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Charlie Chaplin’s comedy was rich in creativity and cleverness. His ability to make his audience laugh while touching universal chords of emotions was a rare gift. Perhaps his childhood made him sensitive to the thoughts of other people, or maybe his sad upbringing gave him the motivation to move beyond the limits of poverty. Whatever gave him the momentum to success in the entertainment industry was a blessing that caused millions to laugh with joyful abandon.

Chaplin was best known as the silent “Little Tramp” clown but his fame came over a period of years. Born in London in 1889, he lived with his divorced mother who made a meager living by sewing. She suffered a series of mental breakdowns and was institutionalized on several occasions, leaving Charlie and his older brother, Sidney, to take care of themselves or to live in a government sponsored home.

When Chaplin was 9, he toured with a stage company and had his first taste of life upon the stage. He later took small acting jobs and toured with several troupes. He eventually toured the United States and decided to stay here in 1912. He joined the Keystone Film Studios and, as the expression goes, the rest is history.

At this point in time, it’s as if someone fast-forwarded the film of his life. Chaplin had parts in nine movies in only two months. Although his parts were small, his star quickly rose with the introduction of his world-famous tramp character. However, he wasn’t content to only act before the camera, he stepped behind the lens to direct as well. At age 25, he directed his first film, “Twenty Minutes of Love”. This began an interesting segment of his professional life, and one in which he began to combine pathos with comedy.

Chaplin’s first full-length movie was “The Kid” and this film secured him a place in history. It showcased his artistic ability and compensated him both financially and with a solid core of fans. Yet, he took a hard hit when he veered into serious fare with “A Woman of Paris”. By this time, Chaplin and comedy were synonymous and movie viewers didn’t want him to change.

Satire was a comedic device used by Chaplin and was most evident in “The Great Dictator” when he took on the dangerous ideas of Adolf Hitler. The German ruler must have appreciated the humorous exposure because it’s believed he grew his signature mustache in imitation of Chaplin.

Chaplin’s personal life experienced a number of ups and downs, and his failed marriages made news regularly. He was denied re-entry into the United States because of his Communist leanings, yet in that same time period, he was awarded the World Peace Council Prize.

Charlie Chaplin’s life was complex, full of dark scenes and heightened emotions. From a childhood of poverty in England to a fortune made in the United States, this comedian perfected his craft with subtle actions and stinging satire. His audience readily accepted his humor because the themes were universal and the situations truly comical. Charlie Chaplin was larger than life and deserves to be a legend.

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There are some things that are just funny whether they were intended to be or not. Like tripping over your own feet, that fall you took off of the edge of your porch, or the broken heel you got when you managed to wedge your shoe in the door to keep the elevator from closing.

Now, breaking your heel to hold the elevator door may not be considered a funny thing to you, but it is to the group of people that watched you fight with your shoe for twenty minutes trying to get it unstuck. Anything funny can come from the most innocent moments. This funny stuff sometimes happens out of the blue and causes onlookers to wish for a camera to capture it.

That funny stuff in the emails you get each day and forward. Pictures you took with unexpected people in the background are funny things too. When your cat fell in the bathtub with you, that was some funny stuff. Not the scratches you got, of course, but the cat trying to scramble its way back to dry land.

Anything funny will cause people to laugh and ask for a repeat performance. Some want laughs so badly they will set up others so that funny stuff happens to them. The old bucket-of-water-over-the-door trick may be a little outdated, but it is still a funny thing to do to an unsuspecting person.

Although different people have a different view of what funny things are. Some consider hiding rubber snakes to be funny. But nothing funny is seen about it by the one screaming at the snake until they realize that it is a fake.

Funny stuff happens all the time when you have children. Kids are adorable and they will embarrass you given the chance; parroting is the most common of the funny things kids do. By parroting, I don’t mean they repeat what you are saying to them. No, this would not embarrass you. Instead they wait until you are talking to someone and repeat what you didn’t think they heard, which has a tendency to turn your face red. While your face is red, the person you were speaking with tries, usually unsuccessfully, to suppress their laughter, proving yet again that funny things are different for everyone.

Funny stuff can occur from forgetfulness as well. Like something funny that can happen in your kitchen, for instance. Pouring yourself a drink and putting it in the refrigerator. Then you go around looking for that same drink for half an hour while those that watched you put it in the fridge stand by and say nothing.

Anything funny caught on film becomes funnier as it is shared with the world. The funniest things aren’t staged, but just happen, or at least look like they just happened out of nowhere. Hidden wires and things left out of place can lead to funny stuff happening when someone that is not in on the set-up enters the picture. The unsuspecting person walks in and takes flight as they hit the wire strung across the room, unable to catch their balance.

These are proof that anything funny can come from funny things that were not realized to be funny by all who were there at the time.

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Kaua’i, Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places on earth to live. The island embraces you with a feeling of love and there is a pulsating spiritual energy that covers the island.

I was fortunate to live and work on the island for 5 years. I can recall several instances where I encountered ghosts when traveling around the island. I saw Hawaiian ghosts in my house, at my work, in restaurants and even hotel bathrooms.

At the airport my shift began at 5:00 A.M., even though the first flight didn’t arrive until 6:10 A.M. or so. As I walked back to my podium from unlocking the foyer doors, the doors opened by themselves, and then another set of doors opened, then the same set opened again. I felt chills go through my body and got a little freaked out for a second. I regained my composure and thought to myself, standing alone in this room, I wonder if I’m not alone or if it is an electrical shortage.

Then I remembered that this had happened in another foyer as well. It was not always the same doors and a different pattern, so I thought an electrical short was unlikely.

I knew the history of the Hawaiian Islands and that the airport was close to sacred ground. I was afraid to admit to myself that the airport and the room I was standing in was haunted. I was trapped and couldn’t leave my post, so I sat there talking to the ghosts, letting them know that I was only there to help people and that I didn’t mean any harm. Later, I asked around the terminal and got verification that the airport was, in fact, known to be haunted.

I never told anyone what had happened except for a very spiritual coworker who believed in spirits. I asked her if the doors opening ever happened to her. She said never. I thought that was interesting. It proved my point that it wasn’t an electrical short since she was recently assigned to the foyers as a result of an injury. I asked her to do me a favor. I told her that if she said good morning to the ghosts from me, they would respond by opening the doors for her.

The next morning she did what I asked her to do, and sure enough the doors opened for the first time for her too. She couldn’t believe it. She said they knew my name and that I had made some friends. I responded by saying, “Blessings to them.”

There is a story about a lady in white who stands on the jet-way late at night. She just stands there, blowing in the wind. Many employees have seen her and agree she’s not a malicious ghost. She just wants to exist. There seem to be a lot of friendly ghosts, like Casper. Knowing the spirits were friendly put me more at ease.

I discovered historically that the Hawaiians buried commoners along the shorelines and kings and queens in caves. Since the airport is built at the water’s edge,

I would say I was visited by Hawaiian commoners who wanted to check me out. The hair on my arms always stood straight up when they came around.

Natalia Ippolito, a former airport screener and author of: I MIGHT AS WELL BE NAKED: How to Survive Airport Screening With Your Clothes On.

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If you’ve gone to the expense of using chauffeur car hire, then you want to get your money’s worth. Drink the champagne provided, however cheap, try out all the seats, use the champagne bucket for throwing up in, wind the privacy partition up and down, up and down, up and down, hang out of the window being loud and obnoxious and squeeze as many of your mates in as possible.

For anyone that uses chauffeur car hire, seeing how many people you can cram in is an absolute must. The driver won’t mind, in fact, he would think you were rude and unappreciative if you didn’t. The idea is, you drive around to your friend’s houses to collect them. It is essential that you go to each in turn so that they think they’re neighbours think they are something special. The only problem with this is that around prom night there are more limos on the streets than any other car and it becomes the norm.

Drinking the courtesy champagne is a good start on the way to being totally inebriated. Of course, with so many occupants there will need to be more alcohol supplied but there is definitely something daring about travelling in a vehicle whilst being totally wasted. Of course, the champagne bucket comes in useful when the alcohol becomes too much and will get passed around as a sick bucket. Just remember to pull over and empty it occasionally.

The winding up and down of the privacy window is the perfect childish entertainment, particularly if there is a squeak involved. You start off by sitting near the window looking sweet and innocent. One slide of the window will have the driver alert and by the time you’ve done it ten or twelve times you will see him physically start to bristle as it becomes irritating and you and your mates find it ever more amusing.

If you’re a bit of an exercise freak and feel guilty for using chauffeur car hire, why not exercise while you go along? With an open sun roof, you can stand quite comfortably and carry out calf raises while getting fresh air. This is best done when it’s not raining or snowing. Sit up’s are also possible in the back of this car. Wedge your toes under the back seat and carry out your sit ups at leisure. Best not done in a queue of stop/start traffic or on a belly full of champagne.

Knitting is also a good past time while enjoying the pleasures of chauffeur car hire. Many a good jumper has been constructed by a person sat in the back of a car with nothing better to do and if your wool gets in a two and eight, you can always get the chauffeur to hold out his hands while you wind the wool round.

Crochet, cross stitch and sewing all come under the list of hobbies that can be carried out in the back of such a vehicle but hobbies such as glass blowing, blacksmithing or wood carving are all hobbies probably best left at home.

For anyone that uses chauffeur car hire, seeing how many people you can cram in is an absolute must. The driver won’t mind, in fact, he would think you were rude and unappreciative if you didn’t.

Entertainments expert Catherine Harvey looks at the uses for chauffeur car hire other than driving to a destination.

Look up the back of the kitchen cupboard, or under the stairs in any house in Britain and you will find a product of industrial design that has been hidden away since its first use. Get someone in the house to admit is was useless and you’re on a losing streak.

If the husband bought the gadget it was highly important and absolutely necessary at the time of purchase. Any product of industrial design deserves a loving place in the garage. What the wife wants to know is how come this desperately needed piece has been taking up kitchen floor space, gathering dust and simply being a thing for her to bash her shins on frequently. This is where it will stay until she puts it under the stairs.

If the wife bought the gadget and it costs over a pound the husband will see it as a useless waste of money. He will complain, no matter what products it can slice, dice, clean or create. To him it is a useless piece of industrial design unless it is something he wanted. If she uses it once and finds it’s a pig to clean she may well get it out a few times, using it in front of her husband whistling like it’s the easiest thing in the world before his back is turned and she slides it up the back of the cupboard.

There can’t be many people who don’t have a juicer tucked away somewhere. Not a useless gadget in itself, in fact, if you are on a health kick it is absolutely essential. Of course, this only works if you get up at the crack of dawn to start whizzing and mixing and pulping just so you can have a drink. I always thought that was what those cartons on the supermarket shelf were for but maybe that’s just me.

Products of industrial design always start out as an innovative idea in someone’s mind. These ideas are normally generated from a job that someone finds particularly difficult and precede the phrase that begins ‘Why don’t they make something that….’

And so we have the scissors with the laser light. These were created by someone who got the hump when they couldn’t cut in a straight line and thought this would be a good idea. Great idea if you have a steady hand - useless if you have a shaky hand and that is why you can’t cut straight in the first place.

Then we have the 200 pounds electric nail file that promises to give you salon perfect nails. This replaces the 1.50 pounds emery board that you can get in the corner shop - sensible. This must have been made by a man in an anorak who decided his wife spent too much money on emery boards or too long in the nail salon. Yeah right - ‘cos that’ll stop her!

Do these sort of people not understand just why we go to nail salons? It’s not a simple matter of getting our nails done for vain reasons. There is a whole aura about the process. We start off by feeling down and ugly. This usually accompanies that time of month when we’re feeling fat too. Then we focus on one aspect of ourselves - often our nails. Everything is going wrong in our lives because we have bad nails.

A trip to the salon will cheer us up no end. The smell of acetone, the banter of the orange ladies and the constant praise that we now look beautiful all work a treat. Set off a good set of nails with the perfect outfit with matching shoes, handbag and maybe a hair trim and you will come home to a much happier lady.

Expert buyer Catherine Harvey looks at some of the products of industrial design that haven’t quite made it.

You’d think with the advent of spell checker that mistakes would no longer be made but one rule of the typist and computer programmer is never to trust the spell checker. You would be amazed that one slip of the finger and you will write all manner of things which could be mis-construed and god forbid you should mis-spell whatever it is you are looking for on the internet.

Take for instance the humble ink cartridge. All you need is a nail malfunction, or temporary loss of concentration and you’ve typed extra letters where there shouldn’t be any. Search results will be entirely different. Very possibly you will be searching for ‘pink’ cartridge instead of ink cartridge.

A pink cartridge is a little devise that you can purchase if you are young with a teeny, teeny body and daddy has lots of money. It gives you the ability to view the world in pink alone. Everything looks rosy and sugary and the world takes on a completely surreal tint. You will feel compelled to carry a small dog in your hand bag, or even as a handbag and delight will be found in things like a horrendously priced hairclip or some such banal trivia.

Another attempt at looking for an ink cartridge will come up with a ’sink’ cartridge with the wrong spelling. Unlike an ink cartridge, you will not get reams of perfectly printed letters or colourful pictures. You will, instead, get a multi-purpose devise that is purely for the plumbing industry.

A genuine slip of the index finger whilst searching for an ink cartridge will bring you ‘think’ cartridges. These are acquired rather than purchased and you will find yourself with them the morning after the night before. Through a haze of alcoholic hangover you will be racking your brain trying to remember what you did, who you spoke to and how many ex’s you phoned and abused.

A rink cartridge is something from the line of refrigeration. They come in various sizes and are used to freeze anything from the local ice rink to the fridge/freezers of domestic use. Long term usage in the domestic environment can have the knock on effect of freezing the wife or long term partner and this is not recommended.

Link cartridges are computer programmes that will link all websites that you request it to and is quite useful but not an ink cartridge. There are also mink cartridges that are pellets you put down holes in the ground to smoke out the furry coated critters and thus provide a lovely little coat for next winter for those who have taken the pink cartridge.

Take great care in how you type in ink cartridge. You need a devise that’s going to supply inks to your printer or photocopier. If in doubt, check it out before you try using it. It should be a relatively small, probably black, contraption that makes a mess over your hands and fits neatly into the void in your printer. If you don’t take care when looking for an ink cartridge, you could well end up with a kink cartridge and that is an entirely different thing altogether.

Expert writer Catherine Harvey looks at what can happen if you mis spell ink cartridge in a computer search.