Why have a blog?

Welcome to the first post of Here's Hoping You Laugh. The goal of this website is to make you chuckle at least once per post. This introduction serves the important purpose of introducing you to this blog and to build tension by not telling a joke. There is a theory that the more tension that is built up the more likely people will laugh in order to release the aforementioned tension. Steve Martin was considered the funniest person alive and he used this strategy (Read his book Born Standing Up if you do not believe me. It is a great book and well worth the read. This post can wait. Go build some tension.)  I will be tired of stalling soon. Not all post will be about building tension. This is a desperate attempt for you, the reader, to actually laugh at something I am writing. This theory works pretty well. Think about going to a comic. They are a complete stranger, so there is tension. The comic will break the tension. As mentioned above, these post are an attempt to make you laugh. So, Here's hoping you laugh (and not at possible smelling mistakes). Now that you are either nice and tense or given up reading, the stalling will end.

David Letterman has a list of 10. I have a list of 4. His list gets 2 laughs and I am shooting for 1, therefore mine may not be funnier, but it is more efficient (Unless you read the long intro).

1. The author believes they are important and their opinion is important. Harsh truth: it is not. A person's opinion matters to them, the people that love them (except your spouse, they know what you are full of), friends, the people who work for them, and therapists.

2. The author wants to become rich. The author likes to make it rain monopoly money or pennies because that is the amount of money made through a blog.

3. The author is a well versed. This may be the best reason to start a blog, but the fact it is blog discredits the writer immediately. Good luck being credible (I am not trying to be credible. I am begging for a laugh).

4. Only the internet can solve the writer's problem. When in doubt turn to the internet. Need a date, go to the internet. Need a secret exposed, go to the internet. Need an outlet because people are tired of hearing you attempt humor, go to the internet. 

Here's hoping you laughed