Laughing may be a social skill too far for an economist.
When McIlroy glanced at the scoreboard during the round and saw Harrington's name atop it, it occurred to him that the laughs may be few and far between for Olazábal this week.
The laughs may be easy, but they're also very, very funny -- because Levandoski knows human nature never changes, no matter how modernized the externals, and because he knows the updated externals provide abundant joke fodder at a time when many an American hamlet is frantically trying to revitalize a town square made obsolete by that mall out near the Interstate.
Goodman is a cheerful, unstuffy ex-Treasury official (born in Nottinghamshire, raised next door in Derbyshire, since you ask) with a ready laugh who may be able to take the joke at her expense and be forgiven.
The last laugh, however, may be on the journalists who play Whack-a-Flack.
Those laugh lines may be able to tell great tales of sunny days on the beach and fun adventures with friends, but to a younger person, they are like rings on a tree.
Not only will people laugh, you may be asked by teachers to take it off.
And while marijuana is championed by its supporters for a variety of therapeutic and recreational effects, the relaxation and stereotypical laughing fits may be overshadowed by fear if you're too high.
Though tightly wound and understandably bitter (her husband has, we are told repeatedly, left her for a 20-year-old), Valerie is also a competent professional, a therapist, in fact, which creator Zander Lehmann mercifully does not play for cheap laughs: Valerie may be a personal mess, but she appears to be a pretty good therapist.
