tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post4699975653897422792..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "Two Stories I Am Not Sure I Can Tell"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-11906518051024269862018-12-17T09:41:20.346-08:002018-12-17T09:41:20.346-08:00Go ask him. Go ask him. TCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-68932877199157735562018-12-17T08:19:32.301-08:002018-12-17T08:19:32.301-08:00To make it seem more believable, I'd have the ...To make it seem more believable, I'd have the server hand the woman her change along with the ice cream. At the end of the story we realize that she, being starstruck, must have absentmindedly put both the coins and the cone into her purse.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18051747006710432002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-2756297238875382582018-12-17T05:27:04.470-08:002018-12-17T05:27:04.470-08:00P.S. It seems Tom Selleck not only appears in joke...P.S. It seems Tom Selleck not only appears in jokes about ice cream but also sometimes <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1299540/sweet-toothed-brits-are-stunned-to-discover-the-face-of-tom-selleck-in-a-serving-of-ice-cream/" rel="nofollow">appears in ice cream </a>(if you really use your imagination).Mike T.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-12890564364711384662018-12-17T05:24:28.064-08:002018-12-17T05:24:28.064-08:00I think you did a better job the last time you tol...I think you did a better job the <a href="http://earlpomerantz.blogspot.com/2008/05/notable-quotables-two.html" rel="nofollow">last time </a>you told this story here. (Have I really been reading your blog for a decade or more?) Still, as one commenter noted at the time, it seems too good to be true, and your remarks on this telling of the tale get to the heart of why it feels phony.Mike T.noreply@blogger.com