Ten Minute Humor

The workweek (or school week) (or just Monday and the four days after it) usually involve a lot of stress, deadlines, impatient people, rude people, mistakes, lunches eaten too quickly, traffic, and maybe more talk radio than is healthy. It makes us irritable and tense, but creates substantial need for therapists and masseurs.



Enter humor - laughing burns calories, relieves stress, and creates opportunities for socialization (just like cigarettes, except cheaper and no yellow teeth. Plus you can do it inside without endangering others' health.) Ten minutes of laughing a day might just turn a crappy day into -- well, something survivable. Or enjoyable. And it fits into a standard cigarette break, so you don't even have to feel guilty about it.



I like to laugh, and I like to share what I find funny -- sometimes something is funny on its own merit; sometimes things are funny unintentionally, but the laughter is pretty much the same. I'll also throw in some fascinating things. And some fun things. So let's try to spend ten minutes most work days laughing together. See you on Monday, but until then --



A fairly recent trend on the internet has been literal music videos - musicians take a vintage music video, and replace the audio track with a more apt, but still musical, description of what's going on. See if you like it better than the original:







Just for comparison's sake - here's the original, which also might seem a little funny:





See you on Monday.