Sentence examples for funny request from inspiring English sources

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When my daughter was in the third grade, she asked me to come to Parents' Day geared up in motorcycle leathers, so the look was a tribute to her funny request.

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I've noticed that many of us, myself included, get a little funny about requesting support.

She was not the sort of aunt who would chase you around the flowerbeds, though she could draw funny faces on request.

But when the Guardian contacted Trump's office to ask for Trump's college and passport records, it was accused of "trying to be funny" and the request was deemed to be "stupid".

With 2009 widely regarded as his annus horribilis, the chef claims he could not help seeing the funny side when one request headed his way.

In a heated exchange Michael Cohen, executive vice-president at the Trump Organization and special counsel to Trump, accused the Guardian of "trying to be funny" and said the request for documentation was "stupid" given Trump's then lack of political aspirations.

The company said it has seen some funnier, more unusual requests coming in, like the above (also requested: "hooking up" music), or "music for getting pumped".

But then the Mick Hucknall I'm meeting in the quiet hotel suite reserved for our conversation is most unlike the man portrayed in hundreds of newspaper and magazine profiles: he's unfailingly honest, funny and polite (he requests alcohol hand wipes so I don't take his Asian flu germs home).

"And I want a wind machine...so my hair is blowing just like #Beyoncᅢᄅ." Even Joan Rivers's funeral requests are funny http://t.co/dfZISJsXZt.

"It's funny because people keep on requesting them," he said.

It's funny, how a simple Facebook friend request can conjure such a memory.

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