Last Chance: Tickle Your Funny Bone? Big Benefits When You Do!

Read this collection now to get a good laugh and boost your health! [GreenPrints]( October 21, 2023   [GET LOTS OF LAUGHS WHEN YOU SIT DOWN & READ THESE FUNNY STORIES ON A REGULAR BASIS!]( When you read the GreenPrints Special Collection Gardening Humor: Funny Stories to Keep You Smiling & Laughing All Day Long, you get more than 75 hilarious stories that you'll just love. Start reading—and laughing—with these really funny stories right now! Dear Gardener, You deserve to have a few laughs—every day if you’re able! And to give you a taste of regular humor, read “[The Stink Plant]( funny story with a twist! More about this story in a minute … When you read the special GreenPrints Collection [Gardening Humor: Funny Stories to Keep You Smiling & Laughing All Day Long]( you get the funniest gardening stories that you'll want to read over and over, whenever you need a good laugh—more than 75 stories … and growing! [Humor Collection]( You see, I want you to have some regular doses of humor in your life, because who doesn’t need that these days? And, it turns out, studies show that regular laughter is good for your health—both your physical and your mental health: - Laughing puts your body at ease. When you laugh, your body relaxes its muscles and releases stress. - Laughing makes you feel good. When you laugh, endorphins get released and deliver you the feel-good status you deserve. - Laughing helps you fight diseases. When you laugh, your immune system is boosted as disease-fighting cells increase, improving your ability to fight infections and to ward off all types of diseases. - Laughing can protect your heart and even help you lose weight. Sounds crazy? Not really! When you regularly laugh, you get better blood flow which can help protect your entire cardiovascular system. Plus, laughing burns calories—so when you regularly laugh, you could shed a few pounds over a year’s time. - Laughing makes you happy. When you laugh with others, you can avoid stressful situations and conflict—and laughing can help free you from harboring grudges that just make you feel bad. - Laughing might even help you live longer! One study found that those battling cancer lived longer and happier lives when ingested with regular doses of humor and laughter. So, what are you waiting for? Here is a quick-and-easy way to get regular doses of humor and laughter—with the special GreenPrints Collection [Gardening Humor: Funny stories to keep you smiling & laughing all day long]( Please check out this story, entitled “The Stink Plant”—it’s sure to give anyone, especially us gardeners, a good laugh: [The Stink Plant]( A gift that really kept on giving. By Lisa Hayes-Minney [Frowning people because of the aweful smell]  One summer, when I worked for a small-town newspaper here in West Virginia, Don and Willalea Kelley invited me to their home to cover what Don calls his “stinking plant.” Don, a board member at the local senior center, is especially proud of his blueberry bushes and also, apparently, of his exotic lilies. His stinking plant, he told me, is commonly called “The Sacred Lily of India,” but it is also known as “Rattlesnake Plant,” “Devil’s Tongue,” “Corpse Flower,” “VooDoo Lily” or “Stink Plant.” The actual scientific name is Amorphophallus rivieri. Before arriving to report on it, I did some research. Amorphophallus rivieri is a tropical perennial, which typically grows two- to three-feet tall into a top spurt of leafy branches that make it look like a small palm tree. Every now and then, it blooms a single flower. This fleshy flower has splotches similar to age spots on its stem, which rises into a huge cowl (called a spathe) that looks like an upright funnel. Then a phallic columnar pillar (the spadix) pokes out of the spathe and extends embarrassingly skywards for one to three feet. It has a reputation for smelling foul, thus the nicknames. I visited the Kelleys’ home in early June. Don was proudly waiting in his front yard. In a brick-lined flowerbed outside their picture window stood a two-foot-tall, blood-purple stem that opened into a large, thick, waxy funnel with an eight-inch, ahem, protrusion emerging from its center. It was both beautiful and haunting, blatantly out of place in this quaint front yard. But there it was: an exotic, erotic monument, a phallic point of pride I was now assigned to share with our entire community. There were several smaller samples of the plant in the front flowerbed, most of them in their leafy palm-like stage. A slight breeze occasionally wafted a rank sniff—like passed gas—across the yard to where I stood. It seemed of little consequence at the time. When I zoomed in on the plant with my camera, I saw a fly land upon the skin-like edge of the funnel and took the photo. I thought the name “Sacred Lily of India” was most poetic, and in my mind assigned that name to the title of my story. [Read More...]( Illustration By Hannah England  What a funny story! You must read the rest of it. And the GreenPrints Collection [Gardening Humor: Funny Stories to Keep You Smiling & Laughing All Day Long]( has many more stories for you—more than 75 stories that deliver you gardening humor, all day and all night! Including this featured story—"The Stink Plant"—you get all 75+ stories in this GreenPrints Special Collection on gardening humor, including these other gems: - [“150 Plastic Forks: The first thing that appears in my Spring garden.”]( about how one woman used prongs-up plastic forks to ward off squirrels and chipmunks in her garden, a unique solution! And how her friend questioned the tactic all along the way! - [“Naked Ladies: Well, YOU know the kind I’m talking about!”]( about how a neighbor comments on another neighbor’s backyard flowers … and the confusion it causes about whether “naked ladies” were dancing around in little pink skirts! - [“Not My Day: Ever locked yourself in a chicken coop?”]( one woman got stuck in her chicken coop … and how she managed to get out! - [“Pee in Your Garden!: Urine is the Number One free fertilizer.”]( about this gardener’s solution to garden fertilizer, a story riddled with clever puns that will have you laughing out loud! - [“The Chinaberry Tree: A tree that made neighbors of neighbors.”]( about one older man’s raking challenges and how his neighbors got roped into it! - [“Get Off My Lawn: Or Else!”]( about one man’s lawn obsession and how a squirrel drove him crazy whenever it invaded his lawn … until the invaders became people! - [“Battered Zucchini: Nothing was going to get my crop—except me.”]( about one woman’s attempt to kill a garden rodent with a baseball bat, except what she hit wasn’t an animal! 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