Because, of course, as you know, in Washington whenever anybody says that, people immediately start chuckling.
"My foot's (messed) up, but other than that, I feel great, " he said, chuckling.
As she returned to counting tourists, I returned to the Governor Bradford, chuckling over visitors' questions.
"That is the biggest mismatch ever between theory and experiment in the history of physics, " Mr. Kaku admits, chuckling.
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Novack is still chuckling over a tax case decided in November.
But inwardly, McEniff must have been chuckling after his team's success.
Just last Christmas Day he was very happy to sit with a large glass of red wine having enjoyed a good dinner and chuckling at Absolutely Fabulous on TV.
"When I went back to the living room, the guys were all chuckling and I said something like 'beefy goodness' and they all exploded with laughter, " he said.
"Hauling around heavy boxes of pennies, " observes Mr. Andresen, chuckling.
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Instead, they want the voters to concentrate on his more recent past - brokering the IRA ceasefire, negotiating the Good Friday Agreement, chuckling with Ian Paisley, hob-nobbing with Barack Obama.
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The villains were chuckling sadists with an incoherent backstory.
But on Thursday night, they had the tall task of deciding whether Vice President Joe Biden and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan were chuckling or outright laughing during their VP debate.
The team that has gotten so much attention was two people, full-time. (Chuckling.) I mean, this is much less than one would infer from a lot of the press coverage of it.
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Overall, the VP debate was notably slower than the Denver debate, partly because moderator Martha Radditz was a much more active moderator than Jim Lehrer, and partly because of all that chuckling and cross-talk.
While the courtroom laughter was played high in most accounts, with News.com reporting that even Microsoft's lawyers were chuckling at the videotaped cat-and-mouse game, ZD's court story surprisingly recounted Gates's testimony without recounting the apparent courtroom disbelief.
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