{"id":515,"date":"2007-01-19T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/01\/19\/friday-fun-for-jan-19-2007\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:19","slug":"friday-fun-for-jan-19-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/01\/19\/friday-fun-for-jan-19-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday fun for Jan 19, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laughter\">laughter<\/a>. We&#8217;re going to look at it from a couple of directions.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a video that proves the old adage that laughter is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic\">contagious<\/a>. I&#8217;m not going to say much about this video. But I guarantee that you&#8217;ll be laughing your lungs out during it. If you don&#8217;t &#8211; well, I don&#8217;t believe you.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the video below or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w\">click on this link<\/a> to see it on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A smile is just a smile&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My second item has a bit more scientific basis. While it won&#8217;t make you laugh out loud, it might make you smile. Or at least, make you think about other people smiling.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the BBC website, I invite you to take this simple test to see whether you can figure out the difference between a fake smile and a real one.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I want you to do that? Well&#8230;take the test and then let me know in the comments why you think I&#8217;ve added it here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/humanbody\/mind\/surveys\/smiles\/\">Here&#8217;s the link to the test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want this guy to paint my building<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_plNK-YE-FJo\/RbD33k2i9sI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/HXxHArs69mg\/s1600-h\/building.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/building.jpg?w=629\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021786118675429058\" \/><\/a><br \/>If you&#8217;ve got an extra building in your portfolio, or if you live next door to a blank wall, you should consider hiring this chap to spruce things up a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~orcl0606\/Oracle\/NWG\/NeedAPainter.html\">Check it out for yourself<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s so good, I suspect his paintings might be ruled illegal because people keep walking into the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Technorati Tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Friday+fun\" rel=\"tag\">Friday fun<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic is laughter. 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