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I dare you to make a point of laughing at yourself at least once a day and through at the day. The stress release you will feel is inspiring! It’s important not to take yourself too serious! If we do, we will end up as one wrinkled prune! I dare you, laugh at yourself… it will be fun…I promise!
My most recent laugh at myself moment. I was singing at the top of my lungs to my curling iron, when my daughter walked into the room and instead of stopping immediately I began cracking up and kept singing and she joined in with me. Priceless! In the past I would have stopped and acted like she didn’t catch me! So fun to be spontaneous!
Have you laughed at yourself lately? If yes, please share why. Thanks for visiting!
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I have noticed that many of my acquaintances misuse the phrases a dry sense of humor and a quiet sense of humor. Some people can tell a joke with a straight face, but, as a rule, they do it intentionally; their performance is studied and has little to do with “dryness.” A quiet sense of humor is an even murkier concept. What is it: an ability to chuckle to oneself? Smiling complacently when everybody else is roaring with laughter? Being funny but inoffensive? Sometimes readers detect humor where it probably does not exist.
For example, in the Scandinavian myth of the final catastrophe, the great medieval scholar Snorri Sturluson noted that the lower jaw of the wolf, the creature destined to swallow the whole world, touched the ground, while the upper jaw reached to the sky. If the wolf, he added, could open its mouth wider, it would have done so. For at least two hundred years scholars have been admiring Snorri’s dry sense of humor, though there is no certainly that Snorri had any sense of humor at all. What we read in his text is an accurate statement of fact, a description of a monster with a mouth open to its full extent.
Fenrisulfr tied up, a river flows from his mouth. From the 17th century Icelandic manuscript AM 738 4to, now in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
In Europe, if we disregard the situation known form Ancient Greece and Rome, the modern sense of humor, which, first and foremost, presupposes laughter at verbal rather than at practical jokes, hardly existed before the Renaissance. (Practical jokes seldom thrill us.) The likes of Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde would not have had an appreciative audience in the Middle Ages. A look at the words pertaining to laughter may not be out of place here. The verb laugh has nothing to do with amusement. Its most ancient form sounded as khlakhkhyan (kh, which, as the above transcription shows, was long, stands for ch in Scots loch and in the family name MacLauchlan). If this word had currency before the formation of the system of Germanic consonants, its root was klak, which belongs with cluck, clack, click, clock, and other similar sound-imitative formations. The most primitive word for “laugh” seems to have designated a “guttural gesture,” akin to coughing or clearing one’s throat. Chuckle, a frequentative form of chuck, is a cousin of cackle. Giggle, another onomatopoeic verb, is a next-door neighbor of chuckle. The origin of Latin ridere (“to laugh”: compare ridiculous, deride, and risible) is unknown.
Nowadays, few words turn up in our speech more often than fun. Fun is the greatest attraction of everything. On campus, after the most timid souls get out of the math anxiety course, they are assured that math will be fun. A popular instructor is called a fun professor; students wish one another a fun class. Fun is the backbone of our education, and yet the word fun surfaced in texts only in the seventeenth century, and, like many nouns and verbs belonging to this semantic sphere, was probably a borrowing by the Standard from slang. Its etymology is disputable; perhaps fun is related to fond, and fond meant “stupid.” Joke, contemporaneous with fun, despite its source in Latin, also arose as slang.
We seldom think of the inner form of the word witty. Yet it is an obvious derivative of wit. One could expect witty to mean “wise, sagacious,” the opposite of witless (compare also unwitting), and before Shakespeare it did mean “clever, ingenious.” In German, the situation is similar. Geistreich (Geist + reich) suggests “rich in spirit (mind)” but corresponds to Engl. “witty.” Likewise, jest had little to do with amusement. Latin gesta (plural) meant “doings, deeds” and is familiar from the titles of innumerable Latin books (for example, Gesta danorum “The Deeds of the Danes”). Apparently, in the absence of the concept we associate with wit speakers had to endow the existing material with a meaning that suddenly gained in importance or surfaced for the first time. “The street,” where slang flourished, reveled in low entertainment and supplied names for it. Sometimes the learned also felt a need for what we call fun but were “lost for words” and used Latin nouns in contexts alien to them.
Jest is by far not the only example of this process. Hoax, which originally meant “to poke fun at,” is an eighteenth-century verb (at first only a verb) derived from Latin hocus, as in hocus-pocus. By an incredible coincidence, Old English had hux “mockery,” a metathesized variant of husc, a word with a solid etymology, but in the remote past it may have meant “noise.” When the history of the verbs for “laugh” comes to light, it often yields the sense “noise.” Such is Swedish skratta (with near identical cognates in Norwegian and Danish). People, as rituals and books inform us, laughed on various occasions: to promote fertility (a subject I cannot discuss here), to express their triumph over a vanquished enemy, or to show that they were happy. Noise sometimes constituted part of their reaction. None of that had anything to do with our sense of humor.
German Scherz “joke” first denoted “a merry jump.” Its synonym Spaß reached German from Italian (spasso; in the seventeenth century, like so many words being discussed here), but German did not remain a debtor. It “lent” Scherz to Italian, which returned it to the European languages as Scherzo, a musical term. The origin of Dutch grap “joke” is uncertain (so probably slang). Almost the entire English vocabulary of laughter and mockery is late: either the words were coined about four hundred year ago, or new meanings of old words arose. It is as though a revolution in attitudes toward laughter (or at least one aspect of it) occurred during and soon after the Renaissance. People felt a need for new terms expressing what we take for eternal impulses and began to promote slang and borrow right and left.
Below I will list a few verbs with their dates and some indication of their origin. The roman numbers refer to the centuries.
Jeer (XVI; “fleer and leer have affinities for form and meaning”; so The OxfordDictionary of English Etymology),
fleer (XV, possibly from Scandinavian),
sneer (XVI; perhaps from Low German or Dutch),
flout (XVI, possibly from Dutch),
taunt (XVI, from French),
banter (XVII, of unknown origin).
Only scoff and scorn are considerably older, though both also came from abroad. To be sure, the picture presented above is too simple; it does not take into account the history of people. New words were borrowed, while old ones fell into desuetude. The formula “of unknown origin” does not mean that no suggestions about their etymology exist. They do, but none is fully convincing.
Our ancestors laughed as much as we do, but we have added a new dimension to this process: we can laugh at a witty saying (when they spoke their native languages, this was, apparently, a closed art to them). Strangely, the educated “barbarians” enjoyed Roman comedies, but laughing at Latin witticisms taught them nothing and did not become a transferable skill. The Europeans who descended from those “barbarians” needed a long time to catch up with their teachers. A study of laughter is not only a window to the development of European mentality. It also sheds light on popular culture. We observe how the slang of the past gained respectability and became part of the neutral style. Here etymologists can make themselves useful to everyone who is interested in how we have become what we are. Enjoy yourselves, friends, but don’t be always the last to laugh.
When did they make the last truly funny show? Has there been anything funny created in two decades or are they simply repeating the same thirty minute plotlines with different characters? The real question is, are they still using the same crazy laugh track from I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith show? We are […]
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Green Acres Mark, but my favorite was Andy Griffith. I still like them. Have a great week.
Wendy said, on 5/27/2014 4:53:00 AM
WKRP in Cincinnati. The turkey episode, and how Les Nesman would say Chi Chi Rodriguez, and taped off the area around his desk and made people knock. A pre-view of Sheldon from Big Bang?
Mark Myers said, on 5/27/2014 5:04:00 AM
Green Acres is a good one. I love Arnold
Mark Myers said, on 5/27/2014 5:05:00 AM
Haha! That episode is hysterical. Yes, Les was a good role model for Sheldon, without the genius IQ.
Michael said, on 5/27/2014 7:44:00 AM
You’re right about this. In the last couple of years I’ve been making an effort to watch every episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” on Hulu. He is a true talent. “Frasier” and Raymond were funny, too. I must add George Jefferson.
Smarter than the average bear, waiting for fur seals to emerge from under the ice takes too long so a new approach is called for. This enterprising polar bear seems to have discovered a new source of nom-noms if he can just figure out how to get to them!
The bird that never stops drinking. When I was a pre-teen I had a clear plastic bird that drank from a cup of water. You wet its beak and position it in front of a cup of water, and it did the rest. Science-theme toy shops had these. The colored water (which contains ether) would rise up the clear neck of the bird and cause it to tip forward and come into contact with the cup, as if drinking. The wetting of the beak caused the fluid to rise, tip over and the bird returned to the upright formal position to repeat itself endlessly. Because of the ether used inside of the glass bird (ether is flammable) these are not considered toys but are science tools. It is like a relative humidity indicator.
These monkeys are taking a nap or maybe a break from each other. This image looks rather sad but I’m sure it’s just our human platitude telling us wrongly.
R2-Kitty Sez to Luke “Replay Message? What Message?”
“Help us Obi-Wan! You’re our last hope!” This cat looks a little like R2-D2 android from Star Wars. This would make a kewl Halloween costume even if it isn’t very comfortable to wear.
This reminds me of lyrics from the Joe Jackson song “Is she really going out with him?” The lyrics continue with “…for if my eyes don’t deceive me there’s something going wrong around here!” The Joe Jackson song came out in Sept. 1978 and was the feature track on the album called “Look sharp!” which debuted the following year.
Swedish pop star duo “Roxette” breakthrough album also named “Look Sharp!” which came out in June of 1988 but that was a coincidence of naming the albums.
I have friends that dress-up their pets for Halloween. The most-oft seen costume for dogs is of course, a hot dog. Another favorite is a body suit with large dinosaur scales and plates along its spine and spiky tail. –It’s …Dogzilla! Run, – Dogzilla!
Washing one’s hair does this, it gets all poofy. Blow-drying just makes it worse. Rabbits can make a good pet but there are misconceptions about rabbits as pets. One is that they are low maintenance. This is not true; they require a certain amount of commitment and expense.
Did you know that rabbits can be litter-trained just like cats? They are in fact, better at being litter-trained than ferrets which I know first-hand, is a chore. Ferrets occasionally ‘forget’ to use the litter box.
Some larger cities in Canada like Edmonton, Alberta in an effort to prevent pet homelessness have mandated that cats must wear collars with a City-issued license tag or be permanently marked with a tattoo or microchip. Licensing is cheap, but having an unlicensed dog or cat can be a $250.00 fine so, get used to that collar, kitteh!
This reminds me of a visit to my brother-in-law’s homestead in Missouri. I was on vacation and during the day while they were at work, I did yard work for them. Cutting firewood, burning leaves tree stumps, mulching their garden, etc. I was a filthy mess at the end of the day when they came home. I needed a shower and clean clothes, seriously.
My brother-in-law came down to the end of the yard where I was working and said ‘Hey, d’you want to go for a ride? We’ll go get some fast food.’ I had thought ‘Great! -McDonald’s Drive-thru and come home with it so yeah, I’ll go.’
I rinsed my hands and splashed my face with the garden hose and we all got in their car and, surprise! We drove for nearly two hours to Springfield, MO. to a very large Bass Pro store. I looked like a logger at the end of a workday… covered in dried mud, sweat, ashes and dirt on my shirt, holes in the knees of my pants, -it was embarrassing. Had I known I could have quick-showered and changed into something a little more acceptable for the public setting. But I should have known better because “Hey, you wanna go for a ride?” is a trick question with them and it is the same one they used on the family dog to get him into the car to go to the vet to be neutered!
“Stomp!” You are woke up from the best sleep you’ve had this month by your alarm clock. You begin to sit up straight and take a long, heart-filled yawn as you prepare to begin what seems like will be the best day ever. As you wipe the sleep out of your eyes, you rise to your feet and you feel something weird… Below your right foot are the remains of your mobile phone.
“Crunch!” That’s the last bag for the trip! Preparing for your vacation is going pretty smooth as you close the trunk of your vehicle. You get in the driver seat and fasten your safety belt, and just as you begin to back out of the driveway, you feel a slight bump under your wheel… Upon getting back out to investigate the situation, you discover your cell phone in more than four pieces.
“Strike Three!” Your lover is making you angrier and angrier as the conversation goes on. Whether its the nagging or the screaming, you feel your face turn red, and your blood pressure rises as your heart begins to race. You don’t want to take it anymore, so you hang up on the person on the other line… Then without thinking, the next thing you know you’ve become an all-star baseball pitcher and the phone is your baseball crashing against a rather large baseball bat that would be known otherwise as the wall.
“Splash” Its time for you to face the facts… You just might be falling in love with your new boyfriend or girlfriend. You love hearing their voice, and it is the newest highlight of your day just to come home and finally get to talk to him/her. But this afternoon as the two of you were talking, your stomach rumbles and you have to go to the bathroom to do lose a few pounds or so. After noticing your leg is going numb, you realize that you have been on the toilet for over twenty minutes! You suppose its time to get up, and you tell your love “hold on for one second please!” as you rise to wipe yourself and just as you reach for the roll of tissue, your leg tingles and the numbness tickles your feet with the pressure of standing up as your nerves begin to awaken, and splash! You’ve dropped your phone into the toilet! Nasty…
Wonderful! Superb animation, brilliantly spoof old style British narration. If you’ve got the full 6 minutes to spare this is great for a really good giggle. It’s from the minds of Aardman Animation of Wallace and Gromit and many others fame. You know it’s going to be quality animation and you know it’s going to have a corking script.
Awesome Water Slide and Jump
I don’t care if this is faked or not, it’s still great to watch, and I’ll bet my aunties prize begonias that you’ll hit that play button again for another look. If this is genuine, then that’s one brave, brave man there. I’d have liked to have seen the preparation work for this, I bet there’s some good out takes there somewhere. Come on guys, let’s see how you worked it out. Crash test dummies?
Sheep LED art
I found this one just really, really fascinating, as well as being quite funny. Hope you enjoy it too. Having become an honorary Welshman after marrying my lovely, lovely wife, I enjoyed passing this round to my English brethren. This must have taken an absolute age to get right, and all for a couple of minutes of fame on YouTube. There’s nowt so queer as folk…….
Happy New Year
A cracking take on the three little pigs story, with a superb twist. I love it. My kids love it too. Great little catchy tune and a real sense of urgency from the pigs. I’m not sure where it originated from, but it certainly bears some resemblance to The Dark Side, and it definitely has that kind of humour running through its theme. Enjoy.
Moving Dragon Illusion
These are great. There are a few more like this dotted around YouTube, if you search under optical illusions you’ll find them. The ones with people’s faces can be quite odd, but so very realistic. They are amazing. I don’t know who thought of it or came across it first, but they are brilliant.
Wonderful! Superb animation, brilliantly spoof old style British narration. If you’ve got the full 6 minutes to spare this is great for a really good giggle. It’s from the minds of Aardman Animation of Wallace and Gromit and many others fame. You know it’s going to be quality animation and you know it’s going to have a corking script.
Awesome Water Slide and Jump
I don’t care if this is faked or not, it’s still great to watch, and I’ll bet my aunties prize begonias that you’ll hit that play button again for another look. If this is genuine, then that’s one brave, brave man there. I’d have liked to have seen the preparation work for this, I bet there’s some good out takes there somewhere. Come on guys, let’s see how you worked it out. Crash test dummies?
Sheep LED art
I found this one just really, really fascinating, as well as being quite funny. Hope you enjoy it too. Having become an honorary Welshman after marrying my lovely, lovely wife, I enjoyed passing this round to my English brethren. This must have taken an absolute age to get right, and all for a couple of minutes of fame on YouTube. There’s nowt so queer as folk…….
Happy New Year
A cracking take on the three little pigs story, with a superb twist. I love it. My kids love it too. Great little catchy tune and a real sense of urgency from the pigs. I’m not sure where it originated from, but it certainly bears some resemblance to The Dark Side, and it definitely has that kind of humour running through its theme. Enjoy.
Moving Dragon Illusion
These are great. There are a few more like this dotted around YouTube, if you search under optical illusions you’ll find them. The ones with people’s faces can be quite odd, but so very realistic. They are amazing. I don’t know who thought of it or came across it first, but they are brilliant.
Either way, the intrepid trespasser can expect to be served his own ‘nads on toast. I do have to wonder though what this place is storing that requires bloodthirsty command dogs and radiation hazard on the premises. Ask not ‘who let the dogs out.’ But ask ‘do they bite?’ My guess would be YES!
Water pollution is a threat, and most communities require that you pick-up your dog’s fecal droppings. Dog waste (poo, poop, feces, etc.) that is unscooped gets swept into storm drains with the rain and ends up in the rivers and lakes where it contributes greatly to high levels of coliform bacteria. This bacterial pollution chokes and kills aquatic plant life, which further poisons the water. It becomes more stagnate and unclean. Fish die. The water is unfit for swimming and recreation. Clean up after your dog. No emptying of your dog allowed.
But still, -the wording of this warning sign is rather unwieldy.
I bet that there must have been marital discord in this household. I would clearly have to side with the wife on this one though. The boat is blocking the driveway and the yard. I am pretty sure she made someone an eye-waterin’ deal on it to get that boat and wagon out of there.
When I got married, I had my own stuff. And so did my wife. It was two households coming together and yet I have to paraphrase a favorite comedian from television and say of this that most of my stuff didn’t survive the merger! That’s okay though. Most of my stuff was crap anyway. Just ask my wife, she’d validate this! (Just kidding, honey!)
My son had a musical keyboard that had what without a doubt would qualify for inclusion on Engrish.com. I really should submit this image to them and their site. Engrish.com is a web site whose motto is “Engrish for Suddenly Laugh.” The site is not meant to embarrass, harass or persist any stereotype of any particular race, society or people. It highlights poorly-translated product descriptions and products and is for entertainment purposes only. You have to love those Japanese and Chinese for they give us so many humorously-translated products! You should check out Engrish.com for that happiness feeling!
This is awesome funny! I wonder how often certain letter combinations come up that actually spell something, either real words, vulgar or maybe even leet? This might make for an interesting study. What is “leetspeak?”
Well for example, “4n¥0n3 (4r3 70 74|{3 4 7r¥ 47 £337$p34|{?” is “Anyone care to take a try at leetspeak?” Study the leet closely, you will start to see the words obfuscated in other ASCII-characters. It takes patience and practice.
“CAPTCHA” on the other hand you may be more familiar with. It is the contrived acronym (read about acronyms) for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” It is a process that is intended to protect websites from spambots that might attempt to access restricted zones within the site.
This CAPTCHA image above suggests some bad potty-mouth expression and is rather funny.
The makers of CAPTCHA now recommend “reCAPTCHA” as the official implementation. This involves two (or more) scrambled words, thus is of a higher security assurance that a human has read/rendered the code correctly and not an optical reader which could as of yet, not complete this task.
“Schrödinger’s cat” is a thought experiment. A paradox. In quantum mechanics this thought experiment describes a cat in a sealed box with a vial of deadly poison and a Geiger counter. The experiment describes a condition of a random event which occurs in which causes the vial of poison to shatter and this kills the cat, or not. It depends upon the earlier random event. A state can exist whereby the cat is both dead and alive simultaneously within the sealed box, yet if we open the box, the conditions are of either dead OR alive.’ This type of paradox is also referred to as ‘entanglement’ in quantum physics, but I think Mr. Schrödinger got into those stoned wheat crackers mentioned earlier.
You know, I have not seen “Brokeback Mountain.” For as much as I enjoyed Heath Ledger’s final performance as ‘ Joker’ in Batman: The Dark Knight, I really do feel that I should check out this movie too.
There are people in this world who do things which are extremely dangerous. Things that aren’t necessary, that put others at risk, that waste valuable manpower and time then when they have to be rescued the rest of us have to pay for their actions with our hard earned tax dollars. And afterwards they just simply walk away, sometimes without even saying a simple “thank you.”
I don’t know about you but that really ticks me off.
Why do I, who is sitting at home, doing what I’m supposed to be doing, have to have my tax dollars wasted on some fool-hardy adventure that “Mr. Nature” took that got him lost out in nowhere or trapped on some mountaintop.
I know, he had to climb it because it was there.
It’s just not right. It ain’t kosher.
Then when these adventurists have exhausted all the tax funds with these excursions into absurdity, the city, county or whoever it may be, threatens to either raise my taxes or curtail valuable services like trash collection or police/fire protection.
If you cut back on police or fire protection, who’s going to go out and get these folks when they’re dangling from a cliff? Not me.
No, if you get yourself in a predicament out in the wild, you should be the one who has to pay the city, county, sheriff’s department or whoever has to come get you.
If I drive my car off the road into a ditch trying to avoid a deer, I have to pay someone to get it out and I wasn’t doing anything risky, unnecessary or adventurous ( I love that word).
These thrill-seeking souls should have their Visa or Mastercard ready to pay the bill. And if they can’t pay leave them out there or take them to jail and let them sit there until they can pay. Treat them like they treat deadbeat dads and moms.
Lock ‘em up.
I bet they’ll think twice before they go on another nature walk.
I like having fun as much as the next guy but there should be limits.
If you want a thrill, go to an amusement park like the rest of us.
It’s a lot cheaper and if you get stranded on something there, when they come and get you they give you free stuff!
for more humorous schlep go somewhere else because I don’t have anymore
There are people in this world who do things which are extremely dangerous. Things that aren’t necessary, that put others at risk, that waste valuable manpower and time then when they have to be rescued the rest of us have to pay for their actions with our hard earned tax dollars. And afterwards they just simply walk away, sometimes without even saying a simple “thank you.”
I don’t know about you but that really ticks me off.
Why do I, who is sitting at home, doing what I’m supposed to be doing, have to have my tax dollars wasted on some fool-hardy adventure that “Mr. Nature” took that got him lost out in nowhere or trapped on some mountaintop.
I know, he had to climb it because it was there.
It’s just not right. It ain’t kosher.
Then when these adventurists have exhausted all the tax funds with these excursions into absurdity, the city, county or whoever it may be, threatens to either raise my taxes or curtail valuable services like trash collection or police/fire protection.
If you cut back on police or fire protection, who’s going to go out and get these folks when they’re dangling from a cliff? Not me.
No, if you get yourself in a predicament out in the wild, you should be the one who has to pay the city, county, sheriff’s department or whoever has to come get you.
If I drive my car off the road into a ditch trying to avoid a deer, I have to pay someone to get it out and I wasn’t doing anything risky, unnecessary or adventurous ( I love that word).
These thrill-seeking souls should have their Visa or Mastercard ready to pay the bill. And if they can’t pay leave them out there or take them to jail and let them sit there until they can pay. Treat them like they treat deadbeat dads and moms.
Lock ‘em up.
I bet they’ll think twice before they go on another nature walk.
I like having fun as much as the next guy but there should be limits.
If you want a thrill, go to an amusement park like the rest of us.
It’s a lot cheaper and if you get stranded on something there, when they come and get you they give you free stuff!
for more humorous schlep go somewhere else because I don’t have anymore
I think almost every work can be helped adding some humor and letting us laugh. I always find it strange that what makes us laugh in life is very close to what makes us angry and what makes us sad.
Here's a video of Sheman Alexie talking about his book. I think you might like it.
I thought I would add something from the Simpson's. Here are is a vid featuring Mike Reiss, a writer for the classic show.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. Hugh Sidey
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It seems fitting that National Humor Month takes place in April, a month that arrives with the warmer Spring weather.
National Humor Month was founded in 1976 by best-selling humorist Larry Wilde, Director of The Carmel Institute of Humor. It is designed to heighten public awareness on how the joy and therapeutic value of laughter can improve health, boost morale, increase communication skills and enrich the quality of one's life.
It's virtually impossible to feel sad while laughing so it stands to reason that laughter is good for one's health. A study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, presented at the American Heart Association's 73rd Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, researchers found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of situations compared to people of the same age without heart disease.
In the study, researchers compared the humor responses of 300 people. Half of the participants had either suffered a heart attack or had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery. The other 150 were healthy, age-matched participants who did not have heart disease.
Participants in the study were asked to complete two questionnaires. One questionnaire had a series of multiple-choice answers to find out how much or how little the participant laughs in certain situations. The second questionnaire used 50 true or false answers to measure anger and hostility.
For example, the questions included the following:
From the multiple-choice section:
If you arrived at a party and found that someone else was wearing a piece of clothing identical to yours, would you (a) not find it particularly amusing (b) be amused but not show it outwardly (c) smile (d) laugh or (e) laugh heartily. If you were eating in a restaurant with some friends and the waiter accidentally spilled a drink on you, would you (a) not find it particularly amusing (b) be amused but not show it outwardly (c) smile (d) laugh or (e) laugh heartily.
From the true or false section: I often wonder what hidden reasons another person may have for doing something nice for me. True or False. I am likely not to talk to people until they speak to me. True or False
People with heart disease were less likely to recognize humor or use it to get out of uncomfortable situations. They generally laughed less, even in positive situations and they displayed more anger and hostility.
Finally, if you're a pet owner, then you just might have noted that your pet smiles, which could indicate a sense of humor present. In fact, research has been done that confirms this. There's a great article on National Geographic Kids that examines the subject:
Green Acres Mark, but my favorite was Andy Griffith. I still like them. Have a great week.
WKRP in Cincinnati. The turkey episode, and how Les Nesman would say Chi Chi Rodriguez, and taped off the area around his desk and made people knock. A pre-view of Sheldon from Big Bang?
Green Acres is a good one. I love Arnold
Haha! That episode is hysterical. Yes, Les was a good role model for Sheldon, without the genius IQ.
You’re right about this. In the last couple of years I’ve been making an effort to watch every episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” on Hulu. He is a true talent. “Frasier” and Raymond were funny, too. I must add George Jefferson.