In my last blog I mentioned about “Laughterometer”, it’s probably a new word to you and you cannot find it in any dictionary nor in Wikipedia because I don’t think there is really a word like this. It just popped up in my mind while writing my previous blog. (I tried to Google it and found a few articles mentioning it but I’m not sure if it’s a real English word or it was also invented by those who came up with this word). In fact as I write this blog, the word “laughterometer” is being automatically colored red, meaning it’s either spelled wrong or the computer doesn’t have this word – I think it’s both. Then I right-clicked on the word to find the computer’s suggestions and I found three words: manslaughter, slaughterer and laughter. I think the third word is the closest, what do you think?
Kidding aside, let me share with you what I mean with this and the purpose why I wrote this blog. First, laughter or laughing is something that we can avail for free but we often forget to use it as we grow older. We become more serious, more stressed, more worried and more preoccupied with a lot of things that we cannot afford to laugh anymore – though it costs nothing.
Just as a thermometer measures a body’s temperature level and a speedometer measures a car’s speed level, laughterometer is your laughter level. How’s yours? Is it showing a higher or a lower level now? I know life at times must be tackled with seriousness especially if we are facing serious issues and circumstances. But in spite of all these and in the overall perspective of looking at life, we need time and time again to increase our laughter level. I already stated some of the reasons and benefits of laughter in our lives in my last blog entitled Live, Love and Laugh which you can read in this site too.
So let me ask you seriously about your laughter level. What does your laughterometer show? How often do you laugh in a day? Maybe you haven’t laughed not just in a day but for months or worst for years already. You are too busy to laugh, so many things to think of, so many responsibilities, deadlines, quotas, goals and debts to pay that you don’t have time to laugh or have fun. Why so serious? Why not be serious, you may ask. In life we must be serious, right? Yes, I do agree but not at all times. Learn also to relax and laugh sometimes. Much better if you can laugh as often as you can. For laughter is good: soothing to the soul, relaxing to the heart and bringing health to our bodies.
“Laughter is the best medicine”, as the popular adage says, so let me try to give you a little giggle if not a big laugh in these following short stories and quips that I collected. I’m hoping you will…if not…it’s okay, I still appreciate you for dropping by here in my blog site.
The Village Blacksmith Finally Found an Apprentice
The village blacksmith finally found an apprentice willing to work hard at low pay for long hours. The blacksmith immediately began his instructions to the lad, “When I take the shoe out of the fire, I’ll lay it on the anvil; and when I nod my head, you hit it with this hammer.”
The apprentice did just as he told. Now he’s the new village blacksmith.
Somewhat Tight Present
A lady to the doctor over the phone, “Doctor, I beg of you, please prescribe me something immediately to reduce my weight. My husband has given me a wonderful birthday present, and I can’t get into it.”
Doctor: “Just come over here tomorrow, and I shall give you a prescription. Then you will soon be able to wear your wonderful new dress.”
Lady: “Who said anything about a dress? I am talking of a car.”
Speaking about losing weight:
“A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch”. – Hermione Gingold
“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food”. – Erma Bombeck
“My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don’t swallow it”.– Harry Secombe
“The older you get the harder it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have become good friends.” – Author unknown
“I’m on a 30-day diet. So far I’ve lost 15 days”. – Author unknown
“Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells are forever”. – Author unknown
“Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator”. – Author unknown
– Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
– The toughest part of a diet isn’t watching what you eat. It’s watching what other people eat.
– Most people gain weight by having intimate dinners for two … alone.
– A diet is what you go on when not only can’t you fit into the store’s dresses, you can’t fit into the dressing room.
– A diet is the modern-day meal in which a family counts its calories instead of its blessings.
– On a diet? Go to the paint store. You can get thinner there.
Here’s more…
A Medical Problem
An old woman came into her doctor’s office and confessed to an embarrassing problem. “I fart all the time, Doctor Johnson, but they’re soundless, and they have no odor. In fact, since I’ve been here, I’ve farted no less than twenty times. What can I do?”
“Here’s a prescription, Mrs. Harris. Take these pills three times a day for seven days and come back and see me in a week.”
Next week an upset Mrs. Harris marched into Dr. Johnson’s office. “Doctor, I don’t know what was in those pills, but the problem is worse! I’m farting just as much, but now they smell terrible! What do you have to say for yourself?”
“Calm down, Mrs. Harris,” said the doctor soothingly. “Now that we’ve fixed your sinuses, we’ll work on your hearing!!!”
Watch that Wall
A funeral service is being held for a woman who has just passed away. At the end of the service, the pall bearers are carrying the casket out when they accidentally bump into a wall, jarring the casket.
They hear a faint moan.
They open the casket and find that the woman is actually alive! She lives for ten more years… and then dies.
Once again, a ceremony is held, and at the end of it, the pall bearers are again carrying out the casket.
As they carry the casket towards the door, the husband cries out, “Watch that wall!”
I hope I made you laugh today. Have a great day and always check your “laughterometer”.