The goal of jokes and gags is always the same: poking fun at influential people and ideas, joining in the general warmth and bonhomie, and providing a defense mechanism against stress. After all, if you can joke about it, then it probably won’t kill you.

Ive never had cancer. But I can't tell you how many times I begged God to let me bear that burden. My son, a strapping 22-year-old junior at the University of Missouri, woke up with an aching chest that turned out to be a malignant tumor. Hes only a boy, I pleaded. Ive had a great life. Let it be me"not him.

Every moment that happens to each living matter in this earth is both documented and undocumented. Some specialist, in capturing moments focus on funny images from several sources. Funny moments happening unexpectedly to someone, to an animal, or any living matter that is during his or her unguarded moments are often the best source of laughter and happiness. Unconsciously, when one sees an accident wherein the person involved slips but not seriously, hurt, cannot help, but laugh at the comical angle of falling. Funny pictures consist of minor incidents, consciously and unconsciously acted by the person. Some people can appreciate the funny side of that moment, but others cannot.

There was a time before the Internet when trying to brand one's own product or service was virtually impossible unless one was looking at a huge trust fund with his or her name on it. The Internet has turned that upside down and now, with online print-on-demand services, there is no excuse to not have one's own brand.