The Guide to Laughter
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magog_83I just wanted to share this hilarious excerpt from my 1930s book 'Everything Within: A Library of Information for the Home' which I leant to a friend and finally got back this afternoon. BEHOLD the Guide to Laughter. And I bet you thought a laugh was just a laugh. But no! It has Meaning. Or at least it did in the 1930s.
Other information for the home includes - What your doorbell ringing style says about You. Collar Lore for Men, and Pencil Points and their Meaning (clue: too pointy? You're a skinflint).
Yes, I do have many crazy old books with random stories and pictures - why do you ask?
Personal Highlights
Beware of the man who has cultivated the laugh in “A” and who gives vent to it often. This laugh is frequently acquired by the man of business who is sharp but not really clever. He wants to convey the impression that he is a jolly good fellow.
Distrust the very loud laugh too, for this is abnormal. But an honest person, weighed down by a secret grief, may cultivate this loud laugh almost unconsciously.
Beware of the man or woman who cannot laugh. When these people are not dangerous, they are very trying. They are the folk who say “I told you so” when things go wrong and who never help to put them right.
Beware of the man who has a sneaky little laugh; he has the heart of a worm and the spirit of a sheep. The woman who has a hoarse, animal laugh may be, and generally is, perfectly honourable, but she has no feminine charm.
There is a short, sudden, low laugh which one may only hear once or twice in a lifetime. This is the laugh of an enemy, who knows how to “hate and wait.” Watch this rarely heard laugh and steer clear of him who utters it, if you can. He is dangerous. [Ven wisely suggested this may the laugh otherwise known as MWAHAHAHA]
Other information for the home includes - What your doorbell ringing style says about You. Collar Lore for Men, and Pencil Points and their Meaning (clue: too pointy? You're a skinflint).
Yes, I do have many crazy old books with random stories and pictures - why do you ask?
Personal Highlights
Beware of the man who has cultivated the laugh in “A” and who gives vent to it often. This laugh is frequently acquired by the man of business who is sharp but not really clever. He wants to convey the impression that he is a jolly good fellow.
Distrust the very loud laugh too, for this is abnormal. But an honest person, weighed down by a secret grief, may cultivate this loud laugh almost unconsciously.
Beware of the man or woman who cannot laugh. When these people are not dangerous, they are very trying. They are the folk who say “I told you so” when things go wrong and who never help to put them right.
Beware of the man who has a sneaky little laugh; he has the heart of a worm and the spirit of a sheep. The woman who has a hoarse, animal laugh may be, and generally is, perfectly honourable, but she has no feminine charm.
There is a short, sudden, low laugh which one may only hear once or twice in a lifetime. This is the laugh of an enemy, who knows how to “hate and wait.” Watch this rarely heard laugh and steer clear of him who utters it, if you can. He is dangerous. [Ven wisely suggested this may the laugh otherwise known as MWAHAHAHA]
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Date: 2010-02-23 10:55 pm (UTC)My poor book would probably be horrified to know I was making fun of it, since it takes itself so very seriously :D But anything that analyses the sharpness of your pencil deserves it in my opinion!