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Holy Weltschmertz Batman! or Our Brave Boys and Girls Went to Iraq and Afgha-ha-ha--nistan LOL LOL LOLZ.
Yesterday was a nice day, and I was in desperate need of relaxation, so I drove along the shoreline to Marblehead, to go see the harbor and take some pictures. Blue skies + white boats + my unironic enjoyment of quaint New Englandia (as opposed to my ironic enjoyment of quaint Californiscape and my self-consciously mythologically-conditioned enjoyment of the quaint Midwest) and adequate zen was achieved.
So I was on my way back to Lynn, listening to NPR, Alito nomination blah blah, antibiotic resistance blah blah. I was completely unprepared for the Horror.
I am going to try and reproduce this verbatum, as I remeber the segment unfolding, with substantiating links, so now![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theophile, who proclaimed that I made the whole thing up when I got home, will have to believe me. I was scribbling frantic notes at the red light so that I would Nevah Forgit.
Announcer: We are going to talk abou Laugh Therapy, but you should know it has nothing to do with jokes or anything funny. But it works so well that Pentagon is taking an interest. This woman, Mary, was depressed, as her husband was about to be deployed to Iraq, so they participated in a family workshop for people whose loved ones are about to be called up, for Laugh Therapy, run by Colonel Scotty Scott, also known around the Pentagon as "The Laughing Colonel." He is like Patch Adams crossed with General Patton. What you should know about Nancy it that she was once a sceptic.
Mary: So we get together and do things like say ha-ha-ha, and we have these greetings, that go, like, Alo-ha-ha-ha, and we make motions like we are putting ley garlands over each others' heads. Alo-ha-ha-ha. And the first time I went to this workshop I was sceptical, but then [Scotty Scott] runs in, with a big red nose on his face, ha-ha-ha
[The Internet sez: "It's just, wow, powerful! When you laugh you can't think of other things," says Army Reserve Col. James "Scotty" Scott. He's director of the Defense Department's Individual and Family Support Policy in Washington D.C., which assists reservists and their loved ones. It may be hard to believe, but the Pentagon sent Scott, at his urging, to be trained by Steve Wilson as a "Certified Laughter Leader." Wilson is a self-proclaimed "joyologist" and Cheerman of the Bored of World Laughter Tour, an Ohio-based laughter club umbrella group..."I'm known as the Laughing Colonel from the Pentagon," Scott says]
Announcer: So if Colonel Scotty Scott is the Luke Skywalker of Laughter, Steve Wilson, the Certified Laughter Leader, is most definitely Yoda.
Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson: so, at our institute in Ohio, it's the atmosphere, you know, we have magicians and clowns running around
Announcer: What about mimes, do you have mimes?
Steve Wilson: I am sure there are mimes [long pause] in there...somewhere.
Announcer: [some segue to prompt SW to talk, like, methodology]
Steve Wilson: well, there are two kinds of laughter, duchane (sp?) and nonduchane (sp? redux), that is to say, forced or unforced. [I tried to find the spelling/definition of the word, but the closest thing dictionary.com had to offer was
Duchenne:
Main Entry: Du·chenne
Pronunciation: dü-'shen, d&-
Variant: also Du·chenne's /-'shenz/
Function: adjective
: relating to or being Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Du·chenne /d[UE]-shen/, Guillaume–Benjamin–Amand (1806–1875), French neurologist. Duchenne is widely recognized as the founder of electrotherapy. Dedicating his career to the study of disorders associated with nerves and muscles, he used, as early as 1830, faradic currents in treating patients. He built his own machine for electrical stimulation of nerves and muscles. In 1855 he published a volume concerning the electrophysiology of the muscular system. He is also known for his classic descriptions of a number of medical disorders involving atrophy of muscles or paralysis.]
Announcer: can you give me an example of the first kind?
Steve Wilson, (channeling the killer clown corporealized by the abused boy's coma nightmare in season 1 Buffy episode "Nightmares"): Ha-ha-ha, Whhoa-ha-ha. heee-haha-hee-hee-hee
Announcer: congratulations, that is the most terrifying thing I have ever heard. Now can you give me an example of the other kind?
Steve Wilson: (laughs "normally"--sort of)--this is me laughing thinking of you being scared.
AND SCENE.
Yesterday was a nice day, and I was in desperate need of relaxation, so I drove along the shoreline to Marblehead, to go see the harbor and take some pictures. Blue skies + white boats + my unironic enjoyment of quaint New Englandia (as opposed to my ironic enjoyment of quaint Californiscape and my self-consciously mythologically-conditioned enjoyment of the quaint Midwest) and adequate zen was achieved.
So I was on my way back to Lynn, listening to NPR, Alito nomination blah blah, antibiotic resistance blah blah. I was completely unprepared for the Horror.
I am going to try and reproduce this verbatum, as I remeber the segment unfolding, with substantiating links, so now
theophile, who proclaimed that I made the whole thing up when I got home, will have to believe me. I was scribbling frantic notes at the red light so that I would Nevah Forgit.Announcer: We are going to talk abou Laugh Therapy, but you should know it has nothing to do with jokes or anything funny. But it works so well that Pentagon is taking an interest. This woman, Mary, was depressed, as her husband was about to be deployed to Iraq, so they participated in a family workshop for people whose loved ones are about to be called up, for Laugh Therapy, run by Colonel Scotty Scott, also known around the Pentagon as "The Laughing Colonel." He is like Patch Adams crossed with General Patton. What you should know about Nancy it that she was once a sceptic.
Mary: So we get together and do things like say ha-ha-ha, and we have these greetings, that go, like, Alo-ha-ha-ha, and we make motions like we are putting ley garlands over each others' heads. Alo-ha-ha-ha. And the first time I went to this workshop I was sceptical, but then [Scotty Scott] runs in, with a big red nose on his face, ha-ha-ha
[The Internet sez: "It's just, wow, powerful! When you laugh you can't think of other things," says Army Reserve Col. James "Scotty" Scott. He's director of the Defense Department's Individual and Family Support Policy in Washington D.C., which assists reservists and their loved ones. It may be hard to believe, but the Pentagon sent Scott, at his urging, to be trained by Steve Wilson as a "Certified Laughter Leader." Wilson is a self-proclaimed "joyologist" and Cheerman of the Bored of World Laughter Tour, an Ohio-based laughter club umbrella group..."I'm known as the Laughing Colonel from the Pentagon," Scott says]
Announcer: So if Colonel Scotty Scott is the Luke Skywalker of Laughter, Steve Wilson, the Certified Laughter Leader, is most definitely Yoda.
Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson: so, at our institute in Ohio, it's the atmosphere, you know, we have magicians and clowns running around
Announcer: What about mimes, do you have mimes?
Steve Wilson: I am sure there are mimes [long pause] in there...somewhere.
Announcer: [some segue to prompt SW to talk, like, methodology]
Steve Wilson: well, there are two kinds of laughter, duchane (sp?) and nonduchane (sp? redux), that is to say, forced or unforced. [I tried to find the spelling/definition of the word, but the closest thing dictionary.com had to offer was
Duchenne:
Main Entry: Du·chenne
Pronunciation: dü-'shen, d&-
Variant: also Du·chenne's /-'shenz/
Function: adjective
: relating to or being Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Du·chenne /d[UE]-shen/, Guillaume–Benjamin–Amand (1806–1875), French neurologist. Duchenne is widely recognized as the founder of electrotherapy. Dedicating his career to the study of disorders associated with nerves and muscles, he used, as early as 1830, faradic currents in treating patients. He built his own machine for electrical stimulation of nerves and muscles. In 1855 he published a volume concerning the electrophysiology of the muscular system. He is also known for his classic descriptions of a number of medical disorders involving atrophy of muscles or paralysis.]
Announcer: can you give me an example of the first kind?
Steve Wilson, (channeling the killer clown corporealized by the abused boy's coma nightmare in season 1 Buffy episode "Nightmares"): Ha-ha-ha, Whhoa-ha-ha. heee-haha-hee-hee-hee
Announcer: congratulations, that is the most terrifying thing I have ever heard. Now can you give me an example of the other kind?
Steve Wilson: (laughs "normally"--sort of)--this is me laughing thinking of you being scared.
AND SCENE.
