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That sort of thing went beyond a joke.

Servicemen's wives have stripped off to raise cash, but has the naked calendar gone beyond a joke?

At all events, his antics had got beyond a joke.

Drinking's an occupational hazard with us, but it can get beyond a joke.

Not normally a squealer, but it gets beyond a joke at times.

This faux outrage and thought policing is getting beyond a joke.

This junk mail is getting beyond a joke.

At times it got beyond a joke.

Though she noted: "The amount of time I spend away on unpaid leave has got beyond a joke."

But it's getting beyond a joke now, innit?

This is getting beyond a joke,' Kent was struggling to his feet, still trying to clutch the blanket to his lower body.

'But I must admit he's getting beyond a joke.'

"All the same, you know," her eyes met Mrs. Hubbard's and exchanged a glance, "all this is getting beyond a joke.

He looked on quietly for a time, but when it got beyond a joke he seized his carving-knife and called out: "Be off, you rabble rout!"

It started as a joke with us to say that a brave officer in the office probably had private means, and then it got beyond a joke and turned into an axiom.

The £2.5 million England striker, speaking for the first time since being charged with misconduct by the Football Association over the incident, said the furore surrounding his disciplinary problems was 'getting beyond a joke'.

I, even as a friend and a colleague of the staff notice it strongly in little points of racism, all the time constantly there, it gets beyond a joke, I've lost friends in the school or I don't associate with certain members of staff purely because of the constant jibing which eventually gets beyond a joke.

Because of his job, Banks had seen so many kids go wrong, that it was beyond a joke.

But I agree with what you're saying on the whole: the present reality is beyond a joke.

I know we agreed to meet this morning, but this is beyond a joke.

The form this force takes in "The Goat" is beyond a joke.

I'm alive and well, but to have my mum believing I was dead was beyond a joke.

The form this force takes is beyond a joke, yet the articulate, intelligent characters are ill equipped to deal with it as anything but that.

I have no argument with them broadcasting the latest releases, but to charge for the likes of Jaws is beyond a joke!

'Giving an arsonist a lighter is beyond a joke,' said police.

Then there's the 'Third Party Harassment' section, which is beyond a joke.

This is beyond a joke.

The idea of the same two beach bums getting to the airport super-early on a Saturday is beyond a joke; luckily, it was remarkably easy.

As others have already pointed out, it is beyond a joke that you would put an article about whether or not 'the C-word' (god, that's stupid!)

"You," said Polygonus, awed, "are beyond a joke!"

He said: "Demme, Jeremy, but this is beyond a joke, upsetting m'household like that.

It really is beyond a joke now,' he said 'Even Uncle Bert agrees, don't you, Uncle Bert?' '

It was funny, in a Lewis Carroll sort of way, and at least the result was passable, if only as a trade magazine, whereas the woman's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product.