I laughed at these adverts and showed my mates, and then I felt really sad because I thought about people in the future (okay, the present) laughing at my friends for buying 0% proof hogswart.
Television showed virtually every man -- and the one woman -- present laughing when Mr. Hussein laughed, and leaning forward attentively, pens poised above notepads, when he turned serious.
As Jim and I, in the present, laughed ourselves silly at the indelible memory all over again, he assured me that Milt, having survived the incident and the rest of our punching-bag treatment, has gone on to a life of success and contentment as lord of considerable agricultural acreage.
He made a few remarks about Portland/Weymouth rivalry and our Weymouth friends present laughed as much as the rest of us".
Bush added that when Trump made the comments, he and the other men present laughed along, as if they were "listening to a crass standup act".
This would suggest a straightforward interpretation, whereby the present laughs at the future, or, at any rate, at its own fear of what is to come.
In all of these cases, according to the women, other young men were present, often laughing.
In her followup to A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere, a visual treatment shown at the 2015 New Museum Triennial, the artist Martine Syms presents Laughing Gas at the Hammer Museum's "Made In L.A". 2016: a, the, though, only.
Rembrandt portrayed himself in a beggar's cloak with his toes protruding from broken shoes, then in a dignified cape and velvet hat; he presented himself laughing, raging, dejected.
In the present, they laugh at him.
When I told him about my present, he laughed.
