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December 06, 2005
Synopsize Your Existence and Reason For Being in Ten Sentences, Please
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Last night, I was in a dinner meeting and the inevitable introductions began, rolling around the room from the host, to the first guest, and so on. As others were cleverly summarizing their bona fides I realized how bad I seem to be at this common social interaction. Its like not knowing which pair of shoes to wear, or which fork to use for the shrimp course.
At any rate, I stammered out something about being a long time student of the subject at hand, mumble, mumble, mumble. But what I was thinking, while my mouth was on autopilot, was a series of one-liners:
- "I kvetch, professionally."
- "I would never join a club that would have me as a member."
- "That reminds me of a story."
- "Twelve arrests, no convictions."
And then, when the dinner presentation soared into the hockey-stick graphs and product yellowbrick road, I was noodling over this mundane task. I knew I had at least one glass of champagne too much when I started to confabulate a social tool -- the "introductionator" -- that would generate the appropriate paragraph, based on circumstance, and surrounded in the appropriate level of puffery.
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