What many people remembered was the report that Dallas schoolchildren had laughed upon hearing the news.
Mr. La Fosse laughed upon learning of Mr. Wegman's vocation: "That's maybe a first for me — a theater producer who's also clergy".
For example, the passage in Genesis that describes how the aged Sarah laughed upon hearing God say that she would bear a son is traditionally interpreted as a laugh of incredulity.
No doubt they are hardened by the daily misery, but it is hard to imagine how any human could laugh upon seeing that a traumatised child had sewn her lips together, as some officers allegedly did.
"Loyalty is laughed upon in football but the club [Newport] gave me an opportunity.
There is special attention paid to a stock character called "the sissy" whose job was to make us laugh upon appearance.
We're our toughest critics: If a joke wasn't making us laugh, or didn't cause us to laugh upon initial conception, we'd scrap it, or try and retool it if it seemed worth salvaging".
