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humor

humour, also spelled Humor, (from Latin “liquid,” or “fluid”), in early Western physiological theory, one of the four fluids of the body that were thought to determine a person’s temperament and features. In the ancient physiological theory still current in the European Middle Ages and later, the four cardinal humours were blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile); the variant mixtures of these humours in different persons determined their “complexions,” or “temperaments,” their physical and mental qualities, and their dispositions. The ideal person had the ideally proportioned mixture of the four; a predominance of one produced a person who was sanguine (Latin sanguis, “blood”), phlegmatic, choleric, or melancholic. Each complexion had specific characteristics, and the words carried much weight that they have since lost: e.g., the choleric man was not only quick to anger but also yellow-faced, lean, hairy, proud, ambitious, revengeful, and shrewd. By extension, “humour” in the 16th century came to denote an unbalanced mental condition, a mood or unreasonable caprice, or a fixed folly or vice.

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Four temperaments

Four temperaments is a proto-psychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types,sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable), choleric (ambitious and leader-like), melancholic (analytical and quiet), and phlegmatic (relaxed and peaceful). Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures of the types.

The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC) incorporated the four temperaments into his medical theories as part of the ancient medical concept of humorism, that four bodily fluids affect human personality traits and behaviors. Later discoveries in biochemistry have led modern medicine science to reject the theory of the four temperaments, although some personality type systems of varying scientific acceptance continue to use four or more categories of a similar nature.

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James

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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

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The Leacock Associates

The Leacock Associates

The Stephen Leacock Associates work to preserve the literary legacy of Stephen Leacock, oversee the annual Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and encourage the growth of Canadian humour writing.

The Leacock Memorial Medal is a prestigious annual honour, accompanied by a $15,000 prize, awarded for the best in Canadian humour writing. The award has attained an international reputation and is the only award of its kind for Canadian humour writing.

Overview The Stephen Leacock Associates was founded in 1946 and began awarding the Leacock Medal for Humour in 1947. The number of entries has continually grown — 70 books were put forward by publishers and writers for 2011. An anonymous panel of judges, appointed from across Canada by the Associates’ board of directors, vets all entries and selects the shortlist of five potential winners. The shortlist is typically announced each April 1st, and the winning book is announced at the end of April. The medal and the cash award of $15,000 are presented in June at the Stephen Leacock Award Dinner, at the Geneva Park Conference Centre on Lake Couchiching in Orillia, Ontario.

In addition, the board administers an annual Student Award for Humour to encourage young writers, and it undertakes other activities to promote and preserve the legacy of Stephen Leacock and to support Canadian humor writing in general. The Associates also produce The Newspacket, a quarterly newsletter informing members around the world of the organization’s activities.

Mission

1. To honour and perpetuate the name and memory of Stephen Leacock — humorist, author, economist and lecturer.

2. To arrange for the annual award and presentation of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

3. To encourage the growth of Canadian humorous writing.

4. To initiate and support activities which widen interest in Leacock and his writings.

5. To widen public interest in the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home to as great a degree as possible in the Leacock legend.

6. This organization will be carried on without purpose of gain for its members and any profits or accretions to the organization shall be used in promoting its objectives.

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There was this little guy sitting inside a bar, just looking at his drink. He didn't move for a half-an-hour. Then, this big trouble-making truck driver stepped up right next to him, took the drink from the guy, and just drank it all down. The poor man started crying. The truckie turned and said: "Aww, come on man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand to see a man crying." "No no, it's not that. Today is the worst day of my life. First, I overslept and was late for an important meeting. My boss became outraged and then fired me. When I left the building to my car, I found out that it was stolen. The police said they could do nothing. So I had to get a cab home, except after I paid the cab driver and the cab had gone, I found that I left my wallet in the cab. Then I got inside only to find my wife in bed with the gardener. I left home depressed and came to this bar. And NOW ... just when I was finally getting the courage to put an end to it all, YOU had to show up and drink the poison."

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Anyone Without a Sense of Humour is at the Mercy of the Rest of Us!

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Theories of humour

Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy; spiritual theories, which may, for instance, consider humour to be a "gift from God"; and theories which consider humour to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

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Humour

Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoural medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, “body fluid”), control human health and emotion.

People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour.