Word: jokingly
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...here's the problem with that scenario: it's too conventional and too rational. We got comfortable, over the years, with the old-fashioned balance of terror. It was an irrational game, but it was being played (we dearly hoped) by rational human beings. The whole black joke about Dr. Strangelove and his war room enablers lay in the way they carried their totally reasonable calculations to deliriously irrational heights...
...hours after September 11th, FBI agents in Minneapolis shared a macabre joke. For weeks prior, they had tried to interest FBI headquarters in Washington in Zacarias Moussaoui, now known as the 20th hijacker. They had begged FBI Headquarters to give them permission to seek a search warrant of Moussaoui's computer. They were denied. In their frustration, they joked that headquarters back in Washington must be infiltrated by agents of Osama Bin Laden. Why else would their work have been thwarted...
...been in a number of different meetings...in which people will start to get worked up about something. And when people start to get a little edgy, he can sense that right away, and somehow in a nanosecond he comes up with the most surprising joke that completely deflates all the tension in the room...
...probably the most repeated line from the movie Spider-Man: Peter Parker's ailing Aunt May asks her doting nephew not to work so hard. After all, she reminds him, "you're not Superman." The joke is on her, because we know that her nephew is in fact a superhero; but it's also on us, because she has pinpointed what we like about not only Spider-Man and his geeky-sweet alter ego Peter, but most of the masked marvels we've followed from the comics to the screen. We don't want our superheroes to be invulnerable Supermen...
...privatization plan "is a joke" designed to enrich insiders while minority shareholders get the shaft, says Mark Mobius, manager of the Templeton Developing Markets fund, which owns Boto shares. "They basically want to gut the company of its best assets for an unreasonably low price." Stockholders are being offered four cents a share to part with the manufacturing division. Mobius says the offer, at around six times Boto's per-share earnings, should be almost double that considering the company's predicted growth rate. (Boto officials did not return several phone calls, and the Carlyle Group declined to comment...