
I went to a kid’s movie, as I sometimes do, just
to listen to crowds of children laugh in unison. The movie today, Hoodwinked, was hilarious, and there was plenty of raucous laughter throughout, especially at some of the slapstick scenes – people falling down, squirrels smacking windshields of fast-moving cars. It was good, but I noticed I was the only one laughing at times. Amusing and clever dialogue gets me every time, and I love to laugh at words.
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." Joseph Addison
"You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." Michael Pritchard
"The head thinks, the hands labor, but it’s the heart that laughs." Joseph Heller
*The title is a quotation from Norman Cousins.






Hello John! I just found you while I was bumming around KMM. This is a great entry. I've been looking at Dan Pink's Book - A Whole New Mind - and he considers play (which includes laughter) to be a necessary trait of the coming age. What do you think?
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