Funny and Humorous Illustrations by C H Lams

Chow Hon Lam is a Malaysia based artist. He is working for his FM365 Project now. That is 365 designs for a year. I have seen almost all his designs in his gallery. All of them are great, I have to say without any exaggeration. At least I laughed from my first sight to the last sight, and till now. I have picked my favorite ones here. They are really clever and meaningful, you will like them.

Humor - a Lifetime Elixer

"You're a little pill," my hubby exclaimed in exasperation, as he frowned down at our son. Sean, wide-eyed and innocent looked up at his Dad with a smile and quipped "You're an aspirin!"  Sean's quick wit sparks the room any day since it matches the event and rouses a stir.  Do you know people like that?

One of the reasons I enjoy collaborating with Ellen Weber is she draws from natural wit daily.  To see her humorous flashes, check out Dinner Blew Up -- But Not the Deal and you can quickly see how she has ability to laugh at herself, no matter what.  Once when presenting in Puerto Rico, we stayed in a hotel hosting the Miss Universe Pageant.  One morning Ellen was not feeling well so was advised to see the doctor who was on call for contestants.  When Ellen's named was called to see the physician, she tripped on a floodlight wire and fell as she walked to the door. In front of all the contestants waiting there.  She experienced one of the most gregarious belly laughs I have ever witnessed.  Ellen's gifts of wit and banter work well for her as she makes business deals or just engages others as she networks.  If a group we're working with loses steam, Ellen jump-starts the action with a well-timed joke. Ever tried it?

Humor benefits social vitality and personal well-being.  For starters humor:

Enhances workplace culture "More than four decades of study by various researchers confirms some common-sense wisdom: Humor, used skillfully, greases the management wheels. It reduces hostility, deflects criticism, relieves tension, improves morale, and helps communicate difficult messages, Fabio Sala declares in the Harvard Business Review. Sala reminds us that, "the key to the effective use of humor is how it’s deployed. Don’t try to be funny. But do pay closer attention to how you use humor, how others respond to your humor, and the messages you send. It’s all in the telling."

Boosts personal well-being "As you laugh," Ellen Weber shows that "your brain creates enzymes for clear thinking, better learning and adventures brimming over with possibilities in spite of turbulent times."

Bonds people within organizations "Humor can be a cohesive force in organizations--as anyone who's ever traded jokes at the water cooler or laughed over lunch with colleagues understands," Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, concludes. "Instead of disciplining joke-crackers, as Ford did in the last century, organizations should be seeking them out and treating a sense of humor as an asset. It's time to rescue humor from its status as mere entertainment and recognize it for what it is--a sophisticated and peculiarly human form of intelligence that can't be replicated by computers and that is becoming increasingly valuable in a high concept, high-touch world."

Adds snap to presentations Have you noticed how many presenters can bring humor to ice breakers and the beginning of a slideshow only to forget it soon after as all the boring slides drone on? Keep in mind that humor, to be effective must coincide with the barometric pressure of people in the group. If it falls, be ready to bring in the sunshine.

Strengthens family and friendship bonds Just as Sean and Ellen add zip to family occasions, laughing together helps build bonds and strengthen ties. Sharing laughter is powerful since it adds joy, vitality and resilience. Humor is an effective way to heal resentments, disagreements and hurts. It unites people during difficult times. As I spoke about my dear mother at her funeral, I summed up two of her gifts as follows, "Love and laughter overflow."

What's your current humor gauge?

Rate yourself 1 - 4 in the following areas. 1 Low, 2 Fair 3 Average 4 Excellent

____ Ability to laugh at yourself

____ Can tell joke and keep punchline in tact

____ Enjoy a belly laugh daily

____ Refrains from jokes at other's expense

____ Regularly look for humor to share

____ Can turn circumstance into witty statement

____ Easily gets the meaning of a joke


I still have much growth to go... How about you?

Interestingly, the "brain's right hemisphere plays an essential role in understanding and appreciating humor," psychologist Daniel Pink finds from studying neuroscience research. Incongruity often enters into humor. Not too surprisingly, the brain's logical left side does not deal with surprise and incongruity well, Pink adds.

Humor represents one of the highest forms of human intelligence. "Cognitive abilities required for humor comprehension" according to Shammi and Struss's research, "include abstract reasoning, mental flexibility and working memory -- all are complex, higher mental functions believed to be associated with the frontal lobes."

How might you play a bit with humor's sparkle at your Christmas gathering?

Unicorn Being a Jerk Funny Comics

“Unicorn Being a Jerk” is an amazing book written and illustrated by C. W. Moss.It can be purchased here. Here are my favorite moments from this book: Ignoring a homeless person asking for money. Destroying a sandcastle. Trying to peek at breast-feeding women’s nipple. Sacrificing his one and only son to higher power. Burning ants with magnifying glass. Hoping his son isn’t gay. Tearing out

Inspiration: 24 funny doormats

Most Weird, Funny and Twisted Comics

This was the last comic i made before i quit making cartoons.World of WarcraftThe Frog PrinceBased on an old childhood memory where i dropped my icecream right after buying it.Kidnapping? Serial killing?

11 Painful Funny Animated gifs that hurt your funny bone

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Sincere Emotions

40 Funny Pictures that will Blow your Mind

Jeffrey Vanhoutte was a famous commercial photographer born in Antwerp, Belgium. He was greatly influenced by his family when he was young. At that time, he was able to borrow his father’s camera during his school trips. Once his father made an enlargement of one of his photos and hung it up on the wall, his dream of becoming a photographer came up then. He got his degree in professional

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Howard Be Thy Name

In the past few years, Pamela has slowly started to understand a variety of styles of humor. Today's example is the verbal pun. Pamela has been stimming on the Lord's Prayer and the Doxology lately. Now, don't get me wrong. I'd much rather her stim on something innocuous instead of George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television."

To avoid making Pamela feel incompetent, we seek playfully ways to turn it into a conversation. This morning, Steve struck gold!

Pamela: [For the fifth time.] "Our Father, who art in Heaven . . ." [Waiting for one of us to recite the script]

Steve: "Howard be Thy name."

Pamela: [Loud giggle.]

Steve: "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Howard by Thy name."

Pamela: [Another loud giggle.]

Steve: "What? Howard be Thy name."

Tammy: "Nooooo! Howard be Opa's name."

Pamela: [Piercing shriek followed by a giggle.]

Tammy: "Is God's name Howard?"

Pamela: "No! It's Hallowed."

Tammy: "Do you know what hallowed means?"

Pamela: "Means? Means?" [She is asking me to tell her.]

Tammy: "Hallowed means holy. We love God's name because He is God."

Getting puns spotlights Pamela's level of auditory processing because ears are the source of the humor. Puns depend upon either homophones or words that sound nearly the same (hallowed sounding a lot like Howard). The humor involves changing a word in a sentence for another one that sounds the same but means something different. "Why was ten scared? Because seven ate nine." Puns also depend upon context. Steve could have used either Harold or Howard. He chose the latter because Pamela had the context that Howard is a name (her grandfather) and she doesn't know anyone named Harold.

People either love or hate puns, or paronomasia. William Shakespeare laced his plays with thousands of them. Mercutio, knowing was he was about to die in Romeo and Juliet, said, "If you look for me tomorrow you will find I am a grave man." Over a century later, Samuel Johnson, author of the dictionary, defined puns as "the lowest form of humor." Judging by the expression on his face in this painting by Joshua Reynolds, I question whether or not he actually had a sense of humor! Some scientists are doing some fascinating research into this love-hate relationship with puns.

Puns often confuse children in the autism spectrum and many "how-to" guides on autism caution you to explain puns or avoid them. Some even suggest teaching our children to laugh at puns or make them up to improve their social skills. If you have to teach a person to laugh at puns, then they are not really funny!

What did we do to teach Pamela to get puns? Nothing directly!

When we started RDI three years ago, we worked on the idea of variation. We played a game in which we tossed a ball (David, Pamela and I). The first step was getting a pattern going. Once Pamela got the pattern, we introduced a tiny variation: using a different ball, poorly aiming the ball, etc. We often laughed, and Pamela began to see that variation can be funny. She began to laugh at the unexpected! In time, she cracked up when someone got bonked on the head or the balls came flying fast and furious or David threw a grape instead.

We added variation into all aspects of our life: if something we were doing had a pattern, then it was ripe for variation: laundry, cooking, shopping, reciting poems, reading a book, etc. Then, we threw in some anticipation to ratchet up the excitement. Going back to the ball example, David faked two or three throws while making his facial expressions bigger and bigger before completing the toss. I might look at Pamela to throw, fake it once or twice, and then slow enough for her to process my trick, switch my aim to David. In time, we could play that trick on Pamela because she understood the humor.

One of the biggest problems our kids have in real life is unexpected change. Helping them to anticipate and sometimes enjoy variation can avoid meltdowns. When I dropped her soda at a concert the other day, Pamela did not get a bit upset because she had drank enough to satisfy her. When the waitress at the Mexican restaurant told her they only had honey mustard, not yellow mustard, she took it in stride. While our work on variation has not completely inoculated her from meltdowns, she has come a long way.

What does variation in activities have to do with puns? Pamela clearly translated the idea of variation being funny in the ball tossing games to her scripts. When someone varies the script with a word that is almost the same, she truly finds it funny. We do not have to wink our eye or nudge her. She laughs because she gets the humor.

The same thing applies to nonsense humor like the Scotsman gag in Monty Python. Pamela caught onto the humor of people being zapped by aliens and turned into Scotsmen. Three minutes and thirty seconds into the skit, a bobby stands next to a woman with a baby carriage (or should I say, pram). You expect one of the adults to transform. The anticipation comes out of not knowing which one. The bobby morphs, followed by the woman. What makes that segment especially funny is when a red beard appears on the baby blanket and the carriage rolls off to Scotland with the others.

Humor, like play, ought not to be taught. Why? Redoing gaps in a child's development, starting with infant level milestones, allows play and humor to emerge on their own.

Pamela Hits Her Funny Bone

Last Friday was one topsy-turvy day. Steve felt like he was coming down with our cold that morning. He planned on running to sweat out the toxins, or die trying. Instead of leaving at six in the morning to appease the boss (Pamela), Steve managed to stall for an hour and a half. Pamela was concerned, but much milder than we saw last Friday. Whenever she started to lose control, she began thinking of that silly woman at the Hong Kong airport and end up giggling and laughing in spite of herself.

Steve came back from the run, debating whether or not to go to work. He decided to gas up the car but could not find his wallet. After a careful search, he called his office and found out the wallet pulled an over-nighter at work. Rather than bring up the ugly topic of Steve staying home, I excitedly let Pamela know that she and I were going on a road trip all the way to Charleston to run errands. She was game for the drive and ended up not minding that WE went to Charleston, while STEVE stayed home.

The upshot of it all is that Pamela survived her topsy-turvy day by tickling her funny bone. To encode her resilience into episodic memory, we talked about how well she did later that night. You can see her laughing at the Chinese woman near the end of the clip.


Pamela hit her funny bone really hard yesterday. She rocked herself and cried out in pain. I said sympathetically, "Oh, you hit your funny bone! That hurts! I'm sorry." Pamela looked like she was ready to start melting down and suddenly she laughed and said, "The Chinese lady!" She again giggled her way out of a storm.

A Dash of Humor Ups Performance and Creativity at Work

When you hear a funny story or quick-witted line as you launch another day at work, what happens? Perhaps a belly laugh, good feelings about colleagues, a positive spirit or relief from a toxic work environment. Here're three bonuses humor brings...

1. Creates more camaraderie in teams and departments... "The ability to appreciate humor, the ability to laugh and make other people laugh actually has physiological effects on the body that cause people to become more bonded," Chris Robert of MU' College of Business, finds.

2. Stirs your creativity... A dose of humor releases a flow of serotonin in your brain. Serotonin helps you to find well-being... to think clearly, solve problems more objectively, step beyond rigid thinking, change your point of view...

3. Improves performance... humor brings relaxation and an upbeat mindset which enables you to get past workplace toxins that stall you in the trenches. Recent research shows a strong link between positive emotions humor brings and optimal performance outcomes.

Ellen Weber explains how humor makes a difference for you and folks working near you...

Humor’s good for business because it releases enzymes into the brain and opens new spaces for learning, giving and for enjoying what you do. It’s also good for expansion … because people gravitate to humorous people, and research shows they like to do business with people who can laugh at themselves.

Laughter works best when it's light and witty. For instance, laugh at yourself to relax a room, make a play on words, tell a funny anecdote.

Recommended links that show how to use humor to increase creativity and productivity at your work:

Frank Roche at Know HR: Humor and the Work Team: Healing, Harmonizing, and Harnessing Morale, Cooperation, and Productivity

Drew McLellan at Drew's Marketing Minute: M&M capitalizes on a myth

Ellen Weber at Brain Based Business - 10 Tips for a Belly Laugh at Work

Workplace Office Buzz: Workplace Humor - Uniting and Dividing

Barbara Rozgonyi at Wired PR Works: Funny Business PR Why Don’t Companies Use Cartoons in Their Marketing?

Brad Shorr at Word Sell: Funny Companies with Serious Performance

GL Hoffman at What Would Dad Say: Your Resume Headline Should Get My Attention, First.

Here're a couple of quotes for your thoughts...

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. David Sedaris

Tell me what you laugh at, and I'll tell you who you are. Marcel Pagnol

Try humor... what difference has it made for you?

Bloopers for Belly Laughs on a Stressful Day

Do your words really convey the message you want?

Think twice about putting words together! Just a few words out of place can make folks double over with a belly laugh over your blooper! Here're ten side-splitting examples!

1. Here's 150 Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders to check out...

2. Newscasters caught saying the wrong thing

3. Dave Letterman presents the Top 10 Bush Bloopers on video...

Remember when Bush said, "The left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing," and he held up the wrong hand?

4. Courtroom Bloopers - yes, it happens often. For example...

Q. Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods?
A. No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.

5. Doctor's blooper

A man speaks frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor queries.
"No, you idiot!" the man shouts. "This is her husband!"

6. Student bloopers listed in the Chronicle of Higher Education Forums:

This semester, my student plans to do a report on Salvador Deli. I can't wait to hear about the surreal sandwiches.

“Sudden death occurs when the weekend heart valves fail.”

I guess the weekday heart valves take time off.

7. Bloopers in ads

At An Auto Repair Service Station:

Free pick-up and delivery
Try us once, you'll never go anywhere again.

8. Bloopers in Classifieds

1 man, 7 woman hot tub -- $850/offer

Amana washer $100. Owned by clean bachelor who seldom washed

Free puppies...part German shepherd part dog

9. Doctor Charting Blooper:

From the physician's notes about a first-time pregant, newly admitted OB patient: "Patient is a 26-year old primate."

10. Dan Quayle at his best...

Press: Mr. Vice President, if you were to suddenly become President, do you think you would be up to the job?Dan Quayle: If such an unfortunate thing were to happen, yes, I believe I would be.San Jose Mercury News (3/31)

In a given day people laugh less, just when the brain needs more... I know a good laugh can turn around a mistake and put me back on course... How about you?

Laughter can quickly change your mood, especially if you're uptight and frustrated on a work day. Here's how that happens...

When you spot or hear or a blooper, Serotonin, a chemical that brings well being, is released in your brain. Serotonin changes your perspective. Be sure to give yourself a dose when you find yourself in a pinch.

Brad Shorr's having a writing contest to win an iPod nano and this blog's my entry.
He'll have a random drawing if he gets 10 entries... Want to give it a go?

Check out Word Sell, where Brad Shorr offers tips to use words with flair...

So, get your brain dendrites rolling, and let's see what you create....

Ever Dress Down on Friday?

A belly laugh's great for the brain since it'll bring on serotonin, a hormone of well-being, to start our Friday. I'd like to thank Dr. Ellen Weber for passing the cartoon on to me, and to Bradd Shorr, for "The Optimist" below.



Frank, I hope this gives you a second belly laugh and Anna, maybe this will help you have a belly laugh on your way to your Tai-Chi class so that you're well prepared.

Again, my challenge is out for the next time I share a round of belly laughs. If you submit something that'll make readers' bellies double over, please do submit it and I'll give you recognition.

Laugh - Bust Your Stressors!

Why is it when you laugh, your mood changes as it does for others with you? Interestingly, upbeat sounds such as laughter or a celebratory "woo hoo!" spark a response in a listener's brain. This reaction occurs in the same area of the brain that activates when we smile... almost as if prepping our facial muscles to follow through with laughter.

Belly laughs "can dilute the bad from news and help you cope," Ellen Weber finds, "because they lower stress and open your brain to new possibilities. Laughter can also be a great connector because it brings people together who are attracted to the lighter side of life….

What are we waiting for, let's enjoy a good laugh together!

News Story That'll Make Tears Come while You Laugh State Legislator Shows Naked Woman during School Lecture on how a bill becomes a law! This one's too good to miss.

Unbelievable Research Reaps Nobel Prize Quirky, funny scientific achievement!

Funniest Moments in Sports. This blog has absolutely captured moments that defy most photographers. You'll split your sides laughing as you view the rest of these winners!

Blogs to Make You Smile: Brad Shorr lists recent posts that brought forth a few guffaws. And,Ellen Weber's Dinner Blew Up but Not the Deal will really make your sides shake!

New Books to Tickle Your Funny Bone Wendall Jamieson tackles children's questions such as, "Can I Cook My Sister," with a unique twist...

Do you have humor we'd enjoy the kind that doesn't need to be censored? Send a link to your post and I'll post the real belly laughs in a follow-up. Be sure to put your link in my comments by October 16, and I'll share the fun soon after.

Wink, Wink!

Pamela found a new passion in life, a very Southern one: sitting on the back porch, rocking the day away. With the two ceiling fans, the face-melting heat is manageable. Lately, to respect her wishes, we do whatever lessons we can outdoors. We both find it a peaceful place to learn.

Yesterday, we were reading the speech therapy script ala the Association Method. To make sure she is listening, I will occasionally say the wrong word and she finds it funny. Pamela turned the tables on me by winking as if to tell me nonverbally, "Make a mistake, Mom, because I like it when you are silly." Of course, I played a long and thought of some whoppers to put in the story.

Today's story for speech therapy involved a lamb and a blind girl. Pamela did a wonderful job of connecting the story to her memory of lambs and blind people. Then, when we headed over to my parents house, I noticed her carrying something with her. She had rummaged through her toys in her room and pulled out this sheep to take with her!

Shocking Twist to Sarcasm's Two-Edged Sword

Neil J. asked a brilliant question, "Do you find it hard, Robyn, to get some forms of humour out in a blog i.e. sarcasm?" Sure do, Neil. Sarcasm's sword is two-edged because it can be intended one way, but interpreted another. Sarcasm backfires more often than not. Wonder why?

Folks in power or folks who want more power often use it to put others down. Let's take an in-depth look.

Ego's at the core. Interestingly, because people see the world from their own perspective, they can be blind. We humans don't anticipate that others' different perspectives affect the way memos, e-mails or blogs're read. Justin Kruger, NYU and Nicholas Epley, University of Chicago, found that "people overestimate both their ability to convey their intended tone–be it sarcastic, serious or funny," and that electronic misunderstandings occur frequently."

Think twice before using sarcasm in e-mails, memos or blogs..., "If you're worried that a joking e-mail might be misconstrued," Kruger advises, "read it aloud in a deadpan voice before clicking 'Send.'"

Humor adds benefits at work or snuffs out life. Surprisingly, philosopher John Morreall shows how, negative humor's mostly a male phenomenon. Do you agree?

Morreall explains...

To produce humor in conversation is to take the power role. And where negative humor-all those mother-in-law put-downs-once supported male power, women's more active role in life, and especially business life, is symbolized by "the blossoming of women's humor."

When, for example, Rita Rudner says "My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married, and I didn't want him to," she is not offering herself as a doormat. "She is showing her cleverness."

Sarcasm's tricky because gender's involved... Note how differences play out in Morreall's chart below...

Interestingly, differences in the kind of humor that men and women likely use relates to unique physical makeup of men's and women's brains...

At puberty males lose much of the corpus callosum layer which covers both the right and left brain. Intriguigingly, as a general tendency, men tunnel down deep into one topic and they're more competitive. On the other hand, women are more likely to bring many topics together because the the right brain "talks" more to the left. And, they're more apt to build close relationships with others.

To build more community in today's workplace is to spark the "kind of humor emerging today from women," says Morreall, professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. The last laugh is that more positive humor's also coming from "an encouraging number of men."

Thoughts for your workplace?

Bloggers' Wisdom on Humor and Mistakes

Today's Virtual Conference at Successful and Outstanding Bloggers proved exhilerating. Here's savvy advice I received from bloggers who lighten up their blogs with humor.

Chris Garrett - "One of the traits I find most endearing about people is when they can laugh at themselves, in real life or on a blog."

And, Chris added this great strategy, "I found in a business setting, where people can laugh tends to be also the places where the best ideas come from. It is way harder to have creativity when tense. Next time you are brainstorming start with a joke."

Ellen Weber - "Laughter - when it goes to our own foibles and comes from us - can level the playing field in rooms where people feel anxious, competitive or excited. Laughter also opens the door to new ideas and prepared the brain to snap em’ up."

Later, Ellen pointed out that, "A first grader laughs over 300 times daily and adults laugh 17 times a day. New research shows us that this discussion is long overdue!"

Steve Remington "In person I think it would be a lot easier to laugh at yourself because you can try to make it appear natural and spontaneous...When it comes to blogging it has to be a lot tougher to laugh. You will have to find the right words and not expressions in order to cover your butt and make things right again."

Steve shared an hilarious true story from his wedding...

I know during my wedding my mom knocked over a candle and almost burnt down the church. People starting giggling and she was embarrassed. I think she was unsure how the bride and groom would feel about this so my wife and I started giggling and made light of it. Everybody then felt ok and we moved on.

Though it wasn’t a business speech you can learn a lot from those moments.

Steli finds that, "Humor begins always with my inner voice. You can try this little experiment if you like: Think about a big problem in your life right now. Try as hard as you can to get in this state of “not-so-well” being just for a second. And then change your inner voice to silvester “the cats” voice. Start to lisp and tell yourself about all the problems in thhat voith that leth you thmile a little."

I asked Steli, a principal, if he uses humor in his Supercool School. He replied, "We want to do good AND feel good doing it! And having fun will hopefully become an important part of this learning place! Here´s a school joke I posted some time ago on my blog: School Jokes

Karin said, "We are in a ‘different’ situation at work and try to use humour when we can’t find the correct English words - blaming it on our Double Dutch ’standards.’" It's great that Karin, who is working hard to learn English can laugh at the process in this neat way.

Char shared a post from Casual Keystrokes that's "...not exactly roll on the floor laughing humor - much more subtle." She pointed to a blog that illustrates this, Who Needs Toys When You Have a Box?

At Essential Keystrokes, Char shares, "I try to keep things light at Essential Keystrokes too - primarily through the use of words and mental images. Since the topics tend to be more technical in nature, I don't want my readers falling asleep."

That's a piece of wisdom I'll keep in mind. I surely don't want my readers to fall asleep either.

Sandy Renshaw said, "A paintbrush to canvas and we would have a lot of laughs!" That's for sure Sandy. And, Sandy shares great tools to edit great images to your blogs.

Marti's blog is all about humor. She claims, "If I couldn't laugh at life's foibles, I'd be in a rubber room!"

And she shares her philosophy, "I tell funny stories of silly things that happen to me and my family. By finding the humor in even terribly tragic events, it takes away the “power” of a bad thing that has happened. By turning bad luck on its ear and laughing at it, I don’t fall into a pit of depression about it. I also believe that it gives other people hope, to see how we can laugh at our own misfortune. I get great responses from people who read my blog, saying they feel better, and are more able to cope with the bad things in their own lives, by reading how someone was able to make fun of adversity."

Yoav stopped by to say, "I love comics and read a few comics blogs. Usually I link to them or to other funny stuff on the web when I feel my blogging is becoming “heavy” and that my 7 readers need a laugh." Raymond's Brain Doodles is a favorite site Yoav brought to the session.




My dendrites are sparking now. Hope you found great advice, too.

Thanks to you Liz and all for a really remarkable session.

Humor's an Art in Blogging

Humor's a real art. While some leaders tell great jokes that make you laugh so hard tears come to your eyes, other leaders get quizzical looks, hunched shoulders and false laughter. Listen to this one, for example...

One afternoon an advertising vice-president called the whole staff in to hear a couple of jokes he'd picked up at lunch.

Everybody laughed uproariously except Joyce, who sat there with a glum expression on her face.

The man next to her nudged her and whispered, "What's the matter? haven't you got a sense of humor?"

"I don't have to laugh," replied Joyce. "I'm quitting Friday." Larry Wilde, Larry Wilde's Library of Laughter

Many bloggers rely on wit to make a point. Are you attracted to blogs that mix in humor? I am.

Some bloggers use humor well. But where do you start if all your posts're deadly serious? You might begin by...

• Using jokes that poke fun at your topic
• Selecting a cartoon or joke which shows another side
• Playing on words or use puns

Here's a joke for techies...

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. Alice Kahn

For aspiring managers...

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

For overbearing bosses...
Connect and avoid overdoing -- there's the art.

What do you do to lighten up your posts? Do stop by with your tips...