Is laughter really the best medicine?

[pikachamp]

Is there any actual proof that laughter is good for you?

[MacadamiamaN]

It isn't bad, so therefore it must be good

[Gomez]

Unless of course you've got broken ribs, then it's not so good.

[The Cruciverbalist]

Sheesh. Haven't you ever seen Patch Adams, pika?

Me neither. But still.

[Beartalon]

Does this include maniacal laughter, like BUWAHAHAHA?

[Planky]

Say if you were sick for more than a week, I'd imagine you'd feel pretty low - a bit of laughter here and there would cheer you up/lift your spirits, which helps the body heal itself - being depressed or whatever doesnt help

[luminous]

Laughter burns calories. Hell yeah.

[The Ktulu]

Planky has the right idea. I've seen articles that describe how laughter was used on hospital patients, who recovered faster than non-humored patients. Plus, as your emotions go down, so does your immune system. When you're feeling better emotionally, your immune system goes up. That's probably why I only get sick a few times in a year if even that. I try not to let myself be depressed, though it does happen.

[Vegtable2001]

It takes some random number of muscles to smile, and some random larger number of muscles to frown, meaning that frowning burns more calories and should logically be healthier.

[casinopete]

Frowning may be better than smiling, but not laughing. Laughing kicks your ass.

[mudster]

What about those who laughed so hard and chokes and dies? Doesn't that mean laughing is hazardous to your health?

[Random Old Man]

GUAWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA *chokes* *dies*

[Beartalon]

What if he dies happy?

[Aarondalf]

That doesnt retract from the fact that the whole laughing thing wasnt the best medicine. In fact, he was fine to begin with. Laughing = Poison.

[Courk]

So basically, the healthiest thing is to frown while laughing? *tries*

Hmm... That's hard. Must mean it's a workout for my face.

[Beartalon]

It's easier to just stay ambivalent, like me

[Beartalon]

(stupid clicked the submit button)

...and then it's easy to swing either way, frown or smile.

[Courk]

I think that's the first time I've seen anyone correct a posting mistake like that. Usually people just delete it and try again (who did this, Murray?), or edit.

[Elayne]

Laughter is supposed to help releave tension and stress.

[mudster]

Tension and stress? People who do that usually are becoming quite mad.

[The Ktulu]

Laughter doesn't releave tension and stress. It makes people look at you funny. But then again, I often start laughing in the middle of a silence, laughing with a kheh he HE HE HE heke sort of laugh, which sounds like a car trying to start with soda in the gas tank. Or it sounds like one of six or seven other types of laughs I have that are just as strange.

But when my friends turn and look at me, thinking, What's this kid on?, I start laughing more, because it's so funny. And then they look at me funnier, so I laugh, and laugh, and then my stomach hurts, and that's not funny but it is, and so I laugh, and laugh, and then someone comes and smacks me upside the head, which hurts but is also funny, so I laugh -- hehe HE HEKE eheke HAHAHAHAHA MWAAAHGAHAAAAA -- and it doesn't stop and right now typing this, I am laughing, and my stomach is going to hurt soon, but that's hilarious, because they say humor is based on cruelty and pain, which is kind of funny, because I'm laughing because my stomach hurts because I was laughing, so it kinda shows it works both ways, that cruelty and pain are based on humor, and so this is all funny and my mom is hearing me laugh and she thinks I'm nuts.


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Mackay's Dog ate forty-one forty-secondths of me.

[HyToFry]

So... laughing makes you sick to your stomache? That's not good medicine at all..



[added "" for the dense people]

[This message has been edited by HyToFry (edited 06-20-2003 04:59 PM).]

[casinopete]

He didn't say it made him sick to his stomach; he said it made his stomach hurt. Very big difference, there. The first would indeed be indication that laughter is not so healthy. The second, on the other hand, is consistant with laughter being good exercise. If you use it to condemn laughter, you must also condemn every other form of exercise.

[HyToFry]

I'm sorry. I tottaly forgot the "" in there.

My bad.

[casinopete]

Bah, I say!

I didn't take you seriously, and I find it highly offensive that you ASSumed that I was being serious.

[HyToFry]

So your long winded explanation was in jest?

better throw a in here.

Or were you joking then? Are you joking now? Am I?

[This message has been edited by HyToFry (edited 06-20-2003 05:14 PM).]

[casinopete]

[The Ktulu]

*-whoa-*

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Mackay's Dog ate forty-one forty-secondths of me.

[wordcross]

Aaron, life is just one big sickness anyway. The only cure is death, in which case laughing to death, and thus dying happy, is THE best medicine

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If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that a hostage situation?

[The Ktulu]

*-whoa-*

[Mackay's Dog]

*notices Ktulu passed out from over-"whoa"ing, and eats the remaining forty-secondth*

[PhantasyStarOnline]

::pets Mackay's Dog::

Cuuuuuute!

[The Ktulu]

Bah. DeadAlien42 will get you for this!

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Mackay's Dog ate me.

[Mackay's Dog]

*wags tail at PSO*

Ri ram a ralmatian! Ry rame is Rozart.
Kt - nice sig. =0)

[PhantasyStarOnline]

Hopefully people can understand that...

If you can't, watch Scooby-Doo. Now.

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