You wouldn't laugh during a conference where the boss says quarterly earnings are at an all-time low but you would laugh if the boss told a funny (or at least he thinks it's funny) joke.

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Nowadays scientists would laugh at you. 3 oC is a good guess, 4.5 at the limits of believability at the top end and perhaps 1 or 1.5 at the low.

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"If you said to Juande Ramos to get rid of all his top players and give him 'X' amount and say get to the Champions League last eight he would just laugh at you, " he suggested.

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He was funny - he would always try and make you laugh.

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He looked depressed a lot, but he would laugh good, too, you know, the kind that he'd hold his belly and lean back and just crack up.

NPR: Remembering Army Pfc. Kenneth Zeigler

Ms. SHERMAN: And it was very rewarding to see that even though maybe children under 10 had never seen a performance because of the Taliban, if you do things that are the same kind of slapstick comedy that you would do here, kids will laugh.

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In fact, when the pair and fellow outfielder Ichiro Suzuki saw reporters studying their positioning today, they conspired to switch things up and play Ichiro in center and Gardner in right, "so you guys would really figure something weird was going on, " Gardner said with a laugh.

WSJ: In the Center of Yankee Change

You're not discovering anything when you're having a cup of tea and laugh with the grips, as tempting as that would be.

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