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Comedy: May 03, 2017 Issue [#8267]

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 This week: Laughing Gas
  Edited by: Robert Waltz Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
         -Bob Marley

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
         -Charlie Chaplin

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
         -Karl Marx


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Letter from the editor

When I was a kid, lo these many years ago, I got a toothache. It wasn't from being kicked in the face by a stegosaurus, or from tripping and falling while running from a saber-toothed tiger, plausible though these things might have been in my youth. No, it was just an ordinary toothache.

Unfortunately, "ordinary toothache" is some of the worst pain imaginable, exceeded in my life only by appendicitis. Woe unto my juvenile self when he found out that the only way to cure it is to go to the dentist.

The choice, then, was: stay in agonizing pain, or visit someone who would visit upon me even worse agony. Then or now, I've always been reluctant to suffer through temporary inconvenience for future benefit. I didn't, and don't, see the point, when one can be hit by a meteorite at any moment. But, being a kid, my parents dragged me to the dentist, a kindly old man - well, from my youthful perspective, anyway; he was probably in his 30s - who sat me down in a chair and put a mask over my nose. "Just breathe slowly," he told me. "You'll feel like everything's floating."

Thus was I introduced to the wonder of drugs. Er, I mean, the benefits of nitrous oxide. Pretty soon, everything was floating, as promised, including me. It wasn't so much that I didn't feel the pain anymore; it was more like I just didn't care. He came back in the room after some timeless time (I've found that nitrous oxide transcends time, somehow), and did things that probably caused my tooth even more pain, but again - didn't care.

Later, someone, probably my dad, told me that it was called "laughing gas." I didn't understand why, as I didn't find anything particularly amusing about the episode. Nor did I the next time I needed a cavity filled, or the next, or even when I had a broken tooth removed. The root canal was definitely not funny.

So I still don't know why they call it laughing gas.

But all these years later, I still laugh to diminish pain.


Editor's Picks

Some pain-killers from all over:

 Where's My Car? Open in new Window. [E]
New Teslapathic car is on the market. What could go wrong? Writer's Cramp entry.
by Bandersnatch Author Icon


 Mirror Mirror Open in new Window. [13+]
A tongue in cheek look at myself!
by ~Sue~ Author Icon


 America's Most Feared Enemy Open in new Window. [E]
A humorous satirical piece I wrote
by diffidentDemon Author Icon


The Problem With Gold Fillings Open in new Window. [E]
Something peculiar in the patients mouth!!!
by Magoo Author Icon


 Wait For Us Open in new Window. [18+]
One year ago, all the rich people disappeared...
by Kevin Soo Author Icon


 Ski and P Open in new Window. [E]
Fun piece on "lack of necessities" at the top of a mountain
by SueVN Author Icon


 The Hindenburg 1.0 Open in new Window. [18+]
Short story for the CSFS short story competition.
by Midnight Flame Author Icon

 
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Ask & Answer

Last time, in "Fool Me Once...Open in new Window., I wrote about the horrid aftermath of April Fools' Day.

innerlight Author Icon: I wrote this poem in "loop form" Enjoy The Baseball Camp [Submitted Item: "Baseball CampOpen in new Window. [E]]

         Keep on swinging!

And that's it for me for now - see you next time. Until then,

LAUGH ON!!!

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