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Imagine a website where you go on a daily basis to see a humorous thought for the day. Even better, what if that site gives the humorous thought for the day to your mail?

And imagine if rather than giving stagnant, you have-heard-it-a-thousand-times-before humor, that site presented fresh, baked-daily humor made on-site inside their in-store ranges? good fiction books

Well... This is the project I've taken on.

And it's turning out to be quite the challenge to maintain with baking those daily loaves of jokes.

So just how can you go about making a thought for your day that's amusing and never having to be considered a professional comedian?

Here are some tips:

1. Think about the kinds of things in your everyday activity that you find strange, silly, hard-to-understand, foolish or embarrassing.

2. Come up with a way to state one of these things in a way that leads your head in one way. Then, suddenly change direction with the final part. This is actually the setup/punchline structure of humor.

3. For a given idea, produce as much setup/punchline variations as you can. Keep moving to build them, even though you think you can't develop anymore. The ones you fight hard for are usually the funnier ones.

4. Try to make your laughter express your final position within an indirect way. It is funnier to say someone could use "subsidies of something" than to say someone "someone does not have much something."

5. With each setup/punchline, play with the words to try to make your humor brief and to the level. Wordy "humor" generally speaking is not as short laughter as funny.

6. Make an effort to hide the last location of your funny setup/punchline before the very end. You would like the punch of one's humor to be highlighted at the end, with nothing trailing it to drain the interesting part away.

7. Training on an everyday basis. Keep what's funny and throw what's not funny. You'll have to use your best judgment here. If you set what you've created aside for some days this really is better to do. Then, return later and review it. Many of humor that is lacked by the lines will stand out like a sore thumb.

Here's a typical example of how I created an interesting line:

- The phrase "imagination" popped in to my mind, and I thought about how insulting it's to be accused of getting no imagination.

- I wondered what class can I insult without actually offending anyone. Politicians are often a good target.

- I then tried to figure out how I could accuse politicians of having number imagination.

- For the setup I wanted to suggest that I would supplement politicians by saying they'd a lot of creativity. Therefore I thought, "With the total amount of imagination politicians have...."

- I tried to think of a way to ultimately say some body has no imagination. My method was .".. they should be eligible for a government subsidies."

- The end result was:

With the amount of imagination

politicians have, they ought to

qualify for government subsidies.

That's OK, should you not find that point funny. Your love of life may be different than mine. And that's fine. Laughter is very subjective, and there's a broad variety in what exactly people find interesting. Also, analyzing the formation of a laugh step by step, like we did above, tends to destroy the humor as you get.

Here is the process I'm using on a regular basis to generate fresh humor for my thought for the day website. It is no simple task, but if the interesting pours out it's exciting and satisfying. And it's great to genuinely believe that maybe I have added a little humor to the center of someone's time, maybe just at the point whereby the individual's daily anxiety was about to overcome them. That's why I call my amusing thought for the day Laugh Vitamin.