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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, where we bring you an entertaining topic and six related items of vocabulary.
I'm Neil.
And those guffours you can hear are coming from Tim.
So, what's so funny, Tim?
Can you pass me a glass of water?
Yes, okay.
Here you go.
It was just something our producer said before I came into the studio.
A guffour, by the way, is a loud laugh that you can't control.
So, while Tim laughs his head off, and that means to laugh very loudly for a long time,
I'll introduce the show.
Today, Tim, we're talking about laughter and how it could kill you.
Oh, come on, Neil.
That's not funny.
Laughing is good for you.
Everyone knows that.
Well, not when you laugh like that, Tim.
Your bright red in the face, you've got tears streaming down your face,