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Don't tell a funny story , even if you know one , " was the advice of the Atchison Globe man , " its narration will only remind your hearers of a bad one . " True as this may be , we still persist in telling our funny story .
Don't tell a funny story , even if you know one , " was the advice of the Atchison Globe man , " its narration will only remind your hearers of a bad one . " True as this may be , we still persist in telling our funny story .
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The humorist who can tell a story with a straight face adds to the humorous effect . A word might be said to those who plan the program . In the number of speakers it is better to err in having too few than too many .
The humorist who can tell a story with a straight face adds to the humorous effect . A word might be said to those who plan the program . In the number of speakers it is better to err in having too few than too many .
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Do not tell your hearers things they already know . Be brief . An after - dinner audience is in a particuarly defenceless position . It is so out in the open . There is no opportunity for a quiet nod or two behind a newspaper or the hat ...
Do not tell your hearers things they already know . Be brief . An after - dinner audience is in a particuarly defenceless position . It is so out in the open . There is no opportunity for a quiet nod or two behind a newspaper or the hat ...
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But we jes ' got to tell yo ' dat , in all de time we b'long to de fambly ,, none o ' ouh folks ain ' neveh befo ' mix up in sechlike dealin's , an ' we hope , Marse Cha'les , dat yo ' see de erroh of yo ' ways befo ' yo ' done sho ...
But we jes ' got to tell yo ' dat , in all de time we b'long to de fambly ,, none o ' ouh folks ain ' neveh befo ' mix up in sechlike dealin's , an ' we hope , Marse Cha'les , dat yo ' see de erroh of yo ' ways befo ' yo ' done sho ...
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HE " Give my regards to the old boy and tell him I'm sorry he isn't a newspaper critic . " The hero of the play , after putting up a stiff fight with the villain , had died to slow music . The audience insisted on his coming before the ...
HE " Give my regards to the old boy and tell him I'm sorry he isn't a newspaper critic . " The hero of the play , after putting up a stiff fight with the villain , had died to slow music . The audience insisted on his coming before the ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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