Mr. VERRALL: Well, the funny thing is, I mean, I think they actually started selling things I think around 2005.

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The answer, I think, is partly structural and script-driven: the ''funny'' moments are whiffed, the dialogue is ''scene-y, '' and each reaction shot is held a second or ten too long, leaving the actors hanging.

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And I think we can then transfer this back to America, which is sort of funny because normally the transfer has been American technology, Western technology going to the East.

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"I don't think it's very abstract at all, which is very funny, " she says.

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So I think it's the one that is easiest to anticipate and see off in the distance because the funny thing is that Henry Aaron never got this kind of glowing praise when he was playing, and not even 10 years after he retired.

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