And a collective chuckle broke out and began to ripple, as one of the lovely older ladies said just loud enough to be overheard by all: "OLIVIA LOVES JESUS?
The bus driver shouted, "Will all the beautiful, smart people please move to the back and all the stupid, ugly people stay up front?" With a low collective chuckle (or was it a grumble?) the beautiful people moved back.
On an evening of strong emotions, John Klein, general attorney for Gyrodyne, elicited a collective chuckle when he asked what Ward Melville, who donated the original land to fulfill his vision of a small Ivy League-type institution for Long Island, would have to say about the current plan.
There's a moment towards the climax of Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited fourth film, when O-Ren Ishi (Lucy Liu), a kung fu-style assassin, faces off against her deadly rival, The Bride (Uma Thurman), and taunts her with the words: 'Just another little Western girl playing at being a samurai.' The line was greeted by a collective chuckle at a preview screening a few weeks ago.
Or we could all just enjoy a collective chuckle.
Had a company like HP or Lenovo released a watered-down computer like the new MacBook, there likely wouldn't have been an outcry, but rather a collective chuckle.
The friendly town hall audience seemed to agree with Rohrabacher's contention that humans were incapable of changing earth's climate, giving a collective chuckle.
When the gear guys at Public Assembly carried one bottle of white wine and half a dozen clear plastic cup onto the stage Tuesday night, audience members close enough to kiss the stage let out a collective chuckle.
Look at the comments under almost any recent story about North Korea's furious reaction to The Interview, the now pulled Hollywood comedy about a plot to assassinate the country's current leader, Kim Jong-un, and you'll see someone writing "I'm so ronery" to a chorus of collective web-based chuckles.
A collective sigh and audible chuckles followed as the marshal, Pamela Talkin, banged her gavel and the nine justices left the bench, all of them evidently planning to return when the court meets on Sept. 8 for arguments in the campaign finance case.
