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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by biographies because

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reading somebody's life story tends to be a lot more interesting than [Man reading a biography]

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unwillingly listening to somebody's life story alright here's our question what [Woman talking at the guy]

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are the differences between a biography and an autobiography and here are the potential

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answers... well as you might be able to

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tell from the words autobiographies are pretty similar to biographies except for [Guy holding an autobiography and a biography]

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that little auto at the front of autobiography which means one's own

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not auto as in cars sorry all you sports car enthusiasts all right well we've got a few [Car drifting round a corner]

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options so let's see which one gives us the correct difference starting at the

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top with a well there's no rule that says biographies are longer than

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autobiographies for better or worse people are often pretty interested in [Guy writing in a pile of papers]

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themselves so we shouldn't be surprised when autobiographies run way too long

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like library long like seriously only your mother cares this much about your [Guy holding 'The Book of Me']

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life long so a is no good what about B well neither autobiographies and [The answer A is crossed out]

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biographies should be fictionalized at all no matter how much the odd alien or

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wizard world that would like to spice things up that said life story of a box [Spaceship and witch fly past]

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Packer would probably benefit from a few fantastical characters and not just to

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what you know help pack more boxes either way B is out how about C well we [Alien shooting a gun]

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already know that there's definitely a difference between biographies and

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autobiographies remember autobiographies are written by the person the books

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about whereas biographies can be written by anyone except maybe a goat [Goat in front of an easel]

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they make great writers because even if they manage to write something down well

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they'd probably just eat it, so B bites the dust what about D now we're getting somewhere [Goat eats the paper]

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as the hint mentioned and as we saw when showing why C is wrong an autobiography

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is really a biography of one's own and so we have to answer D and look at

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that we found our answer in record time at least less time that it would have taken for

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a goat writing an autobiography [Every page the goat writes, it eats]

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