As someone mentioned in another comment, the CBO is a laughingstock with costing legislation.

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The U.S. Department of Justice's grim pursuit of Microsoft is a laughingstock the world over.

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The show, which brings out the competitive spirit in everyone, is starting to make a laughingstock of Moore's law.

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In an exchange of letters between father and daughter that later surfaced in court, Gina told Lang that he had become a laughingstock.

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The story again painted Rutgers as a laughingstock.

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Instead of being hailed as progressive thinkers whose vast contributions have raised the industry standards when it comes to sports ownership, the Dodgers have simply become a laughingstock throughout the business of sports thanks to avarice and moral bankruptcy.

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W. Bush but in 1988 his campaign team savaged then-Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis to the point of making a very good man a national laughingstock.

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It really has been a remarkable run for the Rams, who were the laughingstock of the NCAAs a few seasons ago when they set a record for futility with a winless season.

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