The Edds men are storytellers. Blessed with excellent memories for nonsense, these gentlemen enjoy spinning yarns for group entertainment, and with each successive telling, these stories become just a little bit bigger and better. Most are humorous accounts, based on true stories. Joke telling is an art and like any art, not everyone has a talent for it. Like any skill, it is enhanced through regular use and practice. Some say the art of joke telling will soon be lost. Rather than tell jokes, people today don’t repeat stories, they forward them through email. In this way, it is enjoyed once and forgotten. If anyone can preserve this art, then maybe the next generation of Edds men can. With a limited vocabulary and no sentences longer than five words, humor is already emerging. For instance, when practicing our alphabet Benji will sometimes recite ABCDEFZ! Then he will pause before erupting in self-congratulatory laughter at his clever achievement.
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