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I used to think being silly was somehow unevolved. But after living through some experiences where everything was deadly serious, i came to appreciate play and being silly, and even all the "unimportant" stuff in society as being very important indeed!

Play helps us to relieve stress, it helps us focus on the good parts of life, it helps us to bond with others over sharing good feelings, it brings us into the moment, it recharges our energy and so many wonderful things.

Have you played today? Have you told a joke? Have you been willing to be silly and risk letting others see you that way? Can you play with children like you are a child yourself?

Hollyelise,

Even if we remain serious all our life, we will die and go to dust.
Better have some fun and play like a child.

can we begin telling some jokes?

YES! That sounds WONDERFUL!

It will be interesting too if we can find jokes that work across cultures!

It had been snowing for hours when an announcement came over the high school intercom: "Will the students who are parked on University Drive please move their cars so that we may begin plowing."

Twenty minutes later there was another announcement: "Will the twelve hundred students who went to move 26 cars, return to class."

That is a class joke.

Class as in education, or class as in society class? I didn't see it as a society class joke, did you?

hahahah. It still works!

Regarding the other, no i was not trying to make another joke but was sincerely inquiring because i'm concerned i might have unintentionally offended das. I thought about it a long time after reading his comment, because his comment puzzled me. And i thought, India has had a very different history than America with social class structure, and whereas i don't see the students in the joke as coming from any particular social class... well i just hope this wasn't a case of a joke meaning something entirely different when read by someone from a different country.

I've had a joke backfire before when it crossed international borders, and don't want it to happen again, but sometimes i just don't know enough to avoid the risk. I told a sports joke a few years ago to a Scottish penpal of mine, and it used the word, "jock," which in America only means an athlete very focused on sports. The joke had nothing to do with nationalities. But I was completely oblivious to the fact that in the U.K., "jock" is an insulting term used to label Scots, and he was completely oblivious to the fact that here it means something completely different. Well the joke backfired so horribly, that my penpal wouldn't even talk to me for days and then was very curt! We eventually got the misunderstanding all straightened out, but man! That was painful!

In India any thing very good is called class.

That was a great joke.

aaah, NOW i see!

One of my very favorite memories from HS was on a band trip... I had been very blue because my boyfriend dumped me. The drum major and I got on the elevator together, and we wound up getting totally goofed up as to which floors we were on (the guys had 1 1/2 floors and we had 1 1/2). Anyway we wound up playing "elevator tag" and getting about 15 other students involved. But I remember just giggling like crazy. (Of course I'm sure the adults weren't so tickled!) But I still think back to that very silly game and grin.

OK, now a joke...

hahahhaha! Yep, that's right.

That again was a good joke harmony.

Haha harmony...

My kids love to tell the father this...

"You are the head of the family but Mom is the neck. And the head turns where the neck turns".

They always tell their father this when we get into little fights (borrowed shamelessly from My Big Fat Greek Wedding).

hahahaha!

The neck makes the head turn! lovely joke.

All right, i joke today based on biblical quotes, but i think everyone can get it regardless of their beliefs and doubt anyone will take offense, so here goes...

A pastor went out one Saturday to visit his church members. At one house, it was obvious that someone was home, but nobody came to the door even though the preacher knocked several times. Finally, the preacher took out his card, wrote out "Revelation 3:20" on the back of it, and stuck it in the door:

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me. - Revelation 3:20

The next day, the card turned up in the collection plate at the church. Below the preacher's message was written the following notation:

I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself. - Genesis 3:10

Ha,ha,ha,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I always found this funny as a kid... but no one else really did except my mom lol...

ask me if Im a tree.

Are you a tree?

Holly, that's wonderful! I'm passing that one on to my pastor.

I'm glad you liked it!

Poster: MadamPeachy
Subject: Re: Is play valuable?

Are you a tree?
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No. Ask me if Im a boat.
(it's not as funny online lol....)

Are you a boat?

Nope.

What are you then?

oh [censored] lol... it didnt work as well on here. I wasnt expecting that question LOL.

Its just supposed to go : Ask me if Im a tree, "are you a tree?" no. ask me if Im a boat. "are you a boat?" no. HJAHHAHAHHAHAHHA....


(its funny cuz they asked a silly question that obviously isnt true lol) oh man...

but it IS funny! and i really did get it, i was just being a stinker.

Okay, here's one for you:

What's big, red, and eats rocks?

a big red rock eater?! lol

YES!

Now what's big, red, and eats sand?

...a big red sand eater?! hehehe

Nope! A big, red, rock eater. You see, they eat sand, too.

ahhh hahhahaha

I heard this silly joke awhile ago..

What did the elephant say to the man?

i don't know.

..It's cute but can you really breathe out of it?!

hehehe

HAHAHA!

good one.

That was funny.

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German,which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away.

By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaiining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reali sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!

LOL

Here is a thought:

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was
and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never
yours to begin with. If, however, it just sits in your living
room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your
telephone, takes your money, and never appears to have noticed
that you actually set it free in the first place, you either
married it or gave birth to it!

hahahahaha!!!

John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn't help noticing how beautiful John's roommate, Julie, was. Mom had long been suspicious of a relationship between John and his roommate, and this only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and Julie than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, John volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Julie and I are just roommates."

About a week later, Julie came to John and said, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" John said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll write her a letter just to be sure."

So he sat down and wrote "Dear Mother, I'm not saying you did take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you did not take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner."

Several days later, John received a letter from his mother which read: "Dear Son, I'm not saying that you do sleep with Julie, and I'm not saying that you do not sleep with Julie. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now. Love, Mom."

Lesson of the day... Don't Lie To Your Mother.

LOL!!! that's hilarious!

Good one :P

A little girl in Natural History class is listening intently tot he teacher talking about the blue whale, and how it's the biggest mammal on the planet, but only eats tiny krill.... Suzie's little hand shoots up...
"A whale swallowed Jonah" she states.
The teacher tries to explain that actually, this is probably a fable, but even though the Bible says a whale swallowed Jonah, it's not physically possible, because a whale can't do that, the throat is too narrow...
The little girl insists, and the teahcer begins to get a little irate, even though she doesn't want to be seen to be either losing the argument, or her temper....
Finally, Suzie declares -
"Well, when I get to Heaven, I'll ask Jonah myself!"
The teacher snaps back,
"Fine! But maybe, if he was telling fibs, he went to Hell, so what then, huh?"
"well then," retorts Suzie,

"You can ask him."

Holly and Alexandra have both cheered me up.

Laughter IS the best medicine - the thing that drives the clouds from the human face.....! Glad it made you smile, friend!

Along the same lines, a little girl was asking her mother why there were a few grey hairs among her black tresses.

Mother replied:

That's because of all the worry you cause me when you're naughty.

Small child thinks for a moment, then says:

Now I know why Grandma's hair is white!

Out of the mouths of babes!!!!

Ann.

That was a lovely joke, Ann.

So, 3 pieces of string walked into a pub. The first one went to the bar tender and asked for a beer, the bar tender replied "Sorry I don't serve your kind here". The second piece of string decided to give it a shot, walked up to the bar and asked for a beer. Again, the bar tender replied "sorry I don't serve your kind here". Finally, the third piece of string decided to tie himself into a knot and fray his hair and walked up to the bar tender and said "3 beer please" The bar tender once again replied "I've already told you guys, I don't serve your kind here!!" The third piece of string said "what do you mean?!" The bar tender relpied "string... I don't serve string here..." The string then replied saying, "but I'm afraid not!"


hahahha... get it he was a frayed knot!!! LOL

Lala, good laugh.

Very good, Lala.

A scientist gets on a train to go to New York. His cabin also has a poor farmer in it. To pass the time the scientist decides to play a game with the guy.

"I will ask you a question and if you get it wrong, you have to pay me 1 dollar. Then you ask me a question, and if I get it wrong, you get 10 dollars. You ask me a question first." The farmer thinks for a while.

"I know. What has three legs, takes 10 hours to climb up a palm tree, and 10 seconds to get back down?"

The scientist is confused and thinks long and hard about the question. Finally, the train ride is coming to an end. As it pulls into the station, the scientist takes out 10 dollars and gives it to the farmer.

"I don't know. What has 3 legs, takes 10 hours to get up a palm tree and 10 seconds to get back down?"

The farmer takes the 10 dollars and puts it into his pocket. He then takes out 1 dollar and hands it to the scientist.

"I don't know."

Good joke, Holly.

Holly,

As a student of science I can use this joke to think and solve problems in lateral way.
This farmer knew that he could never win so he thought laterally and caught the scientist unaware.

Already my mind is thinking of ideas about how one can solve problems thus.

The scientist made an assumption-

all questions asked will have an answer.
But he did not tell about this assumption to the farmer.
So the farmer ignored the assumption and won.

The Perfect Couple

It doesn't say what caused the accident though, because statistics show that in accidents where women have a collision with a male driver, in the majority of cases it was the man's fault. Insurance company statistics bear this out, which is why there are 3 Motor insurance Companies in the UK who deal exclusively with women drivers, and the premiums are lower.

Just as well I didn't listen, isn't it?

Why did you not listen?

Why Men Sleep So Much

What kinds of games do you play?

I just ran around the house with my cat. We play a game... he hides and reaches for my legs with his paws when i pass by. I run away (lots of fake stomping), he chases me but i get a head start and go around a corner and stop and then when he comes around the corner i jump out and go "BOO!" He leaps in the air and runs away and i chase him... hahaha. That's one game.

I should be "too old" to run around the house like that, but it's good for both the cat and me!

That is a blessing you have.
You are blessed.

That i'm daft?

You're not getting out of it that easy! Games come in all types. Some people do crosswords. Some like to kindly tease others. Some like to challenge themselves. What game will you play?

I like to challenge myself.

Holly, you are also welcome to challenge me with intelligent posts and criticize me if I answer wrongly.

Let us play that game.
Are you game?

Why do you have to be right?

What if i say you're wrong, but i'm the one who's wrong about your being wrong? What then??? Or what if i just say you're wrong once in a while, even when i know you're right, just to be a stinker? what then?

That is part of the the game.
Let's play.
I see- we have already begun.

What an intelligent post you made!
Holly - what is your IQ?

High enough i should know better!

Are you joking?
I think that you have highest IQ on this forum. My word.

Flattering, but i doubt it. What does it matter anyway?

It matters. It matters a lot.
If someone tells me that, i would throw a party.

Have you ever seen the board game called Othello? This section of the forum reminds me of it. In Othello you have a board of 64 squares, and there are 64 pieces that are black on one side and white on the other. One player is white, the other black. On your turn you play your color to "flip" the most pieces that show your opponent's color, to your own color. I come online, and i see cdmohatta's name on the posts, or Alexandra's, or anyone's, and i start to "flip" as many posts as i can in the time i have... then someone comes in soon after me and does the same! We didn't mean it as a game... this just sort of happened.

I love othello!!! I used to play it all the time with my dad when I was a kid!