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The Best Medicine: Humor [Tuesday 6th Period 9/12]
On the front desk next to the sign up sheet there was tea and coffee and a plate of home made cookies of various sorts. Wilson was already behind the desk, whistling as he set up his laptop. Someone of the angelic persuasion had sent him flowers and one of the handsome white roses was tucked dorkily into his lapel.
As soon as the students settled into their seats, Wilson leaned back against the desk and started the lecture.
"Good afternoon." He said in a chipper tone. "Today we’re going to talk about the senses of humor. Not just, your sense of humor but also how we take in humor through our senses."
Picking up a remote, Wilson dimmed the lights and lowered the white screen behind him.
Lecture:
“Let’s start with sight gags. This is also called physical humor. Seeing someone slip and fall or get bonked on the head or seeing someone make a funny face…”
As he talked about sight, he flipped through clips of some of the classic physical humor movies. The Three Stoogies: A plumbing we will go was used for this segment, showing how humor could be shared without a single word being spoken.
Wilson went on to also show clips of The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup where language and being able to hear the jokes as well as see the physical comedy were important.
After the movie clips, he passed out Pop Rocks candy to demonstrate how a funny sensation on the tongue could tickle, since he really couldn’t tickle a student in class and then he discussed the importance of touch and tickle in interpersonal relationships.
“One of the best ways to stimulate laughter--and it's probably the most ancient way--is by tickling. Tickling is inherently social; we can't tickle ourselves. We tickle to get a response. Or to entice ticklee to turn around and become tickler.
Not only do most people like tickling--ticklers as well as ticklees--most recognize it is a way to show affection. What's more, adolescents and adults prefer to be tickled by someone of the opposite sex. Which is a step towards building the network of support and close bonds that we all need to get through life. Tickling is probably at the root of all play and it is inherently reciprocal, a give-and-take proposition. In other words, it exactly represents the basic rhythm of all healthy relationships.”
Wilson sort of by passed the part of how tickling was also often a sexual cue as…this was humor class, not sex ed.
As they worked through the senses of humor, Wilson carefully wove in the different ‘types’ of humor highlighted in each example. Dry humor, raunchy humor, prankish humor, it was an extensive list and as they came to the end of it, Wilson set down the marker he was using to make notes on the board and walked back towards the front of the class.
Class Participation:
“All right. For the remainder of the class, I asked you each last week for homework to come up with your favorite joke or funny story and bring it in today. And ahyep, guess what, we’re going to share those jokes. I’ll be kind and go first.”
He grinned, crossed his arms and leaned against the desk as he began to recite one of his favorites.
"TO: Medical Personnel
FROM: Human Resource
It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms that many EMS narratives have taken a decidedly creative direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are to refrain from using slang and abbreviations to describe patients, such as the following.
Cardiac patients should not be referred to with MUH (messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking) or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again).
Stroke patients are NOT "Charlie Carrots." Nor are rescuers to use CCFCCP (Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their mental state.
Trauma patients are not FDGB (fall down, go boom), TBC (total body crunch) or "hamburger helper". Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to include phrases like "negative vehicle to vehicle interface" or "terminal deceleration syndrome."
HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not "glow worms."
Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use are not considered "pharmaceutically gifted."
Gunshot wounds to the head are not "trans-occipital implants."
The homeless are not "urban outdoorsmen", nor is endotracheal intubation referred to as a "PVC Challenge".
And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being "paws up," ART (assuming room temperature), CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), or NLPR (no long playing records).
I know you will all join me in respecting the cultural diversity of our patients to include their medical orientations in creating proper, narratives and log entries.
Sincerely,
Directory of Human Resource."
After everybody had told their jokes and stories, in the last few minutes of class, Wilson called for attention.
Homework and Field Trip:
"Okay, a few announcements. First of all, homework. I have written up on the board a website for a humor quiz I would like you to go out on and take.Ignore the OOC of the quiz, you try finding a 'fun' clean humor quiz on the net It won’t take long. Take the quiz, write down the result then give me a paragraph about whether you agree or disagree with that as your sense of humor. Now, I know some of you don’t have ready access to a computer. I have office hours on Thursday from 11:00am to 1:00pm and again on Monday from 9:30am to 11:30am and can also be here by appointment if you would like to come in and use my laptop for this assignment. Just, let me know after class."
Grinning he straightened up and set his hands back on the front of the desk.
"Now for the fun announcement. November 10-12 we are taking a field trip with another class…to Las Vegas. I will have permission slips for your parents or guardians to sign and before anyone asks, those of you with transdimensional parental issues, we are working with the school to come up with a viable solution so that everybody can go. I’ll have more details next week but airfare, hotel, meals and show admissions will be covered. So, that’s all for now, you’re free…I’ll be here if anyone has any questions."
[ooc:Please wait for The OCD is up, have at!!]
[OOC-PS. Because I'm a dork and forgot to say so in the comment, please feel free to groan and comment upon your classmates jokes. :)]
As soon as the students settled into their seats, Wilson leaned back against the desk and started the lecture.
"Good afternoon." He said in a chipper tone. "Today we’re going to talk about the senses of humor. Not just, your sense of humor but also how we take in humor through our senses."
Picking up a remote, Wilson dimmed the lights and lowered the white screen behind him.
Lecture:
“Let’s start with sight gags. This is also called physical humor. Seeing someone slip and fall or get bonked on the head or seeing someone make a funny face…”
As he talked about sight, he flipped through clips of some of the classic physical humor movies. The Three Stoogies: A plumbing we will go was used for this segment, showing how humor could be shared without a single word being spoken.
Wilson went on to also show clips of The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup where language and being able to hear the jokes as well as see the physical comedy were important.
After the movie clips, he passed out Pop Rocks candy to demonstrate how a funny sensation on the tongue could tickle, since he really couldn’t tickle a student in class and then he discussed the importance of touch and tickle in interpersonal relationships.
“One of the best ways to stimulate laughter--and it's probably the most ancient way--is by tickling. Tickling is inherently social; we can't tickle ourselves. We tickle to get a response. Or to entice ticklee to turn around and become tickler.
Not only do most people like tickling--ticklers as well as ticklees--most recognize it is a way to show affection. What's more, adolescents and adults prefer to be tickled by someone of the opposite sex. Which is a step towards building the network of support and close bonds that we all need to get through life. Tickling is probably at the root of all play and it is inherently reciprocal, a give-and-take proposition. In other words, it exactly represents the basic rhythm of all healthy relationships.”
Wilson sort of by passed the part of how tickling was also often a sexual cue as…this was humor class, not sex ed.
As they worked through the senses of humor, Wilson carefully wove in the different ‘types’ of humor highlighted in each example. Dry humor, raunchy humor, prankish humor, it was an extensive list and as they came to the end of it, Wilson set down the marker he was using to make notes on the board and walked back towards the front of the class.
Class Participation:
“All right. For the remainder of the class, I asked you each last week for homework to come up with your favorite joke or funny story and bring it in today. And ahyep, guess what, we’re going to share those jokes. I’ll be kind and go first.”
He grinned, crossed his arms and leaned against the desk as he began to recite one of his favorites.
"TO: Medical Personnel
FROM: Human Resource
It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms that many EMS narratives have taken a decidedly creative direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are to refrain from using slang and abbreviations to describe patients, such as the following.
Cardiac patients should not be referred to with MUH (messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking) or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again).
Stroke patients are NOT "Charlie Carrots." Nor are rescuers to use CCFCCP (Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their mental state.
Trauma patients are not FDGB (fall down, go boom), TBC (total body crunch) or "hamburger helper". Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to include phrases like "negative vehicle to vehicle interface" or "terminal deceleration syndrome."
HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not "glow worms."
Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use are not considered "pharmaceutically gifted."
Gunshot wounds to the head are not "trans-occipital implants."
The homeless are not "urban outdoorsmen", nor is endotracheal intubation referred to as a "PVC Challenge".
And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being "paws up," ART (assuming room temperature), CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), or NLPR (no long playing records).
I know you will all join me in respecting the cultural diversity of our patients to include their medical orientations in creating proper, narratives and log entries.
Sincerely,
Directory of Human Resource."
After everybody had told their jokes and stories, in the last few minutes of class, Wilson called for attention.
Homework and Field Trip:
"Okay, a few announcements. First of all, homework. I have written up on the board a website for a humor quiz I would like you to go out on and take.
Grinning he straightened up and set his hands back on the front of the desk.
"Now for the fun announcement. November 10-12 we are taking a field trip with another class…to Las Vegas. I will have permission slips for your parents or guardians to sign and before anyone asks, those of you with transdimensional parental issues, we are working with the school to come up with a viable solution so that everybody can go. I’ll have more details next week but airfare, hotel, meals and show admissions will be covered. So, that’s all for now, you’re free…I’ll be here if anyone has any questions."
[ooc:
[OOC-PS. Because I'm a dork and forgot to say so in the comment, please feel free to groan and comment upon your classmates jokes. :)]
Re: Class Participation
The bartender looks around, and he can't find the stuff to make a hazelnut daiquiri. But he finds the ingredients for something else, and slides it across the bar to the the doctor.
The doctor takes a sip, and spits it out. 'What is this?' asks the doctor.
'It's a hickory daiquiri, doc,' said the bartender."
Greg beamed and tried not to laugh at his own
omg so badhilarious joke.Re: Class Participation
Actually, one had to admire the utter horribleness that was that pun and the grace with which Greg got there.
"Mr. Saunders... I'm torn between giving you detention for that pun or giving you an A." There warm laughter in his voice showed he was not about to follow through on the detention threat but that Greg probably had just marked high on his homework grade.
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