I only joked with her.

Linda, my wife, joked that it was like having six different marriage proposals.

In an exclusive interview with Fast Company, Berners Lee joked that the intent behind Inrupt is world domination.

Francis Crick, the co discoverer of the structure of DNA with Jim Watson, once joked about what he called Orgel's Second Rule.

Ramos also joked that even though it was not an ice breaking visit to Hong Kong, it could bring a turnaround to the Sino Philippines relations.

He joked about criticism he would get from the news media for making a comment some would consider unpresidential and for being so positive about the North Korean leader.

I joked that the main contribution we made to the battle against AIDS was to get the manufacturers to change from a jewelry store to a grocery store strategy.

Before it was passed, one wit joked that the Food Security Bill meant food for the poor, security for the ruling party, and the bill for the taxpayer. But it should be no surprise in a democracy that the government should pursue policies that are popular with a majority of voters.

Ms. Watanabe had heard that companies in Norway or France face delisting if their ratio of female officers falls below 40 , and she joked with her friends that Keidanren (the Japan Business Federation) would vanish under such a law. Nonetheless, with each public company in Japan to appoint at least one female officer, it might be her turn someday.

Some net friends said that such landscape pictures were the best city images of Beijing and some net friends joked that if the blue sky remain the same for a long time, the patients with cervical spondylosis would surely be cured some net friends even hoped that the blue sky would last through the winter, spring and summer, providing Beijing with a blue sky across four seasons .

Everything at which Georgians excelled under Shevardnadze in the Soviet era entrepreneurship, education, and culture was greatly neglected by him in the 1990s. Similarly, whereas tens of thousands of functionaries were indicted for corruption or lost their jobs under his leadership in the 1970s, the post Soviet Shevardnadze of the 1990s reportedly joked that he should have arrested himself, but that he deserved his wealth for his priceless political contribution.