It starts as a chuckle, Then turns to a shout: 'Oh-ho-ho ho-ho … I'm STUCK!
Ask me again in 10 years' time, and I'll be able to tell you what it's about!" (To get the full MacGowan effect, you need to know that he punctuates every bon mot with a bandwidth of glottal static masquerading as a chuckle).
As Kim Cart, a 29-year-old store clerk in Vinton, La., put it, with a chuckle, "As long as he's not into Satanic rituals, I really don't care about a politician's religious beliefs".
" 'Let them have it,' " he recounted Kristol as saying, with a chuckle.
As she puts it, with a chuckle: "It's as if you sign away your life to the devil.
It takes in blots of misogyny ("there are no girls on the internet") and of heartlessness (a suicide raises a chuckle) as well as the beginnings of revolt in Tahrir Square.
"They never come back," Mr. Bjerke said with a chuckle as he cracked his first beer of the day.
Popovich brought in three players he described with a chuckle as thugs and stationed them for 45 minutes with Parker on the low block.
"Only the liquor store is open year-round," Ms. Doyen said with a chuckle as she gave an impromptu tour in her pickup truck.
"Vogue had a very good war," Nicholas Coleridge CBE, president of Condé Nast International, says with a chuckle as he reflects on the fashion bible's 100-year history.
(Later, he shows me the type of machine that did it with a chuckle, as if pointing out a mischievous child).
