One-Liner Wednesday. Alternative Dictionary.

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A tip of the hat to Dale at The Return Of The Internet Nobody and his entries for the alternative dictionary.

CANTILEVER. PACE LEVER ON A MECHANICAL HORSE?

This is part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday.

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 20th, 2020. Humour.

Monday is here and with the start of the workweek we have the 20th prompt for Just Jot it January 2020. Today’s prompt comes to us compliments of Sadje. Thank you so much, Sadje! Please be sure to visit her blog to read her post and say hello. And follow her while you’re there!.

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 20th, 2020, is “humor.” Use the word “humor” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Humour, well you see I am English and we spell some of our words differently, and that can lead to humour on occasion.

Below is an article I found on the ancient theory of The Humours.

The four humours and their corresponding qualities.

Credits:Wellcome Library, London.

Humoral theory, also known as humorism or the theory of the four humours, was a model for the workings of the human body. It was systemised in Ancient Greece, although its origins may go back further still. The theory was central to the teachings of Hippocrates and Galen and it became the dominant theory in Europe for many centuries. It remained a major influence on medical practice and teaching until well into the 1800s.

In this theory, humours existed as liquids within the body and were identified as blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. These were in turn associated with the fundamental elements of air, water, earth and fire. It was further proposed that each of the humours was associated with a particular season of the year, during which too much of the corresponding humour could exist in the body – blood, for example, was associated with spring. A good balance between the four humours was essential to retain a healthy body and mind, as imbalance could result in disease. Such notions of internal balance have parallels in other medical traditions, notably Ayurveda, Unani Tibb and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The treatments for disease within humoral theory were concerned with restoring balance. These could be relatively benign and focused on changes in dietary habits, exercise and herbal medicines. But other treatments could involve more aggressive attempts to re-establish balance. As well as having the body purged with laxatives and emetics, or the skin blistered with hot iron, individuals already weakened by disease might be subjected to bloodletting because practitioners mistakenly believed that their bodies contained an excess of blood. You can find this article, for which I own no credit here.

Well that was a jolly article not much humour there. Let’s have some music.

Andrew John Hozier-Byrne (born 17 March 1990), known professionally as Hozier is an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter from County Wicklow. Isn’t he gorgeous and Oh! That voice! He certainly raises my humour.

Now we all know that there are other meanings to the word, you can be in a good or bad humour, meaning your mood. You can be accused of having no sense of humour, or you can be a laugh and have a good sense of humour. It’s all relative really.

Humour is big business we have comedians male and female who all have vastly different ideas of humour. Here is one of my favourite comedians Peter Kay.

And here is my favourite comedienne of all time Victoria Woods who is sadly no longer with us singing one of her comic songs.

There is also Ricky Gervais who has a dark sense of humour, he writes dark sitcoms, he has been in films and is also he is a great stand up comedian…but an acquired taste. Here he is at the Hollywood Golden Globes ripping the Glitterate and Establishment apart. He is only telling the truth! I like him😜 Not everyone’s sense of humour.

Well I think that’s enough humour for today, have a good one everyone 💜

Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Ick.

This week LindaGHill of Life in Progress is busy preparing her book for publishing! And looking after her boys and visiting her mum in hospital! Phew just thinking about it is making me tired!! 

Right this week our SoCs  our prompt is “ick” find a word with “ick” on or use it on it’s own whatever you do have fun.

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Dick and his Chick

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Quick shouted Dick

I am going to sick

Okay said his chick

Whipping out a bowl .. slick!

This is nasty Dick

Said his chick

I don’t need this …..ick!

Help I feel sick

Moving her hair with a flick

Happy aim in the bowl, slick

Too much to drink hick

Never again they agreed …Tick

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Lost his keys in the thicket did Dick

His candle burnt down to the wick.

He came home through the snicket

How did he open the lock,well he picked it.

Greeted by his chick

She said you are thick

I love you but you get on my wick

What makes you laugh?

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I have just two more clips to enter  for Unload and Unwind’s Weekend Fun event  , Now  I am entering  the Link  for the ping back   http://jenniferann1970.wordpress.com/weekend-funny-challenge/.

The  first  one  is  from Peter Kay  who is  an avid people  watcher  and  really funny. Here he is talking about  how  we all miss hear  lyrics!

 

 

And Billy Connolly  telling us all about singing relatives…. you must  have  at least one!

 

 

I wish, I wish

I wish I was a poet I wish that I could write the kind poem that talks of love and life. To speak of shards and fractile  light while travelling through this vale of tears. I think that, that is so hard I bet it would take years.

I wish I was an author a best seller I would pen ! I’d wow the critics and public and I’d never work again. Or maybe  a screen writer a fantastic  gun ho! script, a Gothic terror with vampires cavorting in the crypt.

I wish I could write romances , long painful arduous tales with women running barefoot after their men across the dales. I’d have beautiful nurses falling at the doctors feet . God help the poor patients who we never hear of …perhaps they are all asleep .

I wish I could write science fiction that would be so much fun with planet sized star ships with sonic missile guns. I’d have a charming captain who always knows just what to do , and evil, clever aliens with sexy females the human crew to woo.  Travel would be in jet cars that work on voice command and no one would ever need to cook or mend as a replicator would always be on hand.

I wish I could write on politics …well no that is not true , because it is a nasty backstabbing two faced thing to do!

I wish I could write comedy I like to have a laugh, with lots of smiles and happy days I’d split your sides in half.

I wish that could write  another verse or two but I have run out of ideas. What a twist of luck for you !