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Originally Posted by SilverBear
We sit around the fire after it gets too dark to hunt or dig tubers. Some of us tell stories. Sometimes the stories are ones we make up --whether they really "happened" or not. Sometimes we repeat "good ones" that we've heard.
If Giggleton tells a story he originally heard from me, nobody gives me a drink tonight. But if taosaur (say) remembers that I've told some good ones, he might invite me to supper in his hut, expecting to hear my new thriller about killing an elephant in my pyjamas.
In the first case, Giggleton is reproducing a story in the public domain. In the second, tausaur is supporting the creation of a new story.
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Now that is another story that I support so I may be able to hear another one. Do you pull those out of your hat? If you do, let me please borrow your hat, that seams to be a very entertaining one.
But I have a serious question: Why pyjamas? I can believe the killing an elephant part, but it is hard to imagine you in pyjamas in a long bygone time probably before you even had clothes
Maybe you lied and what you told is just science fiction and there was no elephant.