At first, I chuckled at the jokes.

In Lebanon and Syria, the joke is on those coming from Homs .

And I know that I have been waiting all week to tell this joke.

That's the other way that humor like Art Buchwald takes shots at the heads of state.

The group is calling the people to go to the street in order to achieve certain demands To raise the minimum wage limit to LE 1200 and to get an unemployment aid. To cancel the emergency status in the country , to dismiss Habib El Adly and to release all detainees without court orders.

It's awful.

The Turkana people are, as the joke suggests, as far away from Nairobi as one can be without being foreigners.

Your gums are in bad shape.

Your condition isn't serious.

Bad advice.

Smoking is a bad habit.

The humanitarian situation is poor.

When a Turkana man leaves for the capital, Nairobi, the joke goes, he tells his family, I m going to Kenya.

The package is of bad quality

He's in a bad state.

That's a bad zoo.

When we have a bad idea, the response to a bad idea is not no ideas, it's not to stop thinking.

It is neither good nor bad.

Mao's advice is not bad.

The first idea is a bad one.

A good emblem, but the colors are bad.

I'm so sorry. I'm getting like the woman in that joke about have you heard this joke about the woman driving with her mother?

But despite everything, Syrians still resort to humor, even if it is black, to carry on with their lives.

I am aware that this is a very bad idea

Unfortunately, Lala is bad at cooking.

If nuclear weapons are evil and India agrees with Australia that they are then no one should have them.

And it reminded me of that old joke where the bank robber comes out of the courthouse handcuffed, and the reporter yells, Hey, Willy. Why do you rob banks?

Humor is very contextual, as a joke may not be considered very funny if it seems like it is over explained using only low context messages.

The first two growth models invariably come to a bad end.

It's a very politically correct zoo, but it's a bad zoo.

How easily one acquires bad habits!

Significant weight loss is a bad sign.

And what we re doing is we re using humor as a sort of neuroscientific probe by switching humor on and off, by turning the knob on a joke now it s not funny ... oh, now it s funnier ...

After all, this is the Middle East, where, as the old joke goes, the scorpion stings the camel carrying it across the Suez Canal, knowing that they will both drown.

Of the units that remained by late 2002, most were in a poor state of repair and the crews were in a poor state of readiness.

Nuclear energy, fission, is really bad idea for bombs.

The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

His diet while in detention has been extremely poor.

Impunity sends a bad sign for the future.

We're going to keep being surprised. And almost all the surprises are going to be bad ones.

Right, so, a doctor says to his patient, I have bad news and worse news.

Yes, I am aware this is a very bad idea

Rightly so it is ill conceived.

Indeed, there are only bad options for the US in Syria.