Monday, 23 September 2013
Weight Loss Tips Gone Bad
No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now.'
Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and other is good, those with "good" bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go "bad", and those with "bad" bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have "good" bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating and all manner of diets in order to shed excess weight or become like someone else.
Walking back home from the pharmacy, I stopped to buy a roasted pear. I had just paid and was counting my change when the pear trader decided to share incredible words of wisdom, words that turned out to become a long list of traditional herbs I couldn't pronounce.
It wouldn't be the first time a total stranger walked up to me and proffered solutions to my obvious weight issue.
I've battled with discussing much less mentioning my failed weight loss attempt, but I know there are people who share my struggle.
It's not as though I haven't tried some of these solutions or come up with my own strategy; from starving, to just eating protein fruits and veggies, I even enrolled at the gym. But somehow I get fed up when I notice little or no change and end up gaining more weight than I lost.
I marvel sometimes at the weird tips and advice I've received on a number of occasions. You wouldn't believe the kind of "solution" I've been should I say unfortunate to hear.
For instance, I was getting my nails done once and the lady told me about some "magic" pills, the downside is I can't be with a man while on the pills. What kind of weight medication restricts someone's sexual activity? I was even more suspicious because between I and the said adviser, I wasn't sure whose physique was presentable.
I've been told that if I want to shed weight I should engage in vigorous sexual activities at least 5 times a week, I have to words
The 'last straw' was when a Lady asked me to buy a certain Indian powder, according to her, all I had to do was to inhale the powder and I'll be surprised with the results. I had to ask her whether she was trying to sell cocaine to me.
I have however embarked on another mission to shed some weight, if at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again, right!
Running Naked With a Broom
Today my quest is for a natural pest control method to deter deer from devouring my gardens, preferably without sophisticated fencing or expensive pest control services. Or by enrolling in a weaponry class. I jest. Sort of.
The first time deer pranced onto the property I tripped over the dog to grab the camera. Cute, white tails, sweet little faces leisurely nibbling on the brambles. You'd think I'd witnessed an alien landing.
In short time these skinny-legged hoarders developed fancier palates. They treated my well-tended flower and vegetable beds as their personal farm stand while leaving a trail of dung my pooch found disturbingly tasty.
Being mindful our civilization invaded their homeland and created sub-divisions, I sought organic and responsible methods to shoo these tick bearing delinquents off my highly-taxed property. Shooting deer is against my HOA's policy. If caught, of course. I jest. Sort of.
Suggestions tried to no avail:
Rotten Egg Cocktail
I cite the following from a recent magazine blurb entitled, Keep Deer Away. "Pouring or spraying a 'rotten egg' cocktail around your plants will keep deer from eating them. Just mix six raw eggs in two gallons of water and let it sit outside for a week. The smell will keep Bambi at bay". And apparently people. I haven't received mail in a month.
Soap-on-a-Rope
A neighbor suggested hanging Dial soap on a rope. This explains the strange-looking wind chimes on his trees and the interesting scent that wafts through the neighborhood on a breezy day. Surely this violates the HOA's use of offensive or tacky lawn ornaments, however garden gnomes are acceptable.
Dried Blood
An internet search found the scent of dried blood offends deer. Really? For the record, this offends me too. I'll assume the dried blood is a garden variety and not the lawn carnage we find from "survival of the fitness" competitions between the coyotes and the rabbits. Yeah, we got those too. There's a bonus. Sprinkling dried blood adds nitrogen to the soil which makes hosta plants grow big and strong, which attracts the deer. Ah, the circle of life.
Those methods along with soapy water, oils and pepper sprays only goaded the ungrateful varmints to snicker behind my back.
But yesterday: Success!
Wrapped in a towel after my shower, I sipped a cup of coffee while admiring my newly replanted flowers. And then: "Four for the salad bar please". Snarky. I jumped the dog, grabbed a broom and ran up the driveway. My crazy eyes and screams drew attention as I waved the broom like a samurai sword and shocked the beasts back into the woods.
Momentarily elated, I quickly chilled to the airstream against my bare skin, and my neighbor, standing still, a deer in the headlights, gripping his soap on a rope.
I trampled the flowers in my hasty escape, forever to be known as the woman who violated the HOA policy by running naked with a broom. I jest. Sort of.
Stephanie Dell is a humorist (in her own mind) who writes unfair and unbalanced commentary on social living experiences. She left her longtime career in marketing and promotions to pursue a writing career and hopes to become a famous author before she dies, which could be any day now. She blogs at http://www.dogandabeer.com.
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Physicist Proves Watched Kettles Do Boil!
They say a watched kettle never boils, but Irish Physicist Eamon Glasscock has set out to disprove this theory and made some other remarkable discoveries on the way.
Glasscock, 26, a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, has spent a lifetime fascinated by things that get hot.
"As a child I loved to switch on the electric fire just to watch it glow and get hot," he explained. "Even in the height of summer I would switch it on, but that was only to be expected in Ireland!"
"It drove my parents insane," he added with a wink.
As part of his research Glasscock had to convert part of his laboratory into a mock kitchen.
"We got a grant from the government and some help from the Engineering Department. So we were able to add a base unit with a sink, some wall cupboards and a worktop nicely finished in imitation marble. We also bought a kettle to watch," confided the Scientist.
As part of his research Glasscock would fill the kettle with water, or H2O as Scientists call it, and then switch it on. He would then sit and observe what happens.
"It was my belief from the start that the 'watched kettle never boils' brigade were anti-Science. However I found that in 100% of cases the kettle did boil even though I was watching it."
In order to add a fair test to his experiments Glasscock called on the assistance of his fellow countryman Eamon Hire Ph.D., a Zoologist from County Meath, to repeat the experiment. Dr. Hire found the same consistent set of results. To further test his theory Glasscock purchased two further kettles from different manufacturers.
"In my paper recently submitted to The Physics Review of Ireland I have been able to state quite clearly that a watched kettle does boil," declared Glasscock.
As a further discovery Glasscock and hire also found that using boiled water to make endless cups of coffee can cause palpitations and constipation, not a great combination.
"We've applied to the University for a Further Research Grant to study this phenomenon," elucidated Dr. Hire.
The two researchers also spoke briefly about the application to study bears in America, Russia and China.
"We would like to establish the facts behind the age old question of where the Ursines defecate," clarified Dr. Glasscock.
Meanwhile David Cameron, the English Prime Minister, commented on the research.
"We never had kettles at Eton," he put into the plain words of a working man, "though we did have our own woods with our own Conservative Bears. That's why we won the First World War."
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Friday, 20 September 2013
Before Hiring Make Sure The Event Management Company Is Worth Its Salt
Managing an event is not at all easy because it is not only time-taking, but also, needs certain expertise. Conducting events on time, as well as on the assigned budget, needs expertise along with detailed planning. Have you ever wondered why even the top corporate houses hire event management companies? They understand the nitty gritty of it, hence you will seldom find a corporate house to thrust the role of event manager on their own people. Planning is the key in events management. In fact without planning it is difficult to achieve something substantial even in real life. So, event management is all about planning and it goes beyond that, in fact it is more than that.
People organize events not for the sake of organizing them, but they want to achieve something through them or want to send a message in the market. What is the objective of the event, eventually decides the goal. A good and professional events management team first of all sets the goal for themselves and only after that they plan to achieve it. Since they are professional they achieve the goal through exploiting the full potential of the resources which they have. At the same time it is the responsibility of the team to manage the risk factor. It is well known fact that when you are organizing a big event then chances are that things can go wrong at the last moments.
The event planning or the management team not only do all the running around, but also, make sure that the catering as well as the entertainments are up to the mark. Taking care of media as well as of the security also comes under their service. And on the D-day they make it a point to run the whole thing smoothly. In fact their responsibility doesn't end here because they are also supposed to take care of the lighting & décor, security, transport, and hotel reservations, etc. In a nutshell it makes sense to hire a good events management company.
Now the big question is, whom to hire. There are certain ways to know that the event company you are hiring is worth its salt or not. We are living in Internet era which means search the net and short list the profiles of different companies. Follow it by background checking. Third step is, fix an appointment and see what they have in their plate. Personal meeting will give you a fair idea about the company. And at the same time ask them to give you a detailed presentation because it will give you an idea about their creativity and thoughts.
Planning is the key in events management. Being one of the most reputed event planning companies, Carla Rossouw provides event planning service at affordable costs as per clients' special needs & requirements.
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Educational Motivating Speakers: Providing Comfort at Work / Education Through Laughter and Humor
In this world of steep competition, giving in to pressure comes almost naturally to most of us. But in order to sustain, one must not succumb to the pressure so easily, instead stand upright against all odds. At an epoch when children are pestered to take tuition rather than play out in the field, succumbing to pressure or going into depression becomes the common disaster almost in each household. But somehow, people still ignore all this and go on to lead lives as they are. It is high time that we should realize the sticky situation we all are in and try to amend this for our own benefits.
As a result of too much pressure in the educational field, people often tend to become clueless as to what to do after the preliminary education is over. Taking the condition of the job market into consideration, the situation of these poor students seems even worse. The best way to save them from such a pathetic disillusionment is to resort to the help of the educational motivational speakers. What the students need is a thorough guidance, along with motivation which will enable them to think and do better in their future. Educational motivational speakers talk to the students in distress, understand their problems and act accordingly. They have the power to usher a positive change in the students. These speakers try to solve the problem of these children in distress, by acting from their points of view. This enables the students to have faith on them and accept these speakers as their well-wishers, their friends, for it is only friends with whom one can share all the problems and dilemmas of life.
The pressure and monotony of work have reached an ever high and so much so that even grown up people and professionals are being squeezed into this burden. The wish to earn more has churned out one of the basic necessities of life - laughter. In order to get this necessity back into our lives, to see the life as it is, people now-a-days hire professional educational motivational speakers. They help to beat the stress by providing much-needed "comic therapy" to them. They understand the dilemma of the students, understand their psychology, and try to solve them rather humorously, so that this therapy does not become yet another cause of tensions.
They are experts in their own field and with their strong expertise, they are able to revitalize their clients. The demand of these expert speakers is so much that they are often hired by TV and Radio Talk Shows; they are even hired to write columns in magazines and newspapers. This ensures a far and wide reach, so that more people are able to know about and appreciate the art of these men / women. Now-a-days educational motivational speakers are even hired by companies for their employees.
Educational motivational speakers help in coping with the pressure at work and in the field of education. Educational keynote speakers work by providing the much needed comic relief to all and sundry. In doing so, they also counsel the people and motivate them to perform better.
United States Urges Great Britain to Take Them Back
(Chicago, IL) After 237 years as an independent nation, the United States of America has petitioned Queen Elizabeth II to reinstate the world's most powerful country as a protectorate of Great Britain. President Barack Obama, in a candid yet hopeful statement, commented "Look, do you see what I have to deal with here? I can't get these (congressmen) to agree on where we order for lunch. As soon as the Republicans determine that a few Democrats want pizza, all the sudden (the Republicans) are all on diets and want to order from Subway. It's hopeless. But giving the reigns back to Britain, now that's change I can believe in"
The recent move comes as no surprise to political analysts. Every American has by now heard of the sequester, a foolish attempt to lower government spending which has cut programs of everything from White House tours to medical research. This is only the latest of Congress's ineptitude to pass even the smallest of bills. The only bills that pass congress are ones trying to repeal old bills. Since the Affordable Care Act, donned "Obamacare" has passed, there have been over 30 bills coming from the Republican Congress to repeal it. All of these have quickly died in the Democrat run Senate, "The United States has serious problems. We have to talk about Immigration Reform, Rising Healthcare Costs, Social Security and Medicare Overhauls among a hundred other major issues. If these guys can't even pass a budget of what they spent last year, I don't see any reason the American people wouldn't a more experienced foreign government presiding over them" Said Ben Smith of Politico.
The mood of the American people seems hopefully apathetic towards the situation. With the average American not knowing who their Senator, Congressman or some even the Vice President, there doesn't seem to be much reason for them to care. "I'm never going to Washington DC and I'm never going to London, so whether there's a pompous asshole ruining my life in Washington or in London it really makes no difference," said local Pizano's Pizza Owner, Mark Smith. Smith's comments are echoed from Maury Sandberg, owner of Red Hots Dog Joint, "Look I'm no political expert, but nothing can be worse than who we have currently." Mark continued at the recent "Rally to Give Our Country Back", "... And do they still wear funny hats over there? Because that alone would be a major improvement."
In recent opinion polls, a United States Congressman has been the least favorable job with an approval rating of just 8%. Meanwhile, in a recent survey by Gallup Media, favorability ratings of British Parliament have been, 18% approve, 9% Disapprove, and a whopping 73% "We govern ourselves?".
But not everyone is convinced that giving up a representative government is such a good idea, namely those in our current government, "You guys need us, what else would you do every other November than hear our voices and see us posing in front of flags?," Jeff Flake (R-Arizona),"But I have to admit, the Revolutionary War did bring us all together in a special way, and another one would increase defense contracts to my state, so f*ck it, I don't care anymore". Flake is seems to be in the minority however, as we found out when bumping into other members of Congress, "Look I don't want to give up my pension as much as the next guy," said Richard "Dick" Durbin (D-Illinois) "But there comes a time when a person needs to do something right for the people... And if giving the United States back to Great Britain makes sure that our entire executive branch is fired and can't ever return to any sort of power, we have more wins than losses there" Dick said to Tribune, "Plus I won't need my pension if we have universal healthcare, bonus!"
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Twinkies Now Boarding Qantas Airlines for Australia Gate 56-A
Not long ago, I was in Hawaii and there were two women buying up all the Twinkies at the local grocery store. They were headed back to Australia and they said that Twinkies were no longer available in Australia ever since Hostess filed bankruptcy. They were going to take back what looked like some 40 boxes of Twinkies with them from their vacation. Wow, apparently this desert type food has a global reach. Let's go ahead and talk about this for a moment shall we?
Now then, for frequent flyers on a good many airline you are allowed to take an extra suitcase back, and that makes sense, and really 40 boxes of Twinkies doesn't weigh that much, so it won't affect the aircraft's performance, as it would if you were taking say 40 boxes of gold bars home with you. Nevertheless, it might be interesting trying to get them through customs. What if they decided to confiscate them? And if you think about it, the TSA employees could just put those 40 boxes in their break room - I mean to say; they'd have desserts for lunch for quite a while.
What if those Twinkies got smashed? What if the suitcase got smashed? Would there be white cream oozing out of the baggage? I wonder what Twinkies look like on a scanner? Would that cause a TSA employee to open the boxes, just to make sure that they were actually the former Hostess treats, and not some sort of sneaky cargo loaded onto the plane by an evil doer?
And really, it's quite interesting isn't it? No one really paid much attention to Twinkies, until one day they weren't available, and then there was a run on the market, you couldn't find Twinkies on the shelf of any grocery store, and people were selling them for large sums of money on eBay as soon as they were no longer being made.
Of course, like any food item Twinkies have a shelf life. It's hard to say if those Hostess look-alikes ever made it all the way back to Australia in a lady's luggage. I guess I would've given it a 50-50 chance. That night I found myself amused with the thought of hearing something on the loudspeaker out at the airport;
"Twinkies now boarding Qantas Airlines for Australia gate number 56-A," and then I thought how wonderful it was that the world was so connected that as soon as Twinkies became available in one part of the world, they quickly made it to all the rest. Thank god for modern airline travel, even if humans use it for silly things. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative eBook on Airliner Travel. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
The Call for Healthcare Speakers and Futurists
Along with the worldly sicknesses comes other mundane element, such as hypertension, stress, anxiety, obesity etc. A perfect example would be a middle-aged woman who habitually takes heavy doses of medications for stress relief which in turn harms their nervous system adversely. Yet another instance that you may have come across often is that of an adolescent kid who has been rehabilitated after a period of substance abuse. Teenagers who have been rehabilitated are offered to attend these health care and motivational seminars in order to cope up with post-traumatic stress. While medicines are aimed at physical healing the mental trauma can only be cured by socialized medicine. Socialized medicine is a word used in the United States to represent and discuss systems of universal health care.
Most of you may think that the field of healthcare is a drab, boring, sleep-arousing subject. But these days many of these keynote speakers have a humorous approach towards health topics as depressed patients feel much light headed and happy after attending a gleeful discourse. Comedy is indeed a remedy especially when stress is the new epidemic ailment of our era. After all it is rightly said "Laughter is the best medicine". These futurist orators believe in spreading their knowledge by verbally communicating with the crowd, as oral communication has a great way to reach the masses. Their approaches may differ but the cause is the all the same - Universal health care.
Healthcare speakers therefore contribute immensely to the social welfare. They are best known for conveying discourses on a wide-ranging assortment of health matters such as health insurance, diseases, drug rehabilitation, physical fitness and other health areas. They usually render the speeches at special events, seminars and conferences. Most of them work hand in hand alongside of various medical bodies or health organizations.A few of them also work as individuals. If you're looking out for reliable healthcare speakers, you can easily avail one.
These days you can easily avail a speaker online. Now-a-days, a lot of experts as well as aspiring orators have their personal websites from where you can choose to browse through their services and various other therapeutic techniques. You may even choose to read informational blogs and discussion forums for further understanding of the significance of reflective listening. Ensure that you select the best amongst all to ensure satisfactory services. In order to compare services, you can browse through a list of websites. You can also choose to read patient reviews after attending a certain speaker's seminar in order to make an affirmative choice. Some websites offer online registration forms to enroll in a specific health care session. You can even contact the respective speaker personally if you have further queries.
healthcare speakers are the ones that motivates their listeners to immediately spring to their feet and act upon what was conveyed to them. This is indeed a looked for quality in speech-making setting. To acquire some light-weight yet life enhancing information you can definitely sign-up with the seminar of your favorite healthcare keynote speakers
Monday, 16 September 2013
Why Are There So Few Female Mad Scientists?
There's an inescapable imbalance in the history of dramatic storytelling: The rarity of the species known as the Female Mad Scientist. Why is this and who is responsible for it? Why do we remain blissfully unconscious of this inequality and when will someone step in to address the problem?
Insight into these matters may be gained by looking at historical precedent. Some may see Ancient Greek and Renaissance Shakespearean witches and their chemistry-like potions as forerunners of or parallels to traditionally male mischief makers. But the twentieth century locked in the male mad scientist with his laboratory-produced superpowers or accidental enhancements of mind and body ripe for misuse.
Sometimes the mad scientist used their power for The Good: to fight crime or protect the community from the derangements of other mad scientists who have gotten out of hand. Then there are some who use their abilities for The Not-So-Good. This breed is often misunderstood and beset by psychological troubles, and inclined to make statements not unlike the following: "Those fools at the institute laughed at me. But now they'll pay. They'll PAY," etc.
Recently, a small but not insignificant part of the mad scientist world has been occupied by women and girls with the full range of eccentricities and ethical stances, from quasi-angelic to neo- (or retro) evil. But these new popular culture developments are essentially token gestures that don't get to the meat of the trouble and certainly haven't leveled the playing field in any serious way, certainly nothing approximating 50-50.
What's needed to bring this more than implicit bigotry to an end? Easy. An outreach program. Recruitment of female mad scientists in fiction and in real life, considering that life imitates art and vice-versa, in feedback loops.
Identification of good candidates along with testing and training must begin early, possibly from the womb (cue the comic book character movie and television theme songs, preferably with classical music arrangements).
Pre-school programs should adhere/subscribe to the policy of no mad scientist left behind, especially important when you consider that even at this early age the ratio of male to female science interests is usually unequal, for whatever reasons, nature or nurture.
But what should be the curriculum for these girls with world-saving or world-destroying or controlling futures? And are mad scientists made or just born that way? The old nature vs. nurture arguments crop up even here. Whatever the answer, we must press on to erase the end-result second class status, nay, status quo.
Well behaved girls rarely become mad scientists, so a new program of disinhibition may be the way to go in the three to eight year old range/group. Arm pit noises, the sounds of flatulence and musical burping of the alphabet will no longer be considered taboo for the girl group in training. It's been found that 100% of mad scientists started with these skills. They are gateway noises and their practice should be not just for boys.
Though it's still not clear if this noises/mad scientist relationship is causative or merely correlational, leading theorist consider the full unsuppressed expression of these sounds to be like the base of a pyramid--early building blocks helping to unleash the strange and the magical stuff that lurks within. This may be compared to loud sounds used by martial artists to help generate power by unblocking self- conscious things that can hold us back. Soon the full repertoire of skills and talents can issue forth and be released into the world at large.
Ultimately, there shall be no segregation of mad scientists by gender. Indeed, men do not have a monopoly on holding cities hostage, for ransom, perhaps with the threatened release of an untreatable yet communicable virus. Are women and girls any less inclined to introduce genetic transmogrifications that unleash monsters on any population? And surely women are just as interested in using chemical weaponry to achieve their nefarious ends.
Science in the wrong hands can create a Pandora's box of troubles, but the wrong hands are neither exclusively male nor female. And doubtless both genders are equally capable of expressions of public insanity, the hallmark of the mad scientist and his or her deeds.
And why should gender have anything to do with attempts to "rule the world," a dubious goal at best?
In conclusion, let us recognize the problem and face up to the need to set things right. Our goal? A gender-neutral world of mad scientists with an array of superpowers--expressing the best and the worst in us, faithfully and honestly and accurately reflecting the emotional truths about people and the worlds they create.
Shlomo Yermoyahu is the author of the comedic E-novella "They're Playing God With Our Watermelons." His brand of silliness can be found at http://www.ShlomoLogic.com.
Is There A Comedy Gene?
Is a sense of humor rooted in our genes? Does it come from our environment? No one seems to know the answer. I propose an experiment to answer the question once and for all: Identical twins separated at birth.
People with a reputation for making others laugh almost always have strong comedy influences, most often a household family member---usually a funny parent or sibling. But is biology the driving force? There may be a comedy gene, but proving it requires experiments establishing cause and effect relationships. Will our chosen experiment help us untangle this nature vs. nurture question?
We are apparently the only animal that laughs so it seems reasonable to think that this capacity would be reflected in the human genome. But where? And how does it work? Does it function independently or is it coupled with other tendencies? For example, if your comedy gene is in its recessive form and therefore switched off (in other words, you're not funny), might this work in tandem with another gene giving you, say, an intense and insuppressible urge to study and practice mortuary science?
Even if we can localize the gene in question--assuming it exists at all--what problems or dangers might be in store for us if we choose to play God and fiddle with this forbidden knowledge? Would genetic counseling then be necessary to avoid the sad fate of those afflicted with two parents, both carriers of the recessive form of the gene? Would in vitro fertilization be used to counter this or for parents who insist on a funny child? Or should we go a step further by uniting comedy-gene dominant individuals for reproductive purposes in a belief that humor should be nurtured, encouraged and even created in order to make the world a better place?
Before we trouble ourselves with these derivative problems, we must first clarify and unearth the true source of comedy. And here identical twins may help us. One twin would be placed with a funny family. The other with an unfunny family. Then, watch what happens.
With an eye toward creating unfunnyness, the simplest approach would involve placing one child with two parents, each trained as an actuary--someone working with the statistics of the insurance business. The likelihood of any kind of mirth in such a household would be very small indeed. Oh, perhaps the occasional snicker, just to be polite, but not much chance of sustained merriment. Surely, genetic influences would be operating in and through such a couple.
But wait. Not so fast. Using simple common sense may help us see that actuarial parents could be very good soil indeed for the growth of comedy--could in fact produce a comedian. Such is the perversity of human nature where pleasure in the inappropriate and in incongruity in general may well be at the root of what we think of as funny.
The alternative situation may point to a fundamental problem with our experimental design. A twin raised by a funny family, maybe two stand-up comedians, could result in a teenage rebellion that commonly vectors toward its opposite--in this case a pronounced sense of maturity and sobriety that brooks no nonsense. Or, the household with no one normal to model the straightness and ordinariness of the real world, could result in people (including the twin) too hip to laugh, trying only to outdo one another in increasingly crazy and far out ways that the rest of us can no longer understand.
Perhaps more fundamentally, what do we mean when we say something is funny? How can we recognize it in a measurable and scientifically reliable way?
People who study and teach comedy would seem to be of little help here. They are almost invariably not funny, except unintentionally. One common piece of advice given to those who aspire to make others laugh is this: Don't take yourself so seriously. Don't take life so seriously. But this is bad advice. Comedians do take themselves seriously, they do take life seriously, (that's why they're so funny!), responding with the development of strong attitudes channeling their frustration with the world and its BS in ways more constructive than say, overeating or gambling or violent crimes. The lesson: Serious is funny. Funny, not so funny (or at least not as funny).
Besides, a race of funny men and women could render the world unmotivated, undisciplined and, in the wrong hands, easier to control and subdue. Or compare this with a race of the unfunny. One group can't get much work done; the other has no fun doing it. Two tragedies. And who would win in a war between the funny and the unfunny? In a war such as this there can be no winners. Instead, this may be an illustration of the consequences of tampering with the serious and the silly within society at large and within ourselves.
Must we remain forever ignorant and confused about such matters? Will the question of the origins of comedy remain forever up in the air, mysteriously elusive? Perhaps ignorance truly is bliss here.
On the other hand, can progress be stopped? Can we resist playing with new toys? And if we follow such a potentially dangerous course of action, might we find ourselves longing for the good old days of nature's bell curve distributions.
Shlomo Yermoyhau is the author of the co
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