1.   Before the series began, coach Butch Carter was prompting laughter in both locker rooms by filing a defamation lawsuit against Knicks forward Marcus Camby.

2.   Bush said, prompting laughter.

3.   Powell prompted laughter by congratulating Bush on his victory, but he said he had yet to be offered a job.

4.   Spoken without any special effort to sound English, the lines can startle, move and shock us and prompt laughter.

5.   The quip, an evergreen among the two families, prompted easy laughter on the terraced back patio of the Mackell home on Thursday evening.

6.   However, his remarks prompted loud laughter from CSKA stars Sergei Panov and Sergei Bazarevich.