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Race Result Details |
| Racer | Gail (gailrickman@yahoo.com) |
| Race Number | 15932 |
| Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:56:55 +0000 |
| Speed |
59 WPM
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| Accuracy | 95.4% |
| Rank | 5th place (out of 5) |
| Opponents | abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz2 (2nd place) mfj_ (3rd place) umd_terps (1st place) |
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The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.
— Comedy Writing Secrets
 (book)
by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz
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