Does it take a greater number of facial muscles to frown than it does to smile? ... It's easier to smile than to frown. A smile uses 17 muscles, a frown, 43. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 February 1997) ; Right there, you commit to selling to all employees — at cost, not a nickel of markup — company T-shirts that...
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I could hazard a guess, but I'll defer to Dr. David Song, a plastic surgeon and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Hospitals, who was interviewed for a Straight Dope article: Does it take fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown? Counting only the muscles that make significant contributions,
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Actually... (oh dear, this isn't going to be a popular answer!), the jury's still out on this one. It's a saying that has been around for so long and penetrated our culture to the extent that everyone assumes it's true without remembering s...
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The saying that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile has seemingly been around forever. In fact, the saying has been around for so long that no one seems to be able to figure out exactly what its origins are. Further muddying the wa...
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I've heard from all sorts of places that it takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile (the numbers vary), but I can tell you from experience that spending half an hour grinning is a lot more tiring than half an hour of not smiling, whi...
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Re: Does it take more mucles to smile or frown? Date: Thu Jan 28 19:19:35 1999; Posted By: Serenity Roos, Undergraduate, elementary education, Lebanon Valley College; Area of science: Anatomy; ID: 917333178.An ... It takes 43 muscles to frown, but only 17 muscles to smile. That makes it 2.5 times easier to smile.
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And this position requires the fewest muscles of all! Anyway, it definitely takes more muscles to fake than it does not to. ... From Despair, Inc.: It takes 46 muscles to frown, and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.
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2006-01-19 - 9:43 a.m. you use more muscles to frown than to smile ... til the end of the road - bozy II men ... -take it / leave it...
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Is more muscles to smile or frown? How many muscles to smile vs frown? How much musle dose it take to frown? How many muscles are needed to frown? Why is it easier to smile than frown? How many muscles does it use to frown?
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The urban legend, that it takes us to use more muscles to frown, than to smile has been around longer than anybody can remember. The quantity of muscles, it needs to produce either of these expressions, varies to a great extent depending on...
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