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Humor U Tip #164 – Exaggeration
Make Someone Happy at Work Opportunity
Movie Recommendation
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1. HUMOR U TIP #164 – Exaggeration

By Terrill Fischer

I live in Texas so in the summer I often hear people say something like, "if it gets any hotter here, I'm going to change my mailing address to Hell." That's an exaggeration, which is in an overstatement of the circumstances and it is very useful in humor. It came from the early pioneers who were overwhelmed by the enormity of their travels. They all experienced all the vast oceans, mountains; wide open plains as well as animals they had never encountered before. The key to creating these is to take a normal object, item, or process and plug it into an exaggerated aspect and then follow the logical consequences as if your exaggeration was reality and see what ideas you get.

I will provide some examples for you to see:

This lady even said I had 13 spirit guides … I call them stalkers.
(No one thinks spirit guides are stalkers … thus the joke)
There was this New Age Bank, so I applied for a loan, and they did a credit check on my past lives … It turns out I went bankrupt in the 5th century … It said Chapter VII.
(A new age bank doing credit check on your past lives and finding you went bankrupt long before you were ever born. It's obvious that wouldn't happen but it works as a joke.)

Another trick is to use money totals for exaggerated effects …

One time I was flying and saw one of those pay phones on the plane, so I called Dominoes for a pizza … the pizza cost me $8,000.
I recently read about a tornado that touched down in an Arkansas trailer park? It caused … $500,000 in improvements.

Now go ahead take some of your situations or objects that you want to exaggerate. Consider the logic behind it and then exaggerate off that and see what you can come up with. I think you will find it fun. Let us know if you come up with some good ones or need a little a help.

Truth: People just want to work for GREAT companies and GREAT managers. If you make them laugh and keep them happy, they'll "blow the lid" off their productivity and produce breakthrough results! Can you say... KA-CHING?

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2. HAPPY WORK THOUGHTS

Who do you go to when you want to laugh at work?
Do I have a contagious laugh?
Can I smell the smell of chocolate at work?

3. MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS

Since humor, laughter and FUN are our game, we LOVE movies as a source for those feelings. So, whenever we see a movie that we think is really fun or silly or otherwise worthy of recommendation, we'll cover it here. Movies, by the way, are great "therapy" — a great way to get away from stress and the busy world.

Intolerable Cruelty: A Coen Brothers comedy, with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Hilarious. A farce about lawyering, marriage, divorce and money!
Love, Actually: Hugh Grant and an English cast showing holiday love, laughter at its best. I loved it!

4. HUMOR U STUFF

We continue to be really in action.

Ann and Terrill became certified Laugh Leaders through the World Laughter Club Tour. We will be starting a laughter club in Austin, TX to spread the joys and therapeutic value of laughter.

For more information about this wonderful experience, visit:

www.worldlaughtertour.com

Announcement: Holiday Management 101

35 Ways to Endure the Madness and Laugh Your Way Through the Holidays

For your FREE copy of this little booklet, click here.

(Forward this to your friends so they can get it as well.)

"If You Don't Have a Sense of Humor, It's Just Not Funny!"

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