Lyr Add: Smile!

Subject: Lyr Add: SMILE! (poem/recitation)
From: Nemesis
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 12:04 PM

Smiling is infectious.
You catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner
And someone saw my grin.
When he smiled, I realised
I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile
And realised its worth,
For a simple smile like mine
Could travel round the earth.

So if you feel a smile begin,
Don't leave it undetected.
Let's start an epidemic,
And get the world infected!

:)

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 12:06 PM

As my drawing teacher used to say, "it takes 10 muscles to smile...and it only takes 4 to reach out and smack someone on the back of the head!"

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Pseudolus
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 12:07 PM

:)

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: mousethief
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 12:14 PM

Frown, and the world frowns with you.

Smile, and they'll wonder what you've been up to!

Alex

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Nemesis
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 04:46 AM

Exactly!

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 06:56 AM

"Smile" they said, "it could be worse." So I did and it was. Brian

Subject: Lyr Add: S-M-I-L-E (Ed McCurdy)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:04 AM

S-M-I-L-E
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic, a.k.a. John Brown's Body
As recorded by Ed McCurdy on “Children’s Songs,” 1958.

Oh, it isn't any trouble just to S-M-I-L-E.
It isn't any trouble just to S-M-I-L-E.
So smile when you're in trouble;
It will vanish like a bubble
If you'll only take the trouble just to S-M-I-L-E!

It isn't any trouble just to G-R-I-N-grin.
It isn't any trouble just to G-R-I-N-grin.
So grin when you're in trouble;
It will vanish like a bubble
If you'll only take the trouble just to G-R-I-N-grin!

It isn't any trouble just to HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.
It isn't any trouble just to HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.
So HA-HA when you're in trouble;
It will vanish like a bubble
If you'll only take the trouble just to HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

- - -
I also do that last verse as L-A-U-G-H. Why not? Great song, nice poem. And now it's a music thread!

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:19 AM

People used to comment that they liked my singing because I smiled when I sang.
they didn't mention the voice - ho hum.
(:-))))))

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: late 'n short 2
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:27 AM

As the lovely Boylan Sisters and Bert Healy proclaim, you're never fully dresses without one!

And besides, "... it keeps 'em guessin"(don't remember who said that)

Dan

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: late 'n short 2
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:29 AM

dresses????

dressed!

Sorry!

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Justa Picker
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 11:19 AM

The Benefits of Laughter

Laughter is not only good for the soul, it is also good for the body as well.

During a laugh, the throat goes into un-coordinated spasms sending blasts of air out of the mouth at 110 km/h.

The body starts pumping adrenaline; the heart rate increases; the brain releases endorphins and enkephalins --natural pain killers.

The lungs pump out carbon dioxide, the eyes cleanse themselves with tears, muscles relax and lose their tenseness. The exercise value of laughter is so great that William Fry, a psychiatrist at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, claims laughing 100 times a day is the equivalent of 10 minutes of strenuous rowing.

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 11:28 AM

I tried grinning when I was singing once. Came out kind of odd.

Snile, zhough your heart is greaking...

Went to get a gottle of geer instead.

Nice idea though.

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 12:45 PM

Dave, you need to look at the keyboard when you are typing!

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 03:53 PM

All I know is that there is nothing like a pretty smile to steal a man's heart.....

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Justa Picker
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 05:13 PM

Even better when she has a full set of teeth!

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Gypsy
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 12:33 AM

Doesn't hurt a thing to smile, and sure makes the world a nicer place to be in! :)

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: LR Mole
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:36 AM

Grrrrrr.

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:41 AM

A long time ago at uni my so called friends as exam time approached decided to cheer me up by smiling at me. I have never forgotten as not only did they keep up an inane grin whenever they saw me but they kept up a constant stream of visitors to my room where I was trying to revise who asked me if there was anything I needed, if they could get me a coffee, get me something to eat, sing to me etcetc. It transpired someone had bought a poster which stated "Smile at someone today and drive them mad tomorrow" It works!!!

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 12:04 PM

Show me someone who smiles all the time and I'll show you an idiot.

Don Firth :)

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 02:07 PM

:>}

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 02:11 PM

aww :>)
...once more :>)
there...better

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: grumpy al
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 03:09 PM

what the hell for?

grumpy al

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:14 PM

Doesn't hurt a thing to smile, and sure makes the world a nicer place to be in! :)

You haven't ever had root canal work, a fractured skull or major surgery to parts between the chest and thighs have you.....? Hurts like buggery......

Smiling is about all I can do at the moment, a good belly laugh and it will probably all spill out onto the floor....

I have to brace for impact if I so much as want to clear my throat!

LTS

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: GUEST,Seth
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:23 PM

Sorry if this is thread creep,

but I'd really like to know the origin of the 'poem' in the first post - does anyone know?

Seth

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: Nemesis
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 01:13 PM

I think I just came across it in one of the sort of magazines you read in Doctor's waiting rooms

Subject: RE: Smile!
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 05:16 AM

I play a game in the library where I work. It's called 'Smile, you miserable bugger!'
I just pick the rudest, most scouling, miserable git I can find, and if they don't return my cheerful and welcoming smile (which everyone sees once, but only happy people see again) then I grin and grimace and utter the pleasantest of pleasantries in the most phoney manner possible. If they STILL don't smile back, then they are elevated to official Miserable Bugger status, I cease to smile at them and I conduct all future transactions in total silence.
Don't mess with a shunned Tigger!