I understand. Tall tale tellers have to deliver their "lies" as if truth is involved. Sometimes that means cutting off the listeners head without their realizing it. Often, that's part of the humor for other listeners.

We remember things that never happened!

Modern folks aren't used to not having a punchline. Once in a while, in order to let the audience know that humor was happening, I would create a punch line after the joke was over just to allow the hearers to feel better about having paid their money to be there.

A tangled web Kendall and I and Utah and some others used to weave.

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