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  • Thank you for making me laugh. is it that other people YOU'D want to follow are dropping out of LiveJournal?

    "I have burned my tomorrows, and I stand inside today..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • Monck made a sound that was too full of bitterness to be termed a laugh.

    The Lamp in the Desert 1910

  • "Stuff and nonsense," and she put her head back for an unpleasant cackle; it could hardly be called a laugh.

    Five Little Peppers Midway Margaret Sidney 1884

  • "Quite irresistible!" replied Alick, and Bessie retreated from the colloquy still not laughing at but with him; that is, if the odd, quaint, inward mirth which only visibly lengthened his sleepy eyes, could be called a laugh.

    Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Yesterday I visited my science teacher and he asked me if my mother still had the same "laugh."

    Then and Now 2008

  • Yesterday I visited my science teacher and he asked me if my mother still had the same "laugh."

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • So, if I type lol, my avatar laughs because it triggers the action "laugh."

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • So, if I type lol, my avatar laughs because it triggers the action "laugh."

    Second Life and Open Sim for Newbies (like Me!) - Day 1 2009

  • Karl Rove was perplexed, George Will called her a quitter, and fellow Republican Todd Harris came out swinging with this killer statement on Politico: "I think Sarah Palin is on the verge of becoming the Miami Vice of American Politics: something a lot of people once thought was cool and then 20 years later look back, shake their heads and just kind of laugh."

    Marlene H. Phillips: Message to Tina Fey: Be Like Will Rogers 2009

  • They make these humongous salaries and they just kind of laugh.

    'We Would Have Played for Nothing: 2008

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