: ‘When the end comes it’s horrible’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Lyon invested on new players during the offseason and Aulas does not see the need to pursue another striker as a medical joker for domestic matches, as allowed by French league’s rules. Lacazette blames Lyon boss ahead of Champions League match 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z And being Shakespeare there’s always a joker – in his case Autolycus, a pedlar and a rogue, in my case the dodgy dealer who runs a garage called Autos Like Us. Jeanette Winterson on writing a cover version of Shakespeare 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z It also features a sand-filled joker lane that riders must pass through at least once, adding a level of strategy. Deep field set for Monster Energy Cup in Las Vegas 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Air security officials will not explain their methods for deciding when an object is worth investigating in case the information helps terrorists avoid detection or inspires practical jokers. Ahmed's clock: Just what is a 'suspicious' object? - BBC News 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Given this, could the federal government charge people some small amount of money — say, $50 or $100 — to file registration paperwork, with hopes of curbing jokers from creating false candidacies first place? 'Deez Nuts' Copycats Are Giving Election Officials a Headache 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The political futures of African Americans and Latinos is like a card game: and black and brown kings and queens played strategically and cohesively can trump a few jokers. Latinos and black Americans have an enemy – and it is not each other | Jason Nichols 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am. Having a ball on a journey around Dodger Stadium 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z He declared his presidential candidacy more than three months ago, and in the meantime, a dozen other jokers bearing neither the lofty principles nor sharp, double-Ivied intellect of Ted Cruz have joined him in competition. GOP declares war on the Supreme Court: What’s really behind the reactionary plot against the judiciary 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Some tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, because various joker corporations and trade associations are willing to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars to deliver 45-minute speeches. Political reporters tackle the election’s biggest question yet: Where should Hillary Clinton go on vacation?! 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Rob Coughlin is a joker: When is our women’s team going to catch up to our men’s team? Women's World Cup: USA 0-0 Sweden – as it happened 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It is when he walks into the changing room that the jokes stop and the jokers listen. Liverpool losing ‘an incredible icon’ as Steven Gerrard walks away | Andy Hunter 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Watching a movie can be a raucous affair - films are translated into local languages such as Luganda by VJs, or video jokers, who add their own jokes and improvised commentary, live. Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z A joker playing card was lodged in the corner of the whiteboard on the wall. How Bitcoin Is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z That little joker almost lost his life when we got there. Pelicans coach: Emotional celebration due to son’s health 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Rob Coughlin is a joker: When is our women’s team going to catch up to our men’s team? Women's World Cup: USA 0-0 Sweden – as it happened 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Practical jokers have delighted for years at tormenting celebrities at home by calling in bogus reports of violence and provoking huge police responses. Online ‘Swatting’ Becomes a Hazard for Popular Video Gamers and Police Responders 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “I see that not the living, but the dead, will conquer Paris,” the cryptic old joker replies. 'Vikings' Season 3, Episode 5 Review: Usurpers 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “I’m like: What. In. The. Hell. My immediate thought is, ‘Haley’s such a joker.’ Southerner. Wonk. Immigrants’ son. Can Bobby Jindal win at every role? 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Mr Clarkson might be seen as an overbearing joker, but that is precisely what his fans like. High-octane antics 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Boris Johnson’s Quest for 10 Downing Street He’s the mayor of London, and the joker of U.K. politics. In The Latest Issue 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z How do American voters take such political jokers seriously? 2016 Hopefuls Skirt Leaders of the G.O.P. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “We play him everywhere. He knows the nickel, the corner, the safety, the joker, the dime. He can play a lot of different spots for us,” Del Rio said. Speedy Bolden thriving after slow start to career 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Twitter jokers celebrated this track by widening a generational divide. Some Kanye West Fans Don't Know Who Paul McCartney Is, Twitter Explodes 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Jones was known as the practical joker in the family. Tow truck driver becomes city's final 2014 homicide victim 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z First Class Ramon Morris, a muscular joker and a father on his fifth deployment, was killed Dec. 12 in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan. Mission Ends, but Sacrifices Are Not Over for U.S. Soldiers 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “Some joker has been using the road next to the beam line as a running track after hours,” Tony reported. Infraction : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z They described him as a "typical teenager, a practical joker with a wicked infectious laugh". School minibus death inquest to open 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z "He was a typical teenager, a practical joker with a wicked infectious laugh. "Ashley will be missed so much by everyone, but will be with us forever in our memories. Family's school bus crash tribute 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z What kind of joker pulls a stunt like that? Beer, Bushmills, burgers, brats, bonus days: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Essentially a rolling pit stop, the joker lane is filled with sand and ruts to slow riders down. Monster Energy Cup offers motocross’ richest prize 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z And he strikes this note of caution about how any outcome is far from certain: “When you are sitting on top of an unstable electorate, there is a joker in the deck.” Poll: GOP holds edge in fluid midterm stretch run 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “He is a poet, a joker and everything in between - with the sharpest mind,” Bahieh said. Tai chi is latest passion of well-known Winona man 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Here, Holmes is a notorious practical joker; there, he is identified as having no sense of humour whatever. Sherlock Holmes: dispelling the myths 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The YouTube joker, PrankDialz, then took numerous photos of them while engaging the unwitting subjects in deep conversations about personal aspects of their lives. Watch a Guy Pretend to Be Humans of New York 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Dungey’s heart immediately dropped and so did his position; race rules require any rider who doesn’t pass through the joker lane to drop five positions. Monster Energy Cup offers motocross’ richest prize 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In normal times the leadership would be pleased to see the back of these jokers. So Brooks Newmark sent some explicit pictures – why should he resign? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z When Murray hit long to hand Djokovic two match points the tension rose appreciably – and the joker in the crowd surfaced again. Andy Murray falls to Novak Djokovic in US Open quarter-final 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Watson described her coach as "a joker, he's really funny" away from the court, but added: "When we get to work, we're working." Argentine reviving Watson's fortunes 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Those jokers in finance and accounting are happier than we are in Marketing? Marketing: The Corporate World's Least-Happy Function 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Haris played varsity soccer and was “a joker on the bus,” according to Khan. "While I was sharing those memories with others, at that time the accident had already happened" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His teammates on the U.S. national team insist Bradley is lighthearted, a practical joker. Told it wouldn't survive, the U.S. team starts the World Cup anew 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Aseel, he said, was a joker and, like his brother, a sportsman. Father of Isis volunteer: 'My son has betrayed Britain' 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z He conveys the image of a mischievous, carefree scamp, a cheeky but charming joker. All Brazilian Eyes Are on Soccer Savior Neymar 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Crispin Aylett QC, defending, opened his closing speech, saying: "I'm now going to play my joker", in reference to the It's a Knockout TV show, which Mr Hall used to present. Hall a 'calculating, predatory' man 2014-05-13T12:19:00Z Teller often plays the joker, but now he’d be using that cruel charm to elevate his social status. There Should be a Mean Boys Movie and This Is Who Should Be In It 2014-04-30T17:24:41Z He saw the dismantling of the young joker club and the assembling of a more-serious locker room of veterans. 2014 NBA playoffs: After four years, John Wall finally plays a home postseason game 2014-04-26T03:31:00Z A joker with a subtle sense of humour in his writing, Garcia Marquez sometimes seemed taken aback by how seriously his novels were appreciated. Garcia Marquez: Guide to surreal and real Latin America 2014-04-21T11:42:49Z He's a regular guy, a charmer, a joker and a tease. Bombing couple still Boston strong 2014-04-15T00:00:17Z "He was fun-loving, the joker in our family, always smiling and a joy to be around," he said. Disaster 'ripped out pages' of life 2014-04-09T12:35:52Z Rehearsals had been stormy, as Higgins - played by the flamboyant, practical joker Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - didn't get along with the serious Shaw. The map that saved the London Underground 2014-01-10T01:10:43Z Its formal name was the FC1, though many of us knew it as the Femidom, or Reality, and jokers called it all sorts of names - plastic bag, windsock, hot air balloon... The return of the female condom? 2013-12-15T00:29:36Z "He looks like a terror, but he's a good person and a joker," said his second son, Ray Marc, 28 years old. CSI Philippines-Style: Extreme Typhoon 2013-12-06T08:37:12Z Off the field, he is England's - a natural showman and practical joker whose during the 2010-11 Ashes attracted more than a million online views. Graeme Swann - spinner, singer and showman 2013-10-29T00:01:03Z Wilson was co-opted as the alleged photographer because of his respectability, and agreed to be involved as he was ‘a great practical joker’. Photos of the Loch Ness Monster, revisited 2013-07-10T15:15:00.793Z This week, General Sisi listened to them and agreed with the jokers. Hounded from office, Mursi finds he and Egypt 'don't mix' 2013-07-03T20:14:32Z And the joker in the middle did not do a good job. Vancouver 1, United 0: Controversial penalty dooms D.C. 2013-06-30T03:32:17Z When he is lecturing and when he is in company he is a compelling speaker - and something of a joker too, who enjoys surprising you with an irreverent wit. How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive 2013-06-18T23:43:30Z "We were a bunch of jokers," recalled the Brighton midfielder Jimmy Case. Wigan Athletic and the curious case of the relegated FA Cup finalists 2013-05-15T09:44:00Z They were deer hunters and Nascar fans, practical jokers and backyard BB gun marksmen. In West, Tex., Blast, Wrangler Died Trying to Save Horses 2013-04-27T01:09:45Z The attempt to silence Youssef hasn’t bullied jokers here in the slightest. Jon Stewart takes Egypt 2013-04-06T19:00:00Z What a tragicomic compound of jokers and clowns. Chelsea v Steaua Bucharest – live! 2013-03-14T19:05:00Z But Berlusconi is not the only joker on the campaign trail. Send in the Clowns 2013-02-25T09:45:00Z The Economist asked in March whether King was an ace or a joker. Credit to Jenkins the Transformer, but isn't this the old Barclays in disguise? 2013-02-17T00:06:00Z Cue Card is the potential joker, but there must be a good chance that these conditions are going to stretch his stamina to breaking point. Talking Horses 2013-02-16T01:53:07Z That's where the joker lies because that amount is collected by the sales person. COMPLY-Legal scholar sees U.S. broker reform as no-nonsense measure 2013-02-08T16:41:39Z He was given his nickname, Joker, at birth, when relatives, struck by his size, exclaimed, “Look at that joker!” Reggie Evans Gives the Brooklyn Nets an Edge 2012-12-08T17:30:55Z It was unclear, however, how much of what McAfee – a confessed practical joker – said and wrote was true. Guatemalan police arrest McAfee 2012-12-06T12:54:00Z The drug is breaking new ground in an uncertain market, and Wiinberg said it was "a bit of a joker in our portfolio". Lundbeck anticipates new drug "feast" 2012-12-05T16:22:27Z If the organization is serious and buttoned up, it would be professional suicide for someone to try and become the joker within the company. 5 Tips to Getting Your Voice Heard 2012-11-19T16:47:20Z But for all the volatile aggressiveness, he is an incurable joker. From the Vault: The day Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United 26 years ago 2012-11-06T11:41:00Z Instead of awkward face-to-face confrontations, the network name jokers can anonymously send a message, and can target unknown "perpetrators". The rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names 2012-10-18T09:41:25Z The hunt for the Higgs started in the early 1970s, and every year there would be another joker predicting that it is just around the corner. Coming to terms with the Higgs 2012-10-10T21:51:25.443Z That makes him yet another joker in a contest in which Republicans once thought they held all the cards. The Senate: Not so flippable 2012-10-04T15:05:52Z “We are jokers, clowns, perhaps holy fools, but we don’t intend to harm anyone,” she said. Madonna Defends Pussy Riot at Moscow Concert 2012-08-08T02:23:37Z Will they be contenders again, or the same jokers who finished 8-8 last season after consecutive trips to the A.F.C. championship game? On Pro Football: Jets’ Verbal Game Is in Midseason Form 2012-07-28T00:48:39Z "The Community Relations Officer added that there is general speculation in the neighbourhood that a practical joker may be at work," wrote staff at S4 - the government department that investigated sightings at the time. Files shed new light on UFO Wales 2012-07-12T07:32:35Z And contestants weren't allowed to double their points by playing a joker. The Joy of Six: Former Olympic sports 2012-07-06T10:51:10Z In fact, he says, he was the dressing room joker, the one who calmed everybody else down. Choke therapy: the sports stars who blew their big chance 2012-06-22T21:59:00Z How did those jokers end up in charge? Ancient Greek solution for debt crisis 2012-06-05T23:00:25Z “His sexual endeavours are therefore fair game for artists, cartoonists, comedians, radio D.J.’s and tavern jokers.” Racy Painting, Apparently of Zuma, Stirs Controversy in South Africa 2012-05-22T21:08:59Z Of course, there is also the wild card, some may call it a joker, that is Andy Carroll. Euro 2012: How refreshing ? England for once does not expect 2012-05-19T22:00:01Z Fowler may have had a reputation as a joker, but batting against this West Indies attack clearly required courage, as well as skill. The Joy of Six: England v West Indies memories 2012-05-18T09:27:54Z Those jokers were all perfecting Moscow Variations of their Sicilian Defense while, frankly, I was only in the sport for the ladies. Chess union?s new dress code checkmates plunging necklines 2012-05-06T22:04:55Z The joker is usually considered worth five chips, which are either paid into the pool or to the player who succeeds in discarding the joker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But like all practical jokers, Dennis, so fond of playing pranks upon others, was usually easily angered when he himself was made the victim of the pranks. The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam 2012-04-19T02:00:29.860Z I were a wonderful joker when I were a sinful man. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z "A seasoned old poker player like you stooping to pick up the joker!" he teased. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z The humorist, in fact, was a mere practical joker, who was very properly answered by a challenge from a military gentleman of peppery temper. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Joker Hearts.—Here the deuce of hearts is discarded, and an extra card, called the joker, takes its place, ranking in value between ten and knave. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But another joke succeeded, which bade fair to end badly for the jokers. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z But, your Royal Highness, I never held four kings and a royal joker before.” The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z "You know well enough only one game goes on this ranch, and the joker's no good in that." Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Obviously Bear Pascoe is kind of like a joker on offense for us too. The Fifth Down: Victor Cruz Wants Raise; Jerry Reese Speaks 2012-02-10T13:05:20Z Hang on a minute, this joker knows nothing about the high-intensity chess match of international football. An England manager's essential quality: be different from the last one 2012-02-09T13:36:20Z He set a specially rowdy band of jokers at free quarters at the Priory. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z And now, having played such a cruel trick on him, the joker was actually daring to intrude on The Place! Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Automatically he found the joker and flipped it out of the pack. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z We talk about Kiwi being a joker on defense, Bear plays tight end, he plays H-back, he can play fullback. The Fifth Down: Victor Cruz Wants Raise; Jerry Reese Speaks 2012-02-10T13:05:20Z Bockary was the joker of the team and a lady’s man. Conflicts and Cooperation in Conservation: Adventures in Researching the Pygmy Hippopotamus on Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone 2012-02-01T16:15:06.140Z The jokers acted with a will, and the desired effect was gained. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Dear Old Comrade: It is plain you are still a practical joker. Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z Fan jest passed me, turned away 'er eyes, Guess she ranked me with the other guys, Nobby larks upon the ninth, my joker; But it queers a chap to want the ochre. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z His face, and subsequent flogging of the joker, were hailed with shrieks of laughter. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z A one-slam wonder a year ago and the joker in the pack, Djokovic now holds all the aces over the chasing pack. Triumphant Djokovic returns with target on his back 2012-01-13T07:08:06Z He is a practical joker and a chatterbox. George Mason's Mike Morrison trying to harness his emotions 2012-01-11T18:29:00Z “Now you see what your reputation as a practical joker is doing for you, Merry,” said Hodge. Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z Greece is still the joker in the pack. ECB must do more to prevent euro collapse: Fitch 2012-01-11T14:18:46Z Mistigris, mis′ti-gris, n. a variation of poker in which a joker is used, to which the player holding it gives what value he chooses—also the joker when so used. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Then came those pops, which made her think that another supermarket employee, a known joker, was popping balloons in the floral section. This Land: A Year Later in Tucson, ?The Event? Lingers 2012-01-07T22:53:19Z Grizzly could tap that joker on the head pretty good. Live chat with WSU football coach Mike Leach 2012-01-04T04:50:04Z “As I said before,” said Hodge, “you see what your reputation as a practical joker is doing for you.” Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z Professor F. J. Child is a great joker—he's a little flaxen-headed boy of about 40. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z Muhammad testified as a character witness, describing Carruth as a practical joker and the type of guy who avoided conflict. Hurd's secret well hidden from teammates 2011-12-18T04:11:00Z Consequently the pull upon the line did not seem to come up to the expectations of the joker. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z In addition to his Nobel Prize-winning contributions to quantum physics, he was a passionate traveler, joker, artist and samba aficionado. Exploring Your Inner Neophiliac (Part 1): Winifred Gallagher 2011-12-12T18:33:54Z “We’re used to jokers like this is New Jersey,” he told the crowd. City Room: #OccupyWallSt Roundup, Day 84 2011-12-10T01:09:01Z In a 1994 interview, Kane said he and writer Bill Finger had come up with the idea and Robinson then produced a joker playing card for inspiration. Jerry Robinson, artist for Batman?s Joker and ambassador for comic books, dies in NY at 89 2011-12-10T05:39:46Z "We're used to working with jokers like this in New Jersey all the time," Christie he said. Chris Christie campaigns in Iowa for Romney 2011-12-08T03:09:21Z Then something happened, something that doubtless the practical joker crouching below had not anticipated as a result of his prank. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z But why are you telescoping at th' joker? Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z He was a good kid, a joker, but bashful, especially around girls. Can Ambien Wake the Near-Dead? 2011-12-01T13:20:16Z Don't you try to stuff your lies down my throat, my joker, because I'm a liar myself, and know the smell. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Anyhow, sounds like the guy was a heck of a practical joker. Dale Hunter?s practical jokes 2011-11-29T20:54:50Z Plainly, the practical joker would have had his labor for his pains unless something was done to start things moving. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z I didn't spring that little joker, Chet, because it's a good card to play last. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z "Oh! you joker! play the innocent, if you will; but you know perfectly well that that's what they call the supernumeraries at the Op�ra." San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Bill was a practical joker, and in the pursuit of his endeavors to provoke a laugh he spared neither age, sex, nor previous condition of servitude. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z And we all know, practical jokers who call Verizon Center home have a long and distinguished history of finding nothing but good....you know, forget that last part. Dale Hunter?s practical jokes 2011-11-29T20:54:50Z The clubhouse joker was masterful, throwing 8 1/3 innings of two-hit ball while striking out seven. World Series Game 7: What you?ve missed so far 2011-10-28T17:42:21Z Such rich sovereign wealth funds, and large banking groups in Brazil and China, are the jokers in the pack. Dealtalk: Sale of Rabobank's Sarasin an all-Swiss affair 2011-10-26T16:11:19Z Ah! you villain! just look at this joker! San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z First T. T. Well, I 'ope we're all right now, Sam, I'm sure—these German jokers have chivied us about enough for one journey! The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes 2011-10-12T02:00:49.553Z With much effort, the risibility of the jokers was kept in subjection through the meal. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The jokers in Blackwood made him happy by dubbing him, "The Director-General of the Fine Arts for Scotland."—He says the subscribers for the Allan-Raffle were not so numerous as Scott had supposed. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z "From a country which is beyond the seventh sea of the seventh river, and the seventh mountain," answered the merry joker. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z He was a professed joker, but he never allowed himself to be slighted by those who did not enjoy his fun. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z “But I should like to wring the neck of the practical joker who blockaded this end of the passage while I was at the other.” The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z I caught the joker on the draw, and it just filled my hand—three aces and a pair of sixes. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z And then, brushed in with great colorful strokes, the causes and authors of the filthy stairway, the squalid joker, the ruined man, the endless misery. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z “But who could the joker in the woods have been, if not José?” continued Ruth. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z They did not, however, get annoyed with all the jokers, nor treat them all like Scuratoff. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Then they took me before a fat old joker who did nothing much but wink. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z We always give the joker in a new deck to babies in arms to cut their teeth on.' Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z "To have my claim jumped by that joker!" said he through his nose. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z When a notorious practical joker named Evans, with whom we travelled in company for a couple of days, “put up” the lion scare on Soltké, it didn’t come off. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z “All right, lend me a coal hammer,” and into the bunker stepped our joker, followed by the interested gaze of a score of the emigrants. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z One of these days," said Jack, "I shall give that joker his cheque. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z His hand consisted of a pair of aces up on a pair of sixes and the joker. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z One night a group of jokers promised to give him all the cheeses he could bunt through. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z A good plan is to laugh with those who are laughing; and you can better this plan by catching the joker off his guard. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z But their quest was fruitless, and the joker kept them at it by telling them they did not break the coal properly, that it had to be broken across the grain, and so on. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z And he gravely and intently looked at his prisoners, wondering if by any chance some practical joker of the town had arranged the train robbery for his special benefit. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z I forgot to take the joker out of the deck.' Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z He was the joker among a group for whom country music, Bible verses, Bud Lite and pickup trucks serve as the cultural markers. Killing of Black Man Prompts Reflection on Race in Mississippi 2011-08-22T16:38:20Z Some of you children, no doubt, have forgotten; with the result that the joker with a good memory has made of you an April Fool. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z "Obviously, Ben Bernanke's upcoming speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will be the joker in the pack," said a note by leading brokerage house CLSA. Analysis: Smarting firms push case for India policy breather 2011-08-19T07:09:10Z The scheme is so smooth," went on Mr. Meers with a heartfelt appreciation, "that it strained my eyesight to find the little joker; but now I can tell you all about it. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z Tuck, the best right end in football, is frequently used as a standup linebacker and joker. The Fifth Down: 2011 Giants Season Preview 2011-08-09T10:00:35Z Gerald Sensabaugh returns as the strong safety, though don’t be surprised if his athleticism is used in more of a joker role. The Fifth Down: 2011 Dallas Cowboys Season Preview 2011-08-08T13:00:11Z By so doing you may, if you are clever at keeping a solemn face, make a fool of the joker in his turn. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z Had the September 2008 Wall Street bubble burst even one year earlier, you couldn't find one of these Tea Party jokers north of Richmond, Va., with a search party. The true cost of George W. Bush's magical thinking 2011-08-04T01:01:00Z Fuseli, Professor of Painting, a bad artist, but a good joker, was once seen to open his umbrella as he entered the Exhibition. Constable 2011-08-02T02:00:26.593Z They use one of their four 'jokers' to break Formula 1's six-hour overnight curfew - and the work continues. Live - Hungarian Grand Prix 2011-07-31T10:01:46Z He was somewhat of a joker in his way, and at times a little addicted to the use of current slang; but a warm-hearted, impulsive lad all the same. Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol 2011-07-26T02:00:18.713Z She was so quiet and gentle and kind that he felt more at ease with her than with the rest of the Winnebagos, who were such jokers. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z Independent of anyone’s signal or leave, Relieved from the bluffing of poker, I’ve no apprehension of ace up a sleeve, And fear no superfluous joker. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z A mighty good joke," he repeated thoughtfully, "but what I can't understand is this—why didn't you two jokers keep the change? Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z In a closet, by the side of the count's bed-chamber, sat the grave joker, listening at the door, to be at hand at the slightest disturbance he might hear. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z What the joker’s really smelling after is the stuff that’s thrown overboard from the cook’s galley from time to time.” The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Finds it dull, perhaps, now, without those two jokers. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z He had taken in the other’s look of confusion, and, incorrigible joker as he was, resolved to turn it to his own mischief-loving account. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Sam is a human firebrand, a dash of tabasco, a rough comedian and catch-as-catch-can joker. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Kazio, who was a great rogue and a joker, began from afar to make gestures and grimaces like a monkey. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z If you can contrive me a glimpse of the joker I’ll soon let you know for cert. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z "Drunk as a lord, no doubt," said Bill; "though to see the old joker now you wouldn't think it." All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z A roar of laughter went up from the incorrigible joker at the success of his impromptu trap, and Allen arose from the ruins of the chair, like Phoenix from the ashes. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z See, like Uncle Scrooge, some of these jokers are pathologically addicted to hoarding. When the GOP doubled down on crazy 2011-06-23T00:32:00Z Known as a bit of a joker in the England camp, the tall figure is a fiercely determined player and was a talented athlete as a schoolgirl. Three lionesses 2011-06-20T20:21:03Z Now this Mr. Peterman was a great joker and was only teasing Knut. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z Well, this last letter would have to shatter that belief! thought her Uncle, as he crumpled the practical joker's apology into a ball and tossed it on to the fire. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z “Name isn’t Sally,” promptly replies the joker; “I was christened Jack, not John, mind—Jack; and Jack I’ll live and die.” The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z It had its wild oats to sow, and was not indisposed to emulate its contemporary Punch, then also a young joker. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z I was informed upon unimpeachable authority that the original, actual hook of the adventure had been stolen many years previously by some practical joker. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z "Who is the practical joker who has written that?" Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z "Suppose that I saved you the humiliation—and it must be humiliation even to such a practical joker as you," Henriette replied, smiling now. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Unfortunately, the entire fraternity of practical jokers was sober. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z A joker, all the way to the end. Shaquille O?Neal Makes His Retirement Official 2011-06-03T21:03:29Z There must have been some practical jokers in this neighborhood. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z |
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