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She said in the nicest way possible, "I don't know how to tell you this but Mary Ellen is an Astrophysicist!" I immediately looked at Mary Ellen, and lost all decorum loudly exclaiming, "Holy s**t, really?!" -- which prompted a chuckle from both of them.
To pull that off is almost transcendently nerdy, in a way that may also be lost on you, dear reader, but for people who live and breathe computer science, it may well prompt a good chuckle.
The evidence says not; it's one change of heart that should prompt a cheer rather than a chuckle.
Whatever Mr. Bharara's intention at the roast, his comment didn't prompt any chuckles inside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House, where Judge Buchwald has her chambers.
It prompted a couple of chuckles from the audience.
Which prompts a question.
The head coach, all suited and booted amid the red polyester training gear of his young Bahrain squad, watched as King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa entered the room, took his seat and delivered a few words of greeting to prompt polite chuckles of appreciation from the throng.
And here's the thing; the situation above, as it was unfolding, did also prompt chuckles from both women and men present, but once they subsided, mostly it just made people feel uncomfortable.
At a press conference yesterday, he greeted this reporter – who had introduced himself as "from The Independent in London" – with a chirpy "top of the morning to you" (your correspondent is not Irish), prompting chuckles in a hotel meeting room.
Corporate branders have morphed the 161-year-old non-profit news cooperative into "AP 2.0," a name that prompts more chuckles than Paris Hilton.
