Terms and their meanings

I’ve learned that people of great intelligence are those who don’t take themselves seriously, who always find humor in difficult circumstances.

Science says it takes 62 muscles to frown and just 26 muscles to smile. Smiling then is physically a lot easier than making a frown. Even the Bible says, “Laughter is good medicine and a broken spirit crushes the bones.” How true!

So let me try to put a smile on your face today, to cheer you up. Hopefully when you do battle in the work place tomorrow, you’ll have the strength to be victorious! Check out this list of terms with funny meanings:

• Capitalism is man exploiting man. Socialism is the complete reverse.

• Feudalism is when it’s your Count that votes.

• Gravity is obviously not just a good idea; it’s the law!

• Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

• Anxiety is nature’s way of getting you up mornings.

• Sleep is that sweet and fleeting moment just before the alarm goes off.

• Gross Ignorance means a total of 144 times worse than normal ignorance.

• The Clock is a small mechanical device to wake up people without children.

• Conclusion is when somebody got tired of thinking.

• The Opera. Aha! This is where a guy gets stabbed in the back and sings about it.

• Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

• Health is the slowest possible rate of dying.

• A Cynic is someone who smells the flowers and looks for the casket.

• Poverty is having too much month left at the end of the money.

• Pizza: The four food groups.

• Chocolate: The other major food group.

• A Boy is a noise with dirt on it.

• A Bore is one who, upon being asked how they are, tells you.

• The Answer is what everybody is still looking for, especially in our country.

• Antonym is the opposite of the word you’re trying to think of. Now that’s deep isn’t it?

• A Skier is someone who pays an arm and a leg to break them.

• A Foot is a device for finding furniture in the dark. Ouch!

And do you know what the term “karaoke” means? It’s actually Japanese for “tone deaf”!

To be cheerful or to be miserable is a choice you and I make every single day. I choose to be cheerful because, the longer I live in this decaying planet, the more I become convinced that life is a gift from God, not a drudgery to be endured.

Even God has a sense of humor, so you should get one too. And if you doubt what I said about God having a sense of humor, take a good look at the mirror. You’ll discover it’s true!

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