Laugh and the world laughs with you.

Make a fool of yourself, and you're on your own!

In the spring of 2006, Franklin students and a fearless instructor stepped forward to introduce a revolutionary new club.  This was Club Laugh, aka The Laughing Club.  Read the constitution and the proposed budget to get a grip on the depth of this serious project.  See.  Read.  Understand and laugh.  Here is the Club Laugh! Constitution:

Franklin High School Laughing Club Constitution

Preamble:    People are too serious.  Life is not that serious.  Take a good look around you.  There is humor in most everything, well almost everything, but even in tragedy if you do not, on some level maintain your sense of humor, you risk losing yourself.  Franklin needs more laughter, hence…

Article I      We are Club Laugh!  Also known as The Laughing Club.

Article II     Our purpose is to raise the serotonin levels in our brains in order to promote better health through laughter.

Article III    We take our authority from our guts, our windpipes, our whimsy and that of others, irony, isms and schisms, literature, philosophy, blasphemy, idiocy and the like, as well indirectly from Franklin’s principle, the supers of districts small and large, and the board of education.  When all else fails we’ll fake it ‘til we make it.

Article IV    Members must be able to laugh either vocally or discreetly, and are either enrolled or employed at Franklin High School. 

Article V     We meet spontaneously, announced and un-announced whenever the belly moves us.

Article VI    We have no officers.  There are no monies to collect. There is only laughter, for however long it lasts.

Article VII   Elections are irrelevant in the world of laughter.  Splinter organizations are encouraged and no credit to Club Laugh! required.

Article VIII  Committees of Anticipation, Exuberance, Hysteria, and Gut Wrenchers meet as often as possible.  Committee members are self-appointed and have no power over Club Laugh!  nor Franklin High’s governance. 

Article IX    Amendments will be abundant but not as abundant as the laughter.

Our Budge

It is written: that many go laughing all the way to the bank, and yet this is often at the expense of others.  Money is serious business and has no place in Club Laugh!  We ask ourselves: will money make us laugh?  We do not think so.  Therefore, we have no use for it in our club.     

Regrettably yours,

~The perpetually broke*

                        *Remember: The word job is an acronym for Just Over Broke!