During lunchtime today, a co-worker, who we'll refer to as B, called me from a restaurant where he and two other co-workers were eating lunch. When I answered the phone, I couldn't hear anything except my friend laughing hysterically. He managed to gather enough strength to tell me that he said something that was so funny, that it actually made his co-worker, who we'll refer to as D, laugh so hard that he truly stopped breathing and passed out. Yep, passed out. Cold. D turned red, and then blue, and then fell out of his chair onto the floor of the restaurant. From what I could gather, they were able to revive him fairly quickly, so as to not suffer much brain damage. My friend B said that it reminded him of the videos we've all probably seen of the infamous fainting goats -- a certain breed of goats that, when frightened, will just fall down to the ground. I apologize now to D for having to suffer the brunt end of all of this, but we have all had quite a laugh today about the fainting goat episode at Howell's Bar and Grill.
Having said all of that, I have one more question: just what was so damned funny that it made you actually stop breathing and pass out? Please tell me, because I want to laugh, too.
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I got so intrigued by this that I had to do a little research about it. Seems some people have a condition that could cause them to faint when they laugh, cough, vomit or even use the bathroom. Blood flow is reduced to the brain and the person faints. Here's a link to the article I read.
http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/16/80.cfm
After reading this article, I'm betting this isn't the first time this person has had something like this happen to him.
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