Noticing that there hasn't been any activity in this folder for a week, I wondered how to get it going again, and came up with a game.

Take a section of the script, and play mad libs with it.

I'll start with a short one.

Adjective #1 (something odd?)
Noun #1
Adjective #2
"ing" Verb
Verb #1
Adjective #3
Adjective #4
Noun #2

So just post something like...

Adjective #3 - ________

...until all are entered, then I'll post the adjusted quote. (I think you'll recognize where it came from).

No more than two per person.

Adjective # 1: phosphorescent

Noun #1: Bananas

Thanks for the replies.

You don't have to go in order; you can pick any entry.

Oh, and the nouns are singular, so I'll enter that as banana, BG.

Keep it up.

Adjective # 2: appalling

That's my limit. Somebody jump in here.

Here's an update.

What's taken:
Adjective #1-phosphorescent
Noun #1-banana
Adjective #2-appalling

What's needed:
"ing" Verb
Verb #1
Adjective #3
Adjective #4
Noun #2

Come on, let's see some action.

Okay.

"ing" Verb - Jumping.


LabRat

Verb - discombobulate

Thank you, Labbie and Darcy.

Slight alteration.
Adjective #4 should be a noun.

So we need:

Adjective #3
Noun #2
Noun #3

Oh, and I need another verb.

Noun 2 - desk
Noun 3 - giraffe

Adjective 3 - slim
Verb - traipse

OK, here it is. I'm sure you'll recognize the context.

CLARK
There is no such word as ' phosphorescent.'

LOIS
Of course there is. Somebody's a
banana. Therefore, he's appalling.

CLARK
Traipse again.

LOIS
Are you jumping me?

CLARK
You discombobulate your slim desk I am.

CLARK
Told ya.

LOIS
You call this a giraffe?


The next person who has a quote, just post what words you need.

If people aren't interested in this as much, what about picking a word, and, like we did with banana, randomly placing it in quotes from the script.

Cherry?

Actually, Woody, I think the Mad Dog Lib idea is a great idea. It was fun to see the quote after all of our suggestions.

I'm not reliably on the boards lately, but let me give one a try. Verbs 1-3 should be past tense, 4 should be present tense.

Noun #1: John Wayne
Noun #2: lamp
Noun #3: pig
Verb #1: catapulted
Verb #2: hiccup
Verb #3: pushed
Adjective #1: post-modern
Verb #4: sleepwalk
Noun #4: envelope
Noun #5: google
Verb #5: envelop
Noun #6: metamorphasis

ETA: answers and another verb instead of a misidentified adverb.

I'll also mess up ... er, give a cherry quote.
"He's a man. I'm a cherry. You want me to draw you a diagram?"
:p

Noun #1: John Wayne.

Adjective #1: Post-modern.

Noun#2 Lamp
Noun#3 Pig

Yup! Great idea, woody!

Noun #5: google
Verb #1: catapulting

adverb: just

Thanks for the contributions so far, everyone.

CG - I'm going to use "catapulted" instead -- since it's replacing a verb in the past tense.

Darcy - Ack! The adverb was really more of a conjunction, so "just" doesn't really fit. Can I ask for another present tense verb instead?

Sorry.

Not a problem. It just needs a little getting used to.

Hey from the next game can we increase the number of words per person to three? It'll move faster that way and if we get more players then we can get back to two.

What ya say?

Sure it can be three.

Verb#2: hiccup
Verb#4: sleepwalk
Noun #6: metamorphasis

Thanks for the contributions. We just need the following to finish it off:

Verb #3:
Noun #4:
Verb #5:

Yay! That means I've got one left...

Verb #3: push

Thanks, CG. I've added 'pushed' to the mad dog lib.

Noun #4 - envelope
Verb #5 - envelop

Thanks, y'all. Here's the resulting quote:

My name is John Wayne. And you are
Kal-El, my lamp. The pig you hold
has been catapulted to you. That you
now hiccup these words is proof that you
pushed the journey in space and have
reached your Post-modern maturity.
Now it is time for you to sleepwalk our
envelope. To that end, I will appear to
you google times. Envelop for the
metamorphasis, listen, and learn.

Great!

Can I take the next turn? BBL...

"The pig you hold has been catapulted to you."

And I liked Post-modern maturity, too.

Go for it, CG.

Okay... here it is...
Oh, and for the nouns,I need animals/birds/vegetables/fruits/other *things*... just not proper names. Hope that's okay.

Noun #1 - cumquat
Noun #2 - ostrich
Noun #3 - phone
Adjective #1 - yellowish
Verb #1 - sneeze
Verb #2 - concentrate
Noun #4 - calendar
Adjective #2 - statistical
Verb #3 - paddy-whack
Verb #4 - perambulate
Noun #5 - stage
Noun #6 - acid
Noun #7 - jaw
Noun #8 - esophagus
Verb #5 - jumped

Noun #1 - cumquat
Adjective #1 - yellowish
Verb #1 - sneeze

Noun 2: ostrich
Verb 2: concentrate
Noun 7: jaw

noun #3: phone
noun #4: calendar

Seven more to go...

Adjective #2
Verb #3
Verb #4
Noun #5
Noun #6
Noun #8 - a body part
Verb #5

Adjective # 2 - statistical

Noun # 8 - esophagus

Verb # 4 - perambulate

Four more to go...

Verb #3
Noun #5
Noun #6
Verb #5

Verb #5 Jump

Noun#5 Stage

Carolyn

Noun: acid
Verb:paddy-whack

Okay! Here it is!

LOIS
I want one cumquat. One whole ostrich.
Is that so much to ask? And what do I
have to choose from? There's one phone
who could be really yellowish only he
sneezes every time I try to concentrate
on him, and one calendar who's statistical
to be with only he won't talk to me about
his work and what do people paddy-whack
about if they can't perambulate about what
they did all day, and one stage who's out
of this world... literally.

DR. FRISKIN
I thought you'd given up the Acid fantasy.

LOIS
My jaw wants to. My esophagus is, um, jumped.

DR. FRISKIN
So it would seem.


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Great job, guys!


So... who's next?

I explained to my 17-year-old daughter what this thread was about. She listened, gave me a bent smile, and said, "You people are stupid."

She just doesn't get it, does she? She hasn't even read "The Lost Scrolls" yet!

I love the Acid fantasy!

And how cool that jaw and esophagus replaced body parts.

What a great quote to play with, CG. I loved the acid fantasy, too. Someone should do another.

In the meantime...

Here's another one.

Anyone else want to have a go at this?

Ok, I'll give it a go. Hope it works, it's a bit long.

Adj#1 cloudy
Noun#1 baseball bat
Adj#2 (a feeling) dizzy
Verb#1 isolating
Noun#2 (an organisation) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Noun#3 hormone
Noun#4 paper
Noun#5 mouse
Noun#6 font
Noun#7 whiskey
Noun#8 sword
Noun#9 thingamajig
Noun#10 playground
Verb#2 grumble
Verb#3 wiggling
Noun#11 (food item) calimary
Verb#4 sing
Noun#12 (food item) haggis
Verb#5 peeled
Noun#13 (food item) Cocoa Puffs
Adj#3 slippery
Noun#14 (food item) rumaki
Noun#15 mailbox
Noun#16 cornflakes
Adj#4 chumpy
Noun#17 goat
Adj#5 fishy


Emma

Noun #3:hormone
Noun #6:font
Noun #9:thingamajig

Thanks Woody, those words work great . Just need some more suggestions now.

Noun#11 (food item) Calimary
Noun#12 (food item) Haggis
Noun#13 (food item) Cocoa Puffs

Noun#2 (an organisation) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Thanks Catherine. Anyone else want to play along?

Adjective #1: cloudy
Noun #1: baseball bat
Verb #1: isolate

adjective #2: dizzy
noun #4: paper
noun #5: mouse

Are we allowed four?

Adj#4 - chumpy
Noun#17 - goat
Adj#5 - fishy

Yay, some more words! We're getting there. I've changed isolate to isolating just so it works better. These are what's left:-

Noun #7
Noun#8
Noun#10
Verb#2
Verb#3
Verb#4
Verb#5
Adj#3
Noun#14 (food item)
Noun#15
Noun#16

At least I think that's right! It's looking pretty good so far, thanks.

Oh, yeah and you can have 4 if you want CG!

Emma

I'll give a fourth...

Noun #14: Rumaki

my fourth here...

Adj #3 - slippery

Ok, just the following to go now:-

Noun #7
Noun#8
Noun#10
Verb#2
Verb#3
Verb#4
Verb#5
Noun#15
Noun#16

Any suggestions?

Noun no 8: sword

Verb no 2: grumble

Carolyn

Thanks Carolyn. Just 7 more to go now:-

Noun #7
Noun#10
Verb#3
Verb#4
Verb#5
Noun#15
Noun#16

Anybody want to suggest some words to get this finished off?

If no one else wants to participate, I'll give a few more.

Noun #7: whiskey
Noun #10: playground
Verb #3: wiggle
Verb #4: sing

I've been observing this for long and I thought why not jump in and join the fun?

Verb#5 peel
Noun#15 mailbox
Noun#16 cornflakes

are these good enough?

Hi Mishmishat! Thanks for taking part. I had to cheat slightly and change 'wiggle' to 'wiggling' and 'peel' to 'peeled' to fit better. It's finally done. Here's the quote!

LOIS: This is so cloudy. You want a big baseball bat, you’re dizzy, you think it’s a simple isolating and then, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is involved. Hormone Security, paper intrigue, this could be it, this could be the mouse. But you have your font to consider. So what do you do? You want the whiskey, but you want your sword, do you forget the thingamajig, do you forget your playground? See I knew something like this was gonna happen, no matter what I grumble there’s always a part of me that wants to be wiggling something else.

CLARK: Lois, calimary.

LOIS: What did you just sing?

CLARK: Lois.

LOIS: After that?

CLARK: Haggis.

LOIS: That’s first time you’ve ever peeled me that. Say it again.

CLARK: Cocoa Puffs.

LOIS: That’s slippery, I like it. I never thought of myself as a rumaki. What’s happening to me? So, did you have any other names in mind?

CLARK: Mailbox, cornflakes, my chumpy goat.

LOIS: This is just fishy.


Emma

Funny Mad Dog Lib, Em. I like seeing the replacement words in Lois' babble. Heh. Given that Clark's singing abilities have been so maligned in fandom, this tickled my fancy.

LOL! Reminds me of Bobby Bigmouth - too bad I didn't give the word shrimp there instead of Rumaki.

Let's try a short one:

Verb #1: hallucinate(d)
Verb #2: brush
Noun #1: pajama(s)
Verb #3: gobble
Noun #2: elephant
Adjective #1: slimy
Noun #3: hell

I was LOL reading the last one, so I'll jump in again.

Verb 2--> Brush
Noun 1--> Pijama

Carolyn

Noun #2 - elephant
Adj #1 - slimy

Emma

Thanks for the word submissions, Carolyn and Emma.

Anyone else willing to give me the final three? I need two verbs and a noun.

Verb #1 - hallucinate
Verb #3 - gobble
Noun #3 - hell

Thanks, CG.

Here's the resulting quote (from Season's Greedings, in case it isn't obvious):

Rawr! Go, Martha!

Okay, who's up next?

The words always seem to fit really well. I can just imagine Martha saying that one!

Well, since no one else posted another Mad Lib and this folder's been sorta ... dead lately, I'll give it another go.

Pronoun 1: you
Verb 1: fight
Noun 1: cocktail
Verb 2: hug
Verb 3: yawn
Noun 2: umbrella
Verb 4: play
Noun 3: lipstick
Verb 5: sulk
Pronoun 2: our
Noun 4: donut
Noun 5 (proper - a place): Hawaii
Verb 6: fly
Adjective 1: pretty

OK, let's see how this one turns out. Give up to four words each.

BJ

Hi!

Verb 1: fight
Verb 3:yawn
Noun 2:umbrella
Pronoun 2 (possessive): Our

Carolyn

Thanks, Carolyn.

Anyone else?

Yay, pleased you're doing another of these. Hmm......

Noun 1: cocktail
Noun 3: lipstick
Noun 4: donut
Verb 2: hug


Emma

Thanks, Emma.

Still need a pronoun, three verbs, a proper noun and an adjective. Anyone?


...

Also, in the meantime -- another cherry quote. From HoL:

PERRY
(hopeful)
So... you need my cherries?

CLARK
I think I can manage.

PERRY
Dang it, Kent. Tell me you need my
cherries.

CLARK
I need your cherries.

PERRY
Thought so. I'll be on a plane in
the morning. Meet you at your
place.

Hmm. Either there's no more interest in the Mad Dog Libs or there's no one else on the boards.


Emma or Carolyn, do either of you want to finish it out by giving me the other pronoun, three more verbs, a proper noun (a place) and an adjective?

Hi, it is no-one else seems to be taking part. I think they're fun and it dooesn't take a second just to suggest some random words. The ones we have done so far have all turned out really well.

at the cherries quote by the way!! That's the funniest one yet.

Ok,

Pronoun 1: you
Verb 4: play
Verb 5: sulk
Noun 5: Hawaii
Verb 6: fly
Adj 1: pretty

Hope these are ok, just off the top of my head but that's the best way.

Em

Thanks, Em. Here's how it turned out:

from "The Ides of Metropolis"

DETECTIVE REED: How do you get you to fight that, anyway?
LOIS: What?
REED: Your cocktail. That hug thing. When you yawn your umbrella.
LOIS: I don't know. It just... does it.
Lois plays over at Reed's lipstick.
LOIS (CONT'D): I sulk I had our donut.
REED: You can. $1.98 at Hawaii.
LOIS: Get out of here! They fly so pretty.


LOL! I like the "fly so pretty" line. Thanks for playing.

And another cherry quote (from "The Phoenix"):

LOIS (CONT'D)
(guarded)
You're asking me out?

CLARK
Yes! You know.... like a cherry?

LOIS
(beat, then)
A cherry? You mean a real cherry? Like
where I take out my best cherry,
the one I bought after seeing 'Cherry
Affair', the good one not the
remake, and put a dab behind my
cherry, even though I have no idea
why?



What? Too many cherries?

That dab behind the cherry is interesting.

I do think replacing only one word with cherry makes it more focused.