The love story is sad, funny, and feels genuine enough, but the real pleasures of Super Sad True Love Story are in the details of the setting.

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Technology and innovation have a higher purpose than fun, funny and beautiful products we love to use.

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His song "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" became a major hit for Costello, but Lowe has also recorded steadily as a solo artist since the late '70s.

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"A story with some funny lyrics, or some serious lyrics, or some love-type lyrics, " Diddley said.

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She and her partner have come to meetings in Marx Brothers glasses and hats, showed a classic "I Love Lucy" clip and asked members to share funny stories.

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It's funny you raised that. (Laughter.) I love the structure of the sentence.

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So we knew he was really quite charming and quite funny and quite glib and, certainly, the national media has fallen in love with him over the past few months.

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Our project was born, not out of a high-minded mission to make the masses love science, but out of desperation to tickle the cerebral cortex along with the funny bone.

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