Today’s speaker was Alan Swann, the president of Barnsley U3A, who gave us a very humorous talk entitled “Laughter is the best medicine”.
This is, apparently, a proven fact articulated by Patch Adams, an American physician, who reiterates that patients are physically as well as mentally improved by a good dose of humour.
Mr Swann then proceeded to make us all laugh for well over an hour by producing slide after slide of hilarious events taken from real life, for example:-
1. The bus driver causing a serious crash between his bus and a tram; fortunately no-one was seriously injured, but he should have remembered the slogan on he outside of his vehicle – “Should have gone to Specsavers”
2. The council sign exhorting owners of dogs who have done a poo, to tidy it up and put it in the bin; we wonder who was the bright spark who deposited the dog in the bin?
3. When asked to explain, in a children’s exam, how you stop milk from turning sour, one child responded with:-“Leave it in the cow!”
One geography student apparently believes that :- Sir Walter Raleigh circumcised the world with a big clipper!
Many other examples followed, varying from zoo animals and stupid road signs to newspaper headlines and doctors’ medical notes.