Sentence examples for die of laughter from inspiring English sources
I don't want to die of laughter.
The edition of Charlie Hebdo that apparently inspired the fire-bombing showed a cartoon of Muhammad and the words: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter".
Last fall, the paper printed an issue "guest-edited by Muhammad" — "Charia Hebdo" — the cover of which promised "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Charb found his offices firebombed and his Web site hacked in response.
On the front page a cartoon prophet Muhammad says: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" It is not the first time the weekly has published cartoons of Muhammad, depictions of whom are forbidden in Islam.
At the risk of being firebombed, I thought the line about "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter" amusing, although I don't think the staff at Charlie Hebdo are smiling right now.
"We throw them out of the window and give them to men that we pass in the streets; for myself I am ready to die of laughter when it is done and Percy looks so grave," she wrote in a letter.
"100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter," Muhammad was depicted saying on the cover.
If someone writes "MDR" in French (for "mort de rire," or "dying of laughter"), an English-speaking player sees it as "LOL".
Scott initially wrote, half in Afrikaans and half in English, on Facebook: "I am dying of laughter, this is a bit out of proportion, well, u know what they say... there's no such thing as bad publicity!
When the magazine published a cover with a bearded and turbaned cartoon figure of the prophet saying "100 lashes if you're not dying of laughter" in 2011, their offices were firebombed.
