Laughter is bad for you, really.

Laughter is bad for you, really. A new study has shown that laughter is bad for you, no. This is not a report out of the Medical journal, nor is it rocket science, just the musings of a motley fool. If you bear with me a moment though, I will bring you my strong arguments and leave the rest up to you to draw your own conclusions.

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Upon my arrival in Canada in the earlier half of the nineteen-nineties, one of the first radio shows which would have caught my attention, (I was always a lover of radio and radio programs.) I would always gravitate towards radio. The first radio show that caught my attention in the new homeland was a morning show, Aros and Ta in the morning. Very funny. On one of those mornings, I would have happened to hear them, well, Aros was supposedly on the phone talking to an artist who was soon to be appearing in town for a show date.

This had happened to be one of my favorite artists at the time. A female. What I heard would have shaken me up good and proper by the time we were done though. At the time I did not know that this was a gig, a comedy feature in the show.

What I did hear there was, Aros. Aros was there on the phone talking to my favorite artist who I knew to possess one of the sweetest singing voices in the business at the time. Giving us some of the sweetest T, as in things. Maybe.

But there she was on the other end of the line and coming through on my radio receiver. With the crankiest, grouchiest voice you ever heard. And I was like wtf. Aros would have asked how come she was sounding that awful, her response was that that’s how she usually sounds early in the mornings, on top of the fact that she had smoked a cigar with her whiskey? Or something like that the previous night before going to bed.

Needless to say, that did play a number on this guy. While most listeners were laughing away throughout the scope if the listening range. This one guy was truly messed up, at least for the rest of that day, and some more.

I was to be messed up again a few years later too, to a lesser extent yes, but messed up anyways, when they had dismantled that dynamic duo. But nowhere near as much. That said show would have become my favorite radio show for a long time. Still... 

Now, fast forward to today. 

And then there are others, like what had become the norm nowadays.  Where everybody has become lawmakers and enforcers. Go to your favorite website or platform and take a moment to read through their TOS or PP, you will see.

You will probably notice that everybody will be telling you how to behave, or misbehave, and to treat others. All of the dos and don’ts, don't be rude, don't steal, other people's copyright for example. And then some more.

Some of the biggest crooks of all time telling you this. Don't be an, AH. Just be nice. Don't do, don't do, and yet more don’t dos. Or else…

So you can't say what you really feel. Instead. Follow the code, be nice and civil, be what thou art to be. Just make them laugh. Nothing hard for this the android generation.

Just stroke their funny bones, make them laugh. And stay dumb, or become dumb, cause, that's the way thou art and art to be. To be helping in making em same as thee.

While they, -those who are instructing you, they go about lying, deceiving, cheating, stealing, killing and such. Where truth and rights and accountability is whatever makes their accounts grow fat, and yours vanish away.

Plus the many other incidents which fall in between, like that group “forbidden,” for example? How is it that in one lifetime, one spec of a humanoid lifetime, so much would have changed right in front of our eyes, and no one even seemed to farrow a brow, speaking of brow? Wow!

I can remember quite well, a time when one could have turned the radio on on any given day and expect to hear something wholesome, good and uplifting, like lift up thy brow, yeah! That uplifting, and deep, and thoughtful, and yes, the funnies were there too, really funny without being crude, rude and debasing, and prudish, just for the shock value of it.

Which by the way, is commonplace now-a-day, but for the selected few it would seem, not for the masses. We are not allowed to do and say certain things. Even with all of that “freedom” of speech even. Unless we pay for it? Probably.

What is that thing which makes it okay for one person to say whatever the hell she feels like? But the other person dares not?  Poetic license perhaps? With what currency did she acquire said license? Am I allowed to ask? 

Then there are liars.

So one guy and his cronies would have set up a website, or platform, or whatever the term he would have chosen to use in referring to it. He would have invited Johnny p, come here John public. He enticed him. Come join us and get to meet up with great people, meet your friends and chat. And more, much more of that. And Jonny went... and then...

When in fact what they were really after from the start was you and your friends and family to come tie yourselves to their long string, so that they may manipulate and play you. And take you and everything that you've got too, and lie yet more to you. And take your money when you are not looking. Or when you are, looking.

And lie yet again and tells you that, “an ad like this could get you this much...” How did they know that much before you had even bite the bait? Could it be that they will manipulate the outcomes? For their benefits, and for their sake, not yours? 

And when they have taken enough from you until it starts hurting you, and it hurts enough that you are forced to do something about it.

And you tell them that you no longer want that special account which they had tricked you into in order to rob you. And you would sure like to close it. They would have told you. Yeah, it will be closed but in fourteen days, when it had taken mere seconds to activate in the first place.

And every time you would have gone to the free access account. The first message you are likely to get to see is to do with the one which they want you to see and continue to see, the paid one, even though you done told them to close it. And you try to ignore it.

But fourteen days should be done gone already. Why is it still here you wonder? Even a year later. And yet more, later. And you go back to check if you had missed something. And to try and do the process again, try to cancel and delete the account even, but you can't seem to be able to find the path to that action.

How come. It wasn't this hard when first I came looking for it. And if after several attempts at trying to find this delete button you should decide to call up support.

 Of course, they will be able to tell you how to get it done, they are supporting right? That’s what they do, support, you? Right. But it would get done before you are done, done and gone from there.

And it would seem so easy. And you would start to feel like you are so stupid, so very stupid that you probably won't bother to call them up again next time. Probably. All of this after you would have found out that it is still there, still saying 14 days, and more.

Come revenue report date though, you would have been listening on the news to hear that said company has made money to the tune of another year in college for you to be able to pronounce the figure or to fathom it.

And they are still climbing, to become a top earner in the entire world. But you can barely afford food and finding it more difficult to find a job, or to get your project to start turning you some profit, the same project which they had tricked you into advertising with them because you can't lose if you do.

But you did lose and would have been losing still if you hadn't wised up quick, and kick the quit.

Could it be that someone is there working on a plan to dumb us all down? Like the gurus who are going about buying up and owning every corner of the media and the entertainment industry, for example? And they're making themselves busy, controlling what we hear and think and therefore, our belief system? Just asking

Hear it on the radio?

Laughing myself silly

And then come this. At the same radio station, the morning show is still available, only it's a new host, could even be said to be funny too. Have the silliest of questions sometimes to ask in his regular morning quizzes which is not without reason.

Because the answers one hears or didn't hear since the callers oft don't know the answers even after they were spoon-fed same but they are there anyway.  Making fools of them…  Sorry. Answering questions.

So the question was which of the two answers was correct? As always, it's always one out of two or even better. More like better than 1 of 2, since the host would have built the scenario, and then go on to ask his two companions to give each their version of the correct answer.

And he would have been there commenting on either of these supposedly correct answers, ridiculing the one over the other at times, while the contestant would have been there listening and hence would have ad all of the time in the world to select one of those two.

The correct one preferably, which she would have been given by then. And if by some weird and strange happenings, the said caller should get it wrong, which by the way, would have happened way too often, even after all of that spoon-feeding, go on, imagine. No, you should never do such.

The host would act as if he didn’t hear and then goes on to say a whole bunch of none sense which serves the purpose if giving the dummy. Sorry. The caller, giving the caller yet another chance at picking one correct answer, (one) out of (2,) yes, one out of two possibilities, imagine still, with all of that?

Then, the chimes will go a-ringing and the winner’s song go on a-playing. So on this particular morning. The question was. The human body needs one kilogram of salt per day, or 250g with a heavy bias towards telling which was the correct answer? As usual.

So, of course, she got it. Or more like she would have picked up the hint. And pass it along, or pass it back to the examiners of bright and brilliant peoples, -the tester, -the radio host. Oooh, that’s great, you won. Here is your prize. As was well deserved and as is the norm.

Meanwhile, throughout the listening range of said morning show. Folks would have been laughing their faces off. Yeah! Just listen to them there a-laughing, you can hear them too, can’t you?

Laughing they be because they are happy, happy to see, or to hear maybe, hear that there still be, a multitude of others who be dumber than me. Laugh on. Hikikikikikee. And before these two would have gotten done, leave and go go, go away. the host would have reminded her as well as all else down his listeners way, to be sure to get today's intake he's say. Their pound of salt for that particular day. Because what one hears has no bearing on what one chooses to do. when what one may be hearing was meant only as glue. To keep such a one listening and coming back to you, who knew? Laugh on, thou art happy today already. Like thou art to be.

Then and now.

But then, there was a time not too long ago, a time when there were wholesome contents, on the radio even.  And in schools, and other such learning institutions, a time when you would have been required to do the work. And to show how you'd arrived at the answers, and the conclusions. So as to show, that you really did know.

Nowadays though! There are others, others who are much better, better than they, all of “they.” Entities such as “forbidden” and other such. Now, it is one out of two, or out of 2++ choices. Go figure.

 Close encounter of the popular kinds, a-laughing they be. Maybe. 


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The weekend spec. Because, thou art spec. special. On this day in history.

Satturday .

1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Remember her?

1973 - Yassar Arafat was re-elected as head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

1966 - "Batman" debuted on ABC-TV.

1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.  Imagine that!

1932 - Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

1879 - The British-Zulu War began when the British invaded Zululand.
1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.

Sunday.

2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel. 

2002 - The exhibit "In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. More than 100 artists supplied the collection of 120 works of art.

1990 - L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the nation's first elected black governor, took the oath of office in Richmond.

1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games. 

1966 - Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by U.S. President Johnson. 

1928 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.