We used to laugh over aposiopesis in Latin class because it seemed disarmingly colloquial for a sea god to talk like that.

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Why do French comic films not travel well when those made in Britain or America whether by Woody Allen, John Cleese or the Monty Python team seem to make people laugh all over the world?

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She continued for over an hour to laugh and sing her way through a performance which had the hundreds in the Gerrard Marquee mesmorised.

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Yankees and Rebels alike join in the field to share a laugh now that it is over.

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"Thousands of Nigerian families they are going to be playing Monopoly over Christmas, having a good laugh and learning at the same time, and just appreciating the city, " she says.

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The passage usually gets a laugh, but it takes a great banana to put it over well.

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She kneeled over me and spread her legs with a clinical cool, then began to laugh.

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He has grown more distinguished over the years, as the fair tinted his temples gray and added laugh lines to his face.

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Humor, though, trumps diplomacy in ads, according to an Ipsos survey, which found that by 56%, North Americans prefer ads that make them laugh over those that are straightforward.

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