While it seems funny for a moment, it is really a symptom of a dangerous world of new media.

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It seems funny to say it, because they have both had so many big games over the years and have won European Cups and the like, but it will be the biggest match in the history of the two clubs.

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Lane is still funny but seems thoroughly and unbearably broken.

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It's exactly the kind of role that, you know, is tailor-made for Oscar recognition because especially lately, it seems like the Academy loves it when a funny man, you know, turns it around and takes on a serious role.

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Predicting what people will think is funny is hard to do, but there always seems to be massive interest in the latest popular cat video.

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Or my satellite service from Sirius, which always seems to go blank at the exact moment when Howard is about to say something funny.

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He illustrated gold fever with a funny little video from the do-it-yourself cartoon site that seems to be the new favorite of the professional class: Xtranormal.

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Brosnan seems at ease, Moore is as crackable as fine porcelain, and both of them cast around for funny lines that never come their way.

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And that look always seems to get dated, whether it's danger, Will Robinson, you know, like the funny-looking robot in "Lost in Space" or whether it's, you know, Buck Rogers of the '70s.

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