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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780671511524
ISBN number: 0671511521
Label: Meadowbrook
Manufacturer: Meadowbrook
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 128
Printing Date: April 30, 1994
Publishing house: Meadowbrook
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One bonus of getting older is that it gives us a great perspective on life ...and that includes plenty of humor!
This collection of cartoons, quips, quotes, and insights introduces a new comedy genre: elderhumor. It captures the wry hilarity of our real-life sitcoms. Generational vocabulary gaps, miscommunications, preoccupation with health and comforts, foibles, disguises (for aging), even physical limitations -- all can have their funny sides when we're laughing at ourselves.
This book, a light-hearted gift for anyone who's 50-plus, is a memoryjogger too. Remember the Katzenjammer Kids? Jack Armstrong? Apple Mary? Check out your friends' ages by their responses to a 'Vanishing Words' test (examples: 'spider,' 'broomstick skirt,' 'running board,' 'the shag'). If you're still calling the refrigerator an 'icebox,' it's a giveaway -- you're probably over 60.
What's So Funny about Getting Old? is brought to you by a comedy team of two. Ed Fischer is an award-winning cartoonist. Jane Thomas Noland, author of Laugh It Off (what's so funny about trying to lose weight?) is a books editor and a former Minneapolis Star Tribune feature writer. Both have delicious ways of looking at life. Both, like all the rest of us, are getting older.
Laughter heals. Laughter helps. Laughter keeps us in shape emotionally and physically. Read this book and try it. You'll be convinced, as these authors are, that there's only one way to grow older -- with a healthy sense of humor!
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Getting old is inevitable but enjoying life is not, it must be worked at. One of the most effective ways to maintain the enjoyment is to laugh about things. Most of the things that happen to you as you age must be laughed at, for if you don't they will tend to depress you. Therefore, jokes about growing sensitivity of the joints, lack of stamina, failure of the senses and all of the other signs of advanced maturity are a necessity.
This book contains many jokes in that genre and while there were none that generated outright hysterics, all of them brought a smile to my face. While I am not yet dealing with the source material of most of these jokes, I can see them ahead, even without my glasses. I enjoyed this book, both for the look ahead and the charm of laughing at my growing physical and mental deficiencies.
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