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Oh, but the Padres manager was ready with the joking last night.
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Still, Yoon’s joking somehow lightens the mood.
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Or how being late or canceling at the last minute is treated with less flippancy than in America.
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Spaar’s colloquial flippancies only reinforces her fervency.
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Without Roberts in charge, expect the political and racial buffoonery to creep back into the conversation at ESPN.
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The show, with its interest in corporate buffoonery, doesn’t quite manage to hand-wave away the queasy implications.
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What marks a show of his is the combination of jocularity and generosity.
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That sense of jeopardy will always beat The Hundred jocularity every time.
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Bubble skirts had their moment, but balloon pants bring the same sense of playfulness to any outfit.
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Fun and playfulness definitely trumped the grind here.
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Hudson showed some subtle support for the jesting knocks to her boyfriend by reposting a clip of his final joke shared on Fox News' official X page.
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No matter what happened, Dunham could not seem to help posting through it, her public persona one of infinite jesting confession.
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That lightheartedness quickly evolved into the NFL’s biggest off-field competition.
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In a film that nimbly walks the tightrope between lightheartedness and weightlessness, Jerry and Mabel’s antagonistic relationship ends up proving the unexpected core of the story.
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) recently released new animations showing plans for the Southwest 10th Street Connector, a project that would dramatically transform the roadway between I-95 and the Sawgrass Expressway.
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Through a connection, Jobs stumbled upon what was then the computer animation division of Star Wars creator George Lucas’ production company Lucasfilm and was immediately impressed, wrote Walter Isaacson in his biography of the Apple cofounder.
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