1.   The fact that she is a virgin was disclosed last season, prompting jokes on late-night talk shows.

2.   The six-phase program already has prompted jokes about its elementary and somewhat bureaucratic approach.

3.   What the airlines are not doing is increasing the legroom in coach, which prompts dour jokes among taller passengers about knees-to-chin seating.

4.   But the document, widely circulated at Los Alamos lab in the wake of congressional and DOE allegations of Chinese spying, prompted some jokes.

5.   Financial scandals that sully top government officials and business leaders prompt bitter jokes and a shrug that says, so what else is new?

6.   This prompted many jokes, or rather the same joke, over and over.

7.   Her preoccupation with reducing automobile traffic has also prompted jokes at her expense.