And yet, with the tour a month away, he laughed at the idea that he was ready.
He laughed at the ploy and two days later I had my answer.
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They called him Sunny Jim, because he laughed at everything.
As we struggled to reach his apartment and ended up getting stuck on the emergency staircase trying to reach the right floor, he laughed at the irony of a great explorer apparently unable to find his own bed.
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Those around him, including his carpenter father, thought he was crazy and laughed at him.
He is the man who is laughed with and not at when he dangles helplessly from a zip wire.
That, and being laughed at, he says.
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After all, they laughed at him when he wanted to lay high-speed broadband cable across the ocean floor.
Mr. Furlong, of Oregon, is hoping for more recognition of the skill back home in the U.S. "If they saw it in the Olympics on TV, and it was advertised more, I think people would see it is a good sport, and that it's not something to be laughed at, " he said.
The Shaikh family also said it was "particularly distasteful" that judges at an appeal hearing laughed openly at Akmal's rambling speech as he pleaded for his life.
But doctors "laughed at" him when he suggested doing human tests, he says.
It was pretty funny though - I told Malcolm what you said about my possibly being too Graybill-like in evaluating the response functions he laughed and said that's what he thought at first also.
When I asked for a raise because I was working 10-11 hours a day and was almost always at his beck and call, he literally laughed in my face.
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He told people about his plans and they laughed (literally) at him.
In effect, he is the same as the Men in Black, though nobody laughed at him.
What he needs to be careful with however is the budget talk, which means if he goes on and on about the government creating jobs it will be laughed at by just about everyone.
"No, he'd have to call them nabobs of nothingness, " Loren said and laughed at his own joke.
Ms Onwurah said Dr King's words were a revelation, that "people would have laughed at the idea of a black woman becoming an MP", but he made that possibility very real by visiting her home town.
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