[extropy-chat] why do we stop laughing?

[Mike Lorrey]

endorphin levels vs receptor availability....

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> I was cutting up with some guys at lunch today.  A
> question occurred to me: why is it that when someone
> does or says something funny, people start to laugh,
> then something must happen in our brains to adjust
> something.  Otherwise we would keep on laughing at
> that joke indefinitely.  Sometimes some event is so
> funny we cannot stop laughing for some time, but after
> a period of time we always do stop.  Good thing, eh?  
> But what actually occurs in our brains to allow us
> to stop laughing?
> 
> spike
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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