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Reasons to be Cheerful.

I have reasons to be cheerful.

However, whilst listening to Ian Dury I wondered if his reasons would stand up to scrutiny. How many reasons do we share and could this be used as quota for Cheerfulness?

What follows are the lyrics to 'Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3', listed out. To work out your Cheerfulness Quotient (CQ) just go down the list and select which ones might make you cheerful, just by virtue of its existence in the world. That by having 'boats' in this universe, for example, it is a happier place. Ian Dury would naturally have a CQ of 65, though this should not reflect a similar level of cheerfulness as Ian; after all he always seemed cheerful to me but I never knew him. Think of it as a relative Dury scale upon which we may all stand and be measured in a like manner.
Whatever happened to parts one and two, I do not know.

I was about to go through the lyrics with an explanation but this has already been done, so I pass you over to this page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A847460 ) if you wish to know whether the items will make you cheerful.

In a similar vain, the comedian Dave Gorman did a one man show in Edinburgh for the Fringe, based around a thorough examination of these lyrics and their inherent truth. I do not know his conclusions but he talks about it in his website: http://www.davegorman.com/projects_reasons_cheerful.html

The CQ score of 65 can be exceeded by the inclusion of Bonus Points. These can be gained by adding your own verse and thus a few more reasons. Rhyming does seem to be a prerequisite though.


I have come up with some bonus 9 points via the following couplet.

Seeing Penn and Teller,
Smiling little feller,
Under an umbrella,
Laughing with your spouse.

Gadgets and an Xbox
Reading Fox in Sox,
Wooden building blocks,
Sitting in your house.

My CQ Score is: 60

I will let you guess which ones make me cheerful.

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