Humour or humor is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy.

The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.

A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences.

Anyone who has an email address has received at least one forwarded email which contains jokes or funny stories. I have had my share. We all read it, smile and delete it. There are so many sites on the internet which specialise in humour and have a huge and fantastic collection. So what's unique in this website. Nothing, really. Only that I am making a collection of the best (in my opinion) humourous stories I have ever received. I have made a sizeable collection with me and instead of maintaining it in an email, I thought it would be a good idea to post it here.

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