Something funny was going on with the books, suggesting that revenues and profits had been inflated.
"We try to think about something funny to make him laugh, " she said.
"I'll never forget the day I looked down the microscope and saw something funny in the cultures, " Edwards once recalled.
Something funny happens in such a market-oriented system: there is less price-gouging.
Or my satellite service from Sirius, which always seems to go blank at the exact moment when Howard is about to say something funny.
"I feel bad for the people who don't at some point understand that there's something funny in even the worst things that can happen to you, " Ephron said.
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The way he'd turn a line, or spin on his heels, or make something funny, or out of nowhere make me cry - I just never knew what was coming next.
So as I said earlier, that was really - you know, Michel, there's just something funny and unusual about the way peoples, as opposed to individuals, see themselves and project their aspirations.
Then something funny happened.
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"There are tons of people watching like a hawk, waiting for the candidates to say something particularly funny, " he says.
Something smells funny here so we pinged ASUS, and guess what?
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If people have no original reporting to add, they instead try to come up with something clever or funny to say.
Most comedy writers will freely admit that it is much, much harder to write something that is very funny, yet clean.
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But sometimes it's the difficulty of understanding something that makes it funny.
Each point in each slice of a CT scan is essentially a separate test, and the chance that a whole body CT scan is going to turn up something somewhere that looks funny is nearly 100%.
It is difficult enough to decode "OMG" (Oh my God) "BFF" (best friends forever) and "GTG" (got to go), let alone understand why it's funny to call something a "fail" (but not a "failure").
But it was funny because it reflected something real.
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They mentioned to the stylist that they were looking for new work and the stylist said something like, "How funny, another one of my customers just mentioned he is looking to hire someone with your background!"
It seems there are now going to be two kinds of planets: the real thing, like Earth and Mars and Jupiter, and then something called plutons, which are funny things that are kind of planets and kind of not planets.
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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Villar is wild-eyed and hauntingly funny as emotionally damaged David, a 30-something husband suffering from recurring PTSD 18 months after his car fell off the bridge and he nearly drowned.
It is a reminder that something I like to do could get me killed and that is not funny.
The cat clothes seem to release something strange and wild in Pfeiffer: her performance is ferociously sexy and uninhibitedly, over-the-top funny.
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