Those around him, including his carpenter father, thought he was crazy and laughed at him.

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In effect, he is the same as the Men in Black, though nobody laughed at him.

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After all, they laughed at him when he wanted to lay high-speed broadband cable across the ocean floor.

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Then the public might have laughed at him rather than with him.

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When Glock offered to make one, they laughed at him.

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But doctors "laughed at" him when he suggested doing human tests, he says.

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He told people about his plans and they laughed (literally) at him.

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They called him Sunny Jim, because he laughed at everything.

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Everybody laughed at Joe's lousy Sicilian. (Even his little brother, Dommie, made fun of him.) And shame was what Joe couldn't stand.

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