The jokes might not be considered particularly edgy to non-Iraqis -- or even necessarily that funny.
And my wallpaper must be blue with that funny picture of my dog wearing glasses, OK?
Yet, in the following days and weeks, people kept knocking on this door asking whether they could buy that funny-shaped radiator.
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When the dust settles, though, the fact that Secretary Geithner is getting laughed at and mocked by people in other countries is not that funny.
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Sometimes he tells a hilarious story and when I try to retell it to a friend, I realize that whatever happened wasn't actually that funny or interesting, or even a happening at all.
Man, no one else here found that funny.
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Believe me, he really is that funny.
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What's that funny taste in my mouth?
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After a while, it wasn't even that it was funny as much as that we needed to straighten up before that door opened.
There are proposals out there to create a bipartisan commission that would oversee all of these contracts and make sure that no funny business is going on.
Ballmer also gets a passive minority stake in the huge upside ahead with Alibaba Group (with direct assurances from his partner Ma that no funny business goes on).
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%.
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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He says the sales levy "is widely regarded to be the most regressive tax that states impose, " which is funny given that Mr. Patrick is the same guy who raised the rate to 6.25% from 5% in 2009.
Whatever the first rule of cool, the first rule of funny is that if you try to dissect why a joke is funny in a solicitor's office, not only does funny move on, it doesn't leave a forwarding address and gets a restraining order taken out preventing you from ever contacting it again.
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It crossed my mind that the ball had moved in a funny angle and that Thierry was able to keep it in play given his body position.
In that tight and often-funny tease, we learned that the Muppet gang was reuniting to work with Miss Piggy on a new talk show and that things were going to be awkward because Kermit already had moved on to a new girlfriend in Denise, the pig running ABC's marketing department.
It's not so funny that it has taken so long to reach this logical conclusion.
Maybe it struck him as funny that I was talking about molasses, but he seemed to soften.
Hmm, I find it funny that America lead in science back when creationism was an accepted theory.
Funny that gold is also suffering, while stocks hit record or multi-year highs.
It is a reminder that something I like to do could get me killed and that is not funny.
The man writes lines that are howlingly funny and stubborn enough to stand up to a box of Brillo pads.
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.
Also difficult are the puzzles, and I find it rather funny that Ascension actually has more interesting, more involved puzzles than the recent Tomb Raider.
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There are passages that are still funny, four hundred years later.
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