The set up establishes the premise of the story by providing your audience with the necessary background information and details. Your set up should be as tight and to the point as possible. It should focus on one theme or idea, as you want the story to be brief, but entertaining and easy to understand. The punchline or laugh line is the heart of the story. It should lead the audience in one direction and then surprise them by suddenly escalating into a more interesting climax or going off into a completely different direction than was suggested by the set up.  A twist in the story, or element of surprise, usually makes for a good punchline. Determining your punchline will help you pair down any extra details and tailor the set up so it works up to a big laugh. Read your first draft of the story out loud to determine which points are funny and which points in the set up could be tightened or edited out.  Remove any extraneous words and only use adjectives when necessary. If you do use adjectives, make them interesting and attention grabbing; don’t use “big” when you could use “hulking” “gigantic” or “astronomical”. Watch your body language as you tell the story. You should be relaxed, friendly, and appear confident.  If you are telling a story with different characters, alter and vary your voice to match a character as they talk. Avoid being monotone or mumbling in a low voice. Try to tell the story like you are telling it to a good friend. Don’t be too formal or stiff. It’s important to appear like you believe in the story you are telling. Make it your own and make it believable to your listener. Pause before the punchline to signal to the listener that they should pay attention. This will ensure they hear the punchline and hopefully, be ready for a big laugh. Once you have practiced the story a few times, you may start to get comfortable with the material and start to add tags, or additional punchlines.  Your tags may build on the original punchline, or they may twist the punchline further into a new, funnier direction. Tags will help you capitalize on the momentum of the original punchline and extend the laugh or create an even bigger laugh so don’t be afraid to use them.
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One-sentence summary -- Determine your set up. Figure out your punchline. Write the story down. Practice telling the story in the mirror. Add tags to the story.

Q: Conditioning bleached hair is the most important thing you can do to restore softness. A leave-in conditioner is an important addition to your routine. Look for products that contain ceramides. Ceramides are an important, natural lipid that are stripped from the hair during the bleaching process. Color treated hair absorbs and retains these oils better than natural hair, because it’s replenishing what your hair is missing. Straighteners and curling irons are hard on healthy hair. Do not use on bleached hair if possible. If you must use hot styling tools, use hair products that protect against damage caused by high temperatures. There are heat protecting sprays, mists, creams and gels. Find what works best for you based on how you style your hair and what’s in your price range.
A: Use a leave-in conditioner. Avoid hot hair styling tools. Use heat protecting hair products.

Article: A robots.txt file is a plain or ASCII text file that informs search engine spiders what they are allowed to access on your site. Files and folders listed in a robots.txt file may not be crawled and indexed by a search engine spiders. You may need a robots.txt file if:  You want to block specific content from search engine spiders. You are developing a live site and are not prepared to have search engine spiders crawl and index the site You want to limit access to reputable bots. To create the file, launch a plain text editor or a code editor. Save the file as: robots.txt. The file name must be all lowercase.  Do not forget the “s.” When you save the file, choose the extension “'.txt”'. If you are using Word, select the “Plain Text” option. It is possible to block every reputable search engine spider from crawling and indexing your site with a “full-disallow” robots.txt. Write the following lines in your text file:   User-agent: * Disallow: /   Using a “full-disallow” robots.txt file is not strongly recommended. When a bot, such as Bingbot, reads this file, it will not index your site and the search engine will not display your website.  User-agents: this is another term for search engine spiders, or robots  *: the asterisk signifies that the code applies to all user-agents  Disallow: /: the forward slash indicates that the entire site is off-limits to bots Instead of blocking all bots, consider blocking specific spiders from certain areas of your site. Common conditional-allow commands include:  Block a specific bot: replace the asterisks next to User-agent with googlebot, googlebot-news, googlebot-image, bingbot, or teoma.  Block a directory and its contents:   User-agent: * Disallow: /sample-directory/    Block a webpage:   User-agent: * Disallow: /private_file.html    Block an image:   User-agent: googlebot-image Disallow: /images_mypicture.jpg    Block all images:   User-agent: googlebot-image Disallow: /    Block a specific file format:   User-agent: * Disallow: /p*.gif$ Many people want to welcome, instead of block, search engine spiders because they want their entire site indexed. To accomplish this, you have three options. First, you can opt out of creating a robots.txt file—when the robot does not find a robots.txt file, it will continue to crawl and index your entire site. Second, you can create an empty robots.txt file—the robot will find the robots.txt file, recognize that it is empty, and continue to crawl and index your site. Lastly, you can write a full-allow robots.txt file. Use the code:   User-agent: * Disallow:   When a bot, such as googlebot, reads this file, it will feel free to visit your entire site.  User-agents: this is another term for search engine spiders, or robots  *: the asterisk signifies that the code applies to all user-agents  Disallow: the blank disallow command indicates that all files and folders are accessible After you have written the robots.txt file, save the changes. Upload the file to your site's root directory. For example, if your domain is www.yourdomain.com, place the robots.txt file at www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Understand robots.txt files. Create and save and robots.txt file. Write a full-disallow robots.txt file. Write a conditional-allow robots.txt file. Encourage bots to index and crawl your site. Save the txt file to the root of your domain.

Article: If you are in a noisy setting, now is your chance to get people’s attention. You can do so with a carefully rehearsed shout, a clinking of a glass or an exclamation like, “Give me a thumbs up if you can hear me in the back.” . Start with a friendly and sincere tone. Answer the question, “Why are we all here?” Feel free to start with a quick, funny anecdote to set the mood. Recognize anyone who helped put on the event. If the producers of the event want to identify big donors, now is the time to sincerely thank them. From the time you start presenting until the event finishes, you should be in good humor and have a smile.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Call the event to order. Welcome the audience Introduce yourself. Introduce the people who put the event on. Smile.