Whatever we're told now, it's become a sort of joke.

I mean it's a sort of standard joke when we go to Lee's school.

Maybe he thought we were playing some sort of joke on him.

It had to be some sort of elaborate joke on her part.

If this really was her private key, and not some sort of sick joke.

There must be the three, you see: a particularly refined sort of joke.

Perhaps it was the sort of joke you had to be local to understand, Roland thought.

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

It was some sort of joke, she thought, and a particularly bad one.

God was surely playing some sort of joke on her!