If they did not think it an extremely foolish joke.

He's fond of foolish jokes , he thought, and then decided it didn't matter much.

You understand, at the time I regarded it as some foolish joke.

Infantile, of course, but he'd taken part in these foolish practical jokes himself.

Was this Caoilinn the child, indulging in a last wild and foolish joke?

-weak apologetic laugh, as though this were all some sort of foolish joke.

I am a busy man, sir engaged upon important affairs, and I have no time or taste for foolish jokes.

A joke so foolish and unfilial wasn't worth explaining.

No dying man could make such foolish jokes.

"Sir," Oliver said, "you don't have a religious duty to punish those who make foolish jokes."