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They say that to really sell your story to

  • They say that to really sell your story to the masses you must first write for yourself––which you did during seventh grade. It was about two pages long and centered around a child
  • ¨who was writing for the masses.There was no opening or character development & a lot of silly potty humor. The child's work was very popular but anonymously written on stall doors
  • Teachers took photos of the stall doors, transcribed the words, and sent the result to The New Yorker. The anonymous 10 year-old was up for a nobel in literature.
  • Because no one knew who had written the graffiti Clint Eastwood volunteered to say a few words at the Nobel acceptance speech. "I'd like to thank a gay cracking hating God who kil
  • lted me in front of everyone." As the king of Spaghetti westerns & WWII movies that I accept this Nobel prize on behalf of some random graffiiti person." Clint Eastwood spoke up.
  • "This is an outrage!" shouted Kilroy as he dragged his cinderblock legs down the aisle, "I am here, and I can accept the Nobel prize myself, Eastwood, you ham!" Clint squinted at
  • the Bob Dylan shaped hole in the roof as Bob himself untied his hammer pants parachute. "No need lame-os," he drawled, grabbing the Nobel from the middle of the smorgasbord. Clint
  • couldn't believe his eyes. "Bob Dylan?" he asked, gazing upon Bob's bare chest, almost as glistening as the trophy he was holding. "Oh... wow. I'm sorry, it's just that I'm
  • stunned to meet you! Here! Let me take that for you!" he hoisted the trophy from Bob Dylan's hands. "Hey, if you don't mind, would you sign my tambourine?" He'd forgotten
  • to take his meds again and alas, came out of his stupor realizing he'd been talking to the potted ficus in the corner again. Oops, hopefully nobody noticed.
Started
2016-11-23 17:25:35
Finished
2017-02-01 08:42:33

2 Comments

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    lucielucie Feb 01 2017 @ 11:25

    http://foldingstory.com/zwjm9/so9l1w/ This is where I got the idea of the hammer pants parachute from.
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    SlimWhitman Feb 01 2017 @ 15:48

    It did seem familiar, a memorable trope worth bringing back.

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