There is an anecdote that Shaka joked with one of his friends, Magaye, that he could not kill Magaye because he would be laughed at.

As one Indiana resident relates, " All southern Hoosiers laughed at the movie Hoosiers because the movie depicts blacks playing basketball and sitting in the stands at games in Jasper.

In Worlds ' End, we see that the Old Necropolis was destroyed because the inhabitants laughed at the other Endless for wanting the first Despair's cerements.

His real name was Pelasgus, the name / Gelanōr / is a literary devise meaning ' laughter ': he was so called because he had initially laughed at the claim to kingship over Argōs by Danaos.

I was a bum .” Burke recalled: " People laughed at me because I still had my gold tuxedo pants on, and my patent leather shoes, and my beautiful ruffled shirt.

In episode 39, " The One Where Ross and Rachel ... You Know ", Chandler, when asked if a girl has ever laughed when he kissed her, says yes, but mentions that it was because " it was 1982, and my Flock of Seagulls haircut was tickling her chin.

His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the " giggling guru ".

Sue Vertue says that the live audience reinvigorated the company because no-one had laughed at the material for a few days as everyone knew it so well.

The Princess of Wales was just going to shake hands with me, when she looked at my face, and couldn't do it for some time, because she laughed so much.

He further states that love is " always laughed at, because we cannot enter into it " ourselves.

They laughed at him, because he was one and they were many and tried to reason with him, pointing out the hopelessness of his position.

They had in fact been executed, and as Wolff later described, he was only spared death himself because the Emir laughed uncontrollably at Wolff's appearance in full canonical garb.

Han Xin knew that he was at a disadvantage because his opponent was much stronger and bigger than him, hence instead of responding to the taunts, he meekly crawled through between the hooligan's legs and was laughed at.

* Marcus Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Agelastus, grandfather of the triumvir, he was said to have obtained his surname because he never laughed.

: Little Audrey's mother asks her to buy some groceries at the Safeway, and she laughed and laughed because she knew there was no safe way.

' He describes how he tried to open the door, but was unable to ; when the partner whom he was with laughed at him, Joe lost control because she found it funny.

The baby, named Happy, was humiliated and laughed at constantly by everyone he met because of his large ears and thus ran away.

" The cynics laughed because Maha Sabha did not even have a plan for a school but Bhadase was as good as his word.

In 2005, The New York Times quoted White as having " laughed " when United States district court judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother were murdered because Lefkow had ruled against white supremacist Matthew Hale in a trademark dispute.

Author Manthia Diwara notes in their book that when observing different populations reaction to the film, the wealthier populations that saw the film felt badly for the characters and cried while the poorer populations of Mali laughed because they felt that it was true and that everyone should have to experience it

However, not knowing that " getting pubes " means you have to grow them yourself, he only has pubic hair because he bought a handful of it from ninth-grader Scott Tenorman for $ 10. 00 After the boys inform Cartman that he has been tricked, lied to, and laughed at, he desperately tries various methods to get his money back.

However, he refuses to turn back because he knows he would be scorned and laughed at by the waiter if he did.

In part, he stated his opinion that " UFOs are entirely real and we do not know what they are, because we have laughed them out of court.

Later, when Sarah overheard three messengers of the Lord renew the promise, she laughed inwardly for the same reason.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

While at the tent entrance, Sarah overheard what was said and she laughed to herself about the prospect of having a child at their ages.

The visitor inquired to Abraham why Sarah laughed at bearing a child for her age as nothing is too hard for God.

The Qur ' an mentions that Sarah laughed when the angels gave her the glad tidings of Isaac, which is perhaps why the name Isaac has the root meaning of ' laughter '.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

Whenever he laughed it was all he was doing.

She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.

He was laughed off the screen.

His face was ruddy and heavy and unlined, and when he laughed he showed his teeth, which were big and white and strong and unquestionably home-grown.

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

" I was determined to go ahead ", he later wrote, " for Hitler must be laughed at.

When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers were afraid she would cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job.

In another GameDaily article, they state that the goal of the game was not just to shoot all of the ducks, but to avoid being laughed at by the dog.

While he was attending McGill, a girlfriend laughed at his ineptness at the game of bridge, motivating him to immerse himself in a study of existing bridge materials.

No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful.

And I laughed ; it was hysterically funny.

When announced, many present openly laughed that such an insignificant settlement was now the capital city of Michigan.

" The Emperor laughed, and said that Christ rising from the dead was as likely as the egg in her hand turning red while she held it.

The technical manager ( Melvyn James ) called for the curtain to close and requested a doctor, whilst the audience ( unaware of what was happening ) laughed, believing the events to be part of the show.

Scholars have occasionally interpreted Lord Coke's ruling in Dr. Bonham's Case as implying the possibility of judicial review, but by the 1870s, Lord Campbell was dismissing judicial review as " a foolish doctrine alleged to have been laid down extra-judicially in Dr. Bonham's Case ..., a conundrum ought to have been laughed at.