According to the Financial Times, he laughingly declined.

Another FBI agent was laughingly told by a civilian contractor, Y ou have to see this.

And what's more, human society, when it's controlled, when you set out a grand scheme of rules, a new way of people interacting, or a new way of laying out a city, or whatever, that stuff historically has never scaled much beyond, you know I always laughingly say the Mall of America, you know, which is like, the largest piece of centrally designed architecture that, you know, has been built.