The American Heart Association has proved that laughing reduces your heart problems, as the circulation of blood becomes smooth. In fact, laughing reduces nearly 40% of your health problems.
Try to change your attitude towards life because most of the times you spend time thinking about your past. Instead of that recall the moments of your life that brought pure joy to your heart. Naturally you will feel good. Similarly, when you begin laughing, it soothes your mind and you feel good.
You may have experienced many practical jokes in your real life in the classrooms, offices or even at home. Always store them in your mind and laugh out whenever you feel you need it in order to relieve your tension.
There are innumerous ways to induce laughing. You can watch television and enjoy the comedy scenes like tripping, falling, skidding which are extremely comic. Even the comic books will help you in these cases. Sometimes it so happens that when you are watching the comedy scenes on the small screen, you begin to recollect funny memories and begin laughing even more.
Laughter is an amazing stress-fighting therapy. It relaxes your muscles and clears your mind. We many a times take life very seriously but if we discover laughter in the midst, then we will always be happy. Pack your life with laughter always.
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Everyone is well aware of the problems with too many laws and lawyers in our nation. Business people often joke in the boardrooms of American Corporations, asking their lawyers if it is okay for them to use the restroom. Indeed many small business people complain about the very same thing these days.
What is worse is that our own government is filled with these scoundrels and many of them hold some very high offices. Many believe the problem in America is due to all the lawyers out there and call them professional parasites, yet they are not only professionals they are also our politicians attempting have us believe that they will uphold the law and serve the American People? Let me ask you something; have you ever known any lawyer in the self-serving profession of law to serve anyone but them selves? Well have you?
I propose the abatement of lawyers and model this after the abatement of cockroaches or other pests. For instance we seem to be doing a nice job chasing down and removing from this time period the International Terrorists right? Well, aren’t lawyers really terrorists? And if we could round them all up, maybe we could use a little Caesar Style abatement procedures and rid our selves of this plague upon humanity? Consider this in 2006.
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Magic comes in many forms. It is at constant play in the world around us, every day, simply waiting for the eyes of the observer to find their way to it, open up, and truly see once again. It can be found, always, in nature; science begins to resemble it more and more everyday, and for the strongly attuned it exists even in the mundane world of humankind’s dense constructs, where industry was thought to have long ago extinguished anything but a cheap replica of what we once knew of it.
But it’s never left - it’s simply gotten harder to find. So rare has it become in the modern world that one needs to be a child to find it at all. Adults will often try to pull some form of it through, but to do so - no matter what medium they’re working in - they need to possess the creative tools of a child. From engineers to play-writes to theologians, when one is trying to create magic in their given field, they need to go back to the source.
This is what Bill Watterson managed to do with Calvin & Hobbes. It’s a direct valve back to the foibles and voracity and beauty of youth, and good god is it funny! Very few books ever make me laugh out loud, but I always find I can come across a good-hearted belly laugh after only a few pages of any Calvin & Hobbes collection. It’s been that way since I was eight, and I felt it was time to properly express my appreciation.
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the strip, but a lot of people aren’t aware just how rich it truly is. Yes, Calvin is a self-centered, bratty and unpredictable little six-year old, as are most. And yes, his stuffed tiger Hobbes only seemingly comes to life in his own world - a world where they romp and play and fight like maniacs, explore the ends of the earth and charge through the cosmos; where they take the twisted mirth of film noir sci-fi and horror to ungodly limits - but an imaginary world nonetheless.
Whether it’s a joke about frozen boogers or the existence of God, the humor works on a number of different levels, as do so many other things in the strip. When you’re eight years old you get the baseness of it all, and you kill yourself laughing. When you’re an adult you see the entire framework, and you kill yourself laughing.
Watterson knows his stuff. Calvin was named for the 16th century theologian, John Calvin, the founder of ‘Calvinism’ (as much as that sounds like something the six-year old Calvin might come up with) which is a philosophy in which there exists an predetermined, unbreakable line between good and evil. Hobbes, on the other hand, was named for Thomas Hobbes, a 17th century philosopher who believed in the inherent selfishness of all humankind. This was the back-drop for the entire series. As you get deeper and deeper into the strip, there are references to environmentalism, postmodernism, commercialization in all its forms, and even Marxism (black-ball ‘im!). And every time Calvin and his tiger get on a sled or mount that little red wagon, you know it’s time for a serious existential conversation…
But at the heart of it all lies the real magic of the truly creative child’s world, and that is where Watterson takes us. Calvin does not possess an imagination, it possesses him. Most imaginary friends are someone an average child gets along with, but Hobbes is a constant challenge to nearly every paradigm that Calvin has set up, and though they love each other greatly, they often fight bitterly. There are certain scenarios that take place in a few of the strips where you find yourself thinking ‘wait a minute, if Hobbes is stuffed, how is that possible?’ The further you go, the more you quietly become privy to the world that is Calvin’s, and the more the taut edges of the reality we’ve all had to ‘grow-up’ to find begin to loosen. As you laugh and muse and puzzle, slipping ever deeper into the dream that Watterson has cast for us, you begin to realize that ultimately, it’s about the subjective nature of reality, which is one of the oldest debates known to our species.
Beyond that, it’s just damn funny.
(For a little insight on Watterson’s devotion to his art - one that no doubt cost him millions - see believin for her blog Hobbes, Aslan and the commodification of a cat at the blogging community writingUp.)
http://www.writingup.com/blog/slip_shoes_william
Peter Griffin is one of the funniest, probably the most important characters in the cartoon animation series of ‘Family Guy’. He is a Nice, Funny, Fat ass character, who is not afraid of spreading the word of his mind in to the world and change everybody’s world. Peter’s mind is 2X smaller then Homer Simpson and he is 2X fatter then Homer. He has no idea what he is doing or where he is. If it wasn’t for Louis, his wife he would be out of his job, his house and would have no life. He does many stupid things that homer wouldn’t. He always makes mistakes in his life and loses everything but later says ‘Sorry’ and gets back with his family. He has a very strange mind and thinks of easy steps to do his tasks, which he ends up messing up. He is lazy to go to work and instead wants to become the prime minister or own a country or have another strange idea in his mind. He is always trying to find new ways for his son ‘Chris’ to lose weight. He advises his daughter ‘Meg’ to socialize with people in school and find new friends. He is kind and gentle with the Evil Stewie, who calls him a fat man. He is a good friend of ‘Brian’, his talking dog who always advises peter when he needs help and gets help from peter when he has any problems. Peter was in love with his wife ‘Louis’, when they first saw each other. He never expected to be married to a girl from a Rich family like: Louis, but Louis was kind enough to give him a chance and marry him but then she had to give a lot more chances because of his stupid mistakes.
Peter is a nasty and dirty man, He is the nastiest person alive in his town. He likes to hangout with his friend and drink beer, who he has been with him most of his childhood and even before that when peter’s grand parents and his friend’s grand parents were alive. In one Episode Peter reveals that his 14th grand parent was a Black Man, so he join the Black community, where his idea of Blackism doesnt work and he soon gets kicked out. Peter does many things with his pals through out the series, He parties with them, Joins the Army with them, Fights them, Suspects them and even goes on war with them. He is very happy and gentle with ‘Cleveland’, The Black Friend of peter, who asks peter for help when he suspects his wife is cheating with ‘Quagmire’, the family guy pimp and asks peter to make him a man. Quarmire, the lady’s man in family guy is always hittin on woman, even peter’s wife ‘Lious’. He is not afraid of reaching woman and is always first to help a woman in danger in case of help.He drugs many woman during the series but was never successfull. Joe, Peter’s handicaped friend who is still in the army, is always trying to protect the city but is challanged with peter sometimes when he does stupid things. Joe has a army type of personality and is strict with his rules. Peter meets many more characters during the series and they all have the same views about peter. Peter has been overweight from 14 generations with the same kind of hair style and looks. Chris, his son will keep this generation of being overweight for the enxt generation.
Peter does many stupid and bizzarre things during the series, Almost every suffering and pain suffered by the Griffins is because of peter. He is happy on his couch watching his favorite show or the news on his stolen cable with Brian and will do anything to stop his favorite show from closing down. He always tries to learn new ways of making money without working and also tries many scams which he regrets. He runs from Death and even becomes death itself in a episode, where he had to kill his family. Peter always has new ideas for improving the Grifin’s lifes and become more popular or even a star, Mostof the times ‘Lious’, his wife would show him the right away and would lead him through his problems or he would have lost his life. He always tries to do something right and ends up doing the opposite and brining pain to every body. Brian, peter’s talking dog calls peter a pain in the ass and advises him to do everything the right way and stay away from trouble. Peter always realizes his mistakes at the end of the show and promises not to make this mistake again, which he forgets in 2 seconds. Life and death doesnt mean anything to him, he might play with death at any time and barely survives. Peter is always concerned about his weight and tries to lose weight in many episodes, where he some how gets his weight back and knows that he is not meant to be skinny. Peter misses recognizing danger or read danger signs and ends up putting himself in danger or life threat. He needs constant watch and someone to look after him or he will lose his life. He gets fired from his work many times because of his stupid mistakes and the danger he has caused. Peter is a easy believer, He would believe every small thing people or signs will tell him, even if its testing the new death shots or a sign telling him to jump off the bulding. Peter is brainless and is in lack of thinking or using his mind. He barely uses 1% of his mind. He makes his decisions fast with no real idea behind them which causes a big trouble for him. He is good with socializing people and talking about stuff people already know or not interested to know. He has lack of sense for others and takes alot longer to understand the truth behind something, He always thinks of himself before his family and friends and is reminded by his wife ‘Lious’ about the right path. Regret is a normal thing for peter, every decision and step he has taken which turns into disaster ends with regret to his family and friends. His family and friends are so tired of his sorries that it means nothing to them.
Library Director? People often say to me when learning that I am a librarian that it must be fun working in a library and just reading books all the time. How little they know.
As a library director some of my duties include: buying books and supplies, keeping records of all library transactions, checking books in and out, shelving books, attending meetings and conferences and week-long seminars, calling on overdue books and sending reminders, doing bookwork totals daily, monthly and yearly for statistics and reports, publicity, organizing and overseeing various library programs, which include Summer Reading, preschool story time, book discussion groups, family night, teen night, coordinating volunteers, weeding out and discarding old and out of date books, shoveling snow, and spreading snow-melt in winter, sweeping sidewalks and watering shrubs in summer, borrowing books from other libraries for interlibrary loans, picking up mail daily at the post office, trying to keep people quiet so others can enjoy the library and helping patrons find books. We also help people on the computers, clean the bathrooms, wash windows, set up tables and chairs, vacuum the carpets, empty the wastebaskets, put trash out for garbage day, dust, clean and sweep entry.
As we say at our meetings: “We wear many hats and small town librarians’ jobs are a labor of love.” You can prove that just by looking at our salaries.
Marge has been writing all her life and has published two humor books. She is a library director in a small town in Southern Idaho and has just turned 62. She writes a local column called, “Granny’s Journal.”
