can take a joke

Excellence is out of the question, and nobody can take a joke.

I can take a joke as well as the next fellow.

Do you think maybe they can take a joke?"

Now there's a husband who can take a joke, and a wife who can dish one out.

Come on, I can take a joke.

Who amongst my circle can take a joke?

I can take a joke, and I can tell the worst of them, too."

"Yeah, I can take a joke," Sean said, with not the least hint of a smile on his rigid face.

Luckily he can take a joke.

I can take a joke with the best, Mr. Holmes, but they've got a bit over the mark this time."

Ann can be funny sometimes, I can take a joke can't I?

He can take a joke," Dad protested.

(And no Kennedy can take a joke.)

But those who can take a joke have ranged from children to adults -something that the Uderzo-Goscinny team had never anticipated.

Some men can take a joke, he'd answer like Sylvester Stallone in that movie Cobra, but I ain't one of 'em.

No offence Clarckson ...we know you can take a joke.... you dish it out often enough!

Fits, Well . . .," May 5] that the Coen brothers are no longer welcome in Minnesota and that hardly anyone here can take a joke.

Sport or Sporto, from the term "good sport" referring to someone who can take a joke or someone who exhibits polite behavior even or especially when things go wrong.

"Old Often-Wrong Soong could give you bodies built to survive the vacuum of space and brains that can do sixteen trillion operations a second, but not one of you can take a joke."

Perhaps the difference between the Scots and the English is that the English are a bunch of uptight pursed lipped emotional repressives and the Scots can take a joke and have fun?

When Teekleman hears it told he makes a great pretence of laughing and being seen to be a good fellow who can take a joke, but later relays the remark to Hinetitama who finds herself completely mortified and humiliated.

Playboy says it can take a joke, but not trademark infringement, so lawyers for the magazine have threatened to sue the Milltown, N.J., man who started a Web site called Playdog.com that features pictures of dogs wearing nothing but their fur.