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The topic of this after-error session is the doctor's opinion but I got to tell you I'm not much for telling jokes but they say you're supposed to start off every talk with a joke.

So I'm kind of I'm sort of like Kevin I was a nerd and I saw the only thing I figured I could do is I went out to the internet and you know what I found on the internet I found the official world's funniest joke.

This is on CNN.com last week says the viola as London England the world's funniest joke has been revealed after a year long search by scientists.

In an experiment conducted in Britain people around the world were invited to judge jokes on an internet site as well as contribute their own.

The Laflav research carried out by psychologist Dr. Richard Weisman from the University of Herfordshire attracted more than 40,000 jokes in almost two million ratings.

And here it is 200s are out in the woods and one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing in his eyes or glaze the other guy takes out his cell phone he calls 911.

He gasped my friend is dead what can I do the operator says calm down I can help first let's make sure he's dead.

There's a silence the gunshot is heard back on the phone the guy says okay now what.

I don't know this day just for a year. That's kind of like to me like this other this other story also found on CNN.com drug reduces drinking and people who became alcoholics at early age researchers report.

It's another one of those studies about these drugs that you know supposedly make you not drunk if you drink them or if you take them.

And I don't know why people do all the study of these things because what they don't get is that I didn't drink to not get drunk.

You know why bother but it says I like what they said is alcoholic patients with early onset of the disease specifically before age 26.

I took my first drink alcohol at age 9. Tend out a broad range of anti social behavior including high rates of childhood risk behavior hostility and earlier in life drinking problems compared with people who develop alcoholism at age 26 or older the report said.

What amazes me is that they come up with this chemical compound but then the very last two paragraphs or what were the kicker for me or actually three it says only two drugs have been approved in the past half century to treat alcoholism.

I know what one of them is that's an abuse. It's not anybody from drinking. Although studies are underway on a number of others.

Then it goes out and say the national institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism funded the study which is good to know. Providing the drug was Glaxo welcome a North Carolina pharmaceutical company reporting sales in 1999 of almost 5.8 billion dollars.

The company is a subsidiary of Glaxo welcome PLC of London for his research projects.

Fresner the doctor who did this study is receiving financial report from Bristol's Myersquib and other commercial drug firms go figure.

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