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Love To Laugh?
W
hat do the following
have in common:
the Jolly Green
Giant, Woody Woodpecker,
Curly Howard (one of the Three
Stooges)? Each had a distinc-
tive laugh: Ho-Ho-
Ho, Ha ha ha HA ha,
nyuk, nyuk, nyuk).
Laughter we are
told is the best medi-
cine. Taking a quick
inventory of the
news, the wasteland
that is TV and the
movies that are out,
I feel a need for such
medication.
Consider first
some of the kinds of
laughs that are out
there.
The giggle is a somewhat
high-pitched trill and quite
often used by children to dis-
guise their nervousness and/or
as they sense something silly.
(What a delightful sound!)
The guffaw is a loud, coarse
burst of laughter often marking
a reaction to a surprising inci-
dent or the really great punch
line to a joke.
The chuckle is soft laugh in
low tones that often denotes
some inwardly satisfying
moment, such as someone get-
Quotable
ting his comeuppance.
The snicker is a half-sup-
pressed laugh sometime
reserved for a reaction to an
embarrassing moment (some-
one else's, of course).
Have you experi-
enced the satisfac-
tion of having the
last laugh as you
overcome an "appar-
ent" defeat? If you
limit your laugh to
yourself alone, you
would be laughing
up your sleeve. If
angered by a hap-
pening, you may
say it is no laughing
matter. If you should
find yourself an
audience member
during a TV broadcast, you
might be encouraged to laugh
it up.
In the movie Mary Poppins,
there is a delightful number
called "I Love To Laugh." It
cleverly describes the different
sounds that people make as
they laugh (through their teeth:
hissing like snakes; in explosive
bursts, etc.)
Whatever form your laughter
takes, you should never stop
seeking the sunny, funny side
of life.
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solution of two states for two
peoples in which a demilitarized
Palestinian state recognizes
the Jewish State of Israel.
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— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in a July 8 address to the Washington-based
Council on Foreign Relations
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