1.   Anyone trying to pass these absurdities off as fiction would have been laughed out of Hollywood.

2.   I felt like a country bumpkin in his bib overalls laughed right out of a formal ball.

3.   Suddenly, two girls fall laughing out of the Ladies into the narrow corridor.

4.   And anyone who suggested that Ciba-Geigy throw money at another chemical company would have been laughed out of the board room.

5.   Animals with old-fashioned conformations and slight pigmentation variances were laughed out of the livestock market.

6.   Anyone who thinks the Web is a serious research tool for serious-minded researchers will be laughed out of the room after a look at these lists.

7.   Any person applying for a mortgage with that kind of credit record would be laughed out of the bank.

8.   A generation ago, this sort of tomfoolery would have been laughed out of any bar in which it was hatched.

9.   A year ago, the idea of buying a bond could have gotten a person laughed out of many a cocktail party.