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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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0 posted 2016-01-14 10:27 AM




It is said that laughter
is the best medicine.
I say that silly
stimulates the best
kind of laughter.
Silly insists upon
several things.
Ego must go,
the inner child
must come.
Social confines
cut loose
and decorum disbanded.
Silly has cohorts,
abandon and glee,
that stand head and shoulders
above the mere funny.
It blesses both the giver and the receiver
with the ridiculous.
Silly doesn’t utter chuckles,
it rolls out in rounds of belly laughs.
Silly snorts and howls in gales.
Silly runs in tears and side aches.
Silly catches its breath
and makes your face hurt.

LGR©1/14/16

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Ticklefingers
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Posts 710
Louisiana
1 posted 2016-01-14 11:28 AM


Aw go on now! That's just plain silly and you know it!


88 servings of chopped liver youse!

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2016-01-14 11:32 AM


Can I get fried onion with that liver? I just love liver and onions! ~L
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
3 posted 2016-01-14 12:26 PM


Yep, pass around that liver and onions, you two.

I agree, Lori, silly is the way to go when we're being . . . well . . . silly . . .

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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4 posted 2016-01-14 08:31 PM


Silly does have its time and place that is for sure and a little can go a long way but I highly recommend it. ~L
MissMarti
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Posts 87
USA
5 posted 2016-01-15 05:57 AM


Lori, I loved this! As adults we seem to have forgotten your words. Children are silly and can giggle constantly but as adults we are fortunate to laugh once in a while!

Great thoughts and writing, MissMarti

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
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6 posted 2016-01-16 03:28 PM


Wonderfully expressed truth, dear Lori! Our  body and our brain enjoy that unbound natural explosion of laughter and our diaphragm expands and causes us a true high!

I remember when I literally rolled on the floor laughing for some silly thing as a child and what made it impossible to stop was my Mom's terrified face. She said over and over "stop, stop", get some air!

Now of course as adults it happens rarely, but when it does happen it's a welcome "miracle".

Love,
Margherita

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