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A pastor once told me that it's easier to get forgiven than it is to get a good laugh so go for the laugh. He said, 'people don't want to hear the truth, they want to hear big stories'. I know, that philosophy has major problems.
I used to do an act with a puppet. It was an eagle puppet that I controlled with my hand in its head. The first routine that I would do was to admit to the audience that "Baldwin" was not real because I didn't want to lie. Well, of course, this was always news to Baldwin who would take great insult at being called a puppet. I would ask the kids how I can prove he's not real. Someone would always say, "Take your hand out". I would do it and Baldwin would hang limp from my neck PROVING that he was a puppet.
When I would replace my hand I would break it to Baldwin that he was motionless without my hand. He would insist that he was pretending he was asleep. We would argue and then he would challenge me to pretend I was sleeping. I would, and he would start laughing. When I 'awoke' and asked him why he was laughing he announced that I was a puppet, that he had taken his hand out of my head. It was a blast, I remained honest but the puppet always insisted he was real.
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