Reverse engineer your brain

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More than 40 years ago, my father wrote a short story called "Dr. Pettigott's Face." The eponymous doctor of the story has a theory that pushing the face into happy expressions will make people happy, and has constructed a machine to do this. I remember that for years he had a correspondence with some neuro researcher who was interested in facial

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[besskeloid]

Agh! Those lines aren't wrapping!

I did know previously that pretending to laugh was as good for you as genuine laughter, but I'm not sure that faking a smile is as good as really smiling. I'm trying it now, & I'm sure I look more gormless than usual.

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Fixed, thanks!

Just attach this Smilinator-3000...

[besskeloid]

Upload a jaypeg of your Big New Smile for us, won't you?

Oddly enough

[feisty_robot]

Watching this man pretend to laugh does not cheer me up, but rather makes me want to tear off my face and run screaming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-oJhBxn6o

Re: Oddly enough

[besskeloid]

*whimpers*