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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 03:49 am |
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Steve, I feel for ya. I don't know how you stay awake! Do you have a book on CD or something to listen to???
You be careful driving that 599 miles, you hear???
Oh, and if you pass a Stuckey's I shore would like one of those pecan logs they sell there!!! 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA SMS!!!!!!
(I'm all partied out.... Cake will have to do!)
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macca
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:09 am |
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OK, in response to the OVERWHELMING interest in the British study on humor ("Oh, please tell us more, Macca!!") I have more info to share.... ♥♥♥
- Canadians are a really, really tough crowd. Germans are the life of the party, ready to crack a smile at practically every joke thrown their way.
- Your funny bone is not located in your elbow, but in a part of the brain known as the medial ventral prefrontal cortex.
- Smart people are more likely to get complicated jokes. Says Homer Simpson, doh!
- Men and women really do laugh at different things. Mother-in-law jokes aren't quite so hilarious when there's a chance you'll become one.
- Laughing increases your blood pressure and heart rate, changes breathing rhythm, boosts the immune system and lowers the level of certain neurochemicals in the brain.
- Those annoying sitcom laugh tracks actually work, prodding audiences to see the joke whether they find it funny or not.
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macca
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:13 am |
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Poker-faced Canadians ranked dead last in the humour sweepstakes, although they did show a preference for gags with a strong superiority quotient. Of the roughly 40,000 jokes that circulated during the three-month study, Canadians liked this one best:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.
Care to know what the punch line is? Why the Canadians think it is so funny???? ♥♥♥
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macca
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:17 am |
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Word for the day:
Gelotology -- the mystery of what makes us laugh, why we need to and how it is that some of us just don't get it. ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:17 am |
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I care Macca!!! I care!!!! What's the punch line??? <Can't imagine really.....>
And Germans crack smiles???
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:19 am |
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macca wrote: Word for the day:
Gelotology -- the mystery of what makes us laugh, why we need to and how it is that some of us just don't get it. ♥♥♥
That's the word I was looking for when I named this forum Macca! Gelotology!
Much ado about Gelotology! Has a nice ring to it..... MAAG!
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macca
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:20 am |
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Another word for the day: Amygdala -- the brain's reward center! ♥♥♥
A few years ago, researchers in Toronto and London discovered we use different areas of the brain to process jokes. Puns run through brain circuits near speech zones; routines that rely on abstract ideas are sifted through a bilateral network in the temporal lobes. The payoff -- that little burst of joy after we've decoded the Far Side cartoon, or grasped what Poppy's been doing to Seinfeld's couch -- happens in the amygdala.
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macca
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:25 am |
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Cracker Jax wrote:
macca wrote: Word for the day:
Gelotology -- the mystery of what makes us laugh, why we need to and how it is that some of us just don't get it. ♥♥♥
That's the word I was looking for when I named this forum Macca! Gelotology!
Much ado about Gelotology! Has a nice ring to it..... MAAG!
WOO HOO, I LIKE IT, TOO, QUACKAH!!!! ♥♥♥
I had decided I was all by myself!! Glad you're still around!!! ♥♥♥
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macca
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:27 am |
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macca wrote:
Poker-faced Canadians ranked dead last in the humour sweepstakes, although they did show a preference for gags with a strong superiority quotient. Of the roughly 40,000 jokes that circulated during the three-month study, Canadians liked this one best:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.
Care to know what the punch line is? Why the Canadians think it is so funny???? ♥♥♥
The Russians used a pencil.
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:30 am |
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Ok... duh. I did not see that pencil thing coming. Quacked me up! Does that mean I'm Canadian???? 
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:31 am |
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Hey macca... if you're still up, go look at that unsightly fish pic I posted on the SF TC forum. Do you think I'll get in trouble for that??? Maybe it might shock a 9 year old. It is nature though.....
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:32 am |
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| CRACKAH! I caught the picture you just posted over on the SFTC page! You could post it here, too! It's great! Very appropriate over there..... ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:34 am |
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ok... if I get in trouble, I'm telling them that you said it was ok.... Strength in numbers and all that.
I'm not posting it over here. If they want to see it they'll have to go to the SF TC forum (cross the fine line) and read WHY I posted it!
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:35 am |
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| We're posting at the same time again, about the same things...... dododooooodo dododoooooooodo!!! ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jul 17th, 2006 04:36 am |
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Besides..... I don't want to stink up MAAN.
Something already smells "Fishy" on Summerfield's Town Council!
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