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Why keeping a straight face takes real control

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Looking thoroughly bored is an incredibly taxing physical discipline. Masters of dry humor spend years learning to suppress their own involuntary facial twitches, completely paralyzing their own joy just to make their punchlines hit with psychopathic precision.

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