it seems your model is that telling a joke is like rolling a die. sometimes you get a 1, and the joke falls flat.
this is not my model at all. each joke is different. you can learn which ones work and which ones don’t.
maybe it helps to ask: how does the person get good enough at jokes that they succeed 99⁄100 times? they have been learning, no? so do more of that.
it seems your model is
no, this is not what i said. this is not at all what i said, and i actually said something that is very close to the opposite of that.
i don’t know who to communicate if i say something and you come to the conclusion that i believe the opposite of that, so i’m bowing out.
it seems your model is that telling a joke is like rolling a die. sometimes you get a 1, and the joke falls flat.
this is not my model at all. each joke is different. you can learn which ones work and which ones don’t.
maybe it helps to ask: how does the person get good enough at jokes that they succeed 99⁄100 times? they have been learning, no? so do more of that.
no, this is not what i said. this is not at all what i said, and i actually said something that is very close to the opposite of that.
i don’t know who to communicate if i say something and you come to the conclusion that i believe the opposite of that, so i’m bowing out.