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To: goldsnow who wrote (14137)	8/22/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

ROFLMAOBT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: goldsnow who wrote (14137)	8/22/1999 7:56:00 PM
From: cody andre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Chancellor Schroeder should get an intern or two and the Germans (like Americans) can laugh 24 hours a day ...

To: goldsnow who wrote (14137)	8/23/1999 7:18:00 AM
From: MNI	Respond to of 17770

ROFL, thanks goldsnow, for both posts. However, being a German, I return to seriousness now and criticise the laughter club's founder for giving too cheap an explanation. To me, the lack of laughter would seem to originate rather from an education to be serious, to consider things to be of grave seriosity, than a 'lack of time' and the modern struggle of life, called running for money and career. However, this is a spin that makes success of his clubs easier ... Regards, thanks again, MNI

To: goldsnow who wrote (14137)	8/23/1999 10:11:00 AM
From: MNI	Respond to of 17770

On second thought, goldsnow, I should add: we have the professional and semi-professional laughing clubs in the south-western part of Germany, the carnival clubs. Those are social clubs that are busy campaigning for carnival actually for half a year. In Germany, carnival culture is, differently from Rio etc. not about glamour, but about political freedom, freedom of laughter and breaking social rules in the first place. However, they have their own rituals, and heavy drinking is one of the most obvious. Ironically, in those clubs it can become compulsory to be of good mood, even if yuo have hit a bad time. Also, there are special treatment centers for those who feel terrorised by three days of noisy and vibrant street life. Those from that region that I know say the compulsory good mood is disturbing them more then the physical dangers with streets stuffed with drunk people that feel the right to break the rules all the times. goldsnow, another thing that is striking me: What do you think why the Russians on one hand, and the US Americans on the other hand were not mentioned in the study? The latter ones should nicely be compared to the Canadians; the Germans however should be compared to the Swedish and Danish to give a more complete picture ... Still laughing, :-)), MNI