It’s okay to laugh out loud today. You don’t even need a reason because today is International Moment of Laughter Day and that ought to be reason enough. The day is the brainchild of Izzy Gesell, a self-described humorologist.
“Laughter comes right after breathing as just about the healthiest thing you can do,” he says. “It relieves stress, instills optimism, raises self-confidence, defuses resistance to change, and enhances all your relationships.”
To help you celebrate the day, here is a list of ways you can laugh. You can titter, giggle, chuckle or chortle. You can cackle or crow. You can snicker, snigger or snort. Ha-ha, hee-haw, ho-ho, tee-hee, yuk-yuk. You can guffaw, belly laugh or horselaugh. You can roar or shake with laughter. Split your sides, bust a gut, roll in the aisles and perhaps die laughing. And of course there’s the ever-popular laughing until you pee your pants.
THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW
Fireworks, rock music and, yes, laughter punctuated the April 14, 1999, announcement by former Vice President Dan Quayle that he was tossing his hat into the Republican ring for the 2000 presidential race. He offered himself as the antidote for “the dishonest decade of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.” He promised to restore integrity, responsibility and more malaprops to the White House. He exited the race a few months later, after finishing eighth in the first Republican straw poll, cheating the world out of future Quayle gems such as these:
If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
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