In the old days at the Vicarage my capacity as a sound sleeper had been the subject of many a little harmless joke.

There are people seething with anger, unapologetic for something they consider a harmless joke.

There was no such thing as a harmless joke.

But there were other provisions of the will, dismissed as harmless jokes, but were they?

A harmless joke, perhaps, except that the loss of the dog, the chickens and now the calves suggests a rather disturbing trend.

Surely a harmless joke may pass among friends.

From my perspective, this seems like a pretty harmless joke.

But you couldn't call somebody on what was probably nothing but a harmless joke.

It had seemed a very harmless joke then, but now I understood how a prisoner feels these things.

The attorney laughed and called it a harmless joke.