# Mouse-to-mouse resuscitation

- Teacher: Ajahn Brahm
- Type: Joke
- URL: https://beingmindfulstories.com/stories/brahm-joke-mouse-to-mouse
- Themes: humour
- Life situations: light relief

## Synopsis (editorial summary)

Mickey and Minnie Mouse are in a car accident; Minnie is badly injured, but Mickey saves her life. How? Mouse-to-mouse resuscitation.

## The story, as told by Ajahn Brahm (verbatim captions)

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were in a car accident and Minnie Mouse was very very severely injured but Mickey Mouse saved her life and how did he save her life Mouse to Mouse resuscitation

## Teaching point

(A deliberately terrible joke; later he says laughing at it boosts your immune system.)

## Reflection (in the spirit of Ajahn Brahm's talk)

Mickey saves Minnie with mouse-to-mouse resuscitation, and Ajahn Brahm cheerfully offers anyone who wants to leave the chance to go. A truly awful pun still does its work. Groaning and laughing loosen the chest and lighten the evening. Don't save your laughter for jokes that deserve it.

## Source

- [Does Life Suck? | Ajahn Brahm | 1-05-2009](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSIEN0pZkxE) (Buddhist Society of Western Australia) — watch from 10:22 to 10:41: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSIEN0pZkxE&t=622s