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When you say 'I joke,' you’re telling everyone that you’re the only one who gets it and everyone else is just a dumbass who doesn’t.

'I joke,' he said as he laughed at the joke that no one else got.

'I joke,' she said when the whole class was confused.

'I joke,' he said after the teacher asked what that meant.