When You Need a Laugh

After a really long week, I’m in the mood to share something light and fun. The following are Twitter hashtags and users who occasionally give me a laugh or share an interesting fact or quote. Even if you aren’t on Twitter, you can still click on the links and check them out. I’ve included a sampling of tweets with each hashtag or Twitter user listed below.

(For those of you who are not familiar with a hashtag, it’s a way for users to search and follow themed content across all tweets by using the # symbol to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet.)


#FiveWordsAfterSex

• Note to self: Buy batteries (via @TweakerTweets)
   
• I can't feel my legs (via @Brownskin_Mo)
   
• Round four in the shower (via @Arii_B_SoReal)
   
• Guess you're not Gay (via @Treehousecasino) 

@OMGFactsSex

• Despite conventional wisdom, men are actually more romantic than women! --- http://ow.ly/6J0pE
   
• An identical twin has 20-50% chance of being gay if the other is
   
• People have had sex 'on' the Moon! How so? -- http://t.co/BpTYPTjk
   
• Men's testosterones levels rise by 45.7% after 7 days of not ejaculating! Details -- http://t.co/Ab7Szmy9
   
• 34% of men admitted that they told lies to have sex

#sexquote

• Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. - Rodney Dangerfield (via @Regeene)
   
• Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. - Woody Allen (via @Regeene)
   
• Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any. (via @MeghanJade)

#WorstPickUpLines

• I like your clothes, I bed they'd look even better on my bedroom floor (via @387wagner)
   
• girl I know yo feet hurt cause you been runnin through my mind all night! (via @FromLA_France)
   
• Do you like clocks? (Yes.) Put two hands and a face on this. (Point down) (via @SindeeDanger)
   
• Are my undies showing? Answer: "No." You: "Would you like them to? (via @The_WunderKind)

Do you have a hashtag or user you follow that gives you a good laugh?

The Power of Laughter

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
- Charlie Chaplin

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
- Jean Houston

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
- Yakov Smirnoff


I admire the heck out of writers who can repeatedly make readers laugh out loud. It doesn’t matter the genre of the story. In fact, a humorous line can happen in the most unexpected books and still work. It’s all about voice and character and where the author chooses to place the humorous moments.

Even on the worst days, laughter can turn emotions around in a flash, can help start the process of healing, and can connect us with another person in a way little else can. It’s a powerful part of being human. I believe when we don’t laugh enough, our overall mood is negatively affected.

I was struggling with my WIP this week, and that frustration has a tendency to leak into other parts of my life. I know it’s getting bad when we decide to relax and watch a movie and the first words from my partner are, “Let’s watch something that’ll make you laugh.” But not all movies and TV shows labeled as comedies can get me laughing. I suppose that’s true of everyone. Like most forms of entertainment, humor is highly subjective. And one issue in finding good comedies that fit my tastes is that when selecting a movie, I almost always skip the comedies and go for action, suspense, or drama. Way to increase my odds.

I do have a few movies and TV shows that almost always make me laugh, or at least give me a smile, and they’ve become my standbys when I know I’m letting a bad mood take hold. Here are a few:

• Office Space
• Galaxy Quest
• My Cousin Vinny
• Parenthood
• The Golden Girls
• The first season of Roseanne
• Specific episodes of The Closer, M*A*S*H, and Friends

So what are your comedic standbys that give you a smile and a laugh?

Sloan Parker
www.sloanparker.com

Laugh and the world laughs with you

Cry and you cry alone.

My dad used to stay this ALL the time. He was a firm believer in the power of humor, and I've tried to take that approach to life.

While my books often have serious situations, I usually try to include some humor, be it a one liner or two or a funny situation. I don't know I'm witty enough to carry an entire romantic comedy novel, but who knows what the future will being when I start writing.

"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion."--From Steel Magnolias

My family and I have often gotten through tough times with humor. My husband was outside the hospital room when my mother had just passed away. My sisters and I laughed over something. A nurse gave the door an odd look. He told her they deal with things this way. And we do, probably because of how we were raised.

I think that's one thing that attracted me to my hubby and has kept us together, that he has a sense of humor.

What are things that have made you laugh in the past week?

My youngest dressing up like "a ghost" with a paper bag costume and looking for a lightsaber made me laugh.

Mechele Armstrong aka Lany Of Melany Logen
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
http:///www.melanylogen.com