it's a joke, Joyce

alternative joke Joyce

1. AustraliainformalThat was a joke, so don't take it seriously.

   Scientists are an amusing lot, often with a Monty Python sense of fun. When they say elementary particles such as quarks have charm and strangeness, it's a joke, Joyce.

   2005, Damien Broderick, Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 128

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   This book, like so many of mine, is an account of a journey I made to what I've rather cheekily called the Far East. Some people's eyebrows were raised at the expression, thinking it suggested that here in the UK we're still at the centre of the world […] But as my Australian fiancée, Sarah, might say, 'It's a joke, Joyce.'

   2009, Rick Stein, Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey, Random House, →ISBN, page 9

   She doesn't laugh. She looks at me quiet and solemn. So I tell her to laugh. About my conspiracy theories she just lapped up. 'It's a joke, Joyce.' She shakes her head. 'My name's not Joyce.'

   2012, Malcolm Knox, The Life, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 12