The fact is the public wants to hear those old chestnuts.

So much for that old chestnut about teachers having their summers off.

Mostly it was that good old chestnut - missing morning parade.

Thus James lays to rest the old chestnut "write what you know."

I should have known she'd bring up that old chestnut.

But this argument is now an old chestnut in strategic thinking.

So you can excuse theater companies for trying to come up with new takes on this old chestnut, just to keep things interesting.

The second point that I consider important is the old chestnut of the 'brain drain'.

It's an old chestnut that war is good for the economy.

They tried to slip that old chestnut by every year.

Pickles also came out with what may be the corniest joke of the entire conference season.

The dancing was sometimes better than the corny jokes.

He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was.

He is given to corny jokes and exaggeration, but in this case, his drama may be justified.

The men have floated through the past month on a wave of their own corny jokes.

The radio episodes ended with one or the other of them making a corny joke about the adventure they had just completed.

He usually makes corny jokes then laughs at them saying "Good one Buzz!"

It was a corny joke, the kind her husband Jack might have made.

It was so hard to accept that he'd never hear Ray's corny jokes again.

"It will seem even longer if he tells us all his corny jokes," Sally said.