would like to have an answer to laugh both anotomically as well as behavioural aspects of laugh
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Some animals do laugh-I've personally seen Shamoo, the killer whale at Sea World float right up to the glass wall of his tank and wait for a bunch of people to get close.  When he had a good crowd, he'd very suddenly jump up and crash down drenching them all.  Then he'd stick his head out of the water and laugh at them-a high pitched "eh-eh-eh" sound-but clearly laughter. I've seen a siverback gorrila at a zoo laugh too-after he scared the hell out of some obnoxious school kids.  I watched both these animals, and they would repeat this behaviour often-telling me that they A) Got some genuine enjoyment out of it and B) Actively set these scenarios up.  So, as with most other forms of behavior, humans do not have a monopoly on laughter.
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ROFL  OMFG THATS FUNNNNY!!!!!!!!!!!! AH HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!\n*rolls on floor laughing**\n*keeps laughing*
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being able to make me laugh is a big turn on. for me funny= sexxy. but you can't be racist or rude
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People think I am funny when I am being serious.  And when I am trying to be funny, they don't laugh.  Go figure. Did this make you laugh?
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twist hair laugh alot but not to much act kind of shy
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LOL. laugh out loud.\nLMAO laughing my assss off.\nLMFAO. laughing my fu... asss off.\nOMG oh my god.\nand theirs heaps more.
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Emotional release.  \n\nI usually laugh.  \n\nAnd I think of a stupid joke that I was told one time after - when I was laughing - it goes something like this:  "What does one Eskimo man say to another?"  Answer: "Come laugh with my wife."  \n\nI never really understood it, but it is always there in my mind at that moment.
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Laughter is the medicine of the soul.  \nDid someone say that,  or did I just make it up?  :-)\n\nWithout someone to laugh with life would be boring.
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No one needs to instruct you on how to laugh.... laughter comes rushing out when your tickled about something that's funny,,, when you feel it, it just happens, how it sounds is not important..... laugh and enjoy your self.... smile..
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You ARE breathing while laughing.\n\nPeople laugh in many different ways....big bellowing laughs, snorts, wheezes, etc.\nEach one, in its own right, is a method or part of breathing. (Just like talking involves exhaling (and in some countries inhaling) to perform the action.\n\nThe typical "Hahahahaha" is the exhaling part of breathing. If you continue to enhale without inhaling, you will eventually pass out due to lack of oxygen. Then you will resume breathing normally as a reflex. (And being pass out is not really funny if you are the one doing it, lol)\n\nIf you are a snorter, then you are typically doing both the normal laugh (the exhale) with the occassional snort (which is an inhale) so you can laugh much longer.\n\nHope this helps!
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patzky99 wrote:\n\ni had read an earlier answer about how we use descriptions of animals' behavior to apply to humans. i'll check back and see if i can find it...\n\nwell of course i can't now. if i recall the gist of it was that we lump some of our 'worst' behaviors along with animals... so you get a 'wolf whistle', or a person or a movie is a 'real dog', or someone is 'crazy like a fox'. some positive behaviors can be ascribed too, 'proud as a peacock' or 'busy as a bee'. perhaps these phrases are just an extension of the days when we assigned human characteristics to the animal world.\n\nwho was that guy who was 'acting like a loon'?  thanks for the 2nd chance :)
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''laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone''\n\nit's the only one that currently springs to mind.
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I'm sure there are some very good (yet ho-hum) relationships out there that do not have humor built in.  They say laughter is the best medicine, and I couldn't live a day without a good laugh.  My husband and I laugh all the time, we never laugh AT each other, we laugh WITH each other.  My kids and I also have a great relationship where we laugh alot.  I was raised this way, so even my parents and I pick on each other.  I love my happy life!!
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Laughing makes everything better, even deep pain.  Guys do that all the time, or they force themselves to shrug it off.  It's simply a coping mechanism.  Guys do not give as much credence to their emotions as do girls.  That is what makes most of us tough and able to deal with bad things better.  One more of the many differences between the sexes.
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YESSSSS!!!!!!!! actually laughing is good for the heart.  So keep laughing!!!!!
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it happens when a joke contestes your mind about a belief you have and when you think about it, you notice it is silly and than laugh at it.\n\nthe sound comes from when you breath and happen to do it really fast (mind you, other countries may say other expressions when their laughing. saying hahaha is purely a western things)
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*lol*\n\nThat's AWESOME!\n\nThanks for the laugh!