Whereas if you're sitting in a balcony watching it on the stage, you're saying, 'So, is this funny or not?

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Funny equipment or not, Neuer is currently having the year of his career, conceding just seven goals in Bayern's 22 league games, putting him well on pace to break the Bundesliga record of 21.

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Not that you were funny or sad, but that the brand means something more to them now than before you ran the ad.

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Which should be warning enough for Vettel not to try any funny business or at least to be more subtle about it than Schumacher was.

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While that developer used this power to amuse, a more disgruntled person could probably come up with pictures, or execute code, that might not be so funny.

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That might not be too important as it relates to the sharing of funny cat videos or favorite Lady Gaga songs.

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The jokes might not be considered particularly edgy to non-Iraqis -- or even necessarily that funny.

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Yet Dr Mahathir's remarks were not funny, and they were not a compliment, whether to Jewish people, to those he claims they control, or to the soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, not fighting for Israel but, as they thought, to bring down tyrannies in both countries and punish terrorists.

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