If anything, I thought it must be some sort of cruel practical joke.

A cruel joke, but then it was supposed to be that.

At first I thought the letter was a cruel joke.

They always seemed like a cruel joke at rush hour.

In some ways, life must seem to be a very cruel joke to millions of people on this earth.

Or are we in the midst of a cruel joke?

Other than that it has to be some ones idea of a cruel joke.

To many people here, the road's name is a cruel joke.

The very fact of it was like a cruel joke.

This drug, pretty much seems like a cruel joke, doesn't it?