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It&#8217;s obvious to me that I was right to choose film and video as a career (and not joke writing!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-463\" title=\"boyslife4\" src=\"http:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4-198x250.jpg 198w, https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4-400x504.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boyslife4-118x150.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To kick off the new year, I recently came upon this joke I wrote years ago, originally published in Boys&#8217; Life Magazine in 1961. 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