During minute two Baby cried and we went to get him, uncertain whether to laugh or cry.

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"This one is going to take some time to sink in, walking round the ground seeing family I don't know whether to laugh or cry, it's a really special moment, " said Flintoff.

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Add to that his call for a referendum to bring back the franc and to take France out of the European Union, and the mainstream parties are unsure whether to laugh or cry.

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One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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Falkirk fans didn't know whether to laugh or cry last season as they came perilously close to being relegated but also reached their first Scottish Cup final in 12 years and consequently qualified for Europe for the first time ever.

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Watching the trial live on television, or standing outside the court building listening to the proceedings through loudspeakers, Filipinos did not know whether to laugh or cry, as a bumbling prosecution team ineptly set about trying to prove that Mr Estrada was a villain who should forthwith be removed from office.

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"When you allow yourself to think of it, you don't know whether you are going to laugh or cry, " he says.

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We laugh, not knowing whether to believe him but hoping inside he is wrong.

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Even if it is merely being able to successfully predict whether that joke we are thinking of telling will make others laugh or just embarrass us instead.

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