"Our state government has become the laughing stock of the nation, " he said then.
My answer: Well, let me tell you, last year Yahoo was a Silicon Valley laughing stock.
Ms Alexander complained to broadcast regulator Ofcom that she was unfairly portrayed as "a laughing stock".
Besides murdering and impoverishing his people, Amin also made his country a laughing stock.
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Liverpool legend Ian Rush said the club were in danger of becoming a "laughing stock".
Former Pakistan captain Mushtaq Mohammed, meanwhile, said Pakistan had been made a laughing stock by the affair.
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Carolina Toha, a senior opposition politician, said the pact made Chile "the laughing stock of the world".
Scotland has the worst recycling record in Europe and environmentalists claim the nation has become "the laughing stock".
In western circles he has long been a laughing stock the epitome of all that was bad about Stalinist cinema.
The police wanted the current rules to remain, but opponents said that they made the Highlands a laughing stock.
Even with the questionable behavior, Cuban managed to lead the Mavs from the laughing stock of the league to true contenders.
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Once Ratners stores were the the laughing stock of the High Street.
The attempts to write the Lib Dems off as a leaderless laughing stock made not the slightest impression on the Dunfermline electorate.
Its economy was a laughing stock, the perennial sick man of Europe.
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She said the assembly government was making the assembly "a laughing stock" and said it was "time they sorted out this mess".
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Some individual respondents said the curfew had made Inverness a laughing stock.
And Sarah Palin accepted the money, she did not build the bridge to nowhere because it was at that point a national laughing stock.
She tried to play it off by awkwardly dancing around the stage, but was the laughing stock of the entertainment world for a few days.
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And Ed Randall, who proposed the amendment, said the Office for Budget Responsibility, which the government relies on for its economic forecasts, had become a "laughing stock".
"We were the laughing stock of Europe, " Tchuruk admits, grimacing.
"I would have appreciated it if he had stepped aside, and we would not have been made the laughing stock of the country, " said Rep. Mary Flowers, another Democrat.
Yet he turned Tampa from the laughing stock of US sport to the winners of the Super Bowl in 2003, and the fans are grateful to him for this.
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And I noted that Tom Ricketts, the Cubs relatively new owner, needed to make a splash with his new GM hiring or else risk being perceived as a laughing stock.
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Liberal Democrat candidate Susan Kramer said the public, once enthusiastic for a mayor, had now become cynical and the contest had the potential to make London into a laughing stock.
Next came the search for a venue and the landlord of the Ordulph Arms, Andy Coad, was soon roped in so the idea of the Laughing Stock Upstairs at the Ordulph started to become a reality.
Labour Party London Assembly member John Biggs called Galloway, Respect party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in east London, a "laughing stock" after he imitated a cat and pretended to lick cream from actress Rula Lenska's hands, as part of a task.
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And she - when Congress - it sort of became a national laughing stock when McCain made an issue of it and others made an issue of it, as a bridge that would connect you know, very small populations to each other but cost a lot of money to do so.
She was from Shoreditch, sir, which is about as Cock-er-ney as it is possible to be (or was back in the 50s - now it's full of ruddy eejits in very thin jeans ashamed of their parents' wealth and exhibiting a complete failure to understand that they are the laughing stock of the rest of the London populace).
NATO's demands, the alliance will have to send in the bombers or risk becoming a laughing-stock.
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