1.   A man whose name is so synonymous with a suntan that it is a running joke in Doonesbury?

2.   As a veteran of the trenches of the Cold War, Ray Urbanski remembers the running joke among his colleagues at the controls of doomsday missiles.

3.   As amusing as some of its notions may be, none are developed into sustained running jokes.

4.   Aykroyd, in a smaller role as her uptight colleague, is the butt of an infantile running joke.

5.   Batting practice for pitchers is generally treated as a running joke.

6.   A running joke that his former neighbor, Dave Harris, loves to tell is of two friends visiting Rome.

7.   A running joke is that whenever Fielding announces his intention to deliver a moral discourse, he is cut off by some action behind him.

8.   A running joke among Palestinians here is that if Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat could do it, he would get a visa and go live in America.

9.   A running joke was that Bush family would have a testy Thanksgiving this year if Bush brothers lost the state.