{"id":39188,"date":"2011-05-27T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/39188\/pick-bio\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T02:27:28","slug":"pick-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/39188\/pick-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"HELP ME PICK MY BIO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay folks, I need your help.\u00a0 By midnight tonight, I need to submit my bio to the assistant director of the show that I am in.\u00a0 This is what is going to go into the program next to my name and picture.\u00a0 What should it say?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided not to use my actual biography.\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019d rather set the mood for our comedy with a mostly inaccurate tale of who I am.\u00a0 Below you will find the four bio\u2019s I have composed for this purpose.\u00a0 I will submit whichever one you\u00a0 think is the funniest.\u00a0 So vote A, B, C or D.\u00a0 Note also that each of the four contains one little bit of accurate information.\u00a0 Can you spot that too?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I know which one Denneigh is going to vote for.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A)<\/span><\/span> Joko was born in the log cabin that he helped his father build on the wide, open prairies of Switzerland.\u00a0 After years of working the organ grinder circuit, Joko came back to school when the bottom fell out of the ground liver market in 2013.\u00a0 On the stage, Joko has recently appeared in Gaddafi: The Musical<\/em>, where he played one of Muammar\u2019s bodyguards, and Come On Down<\/em>, where he played Johnny Olson in a theatrical representation of life behind the scenes at a game show.\u00a0 Joko is studying in EDCC\u2019s alcohol chemical dependency department and hopes to become an addictions counselor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"B)<\/span> <\/span><\/span>As an infant, Joko was the sole survivor of a plane crash which took his parents. They were flying over the wilds of Madagascar on their way to an international convention of\u00a0 horticulturalists.\u00a0 Discovered by a band of ring-tailed lemurs, Joko was taken in and adopted by the furry jungle dwellers.\u00a0 Found as an adolescent by multi-level marketers spreading the good news about Amway, Joko was taken to the Tarzan School of Raised by Animals, and has come to EDCC as an exchange student.\u00a0 Joko likes climbing trees, eating insects and playing the ukulele.\u00a0 Trying to reconnect with his origins, Joko is studying horticulture, and is currently completing a special project studying the horculture on Seattle\u2019s Aurora Avenue.<\/span><\/span>
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\"\"C)<\/span> Joko is on loan to the Theatre Arts Student Organization from the Royal Genghis Khanian Company of Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.\u00a0 He has become a bit of a fixture on the EDCC campus, noted for hitching his sturdy, steppe horse, Muffinpoof to the bicycle racks in front of Lynnwood Hall.\u00a0 Although this is his first appearance on stage in Washington, Joko has received excellent reviews in the Mongolian production of\u00a0 Michael Stipe\u2019s musical Everybody Yurts<\/em> as well as playing the lead in Kublai Khan – Superstar<\/em>.\u00a0 Joko loves his cat which is named for the Devil, playing lacrosse and bingo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nD)<\/span> Joko\u2019s passion is politics and is proud to playing the role of Frosine, an alcoholic transgendered human person whose manipulative, conniving ways are but a lifestyle choice and deserving of respect.\u00a0 Joko was inspired to participate in \"\"TASO\u2019s production of The Miser as he feels it represents how capitalism is personified in the title role.\u00a0 The adopted son of devoted parents who happen to be disabled, lesbian persons of color, Joko is donating his share to your ticket to the Obama 2012 campaign.\u00a0 Joko has previously appeared on stage in Nader: The Musical<\/em>, The Assisted Suicide of a Salesman<\/em> and Annie Get Your Registered, Screened and Useful Just For Hunting Gun<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Okay, folks, I promise you, you get to decide which Bio appears in our program!\u00a0 Given that I’ll probably only get 4 or 5 votes this evening, your vote becomes very important! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Heck, for extra credit, try your hand at making a bio for me!\u00a0 If I like it enough, I’ll just veto the vote and pick your entry! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Okay folks, I need your help. By midnight tonight, I need to submit my bio to the assistant director of the show that I am in. This is what is going to go into the program next to my name and picture. What should it say?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided not to use my actual biography. Instead, I\u2019d rather set the mood for our comedy with a mostly inaccurate tale of who I am. Below you will find the four bio\u2019s I have composed for this purpose. I will submit whichever one you think is the funniest. So vote A, B, C or D. Note also that each of the four contains one little bit of accurate information. Can you spot that too? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,16],"tags":[3504,3505,81,3478,2509],"class_list":["post-39188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-friendburst","category-games","tag-bio","tag-edcc","tag-joko","tag-the-miser","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}