However, GM learned the hard way that layoffs, depression and suicide are no laughing matter.
But this year, the senior prank has been no laughing matter at schools around the country.
However, the pain that the economy is inflicting on ordinary Americans is no laughing matter.
The incarceration of hundreds of thousands of non-violent Americans is, oddly enough, no laughing matter.
Unfortunately, in other respects the Ambon crisis is proving to be no laughing matter.
This is no laughing matter in most other walks of life where self-centeredness is an obstacle to communication.
But to most of the American people, Democratic incompetence is no laughing matter.
But sentiments like these are no laughing matter when consumers feel embarrassed about the brands they once coveted and purchased.
Still, the prize money available to the winning goat owners is no laughing matter, totalling more than 30 million shillings.
But winter for firefighters in the coldest climates is no laughing matter.
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And for the President, that, at least, is no laughing matter.
But causation to the side, New Orleans and now New York have taken body blows from powerful storms, and this is clearly no laughing matter.
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In traditional management, the power structure is no laughing matter.
The raids were the result of a year-and-a-half-long joint investigation dubbed "No Laughing Matter" by the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The director, Randa Haines, and the screenwriter, Robert Caswell, try to snare the audience with a barrage of doctor jokes and then prove that the cynical professionalism of hospital staffs is no laughing matter.
But for the handful of companies that make corn syrup, and the significantly larger number of farmers who grow the corn that gets ground and processed into the stuff, the corn syrup hysteria is no laughing matter.
Unfortunately, its intended purpose is no laughing matter: It is designed to create the international legal equivalent of "overkill" bilateral commitments that would effectively foreclose any U.S. missile defenses not explicitly approved by the Russians.
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Unfortunately, its intended purpose is no laughing matter: It is designed to create the international legal equivalent of "overkill" -- bilateral commitments that would effectively foreclose any U.S. missile defenses not explicitly approved by the Russians.
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Measles is no laughing matter, either.
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And that's not a laughing matter, no matter how alien that makes me feel in my own home country.
Even so they are no laughing or lulzing matter.
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