This is a download from the BBC.
For more information and our terms of use, go to bbcworldservice.com podcasts the English we Speak.
Hello, and welcome to the English We Speak from BBC Learning English.
I'm Helen.
With me today is quite a frustrated looking.
Neil.
Neil, what are you doing to that mobile phone?
I can't get it to make a phone call.
It does everything else.
It takes photos, it connects to the Internet, it even irons my shirt, but it won't make a call.
Your mobile phone irons your shirt?
Not really, but honestly, it does everything.
Apart from the one thing I want it to do, make a phone call.
It's a joke.
A joke.
But you're not laughing.
It can't be a very funny joke.
Well, if you say something is a joke in English, it can also mean that it's not very good or not worthy of respect.
Ah, yes, joke has a second meaning.
The investigation into police corruption was a complete joke.