Monday, October 25, 2004

The best medicine

There's a fellow in Germany who's coaching his fellow countrymen in the best way to deal with anyone who proposes any zero tolerance policy.

Mr. Christoph, 43, said he came across laughter therapy when he was recovering from heart surgery. "As soon as I realized how useful it was for my health, I learned to laugh and I haven't stopped since." He says he has coached 1,500 Germans in the art of laughter.

And in particular:

"There are many different types of humor and they all have their place," he said, listing sarcasm, satire, mimicry, parody and his favorite, schadenfreude (slapstick), which he illustrated with a picture of a pensioner laughing at a man who had bumped into a lamppost.

Now your homework: Apply all of the above modes of humor to the Zero Tolerance Watch items listed nearby.

(Closed captioned for the humor impaired.)

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