A day without laughter is a day wasted

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So said Charlie Chaplin and I'm sure he was right. The Brummie comedian Jasper Carrott once said that laughter had to be the best medicine, unless you had Type 1 diabetes in which case insulin came quite high up the list! So what has made you laugh today? For me, it was reading in the Times today about an incident in the life of Denis Healey, the former Labour politician who has just died at the age of 98. He was apparently a bit of a bully in his heyday and had the unfortunate tendency of falling out with people. He once managed to offend his speechwriter, just before he was due to give an important speech. The speech was delivered only just in time, and Healey had no time to run through it before he had to stand on the platform and deliver it. He was going quite nicely until he turned over at page 4 to find all the other sheets blank, with just the note: "Your're on your own now, pal".