But how do people who suffer the chuckles of strangely fitting names feel about the idea that they were drawn to their career by forces out of their control?
The FAA chuckles when a good pilot whiffs on these knuckleballs.
The Venezuelan president got plenty of chuckles for making the sign of the cross and calling Bush the devil.
Word today that New York State would be taking over running the finances of Nassau County, New York set off chuckles throughout the region.
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"The color of his hair (pauses for laughs) and the color of an orange orangutan is the only two things in nature of the same color, " Maher said to another round of nervous chuckles from the audience.
It will have gained some chuckles from the audience even if not belly laughs.
There may be one item that will provoke smirks and chuckles around the table because it clearly is your Achilles heel.
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It's advice that's probably going to elicit chuckles from the guys.
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Fortunately that got nothing worse than chuckles from the audience.
Eine, whose perky typography has been popping up across London for a number of years, chuckles at the memory of how his professional life has been turned on its head.
It took a military escort to entice Colin to his mother's arms in the first row, and when Obama spoke a few minutes later, he prompted chuckles in pointing out the boy's exuberant nature.
"I'm selling enzymes by the milligram now, instead of the ton, " he chuckles.
But that should not stop us from getting a few chuckles out of the process over the next couple of months just the same.
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Chuckles aside, the group opposes Rangel's proposed tax increases on "carried interest, " the 20% cut hedge fund and private equity managers earn on profits.
As Benioff joked about his socks on stage in front of an audience of 14, 000 in San Francisco this morning, a stream of chuckles burst on the screen next to his live feed.
Kim chuckles, skipping across the last section of the six-lane street to avoid an onrushing Prius.
Klein chuckles when he remembers the first time he and Gates met in person after parting ways in Washington.
He chuckles as he recounts the tale of the absconded umbrellas.
Oxford University evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar explained to the Times earlier this year that the muscular movements involved in producing chuckles cause a spike in endorphins.
Amusingly, you also get to see all the comments left by the devs in the code, guaranteeing a few good chuckles from others who can relate.
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"The other drivers on the road were pointing and screaming, " he chuckles.
Theme parks and heel-kicking shows of the Las Vegas variety are unlikely to interest them, and the notion that they should bring their families raises chuckles.
This is why you see that I think it's almost comical that people think that this was set up as somehow an alternative -- (Chuckles.) -- to the intelligence community or to the CIA. I mean, it was two full-time people.
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Charles Ledsinger chuckles when he remembers his days at one of the hotel industry's most tightly controlled chains.
"I was so young and stupid, I hardly realized it, " chuckles Ms. Mentzelopoulos, as we crunch along the gravel drive with her two Beagles snapping at her heels.
"Our family was born to be working in the business, our father gave us no choice, " chuckles Sy-Coson (known as Tessie to her friends), who first worked part-time as a cashier in an sm store while a college student.
"As they say, it always will be, " he chuckles, alluding to a well-known joke about the country.
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He chuckles when reminiscing over being told that him Elmore cut corners around the dark portions of the track.
He chuckles saying he has no idea, adding that he found it, maintains the parts and that he thinks it is beautiful.
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