Cato Institute President Ed Crane has a funny story about Fannie Mae from the mid 1990s.

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Share a funny story or anecdote so that they leave the conversation with a sense of who you are.

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As the problem was being fixed, Jobs told the audience a funny story of a prank that his boyhood pal and co-founder, Steve Wozniak, would play when Jobs was still in high school.

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Which brings up a funny story.

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There was a funny sheep story in The Mirror newspaper.

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"A story with some funny lyrics, or some serious lyrics, or some love-type lyrics, " Diddley said.

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The Welsh Secretary himself, having seen his profile soar this week, has been trying to see the funny side of a story no-one (yet) is calling Jag-gate.

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Which is always fun, when they can make a movie that has good special effects and a good story, and make it funny too.

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Moore has taken the strengths of Hollywood storytelling and used the latest 3D CG technology to craft a fun, and funny, and heartfelt story that earned an Academy Award nomination.

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If I was a gung-ho journalist, the story I would write would be nowhere near as funny and likable.

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