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The Five Elements of A Good Story

For about a year now I’ve been trying to remember what Garrison Keillor said were the five elements of a good story. I should have just googled it, because of course, there they were, on snopes:

During is November 8, 1997 broadcast, Garrison Keillor was heard to expound on the five required elements of humor (religion, money, family relationships, sex, and mystery) saying there was one twelve-word joke that contained all these elements: “God,” said the Banker’s daughter, “I’m pregnant. I wonder who it was?”