The Olympic Committee forced this comic veteran to change the name to its initials in 2005, a suitably laughable development in a long career of chuckles.
Take Letterman: by invoking Kirstie Alley, the formerly svelte star of Fat Actress, he gives the somewhat abstract notion of port security a recognizable shape and offers the audience a laughable absurdity in place of a maddening one.
P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue.
Despite initial interest, UK broadcasters have failed to secure broadcasting rights with Froch's promoters Hennessy Sports to show the fight, with the credit crunch being blamed for a deal not being struck, which Froch calls "laughable" and a "disgrace".
It is perhaps a laughable commentary on the current mania for monetary stimulus that this feature is what seems to have inspired the most criticism of Bitcoin.
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Anywho, not long after hearing a laughable article suggesting that Blu-ray decks would outsell DVD players by August (yes, of 2008), along comes another that makes a little more sense.
And knowing Jerry, what a laughable notion that is anyway.
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It is perhaps a laughable commentary on the current mania for monetary stimulus that this feature is what seems to have inspired the most criticism of Bitcoin.. The knock on Bitcoin is that its fixed nature will cause an inevitable destructive deflation.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview With Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
He assumed that he could deregulate 12% to 15% of the apartments a year, a laughable figure that embittered even those residents whom management's private detectives didn't try to evict. (Mr. Speyer's firm, tellingly, had made its name in commercial real estate, not residential.) Mr. Speyer had overestimated cash flow and the pool of would-be affluent renters, and had underestimated maintenance costs.
None was more grotesque than inserting the young Anakin as a ghost in place of the old in Return of the Jedi - a truly laughable, woeful, and quite possibly criminal change.
Yet residents here would find the idea that Philadelphia is a green city laughable.
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The company said claims the States would save millions bringing services in house were "laughable" and that such a move would be unfeasible and costly.
Personally, I find it laughable that you have provided such a glowing report of business practices in Malaysia.
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The judge issued the fine, though a federal prosecutor earlier told the court that such a fine is almost laughable.
Fear of living in a surveillance society increasingly seems laughable given the way that we live today.
The idea that such achievements were a matter of luck is frankly laughable.
It could be a savvy move by the once laughable car company that now has the world's leading automakers looking over their shoulders.
Normally, such a proposal would be considered politically laughable because Medicare provides seniors with medical insurance they would otherwise be unable to purchase.
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The new computers - perhaps the first to be introduced into a major British newsroom - would look laughable to today's young journalists.
Today we ask: Can we meet our ambitious targets on child poverty when, before 1997, the idea of a child poverty target would have been laughable.
To suggest those trophies where as a result of the Glazers is not only laughable but quite ludricous.
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The laughable thing about this is that the initiative came at a Brussels summit that was intended to focus on energy and innovation.
Pulis' Stoke team has a reputation as being one of the most physical sides in the English Premier League and only two weeks ago he labeled two Chelsea players "laughable" for what he saw as contrived attempts to win a penalty.
Against this background, Mr Magueijo's attempt to portray himself as a brilliant maverick, a successor to Richard Feynman, or a rival theorist to the great Einstein, is simply laughable.
Two weeks ago a host of UK-based news publications spread the laughable argument that since Facebook use and syphilis infection rates are correlated, it somehow implies causation, too.
It is laughable to imagine Obama as the liberal Ronald Reagan, because Reagan himself was a Hollywood liberal and union head until the 1950s.
Or "little things": Irving on its own renamed a street Fluor Drive, which in California or the Northeast would be laughable.
On the other hand, humour, gadgets, exotic locations - such as a submarine in The Spy Who Love Me - sex, stunts and laughable villains were played up.
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