1.   An old joke had found a brave new teller.

2.   But like the old joke, they prepare for nuclear attack by gathering the wagons into a circle.

3.   It reminded me of the old joke about the chicken crossing the road.

4.   There is an old joke about the termites holding hands to keep a building up.

5.   THOSE old jokes about kilts and Scotsmen surfaced when Lewis Rugg, painting supervisor at Sellafield, arrived for his retirement party dressed in authentic Burnett tartan.

6.   It was an old joke, but he told it beautifillly.

7.   Hailed as a success story for the planners, for some this new town will remain an old joke.

8.   An old joke has it that, when it rains in the Middle East, the people in Dearborn carry umbrellas.

9.   An old joke among economists is that the European definition of a boom is a year in which the unemployment rate rises less than usual.