Dear Team Accent,
"
Laughter is like good medicine". - Proverbs 17:22
Reportedly the earliest collection of Proverbs, titled “proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied,” came into being about 700 BC; The latest (1:1–9:18) dates from the 4th century BC.
Fast forward a couple plus millennia to the 1960s.
Dr. William F. Fry, a professor of Psychology at Stanford University, California, was the first scientist to suggest in 1964 that laughter was a suitable field of study and the first to apply for public funding.
The results are in. The science agrees with Proverbs.
"Laughter is a complex emotional response to one’s environment, situation, and stimuli. Studied for many years, it was not generally perceived to have any particular healing effect until 1979, when Norman Cousins published As Anatomy of an Illness. In this book, Cousins described laughter as creating an analgesic effect for pain caused by his ankylosing spondylitis.
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Since that time, interest in laughter as a potential therapeutic option has grown, both in popular culture as well as in scientific research, where the field of psychoneuroimmunology attempts to explore the impact of laughter on our physiology and psychology. Current research indicates that laughter has quantifiable positive physiologic benefit." - The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
In our continued effort to manage stress effectively, thereby supporting our immune system (and reinforcing the concept we are truly on the same team), we want to help our teammates to laugh more. So...
WELCOME TO THE ACCENT JOKE CONTEST!
- Everyone knows a good joke, right? Let's share them with everyone!
- Take a moment, type it out and email it to Howard
- In the next Advisor, we will anonymously print all the jokes.
- Then we all will vote on the funniest one.
- The winner of the funniest joke will win a special prize!
- If you don't know a joke by heart, contact somebody you know who does. Ask them for their best joke and you can submit that one.
- Jokes do not have to be accounting related (but there a lot of good ones, aren't there?)
- All jokes need to be submitted to Howard by this Friday, July 10th.
To benefit everyone on the Team,
let's see how close we can get to 100% participation!
LET'S LOL TOGETHER!
