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- noun Alternative spelling of
laughing stock .
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Examples
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Teachers in Texas remain convinced that the Lone Star State's hilariously-named Texas State Board of Education will fight back and call for even more interference by politicians in the teaching of Texas school children and thus re-establish Texas' firm lead as the laughing-stock of education.
Bill Allen: California Struggles to Out-Dumb Texas Bill Allen 2011
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Teachers in Texas remain convinced that the Lone Star State's hilariously-named Texas State Board of Education will fight back and call for even more interference by politicians in the teaching of Texas school children and thus re-establish Texas' firm lead as the laughing-stock of education.
Bill Allen: California Struggles to Out-Dumb Texas Bill Allen 2011
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We keep telling ourselves that we're the greatest country in the world, but we're actually the laughing-stock of every civilized nation on earth.
House Democrats agree on health-care position, chairman says 2009
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Teachers in Texas remain convinced that the Lone Star State's hilariously-named Texas State Board of Education will fight back and call for even more interference by politicians in the teaching of Texas school children and thus re-establish Texas' firm lead as the laughing-stock of education.
Bill Allen: California Struggles to Out-Dumb Texas Bill Allen 2011
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Go ahead, Louie, ask President Obama for his birth certificate and make a national and international laughing-stock of yourself.
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So, just in case no-one has noticed, the Anglican Church of Canada has ripped the Anglican Communion to shreds, promoted heresy and become the laughing-stock of rational Christians throughout the world for the sake of pandering to 0.6% of Canadian couples.
The Gay Anglican Church of Canada has arrived « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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By them his serious and intrinsically valuable work of six years had been made a laughing-stock and a notoriety.
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I could not afford to make myself a laughing-stock.
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I could not afford to make myself a laughing-stock.
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Turned copyright (and by extension ‘intellectual property’ itself) into a laughing-stock.
Us versus Them 2009
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