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After the extremely sad ‘It  Should Never Come To This’ post I though it would be a good idea to inject a bit of humor today and hopefully send you into the weekend with a smile on your face and a spring in your step.

This post has nothing to do with Life Coaching or self-development and if you are reading by e-mail you may need to click  through to the site. Trust me, it will be worth the effort.

If you are the sender or recipient of text messages, or if you frequent Twitter or Internet message boards you will almost certainly be aware of the acronyms, LOL and LMAO and you may even know what ROTFLMAO and PIMP are too.

In case, unlike me, you actually have a ‘real’ life, they mean: laugh out loud, laughing my ass off, rolling on the floor laughing my ass off and pissing in my pants. I’m presuming the last one means laughter has caused the bodily seepage and the poor person involved isn’t announcing to the world they have a serious incontinence issue.

I seem to see at least person a day on Twitter proclaim they have just spat coffee on their keyboard and/or monitor they were laughing so much and others declaring various states of hilarity and I stared to wonder…

“Is this Internet and not Disneyworld, the happiest place on earth?”

I decided to test my theory by asking a few of the people that really do make me laugh out loud, for an example of something that never fails to make them chuckle. I sent out 20 e-mails to online friends and sat back waiting for their favorite jokes, stories and videos to roll in.

I’m still waiting, as only 4 people responded. I toyed with scrapping the idea and retreating into a darkened room to lick my wounds and plot some terrible revenge. But then I thought, no, fuck it, I demand laughter!

And anyway the responses I did get were hilarious, so without further ado, get a hold of your sides in case they should split and let’s lighten things up.

First up bearing in the opening to the post is techie guy Mike Tekula from Unstuck Digital with this rib tickling story that proves it is possible to laugh at death.

My mother has recently ventured into the tech world, and I’ve caught her picking up on new lingo as a result. Her text messages to me sometimes close, “Holla Back, Mom.”

Last year her favorite aunt took a turn for the worst, and she traveled across the country to be with her, reporting back to our family via email to keep us updated.

“Aunt Martha is not doing well. She’s in a weakened state, doesn’t recognize us and has trouble breathing. We’re all very sad but trying to keep in good spirits for Uncle Charlie’s sake.  - LOL, Mom”

She had mistakenly taken the popular initialism, “LOL,” to stand for “lots of love,” and her emails took on a rather odd twist as a result.

We shouldn’t laugh I know, but a similar amusing story was the day before my mum died. She was very poorly and all the family including grandkids were in her room as she drifted in and out of consciousness.

All of a sudden she sat bolt upright, opened her eyes and scanned the room slowly looking at everybody before saying:

“I suppose you lot are here to see me snuff it, well don’t worry you won’t have long to wait”

My mum had a brilliant sense of humor and trust me, she’d love that it made us all howl.

Next up we have the mighty Jonathan Fields and I can honestly say I was almost crying with laughter when I read his e-mail.

My email provider for my blog updates automatically truncates posts, turns them into excerpts and drops them into emails to be sent to my subscribers. Well, last week, a longstanding member of my tribe emailed to let me know that the post excerpt in his update that week had a rather humorous, yet unintended ending. Pay attention to the last sentence -

Are You Obsessed With Money, Freedom or Impact? - 2010-08-13 08:01:11-04

Guest post from Peter Shallard, the Shrink for Entrepreneurs. Check out his blog or for mini Jedi-mind-tricks, follow @PeterShallard on Twitter ++++ The idea to write this post started with a twitter conversation Jonathan kicked off with these words of wisdom: Don’t lead with “how am I gonna make money?” Instead, ask “how am I gonna blow people [...]

I’m guessing that it was chopped before Peter had time to add the word ‘away’ Or maybe not, who knows?

I knew Mr JohnnyBTruant would make me laugh out loud and he delivered. He sent me  a link to the video clip below that I watched about 10 times on the trot. It really does take censorship to a whole new level.

Next is my favorite English hypnotherapist called Adam Eason that has blond hair and supports a crap soccer team. Spookily he linked to a video that is in my own top 3 and I was already considering posting.

It’s a clip from Family Guy and to be enjoyed it really HAS to be watched all the way through. It’s a classic example of taking a  joke too far that it starts to become unfunny and then gets get funny all over again.

He also shared this story.

Then there is the time when I was 19 years old, with my 3 best friends and we all drunkenly left our local snooker center in the rain. We  jumped into a waiting taxi and told him where to take us.

When there were only two of us remaining, he told us that he was not actually a taxi, he was just getting some petrol and was too scared to tell us. We had just climbed in and not even considered he was anything else!

Stop Press – This hilarious post just in from Bob Poole after I published –

25 Headlines Gone Right!

I want to close with two clips, the first is from one of my all time favorite comedians, the very English, Eddie Izzard.

When I do value elicitation with clients I ask them to pick 8 anti-values. Occasionally death comes up and it never fails to make me laugh when I’m going through the list comparing one value against another as I always want to say rather than “What’s worse for you poverty or death?” – “What’s worse for you cake or death?”

Lots of swearing and very political, so be warned!

And finally the last one is for Helen (my wife) as it always has her in hysterics.

I’d love to know what it is that always makes you laugh and who knows I may even do this every month or so to remind people that laughter isn’t just ok, it’s a prerequisite!