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Jill Reeves's avatar

So with your story, you put four straws in a bottle of wine and the reader has to get what that means if you want it to be funny. The question is: is it just random or does it have a funny point to it like a joke punch line that’s supposed to make you laugh? We may laugh at the weirdness but is there a message? Like that moment, where you say, oh, I get it! I am also weird but I’m just wondering your thoughts on your intentions with your little story. No challenge here just a question for conversation. I love your weirdness! And I know a lot of of your readers do too that’s why we read your stuff!

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Jeff Gill's avatar

I'm not sure I was trying to be funny. It's just that if you use all the wine glasses for mashed potatoes, you've got nowhere to pour the wine. You can solve that by giving everyone their own straw in the wine bottle. It's not the most hygienic situation, but what's a little backwash among friends?

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Jill Reeves's avatar

OK, so like I think I’m the person in the room who got the joke after everybody else already got it. Lol It is creatively funny! Intellectual humor is my favorite.

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Denelle DeFer's avatar

Remember Weird Al?

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Jeff Gill's avatar

I do! Daniel Radcliffe started in a brilliant Weird Al fake biopic that is totally worth watching

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marya's avatar

He went to the university where I currently work (and of which I'm an alum). There is a bathroom on campus named after him because that is where he recorded My Sharona. True story. <3

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Denelle DeFer's avatar

Love that song!

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marya's avatar

I LOVE this. I am adopting this immediately.

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