"My friends would joke about it a lot," says his mother.

Friends joked, "Don't be the last one out of the building again!"

"It did not occur to you that perhaps your friends might be joking?"

My friends would always joke that it was never any fun telling embarrassing stories about me, because I'd usually told them to people already.

The friends joked about the amount of luggage Julie wanted to take.

"Our friends joke that somebody had to have the maternal instinct."

It was, her friends joked, the best present she got.

For three years, the two friends had studied, worried, argued, and joked together.

All my friends were joking with me, 'How could you make such nice columns for her?'

"My friends were laughing and joking about it," the monologue said.