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"The theoretician's prayer: 'Dear Lord, forgive me the sin of
arrogance, and Lord, by arrogance I mean the following...'"
Leon Lederman
WORTH THINKING ABOUT: LAUGHTER
The comedian Steve Allen, who was the first host of "The Tonight Show"
(before Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, and Jay Leno), points out:
"We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that
we have no sense of humor. A man will admit to being a coward, a liar, a
thief, an adulterer, a poor mechanic, or a bad swimmer, but tell him that
he has a dreadful sense of humor and you might as well have slandered his
mother. Even if he is civilized enough to pretend to make light of your
statement, he will still secretly believe that he has, not only a good
sense of humor, but one superior to most. This is all the more surprising
when you consider that not one person in a million can give you any kind of
intelligent answer as to what humor is or why he or she laughs."
Quoted from Steve Allen's "How To Be Funny," which you can find by going to:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573922064/newsscancom/
(We donate all revenue from our book recommendations
to Literacy Action, in support of adult literacy.)
from
NewsScan Daily, 14 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")
<http://www.newsscan.com/>
janet paterson
52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0
a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/>
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