Laughing Matters BY JOEL GOODMAN
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In the days before “Google” and “Zoom” became verbs, we at The HUMOR Project were delighted to receive 50,000 calls and letters a year from folks around the world interested in the positive, healthy power of humor. Since then, we have received thousands of emails containing humorous goodies that we include in our free Laughing Matters e-mail newsletter (you can subscribe at HumorProject.com). The coronavirus pandemonium pandemic is not fun or funny… but if we are to keep our balance, perspective,
I am not adding this year to my age, because I did not use it.
Lockdown can only go 4 ways: You'll come out a monk, a hunk, a chunk or a drunk. Choose wisely!
sanity, and humanity, we need humor now more than ever. We need to tickle stress before it tackles us. At Thanksgiving and as the ho-ho-holidays approach, we are thankful that we can give the gift of humor to ourselves… and to our family, friends, and co-workers. In order to transform serious stress of the omnipresent COVID-19 into laughing matters, we need to spread the fundemic of laughter. Here are 19 invitations to help you laugh in the face of COVID-19. Thanks to Barbara Glaser, Ken Ingram, and Eric Ruby, M.D., for passing along their comic vision vaccinations… that are safe AND effective right now! In 20 years when kids ask about the 2020 toilet paper shortage, I'm telling them we had to drag our butts across the lawn... in the snow... uphill... both ways!
Pretty wild how we used to eat cake after someone had blown on it... ah, the good old days... Happy Birthday!
If you use a rotary dial phone... you are in the high-risk group!
Romance novels written during COVID-19 will be like... "And then she slowly slipped her mask down, revealing her warm red lips, and her blushed face. As their eyes met, he gently removed her gloves...."
I asked a 6-year-old if he understands why there is no school. He said, "Yes, because they are out of toilet paper."
Corona precautions: I went to the bathroom at a restaurant. I washed my hands. Opened the door with my elbow. Raised the toilet seat with my foot. I switched on the water faucet with a tissue. Opened the bathroom door to leave with my elbow... and when I returned to my table, I realized... I forgot to pull up my pants!!!
Wearing a mask inside your home is now highly recommended. Not so much to prevent COVID-19, but to stop eating.
Does anyone know if we can take showers yet or should we just keep washing our hands?
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So, let me get this straight, there is no cure for a virus that can be killed by sanitizer and hand soap?
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