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• What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
• Funny is now occasionally ambiguous, as a slang expression fashionable a decade ago shows: “Do you mean funny ‘ha-ha’ or funny ‘peculiar’?”
• They might be men: they certainly were funny (funny-peculiar not funny-ha ha).
• Freud loves mistakes because they open up so much scope for humor, and he watches how what first strikes us as “funny ha ha” shades into “funny peculiar.”
• In the morning, she couldn’t remember much, only that the dream left her feeling kind of funny inside. Not funny ha-ha, but funny weird-like.
• First of all, they have funny syntax (not funny ha-ha, funny strange).
• But it wasn’t a funny ha-ha smile. It was the kind of smile you have when you find a friend.
• Mostly he makes jokes about Mum’s cooking. Not the funny ha-ha jokes, more the sneery, condescending snipes that leave an uncomfortable silence, while you decide whose side you should be on.
• She laughs, not a funny ha-ha laugh but rather a tiny self-inflicted chuckle of disgust.
• I laugh when talking about this; it is not the funny ha-ha kind of laugh, but the uncomfortable kind.