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Baseball has no sense of humor
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Humor in The Workplace Case Studies on 29 November 2005
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The latest “Got Milk?” commercial hit a little too close to home for Major League Baseball. Poking fun at the league’s steroid scandal, the television ad for the California Milk Processor Board talks about a player getting pulled from a game “after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.”
In the next scene, a coach pulls a [...]

Humor Sucks
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Tips for Speakers on 16 November 2005
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…. the wind out of the hurricane!
Another exerpt from the lawyer and minister who are writing about the hurricanes that hit Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.
You Know You Live on the Gulf Coast when…
Hurricane Katrina - Mississippi Response: Friday: Hurricane humor 1
* You see your uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers and sisters [...]

Humor and loss (Laugh at horror?)
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Tips for Speakers on 16 November 2005
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I got a note from a lawyer and a minister who are writing about the hurricanes that hit Lousiana and Mississippi. Turns out that they are as intersted as I am with humor in difficult (or even impossible times.)
Check out this exerpt:

Amongst all this, people have kept their sense of humor. It [...]

Humor and Hurricanes…. your yard
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Tips for Speakers on 14 November 2005
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Can you use humor in times of grief and loss? Read on…
This in from Tom. He is a lawyer who is blogging about Lousiana and Mississippi and how they are (sometimes) able to laugh and enjoy humor in spite of the loss from the hurricanes.

The sign reads, “Yard of the Month.”
Now that’s [...]

Even Google laughs
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Humor in The Workplace Case Studies on 14 November 2005
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Did you catch GOOGLE.COM on halloween?
Here is a company not afraid to laugh at itself. Humor in the workplace? You betcha.

And Google is kickin’ butt… coincidence? Me thinks not.

Humming a Violin
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home on 10 November 2005
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Paige is my youngest kid at age four.
She was humming and asked me to guess what she was humming. I guessed a few songs. “Sesame Street?” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?”
“No” And she kept humming.
“I give up,” I said. “What are you humming.”
“A trumpet,” she answered. I [...]

Humor Us is Humorous
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Humor in The Workplace Case Studies on 9 November 2005
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We’re on the final home stretch of printing the second humor anthology Humor Us: America’s Funniest Humorists on the Power of Laughter. you’re gonna love it. I’ve never been so excited about a book…. this is gonna be great. There are sections on:
Humor and Education
Humor and Marraige
Humor and Creativity
Humor [...]

Bones in the Airport
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home on 3 November 2005
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I was in O’Hare airport in Chicago, Illinois today and saw something fun: a parade. A bunch of halloween skeletons, dressed, dancing, smiling, and generally creating a bit of performance art in Illinois.
I thought it was hilarious and funny. A welcome escape from that nasty airport. (O’Hare is NOT my favorite.)

But what [...]

I love her!
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Comedians, Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Tips for Speakers on 25 October 2005
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Ellen Degeneres is just an awesome comedian. I loved her way before she hit the mainstream…. I loved her stand up comedy on HBO. Big funny.
And she still rocks. Likable. Funny. Smart. Clean. Awesome comedian.
Her website is cool too. : )

Punch Lines are NOT funny
By Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery
Posted in Colorado, Colorado Speakers, Comedians, Cool Stuff You Can Do At Home, Tips for Speakers on 25 October 2005
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Well, not exactly. I was recently in the audience at the Comedy Works to see a a few Colorado comedians. It was an excellent show.
I had a huge “ah ha” moment when watching the opening comic. I learned from him that sometimes the set up can get a bigger reaction [...]



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