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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: National Let's Laugh Day (19 March) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:29:51 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:29:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6fb700a7203cbb48a98f7ef98106fb22"; logging-data="1139761"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18o/klKp9UrOSp8yYjnfj1OKhUfbtB/fXU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ef1NBLxVrXBhp5R/t/Q/iMgcPsc= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1560 "I can find no reference to this day before 2017, or who first floated the idea...To some extent it's been overtaken by World Laughter Day -- the first Sunday in May -- created in 1998 by Dr.Madan Kataria, who founded the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement..." (Crystal) There is a science of laughter (gelotology), and its role in conversation is undoubtedly interesting. But who needs another "day" for it? Seeing if you could abstain from laughing for a whole day might be an interesting way to observe it.