The Origin Of Laughter "IFC R2S2"
The emotional release that we call laughter is perhaps the greatest feeling that we can experience and share with the ones we love. Can we trace the origin of laughter back through history? Of course we can. The debate on who laughed the very first guffaw it seems, is as old as time itself. The two schools of thought on which version contains the truth will never be able to find a middle ground. I present to you both versions of the first laugh ever recorded in history. Judge for yourself.
Eve sat with her back resting against a mighty oak. It's bark neither too coarse nor too supple. The weather was beautiful, it was always like this ever since she could remember. Sunshine and rainbows, always! She took the last bite of her apple and tossed it aside, somehow knowing that it would compose into the earth where she threw it and one day grow into a magnificent apple tree. Suddenly realization dawned on her. She looked down at herself and saw that she was naked. She felt awe and wonder yet at the same time she felt embarrassment and shame. She jumped to her feet and called out to her partner Adam.
Adam was standing in a small meadow not far away, staring off into the distance and thinking about... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! (That's right ladies, men have had that gift since the dawn of time, don't be jealous.) Adam heard Eve call to him and turned in time to see her running towards him. It was then that he noticed for the first time her nakedness and he saw that it was GOOD (This was also the first ever instance of the word "schwing" in recorded history). Then he too noticed his own nakedness and felt the same feelings that had overcome Eve just moments before.
Adam turned and ran off into a small copse of trees just as Eve arrived in the meadow. He returned moments later carrying two leaves in his hands. One small fig leaf and one very large fig leaf. He approached Eve, face red with embarrassment and handed her the small leaf. This was the moment. She took one look at the small leaf in her hand, another at the large leaf in Adams hand then a brief glimpse down to Adams junk. She quickly swiped the large leaf from Adam and gave the small one to him and burst out in a mighty fit of laughter.
It was a good thing she hadn't just taken a drink of milk and honey for surely she would have spit some out of her nose right then and there.
The other version of the first laugh in history is slightly different.
Mug sat on a low, rocky outcropping near the side of a large cliff. His tiny brain hurt and he wrinkled his big furry brow in an attempt to shake off the pain. He had just spent the last billion years evolving from an amoeba into the wonderful man-thing he was today and boy were his arms tired. His brother Moog sat a few feet away from him apparently picking bugs out from between his toes and eating them. "Lucky bastard" thought Mug, for he had no bugs between his toes.
A sound from above caught Mugs' attention and he looked up just in time to see a largish, 20 pound boulder falling down the cliffside. The boulder struck a promontory on the cliffs face and soared out just far enough to put in on a direct course with his brother Moog's head. Moog continued on with his bug buffet completely unaware that he was about to take a boulder to the head. The look on Moog's face in that moment between the boulder bouncing off of his skull and his fairly immediate death was priceless. Unaware of his brothers fate but with the memory of the crossed eyes and fugly grimace, Mug broke out into a fit of laughter so sudden and full of mirth that he was glad he wasn't eating bugs at the time for surely he would have choked.
Ever since April 19th of 1882 until this very day John the Baptist and Charles Darwin have been in heaven arguing which version of this story is the truth. Apparently old Charlie has yet to take notice of his surroundings. Meanwhile, God sits on his throne just watching these two go at it and just laughs and laughs and laughs.
Note: April 19th of 1882 is the date that Charles Darwin passed away from this world, according to Google that is.
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Ahahaha these are hilarious. I especially like the one about Adam and Eve. Admittedly I kind of had a sense of what the punch line was going to be, but nonetheless I really enjoyed that. I havent heard that one. Not sure if you made it up eecently or had heard it someplace before, but well done. Love it!
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They’re both totally made up. Glad you enjoyed. I think it came across a little better in my head.
Lol! That made me laugh pretty good.
This part also made me chuckle.
Though poor Moog!
Haha!
Also.. Promontory eh? First time I remember hearing that word! Thanks! I love learning new words, looks like it's connected to prominent. Which basically means projecting or jutting out, like a hill.
Great entry bud, you got me to laugh numerous times, and I'm not generally an easy laugher. :D
Ha, glad you liked it. Wrote it in my head in the morning after reading the season 2 post.
that was funny, so for the long wait on the comment, but I was struggling on mine, and did not need distractions, I would be mugs brother moog, only instead of bugs between my toes, I was trying to learn to think, and will surly be hit with the boulder upside my head.