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Submitted to Contest #291
Fourteen more minutes. Bud leaned against the sink and let out a long sigh. Fourteen. Four + ten = a teenaged four. Fore! Why don't stove timers show seconds? Bud wondered. That sounded like a joke. "Hey, Jen, why don't stove timers show seconds?" "I don't know, Bud, why don't stove timers show seconds?" "Because if they did, they'd... they'd..." Bud was never very good at coming up with jokes. He found the punchlines were the hardest to come up with. What was a joke, anyway? And what made it funny? Rhyming? Wordplay? Something out of left ...
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