At some point, the joking turned serious, and nearly came to blows.

But the joking can obscure the serious work that goes on each day.

The thing is, some of their joking was genuinely funny.

Sometimes the joking goes over the line, when it's time to be serious."

One of the group's biggest hits emerged from the joking.

Times like that, there was a lot of silly joking, easy laughter.

They never picked up that there was anything behind the joking."

But despite the joking, the panelists did come up with some answers.

"There was some inappropriate joking and laughing about it," he said of the recent training.

For once his joking did nothing to ease the tension and no one laughed.

He was looking at me, and the joking, lecherous comments were gone.

The joking, the easy affection, the shared wine, the stories.

As well as the joking, we just went out to enjoy the practice.

If anything, his joking had increased as the hospital hunkered down to meet the crisis.

Once we've had time to digest the news, we'll probably go back to our usual joking and teasing.

We sometimes kidded one another about it, but there was an edge to the joking.

"I can take the joking and get on people.

For all her joking, Gypsy revered writers, and had always wanted to be one.

"I do not understand the purpose of practical joking."

There was a lot of false laughter and miserably poor joking.

The deal, with variations, has been around in the literature for about half a century, although North's practical joking is a new element.

But Dixon believes the joking is helpful for someone who has never started a game at tackle.

Amid the joking, however, serious basketball was being played.

A man (Chandler) keeps women at a distance with his compulsive joking.

No joking- that's when all the crazies come out to dance."

I do not think that this is a joking matter.

Then the man was coming in, much too fast to be a joking matter.

In a joking way I asked if everything was mine.

But it was no joking matter even a hundred years ago, you know.

I take that as a joking reference to the discussion.

She got a good look at my face and dropped the joking tone.

And just where is this big secret cloud with the joking name?

This was said in a joking manner and should not be taken seriously.

The doctor, suddenly in a joking mood no longer, returned the look.

Some of their songs have a joking tone, while others are very heavy and dark.

To be sure, the volume of patients at the hospital's emergency room is no joking matter.

This is a joking fact that Franco himself was in the scene.

"I think he might have done it in a joking fashion.

She had been well warned years before, and he wasn't a joking man.

I've known Clint for 40 years and we have almost a joking relationship about retirement.

She thought of a few joking replies, but withheld them.

"My lord, this is not a joking matter for me."

I asked her about this, in a joking way.

Her statement was met by a joking outcry from the men present.

University officials say the product is no joking matter.

His voice had lost much of its joking edge.

"If you do something wrong on the field, he'll let you know in a joking way."

Some joking part of herself showed her a bright neon sign.

Bush now says the story originated as a joking account by his mother, and has been exaggerated.

"Some of the stuff I thought was written in a joking manner.

The joke is lost for some, while others play along.

But the 15-year-old student later said his answer was no joke.

He has a kind word or a joke for everyone in the room.

But if the administration has its way, the joke is on us.

And he is not above building in a good joke.

They seemed, in fact, to think the whole idea was some sort of joke.

But after only three weeks, Current is not a joke.

The joke may be old, but the problem is real.

He is now the joke of the team and the school.

He could have told the whole thing against himself as a joke.

To someone he thought was a bit of a joke.

I took her part, and the joke was then turned against me.

The king told the boy to make a joke now.

I think he was making his idea of a joke.

I'd thought at the time he was making a joke.

Of all things to play a joke on her about.

He knew a joke was coming, probably a bad one.

He said some people just could not take a joke.

"We just sort of run around the field while a joke is being read."

But after 5 or 10 years, enough people actually get the joke.

He tried to answer, make a joke or something, but nothing came out.

He had wanted the joke to be his own private one.

The thing was just a private joke between my wife and me.

Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing.

He's making a joke about how long the light took to get here.

Do you joke about who's going to turn out the light?

You could go up to him and joke around, too.

Yeah, and my whole point is we just joke about everything.

The two would joke about it when they saw each other.

She turned and looked at him to see if he was joking.

"But you will not feel like joking when next we face each other."

You joked me about what she should of in the day?

He looked at her to see if she was joking.

"I would rather you did not joke about the matter."

With another woman, he would have been joking about the president.

Took her a while, sometimes, to understand when someone was joking.

If you think I'm joking why not call them up?

Why did he joke at this time of all times?

She tried to talk to me a job, but we sort of joked away.

Many of those in the room knew the man; he was not the kind to joke.

My wife and I joked about it for a while.

And he can still joke about it all, despite everything.

But that gets at the one point I'm not joking about.

He was joking, the way everybody had been the night before.

I thought you wanted me to get more political,' he joked.

It was hard to tell if she were joking or not.

He was telling her not to joke with his friend.

If you think it's too soon he will joke about it.

We joke that each of us has given the other a "reason to live."