When we were college students, my friend Gil Sprague asked me, "Why do the things that happen to us make such funny stories?"

I was even more of a smartass then than I am now, and I replied, "It isn't that the things that happen to us make funny stories - it's that we make funny stories out of the things that happen to us."

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