Mr. Sock was always as pleased as punch with puns.

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We're happy that Comcast is now offering the TiVo interface in certain markets as a paid option, and we'll be pleased as punch when those long-promised new DirecTiVo units ship out, but the simple fact of the matter is TiVo can't continue to rely on the same strategies and ideas that haven't worked for the past ten years.

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That's why we're pleased as punch to hear that founding co-editor and all-around good guy R.

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But it is about an inch thick at its thinnest, a point the PC maker is pleased as punch about.

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Photography's purpose was to serve the state and to make sure every Soviet citizen looked pleased as punch to be living under communism.

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Nokia's head of internet services has gone so far to say that mobile TV's in "turmoil, " largely because folks are pleased as punch just downloading their vids over 3G instead of using a more traditional, more television-like setup like DVB-H to keep them entertained.

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Mr Osborne looked pleased as punch with having kept the appointment under wraps till parliament was informed at 3.30pm and - perhaps especially - with the enthusiastic support for the advent of Mr Carney given by Ed Balls, a shadow chancellor who rarely praises his oppo.

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