[HPforGrownups] Re: gallows humor

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 29345



"... Wocket" wrote:

>
> >I've always wondered why he just stood there laughing. Why didn't he
> >protest when they took him away?
>
> Have you ever seen or experienced Gallows Laughter? It's traditionally
>
> when a condemmed person just starts laugh and can't stop till thye are
>
> dropped from the gallows. It's when somthing happens to you that is so
>
> screwed up that you just have to laugh, and you can't stop. I've
> experienced it once-it's not a plesant experience.
>

What . . . being dropped from the gallows?  And you're still here?
Amazing.



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