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  1. #joke #mirth

    Have you heard the one about the gynaecologist, who after many years of plying his trade, wanted to learn some new skills. So he took an evening motor mechanics course at tech.

    At the end of the semester, he was given a test where he had to strip a motor down and reassemble it. When he got the results back of the exam, his score was 150/100.

    Thinking this was mistake, he queried it with his instructor. He was told: "I gave you 50% for stripping the motor down, and 50% for reassembly a beautiful job, couldn't have done it better myself - and 50% for doing it all through the muffler!"

  2. #mirth #joke

    Golfer got married and sitting on edge of bed on wedding night and says to wife, "Honey I must confess I'm a golf nut and I play every day all day. However, you can always count on me for supper and the evening."

    Wife Says. "Honey, I must confess, Before we got married I was a hooker."

    Husband said. "That's OK -- to straighten out a hook put your left foot forward and turn your hands to the left."

  3. #mirth #joke

    A couple married forty years were revisiting the same places they went to on their honeymoon. Driving through the secluded countryside, they passed a ranch with a tall deer fence running along the road.

    The woman said, "Sweetheart, let's do the same thing we did here forty years ago."

    The guy stopped the car. His wife backed against the fence, and he immediately jumped her bones like a bass on a junebug. They made love like never before.

    Back in the car, the guy says, "Darlin', you sure never moved like that forty years ago--or any time since that I can remember!"

    The woman says, "Forty years ago that goddamn fence
    wasn't electrified!"

  4. #mirth #joke

    A cop pulls over a car load of nuns..

    COP: "Sister, this is a 65MPH zone, why are you going so slow?

    NUN: "Sir, I saw a lot of signs that said 22, not 65"

    COP:"Oh Sister, that's not the speed limit, that's the name of the highway you are on."

    NUN:"Oh! Silly me! Thanks for letting me know. I'll be more careful"

    At this point the cop looks in the backseat where the other nuns are shaking and trembling.

    COP:"Excuse me, SIster, what's wrong with your friends back there? They're shaking something terrible."

    NUN:"Oh, we just got off highway 119"

  5. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Cheerfullness makes the plainest features butiful, the severest winter agreeable; it elevates the lowly, and adds a charm tew grateness, all its own.
     
    [Cheerfulness makes the plainest features beautiful, the severest winter agreeable; it elevates the lowly, and adds a charm to greatness.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 281 “Variety: Bred and Butter” (1874)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/78119/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #attitude #beauty #charm #cheer #cheerfulness #exuberance #goodcheer #goodnature #greatness #hardship #mirth

  6. As I age ever closer to the great inevitability, things which once seemed very important to me are diminishing rapidly in importance, and hardly concern me at all. Things like acquisitiveness, my appearance, social propriety, and what others may think of me.
    However, I am just as amused as I ever was by the stupid things that used to amuse me.
    Many of them originate in my own mind and come out of my own mouth.
    #Age #FacingTheInevitable #Humor #Mirth

  7. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jollity #character #cheerfulness #expression #goodcheer #goodhumor #guffaw #laughter #mirth #wholeheartedness

  8. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jollity #character #cheerfulness #expression #goodcheer #goodhumor #guffaw #laughter #mirth #wholeheartedness

  9. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jollity #character #cheerfulness #expression #goodcheer #goodhumor #guffaw #laughter #mirth #wholeheartedness

  10. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #mood #emotion #cheer #cheerfulness #gladness #goodhumor #laughter #merriment #mirth #positiveattitude #serenity

  11. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #mood #emotion #cheer #cheerfulness #gladness #goodhumor #laughter #merriment #mirth #positiveattitude #serenity

  12. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #mood #emotion #cheer #cheerfulness #gladness #goodhumor #laughter #merriment #mirth #positiveattitude #serenity

  13. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #mood #emotion #cheer #cheerfulness #gladness #goodhumor #laughter #merriment #mirth #positiveattitude #serenity

  14. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #mood #emotion #cheer #cheerfulness #gladness #goodhumor #laughter #merriment #mirth #positiveattitude #serenity

  15. A quotation from Addison

    Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/1440/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #attitude #cheer #cheerfulness #mirth #peace #serenity

  16. A quotation from Horace

                                    And yet what harm can there be
    in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
    their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?
     
    [Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
    quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
    doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #bribery #education #humor #laughter #mirth #sweets #teaching #treats #truth #truthtelling

  17. Can anyone recommend good , brokers with a more product-oriented approach? I was thinking Nextgen Connect, but with a modern UI and a good developer experience. I am basically looking for persistent queues that are easy to monitor with a dashboard, HTTP interfaces and support for filter and transformation logic.

    and support are a nice-to-have.

  18. of course there's a ##forth channel with like 50 people

    and there's a ##mirth channel that i made some time ago but has been empty forever ... until today!

    EDIT: i created a #mirth channel now since it fits the libera chat policies on names.

  19. The latest update of the Mental app (getmental.com) incorporated a feature to “ask a legend” a question.

    I asked Carl Jung, “What is the funniest approach to dealing with people with unprocessed traumas?”

    #theateroflife #humor #laughter #comedy #mirth #healing #empathy #wit #trauma

  20. A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1608):

    «««««
    And know, reader, that an ounce of mirth, with the same degree of grace, will serve God farther than a pound of sadness.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/fuller-thomas-1608/5

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheer #cheerfulness #God #mirth #sadness #sorrow #virtue

  21. it arrives almost always in the company
    of others
    squeaks through the cracks
    and widens them
    like when we gathered for solstice
    under the weight
    of another wave of pandemic death
    around the glowing fire
    the milky way above
    warm bowls of beans
    held in gloved hands
    a joke told,
    eyes close
    heads tilt
    mirthful
    puffs ascend
    into the darkness

    #MastoPrompt
    #mirth
    #smallpoems
    #poetry

  22. #vss365 #vssnature & #MastoPrompt 2022-12-23

    At the Christmas market, Jenny had not noticed the bump hole when she stepped forward. In slow motion, she noticed how she #cave-d in. The moment her face hit the mud the #carolers started singing. Inconvenient at first, the incident caused a lot of #mirth.

    #WritingCommunity

  23. #vss365 #vssnature & #MastoPrompt 2022-12-23

    At the Christmas market, Jenny had not noticed the bump hole when she stepped forward. In slow motion, she noticed how she #cave-d in. The moment her face hit the mud the #carolers started singing. Inconvenient at first, the incident caused a lot of #mirth.

    #WritingCommunity

  24. #vss365 #vssnature & #MastoPrompt 2022-12-23

    At the Christmas market, Jenny had not noticed the bump hole when she stepped forward. In slow motion, she noticed how she #cave-d in. The moment her face hit the mud the #carolers started singing. Inconvenient at first, the incident caused a lot of #mirth.

    #WritingCommunity

  25. Old #Winter kissed the #Blushing #Maid,
    To #Old & #Young, he held his hand;
    “Who loves me in this guise, he said,
    Need #Fear no winter in the #Land;

    On them, I'll ask my #Daughter #Spring
    Her choicest #Blooms & balms to pour,
    The #Summer on their #Path shall #Sing,
    & #Autumn #Bless them w/ its store.

    So be ye #Happy on the #Earth,
    Whatever your #Name or station be,
    #Mingle w/ your #Christmas #Mirth
    & bounteous Christmas #Charity."

    - Charles Mackay, #Scottish #Poet, #Happy Winter, Verse Three

  26. Old #Winter kissed the #Blushing #Maid,
    To #Old & #Young, he held his hand;
    “Who loves me in this guise, he said,
    Need #Fear no winter in the #Land;

    On them, I'll ask my #Daughter #Spring
    Her choicest #Blooms & balms to pour,
    The #Summer on their #Path shall #Sing,
    & #Autumn #Bless them w/ its store.

    So be ye #Happy on the #Earth,
    Whatever your #Name or station be,
    #Mingle w/ your #Christmas #Mirth
    & bounteous Christmas #Charity."

    - Charles Mackay, #Scottish #Poet, #Happy Winter, Verse Three

  27. Old #Winter kissed the #Blushing #Maid,
    To #Old & #Young, he held his hand;
    “Who loves me in this guise, he said,
    Need #Fear no winter in the #Land;

    On them, I'll ask my #Daughter #Spring
    Her choicest #Blooms & balms to pour,
    The #Summer on their #Path shall #Sing,
    & #Autumn #Bless them w/ its store.

    So be ye #Happy on the #Earth,
    Whatever your #Name or station be,
    #Mingle w/ your #Christmas #Mirth
    & bounteous Christmas #Charity."

    - Charles Mackay, #Scottish #Poet, #Happy Winter, Verse Three

  28. Old #Winter kissed the #Blushing #Maid,
    To #Old & #Young, he held his hand;
    “Who loves me in this guise, he said,
    Need #Fear no winter in the #Land;

    On them, I'll ask my #Daughter #Spring
    Her choicest #Blooms & balms to pour,
    The #Summer on their #Path shall #Sing,
    & #Autumn #Bless them w/ its store.

    So be ye #Happy on the #Earth,
    Whatever your #Name or station be,
    #Mingle w/ your #Christmas #Mirth
    & bounteous Christmas #Charity."

    - Charles Mackay, #Scottish #Poet, #Happy Winter, Verse Three

  29. Old #Winter kissed the #Blushing #Maid,
    To #Old & #Young, he held his hand;
    “Who loves me in this guise, he said,
    Need #Fear no winter in the #Land;

    On them, I'll ask my #Daughter #Spring
    Her choicest #Blooms & balms to pour,
    The #Summer on their #Path shall #Sing,
    & #Autumn #Bless them w/ its store.

    So be ye #Happy on the #Earth,
    Whatever your #Name or station be,
    #Mingle w/ your #Christmas #Mirth
    & bounteous Christmas #Charity."

    - Charles Mackay, #Scottish #Poet, #Happy Winter, Verse Three