Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060113/pl_usatoday/pentagontofamiliesgoaheadlaugh;_ylt=AjGvZ3XBd4I2a8OXXrNEzkas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-
Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh

By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY Fri Jan 13, 6:45 AM ET

When the stress of the war in
Iraq becomes too severe, the
Pentagon has a suggestion for military families: Learn how to laugh.

With help from the Pentagon's chief laughter instructor, families of National Guard members are learning to walk like a penguin, laugh like a lion and blurt "ha, ha, hee, hee and ho, ho."

No joke..........

[TheBaldyMan]

1. can Mrs Alito get on one of the courses? n/t

[DS1]

3. Well she's got her own urban camoflage

[TheBaldyMan]

10. yeah it makes her blend into republican DC completely !

a republican stooge's wife in tears , soon to be wall to wall in Washington DC.

Any female will be able to wear an overpriced twin set and when she turns on the waterworks everybody will say 'Where did she go?' ;)

[underpants]

2. What happened to the Class 6 stores?

Wow that is a very different military than the one I knew

[saigon68]

17. Remember those well

A 40 Oz (Canadian Quart) bottle of Ten High Bourbon for 85 cents

ahh the good old days

We called them 40 POUNDERS

[BamaGirl]

31. What do you mean?

The Class 6 hasn't changed in the 13 years I've been going to them. What happened lol?

[grilled onions]

4. Don't know whether to laugh or cry

Laughing Instructor? Sounds like they need to enroll in the "laughing academy"--permanently! When will thry ever get the drift that the horrors of war can't be laughed away????????:mad:

[NorthernSpy]

5. they've gone barking mad!

When the stress of the war in
Iraq becomes too severe, the
Pentagon has a suggestion for military families: Learn how to laugh.

With help from the Pentagon's chief laughter instructor, families of National Guard members are learning to walk like a penguin, laugh like a lion and blurt "ha, ha, hee, hee and ho, ho."

:think:

[otohara]

6. Sounds Like Walmart's Health Plan

don't get sick, no - seriously

[MindPilot]

7. A laugh instructor?!

Stop it you're killing me!!

This is just too incredibly frekin' stupid for words. I need to start doing standup again-I'm getting material overload.

[saigon68]

8. here's a Joke-- You can be the 1st one on your block

To have your boy come home in a box.

Country Joe and the Fish--- 1969

[tanyev]

9. It's all one big joke.

No WMDs, over 2200 dead, not enough armored vehicles, inadequate body armor, running low on ammo, contractors feeding troops spoiled food, thousands and thousands of Iraqis dead, infrastructure of the country destroyed, etc., etc., etc.

Let me go try walking like a penguin. Yeah, that'll help.

[UpInArms]

11. ummm...

right.

Things like this always make me laugh :sarcasm:

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Lots less expensive than

up-arming the humvees and providing proper body armor. As Donald O'Connor so memorably sang in "Singing in the Rain": "Make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh, ...in the words of that immortal buddy Samuel J. Snodgrass, as he was about to be lead to the guillotine, make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh!" SG

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Okay, I know laughter

is so good for you, keeps depression at bay. But somehow this is just wrong.

[onager]

14. I can contribute some old Marine Corps humor...

A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of saying you f!cked up.

[Selteri]

15. I'll laugh when Pesident Bush immitates Nixon and gets onto that Chopper

in complete disgrace, either to be impeached or avoid impeachment.

[llmart]

16. Good response.

[daleo]

18. They could teach this old song: "Always look on the Bright Side of Life"

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

[reprobate]

20. I nominate this for the Greatest Song Ever Written.

[UpInArms]

21. well done daleo

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

[daleo]

24. By the way, its from Monty Python's Life of Brian

Just in case there are people out there who haven't seen the movie.

[VaYallaDawg]

19. This has to come in that "just when you think you've seen everything"

category.

[pinerow]

22. This has to be a piece from The Onion...

Yes...No...because when a loved one dies or is severly wounded, the first reaction is to ROFL...?...wtf

[LizW]

23. In other news "The Onion" announces it is ceasing publication after 9 year

"Spokesman says, regretfully, that the unique appeal of The Onion has been so diluted by actual news items coming out of the current U.S. government that it is no longer feasible to continue publication."

:sarcasm:

[pinerow]

27. LOL...!!

nt

[Corgigal]

25. Dear Military Families

I am sorry that this stupidity was even put in the paper.
The Pentagon is run by jackasses who have stock options.
Again, I'm sorry.

Corgigal

[VegasWolf]

26. Just laugh, laugh your asses off while Bush kills your children for Oil.

Haha! HaHa!

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[NYC]

28. Yahoo story has a 2 1/2 star rating.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060113/pl_usatoday/pentagontofamiliesgoaheadlaugh

I rated it 5. I think people should see the Pentagon's antidote to death and mayhem.

[jazzjunkysue]

29. (Smacks head) Why didn't we try laughing at Sadam!

When we move in on Iran and bomb them, cause they're getting their own bombs, we can make gorilla noises and swing from the chandelier.

[Rose Siding]

30. Job secruity for future therapists

snip>
Mary Frances Booth, the wife of a retired soldier, took the class last year and is an ardent devotee.

She and her two daughters - Meaghan, 10 and Sarah, 8 - were sobbing after Booth dropped her husband at the Boise airport Sunday; he was headed for Afghanistan for work as a civilian contractor, she says. Then Booth called for one of the laughing drills.

"They rolled their eyes at me and thought, 'Mom's on her laughing thing again,' " Booth says. "(But) it made it a little bit better."