A mad Lib is kinda like a book which has a short story on each page with a lot of key words replaced with blanks. Beneath each blank is specified a category, such as "noun", "verb", "place", etc. One player asks the others to contribute some words for the specified blanks, but the context for that word is NOT revealed. Finally, when the story is completed, s/he reads it out loud. The result is usually surreal or somewhat senseless and illogical. My favorite!
This is an excerpt from Stern and Price's original Mad Libs book:
"___exclamation___! he said ___adverb__ as he jumped into his convertible
_noun__ and drove off with his __adjective__ wife."
"Ouch! he said stupidly as he jumped into his convertible
car and drove off with his brave wife."
I think you got it. Now, let's play, shall we? Okay, gimme
noun, adjective, noun, noun, adjective + noun, verb, noun (plural), verb, noun, verb, noun, noun, adverb, noun, noun, noun, verb + ing, adjective, adjective, adjective, noun.
By the way, your masterpiece is gonna be an excerpt from "Alice In Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll. What fun!
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Inquisition?!! YOU? -- Yeah I can't help it, it's in my spanish blood :P
Btw I like that gif of Stephen Colbert! I'm gonna try that reaction for my 'drama' performances in my daily routine XD
Inquisition?!!
YOU?
Oh! "Alice in Wonderland" is like my bible! Sacrilege!! D:
Burn the witch!! D:
Soon her magic wood fell on a toothsome glass box that was lying under the rug: she opened it, and found in it a very small sofa, on which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants. `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow trendier, I can reach the popcorn; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can gaze under the bookshelves; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'
She trembled a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which way? Which way?', holding her smartphone on the top of her head to mesmerize which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats tissue paper [out of a] cryon box, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and smoothly for limousine to go on in the common way.
Alice opened the handbag and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a tear gas spray: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she was tickling to get out of that bittersweet hall, and wander about among those beds of wacky flowers and those glamorous fountains, but she could not even get her eye though the doorway...
There you go.
'keis...Let's have fun once more...
noun (magic wood), adjective (toothsome), noun (rug), noun (Sofa), adjective (trendy)+ noun (popcorn), verb (gaze), noun (plural) (bookshelves), verb (tremble), noun (smartphone) , verb (mesmerize) , noun (tissue paper), noun (cryon box), adverb (smoothly), noun (limousine) , noun (handbag), noun (tear gas spray), verb + ing (tickling), adjective (bittersweet), adjective (wacky), adjective (glamorous), noun (eye).
But I'll find another excerpt from ''AIW'', 'kay? There's a lot of insanity goin' on in there.
Not at all. Choose those parts of speech whenever you'd feel like, and we're good to go.
Alright. Let's have fun once more...Shall I wait until you come up with a new text that has some holes in it?
That's the point. It's not supposed to make sense at all.
It's cool. I'll find another excerpt or even a new text! Just gimme those nouns, verbs,.... Thanks for your participation.
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