1.   Either way, it was an occasion for black humour, or at least sick jokes.

2.   It sounds like a sick joke but they are deadly serious.

3.   When I heard he had cancer, at first I thought it was some kind of sick joke.

4.   ...a sick joke about a cat.

5.   Fair enough, I plead guilty to telling and laughing at sick jokes too.

6.   Incidentally I reserve the right to make sick jokes and hurl abuse at the scum, or any opposition, or even Newsome no matter what.

7.   That the Traverse concourse and bar should be bedecked with posters for a brand of vodka seems to be a peculiarly sick joke in the circumstances.

8.   Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry are the interracial couple brought together by a sick joke from fate.

9.   A sick joke, but a joke nonetheless.

10.   But asking Cambodians to embrace the architects of mass slaughter with bouquets of flowers turns the idea of reconciliation into a sick joke.