| Jokes: | | | | These humors were related to personality (melancholic, |
| Making jokes, making funny things, making funny | | | | choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine). That is where the |
| cartoons, funny pictures and funny stuff in general is | | | | relation of humor with mood starts... From that point, |
| not an easy task, it is a very serious job. It takes a | | | | the meaning of the word kept evolving up to this day |
| person who is able to communicate effectively with | | | | when humor does not usually refer to a liquid |
| the psyche of the potential viewers, readers or | | | | substance that circulates through our bodies (although |
| listeners. A person who has to identify what appeals | | | | the meaning is still valid), but a state of mind |
| to them, what makes them laugh, and sometimes cry. | | | | characteristically related to the things that cause |
| You can, sometimes hear or see jokes that are about | | | | laughter and fun (humorous). |
| sad things presented in such a manner that they can | | | | Laughter: "...does the body good" |
| be read and interpreted as funny. That is why jokes | | | | Jokes and their effects are considered by some |
| where people "fall, break a leg or die" can be funny. | | | | experts as a good coadjuvant therapy for stress |
| Humor: | | | | related diseases such as irritable bowel disease, heart |
| Humor and medicine were related long before the | | | | burn, anxiety, cancer, etc. Some of these ideas were |
| word humor meant fun stuff. Greeks and early | | | | exploited in a movie called "Patch Adams" where |
| Romans believed that mood was related to | | | | Robin Williams portraits a real life medical student who |
| substances that circulated through the body, | | | | shows "the power" of humor laughter and jokes. |
| substances they called humors. | | | | Jokes are a part of our nature, a life without laughter |
| Four humors were described in Hippocratic medicine: | | | | and funny things is not life, it is suffering. We need fun, |
| Blood (Spring, air) | | | | we need jokes, we need funny pictures, otherwise we |
| Black bile (Autumn, earth)yellow bile (Summer, | | | | get bored..... and sick too! |
| fire)phlegm (Winter, water). | | | | |