j Gregory Barton http://jgregorybarton.com Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:59:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Best Story http://jgregorybarton.com/2010/08/best-story/ http://jgregorybarton.com/2010/08/best-story/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:59:09 +0000 jGregory http://jgregorybarton.com/?p=264 Jerry Seinfeld once gave this tiny lecture about what makes a line funny. He twittered on about how every word matters and then gave a list of words that were funny and that weren’t funny. When I saw this photo recently, I kept thinking of lines or captions. My first attempt was, “Linda, Jerry’s feeding the squirrels again”. The funny part being “again”. I kept working to tell a better story and came of with, “Linda, Jerry’s feeding your squirrel again”. The funnier line being “your” squirrel as if he had his own or that Linda was territorial about her pet squirrel. Next I came up with, “Linda, Jerry’s feeding the squirrel Alka Seltzer tables to your squirrel again”! But, though funny with a twist it takes too long to get to the end of the story.

So what story do you think makes the most impact?

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Hat Tip: Michael Margolis at GetStoried.

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