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Do you like basketball, running races, or parties?

We are a fun group and would love to have new members.

Our weekly meetings are informative with guest speakers.

Laughter abounds at each meeting and laughing is good for your health.

 So join us and get healthy, put a smile on your face!

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The Fun Section

Stuff you might not know:

It’s physically impossible to hum while pinching your nose. Go ahead, give it a try. See? To understand why humming, which we often associate with the mouth, would be affected by the nose, we have to look at the anatomy of our vocal folds. Vocal folds, aka vocal cords, are delicate bands of muscle located in the larynx, aka the voice box. When relaxed (i.e., when we’re quiet), our vocal folds resemble a wishbone. But when we speak, sing, yell, grunt, whisper — and, yes, hum — we send air up from the lungs and through the voice box. Simultaneously, those thin bands of muscle contract together, as if the open end of the wishbone has snapped shut. In reality, our vocal folds move in a wavelike pattern, vibrating against one another in varying frequencies that allow us to speak, sing, shout, and murmur. The faster our folds vibrate together, the higher the pitch; the slower, the lower.

While we might think of humming as a sound that emanates from our mouth and lips, we actually produce this sound by sending air from the voice box to the nasal cavity and out through the nostrils. Thus, when we pinch our noses, there’s nowhere for the air to travel, and the vibration and corresponding sound stops.

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