However, this explanation is said to be merely an ongoing joke.

Those awful names were an ongoing joke between the two of them.

It is an ongoing joke that he is secretly attracted to Angela.

It has become an ongoing national joke, because of its pathetic and pretentious exhibits.

The ongoing joke is that Carlos always has a story involving death.

Then there is the ongoing joke about Joe's womanizing.

An ongoing joke for new freshmen is the existence of a fourth floor with a fantastic view of downtown.

This explanation, however, is said to be merely an ongoing joke.

His disastrous attempts at dating are an ongoing joke of the series.

It is routine, and considered almost an ongoing ghoulish sick joke by locals, to hear of yet another tourist attacked.