Rule 1; Smile - all day!                 

Rule 2; Obey rule 1                    

Geez Baron! Your rules are quite difficult to follow. Can we make a proposition? To have another law easier to follow by fellow citizens? Cause I'm not sure it's a easy/simple rule to follow.

But that's just an opinion, Baron sir.

Twitch!

Well my dear hunnynuts [he he he], proposing to me now eh? Whatever will Mrs Baron say? tsk tsk.

So which part of the most difficult and very strict regime guidelines did you not understand sweet one? Eh? Eh? Come on, you're among friends here haaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa

I have to be taskmaster here or else it will all get out of hand, that's why we must have rules, see, logic really he he

luv ya Ron aka tc he he

Al-salamualaykum,

I'm smilin! How about you?..It takes more muscles in your face to frown than it does to smile so I am smilin..and when you smile the whole world smiles with you...walalyku salam Samiyah

I like to call my wrinkles and scars as my badges of courage as I travel through life.

All are One, all harm harms each of us, all blessings bless each of us.

   I love this group already !  This is great!        

"You're never fully dressed without a smile!" 

     (*J*)

      `smile`        

hi Christy,

Am "new" to the group and I admit, I don´t know whether I introduced myself... Anyways...There are things I feel I need to say and express sometimes...In other words,  simply I´d like to say that I like your post so much: " YOU ARE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE!"...As I can´t do without some stuff to think...At times...

Sincerely, Mongi

Thanks, Tracy for the invitation...

Blessings

Nan

smile make us alive. I am new in the group, i maybe introduce my self just a line...a simple filipina who married for a very nice american guy...

Have a nice day to all!!!

There's Sunshine In A Smile

by Helen Steiner Rice

Smile

Hi Ron and all,

I'm kind of out of practice at smiling all day and that was one reason why I joined the group.....I need all the practice that I can get!

Doing it right now just reading all of replys.  I will return as often as I can and begin learning again!

Thanks so much!!!

Thanks for inviting me to this group, I just wanted to say that even when I feel like crap, I force myself to smile, becuse I have noticed that suddenly I start feeling great.  Smiles are the best antidepressant.

 Sylvie, mind you mind them rules now

Ron X

Gotta love those rules!  lol

Hugs,

Susan

WOW

HOPE I CAN FOLLOW THE RULES.

BUT I'LL TRY RON

Good morning.....everyone...

How much do you spend on cosmetics?....allot no doubt.

Well here's the cheapest way to improve your looks......................SMILE..

Read the following medication before an improvement will take place:

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter, "What are you doing she asks"

"Hunting flies" was his response.

"Oh, killing any?" she asked

"Yep, 3 males and 2 females" was the reply.

Intrigued by this  she says"How can you tell"

"Well", he said "3 were on the beer can, and 2 were on the phone"

............well there you have it...did it work?

I bet it did.

Welcome Brenda, Kristine, Stanley [thanks for that].

Tough rules indeed. I toiled night and day to create them, ooh, it's a hard life.....

I'M SMILING. Thank you, Ron, for the invitation (OK, I'll enter myself properly in the Introductions) - Just wanted to tell a true story (yes, from Nepal, sorry, that sort of dominates things):

Some years ago, when I was here as a researcher and the going vis-a-vis the Nepali bureaucracy was tough, it was easy to get depressed. (Would I really have to give it all up and return to Norway? after all, I'd given up my job there...)And then I discovered a simple solution:

Walking down the street (in Kathmandu, where I was struggling with the bureaucrats) I'd just catch the eye of the first person in my vicinty, and SMILE. You won't believe the fantastically warm, vibrant smiles of spontaneous friendship and fellow-feeling that invariably came in return.

(And to those who wonder why I didn't use that strategy on the bureaucrats: Oh,  I did. They were always polite and even friendly, getting out the tea as soon as they saw me coming. But rules were rules...)

"Walking down the street (in Kathmandu, where I was struggling with the bureaucrats) I'd just catch the eye of the first person in my vicinty, and SMILE. You won't believe the fantastically warm, vibrant smiles of spontaneous friendship and fellow-feeling that invariably came in return."

Never a truer word spoken, sums up reasons why the premise of this group was originally born.

[Just joining us here?] Smiling works! Don't believe us, try it out tomorrow, no, do it today.... Susila has first hand evidence, thanks again Susila .

I like the bit "getting out the tea as soon as they see you coming..." that's me to a tee[a] he he" and my wife. We're both of Northern English descent and it's a fact, in Britain, Northerners are usually more friendly than those in the South but I thinks it's more about attitude than anything else. I was born and bred in the South [just made in the north he he] but we always have time for people, even those whose misery is contagious, we have the antidote, SMILING;

 Ron 

Gorilla walks into a bar and orders a beer.

The bartender, figuring the gorilla won't know the difference, says "that'll be 10 bucks."

Gorilla grumbles a bit and throws a $10.00 bill on the bar.

Bartender says "you know, we don't get many talking gorillas in here."

Gorilla says "I guess not at 10 bucks a beer." 

Hi I live in Brisbane Australia and haven't been on to Care2 for a while. Just too busy at work. I'm glad I called in tonight.

Thanks again for inviting me.

Smiles,

Gaynor

SMILING

SMILING

Smile Everyday!

Warm Hugs,

Denice

Sometimes smiling i so, so, very hard it just reduces me to tears.

                 Does this make me

I can usually mind the rules most of the time,

I have read about how frowning takes more muscles than smiling.  What that means to me is that it's good to do high reps on smiles, and low reps on frowns. 

and welcome to a pretty much thriving community. Here we are all friends and we all want to smile and have everyone else smile too, welcome aboard the train to peace and harmony [we hope].

PS just make sure you keep to the rules... hee hee

Ron

just keep smiling....  makes people wonder what you've been up to!!!

...& it takes less facial muscles to smile than to frown...

...  SMILE  ...it is an instant facelift!!! .. & it's free , painless!!!   

xox/kl

Nice Rules.  Haven't officially joined yet.  Don't have a lot of time for the web.  They don't have enough phone lines at home, but your rules are pretty awesome.

This is great... the rules made me smile and laugh...this will be fun....thanks for having this group...just a thought...try to do something nice for at least 1 person you meet today...I do that myself and sometimes it leads to a most wonderful short conversation!  Take care All!!!

trying to type from chilly Michigan...it's about 40 degrees (F) here today...brr for Spring, but I  love it

So ...I am going to smile all day since Ron is a tyrant and forces us to obey these awful rules and I will report in later with the results.

OK, I'm using 'lame' smiles like, so here are some of my favorite 'cool' ones:

All are one, all harm harms each of us, all blessings bless each of us.

Thank you for inviting me to join this great group

Need an example?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJEvQil44s&mode=related&search=

One of my nicknames is Sunshine and I love smiling, happy people! Lovely group here!

Love and Hugs!  Simply Vee   

Thats FABULOUS!!!!!

Geez Ron,   I thought this group was going to be free-spirited without all these rules and stuff.   Does grinning count?  What about like a Mona-Lisa-kinda smile but not?     What if our smile turns into laughter?? 

I mean come on.....that's why I hate rules!  They are so ambiguos.  Great, now I'll be awake all night analyzing this! 

What about that fake "cheese" smile folks make for pictures?? What if we are so happy we cry??   Could you be a little more specific here?? I'm not sure I fully understand the rules.

Radonda

Looks like it's back to the training camp then with sunshine, sand and sea and a plethora of hunky men and pretty ladies waiting on you, and singers filling the air with goodness and light;

And then if that hasn't worked, it's three week stint in a jungle, man, I'll teach ya to smile even if it.....

YAY!!  Singers you say??  and hunky men and lovely ladies??? Hmmm..........if I promise to frown and pout will I get extra special treatment till I smile???  

WOW!  All I wanted was clarification.....I mean "SMILE" is really ambigious...there are so many ways to do it!  What if I keep a deadpan face, but smile with my eyes does THAT count??  All these rules!! And a training camp???  That's it I give up!...or, well, wait..will there be chocolate at this training camp?

NOW you're asking if there's chocolate at the camp?!!!

YES!!!!

Hi

thanks Ron for the invitation.

I hope the group will help me smile, because for the time being the needs of the animal shelter I try to support are immense and there seems to be a difficult way out

Good Rules  thank-you for the invite Ron....

I had to snag this on the way down...

I feel most morning my Sons are doing this to me.

I adore the rules!!!  And to think I had hoped to get through a whole cup of coffee while I read them! 

Glad to be a member.  Thanks for the invite.

Ros

Thank you so much for the invite Ron.  So often, in the past, I wore a frown. Today I love to smile. Smiling makes me feel better, when things aren't going so well.  Being able to share a smile, makes me smile even more.  I promise to do my absolute best to follow the "group rules."  If I mess up once in a while, I'll just sit back & laugh.  I pray that God will bless you for starting up a group that benefits each & every person that joins.

Thanks,

Christine D.

Thank you for the invite this looks like a wonderful group of funny and smile addicting peeps I like that.......

Faith

Great rules..... Wishing you all the very best

I think I'll have no trouble following them