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Everyone knows that a good vigorous laugh can better mood and feeling, and even kills pain. Laughter is stimulating, increasing heart rate, blood pressure, and circulation; circulating immune substance effectiveness, pulmonary ventilation, and alertness; and exercising the skeletal muscles. Following laughter blood pressure drops and heart rate, respiratory rate, and muscle activity decrease. As a result, relaxation is increased and muscle tension remains low. Some believe that when we laugh, our body also naturally produces endorphin whose effects are similar to Opium.

Although laughter can occur regardless of humor presence (and visa versa), we assembled a few humorous items that can possibly trigger some of the "best medication". Enjoy.

Good old joke
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are camping in a forest. They pitch their tent under the stars and go to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes wakes Watson up.

"Watson - look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce."

Watson says: "I see millions of stars and even if a few of those have planets, it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life."

Holmes replies: "Watson you idiot, somebody has stolen our tent!"

Joke
A social phobic guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?"

She stares at him for a moment and then responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No, I won't sleep with you tonight!". Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.

After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."

To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200?"

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python

Cheer up, Brian.  You know what they say.
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a wistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...
 
(the music fades into the song)
 
...always look on the bright side of life!
(whistle)
 
Always look on the bright side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
 
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And... always look on the bright side of life...
 
(whistle)
Come on!
 
(other start to join in)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(whistle)
 
For life is quite absurd,
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin -- give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it -- it's the last chance anyhow!
 
So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life's a piece of shit,
When you look at it.
 
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!
 
And always look on the bright side of life...
(whistle)
Always look on the bright side of life
(whistle)

Come on guys, cheer up

Always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the bright side of life...

Worse things happen at sea you know

Always look on the bright side of life...

I mean--what have you got to lose?
you know, you come from nothing
-you're going back to nothing
what have you lost? Nothing!

Always look on the bright side of life...
(fade out)

Today's Joke*
Why did the blonde nurse take a red magic marker to work?

In case she had to draw some blood.

* - Because of cut-backs, this item is updated once in a decade.

Collections of Jokes:
humorsphere.com
Jokes Galore
hausolafs.com
humor.com

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#7109 by Ivyrum2@yahoo.com

If you can't laugh about yourself atleast once a day you aren't keeping the lesson and throwing away the expirience. Laughter is the most important thing in learning to relax. One day I went to the gas station and I pulled up to the wrong side of the pump. I turned the car around and pulled up to the other pump. Wouldn't you know wrong side again. So I finally get to the right side of the pump and can't get the gas nozzle in the gas tank. I am frustrated and whining. The people next to me offer assistance. I whig on them. Then I start bitching. the lady in the car offers me her business card. She says I need help. She's a therapist. I go off, Why? I just got out of the psych unit that morning. I screamed at them so bad, they drove off and forgot to pay for their gas. (Tue Sep 14 12:47 2004)

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