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  1. Analysts Note Prolonged Standing Ovation for Trump at EPA Speech

    📰 Original title: 'Just keeps going!' Analysts astounded by 'uncomfortable' Trump ovation

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/analysts-note-

    #politics #trump #standingovation

  2. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  3. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  4. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  5. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  6. The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

    For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

  7. Patriots Fans Criticized For Their Behavior With Mike Vrabel Wednesday

    Mike Vrabel made his first public appearance with the New England Patriots since his scandal with Dianna Russini…
    #NFL #NewEnglandPatriots #NewEngland #Patriots #daveportnoy #DiannaRussini #Football #MikeVrabel #standingovation
    rawchili.com/nfl/878356/

  8. Patriots Fans Criticized For Their Behavior With Mike Vrabel Wednesday

    Mike Vrabel made his first public appearance with the New England Patriots since his scandal with Dianna Russini…
    #NFL #NewEnglandPatriots #NewEngland #Patriots #daveportnoy #DiannaRussini #Football #MikeVrabel #standingovation
    rawchili.com/nfl/878356/

  9. RE: mastodon.social/@racunbrigitta

    Celyne sempat kecetit, kepeleset dikit sih pas sesi sama Eka semalam. Luckily she could manage to secure 3SOs and be the first contestant to make Solehcore do #standingovation during duet session 🫡

  10. RE: mastodon.social/@racunbrigitta

    Celyne sempat kecetit, kepeleset dikit sih pas sesi sama Eka semalam. Luckily she could manage to secure 3SOs and be the first contestant to make Solehcore do #standingovation during duet session 🫡