Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: JP Dogberry on July 29, 2004, 03:18:05 AM
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In the Vein of Word Sense, but more fun. Basically the goal is to write a story, contributing only three words at a time. So, a sentence requires maybe three posts or so.
Although, in this game, sentences get very long and lose any grammatical sense.
The rules:
No double posting.
No posting back and forth two people mroe than three times.
Every post must be part of the story.
Have fun.
Don't use this to boost your post count, or rather, don't make it obvious that that's why this thread exists.
So, to start:
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Once Upon a...
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piece of paper,
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there was a
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line drawing of
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a stick figure.
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It was alive.
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"It has Worked!"
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Screamed the mad
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scientist, before he
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crumpled to the
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high-gloss tile
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carefully color-measured
do hyphenated words like that count as one or two?
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by literature majors
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overworked and underpaid
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chicken on strike.
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Without warning, Stella
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some other nonsense
I can't follow the last few posts
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got her groove
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and kicked it
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"What was that?"
I sleep in on my day off and I miss everything!
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No groovy stick
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Imo, this would be so much cooler if it were a thread for stories that were only three words long.
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I eat Kije.
You mean like that? *picks his teeth with a toothpick*
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I haven't understood anything 42 has posted. I'm not sure where to go from here.
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Of course, sir.
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Beginning. Middle. End.
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Improve the function
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Derailed, as expected.
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Lost train-spotting.
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Saw, and fled.
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Dazed and confused.
That about sums up my feelings anyway. Can we do a 5 word story thread instead or some other number?
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it was working for about half a page, but then people started posting words that didn't make sense after the previous post.
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does a, and, and the count?
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make your own rules and follow them
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Then, the disgusting....
This is my attempt to get this working again.
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creature crawled out
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and ravaged the
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remains of the
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forgotten evil city.
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"No!!" screamed the
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gnarled old man
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whilst swatting away
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the evil dustbunnies
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who were trying
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to forcefully possess
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the driver's seat.
Yes, that's a period, you clause-happy people. New Sentence.
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his wallet. Then
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the man's editor
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ended the project.
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Which was going
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on much longer
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than arranged before
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a hairy hobo
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and a scaley
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death lizard had
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stolen the plans
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for the submarine.
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The horrible ordeal
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could only mean
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one thing. That
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nothing ever mattered
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to the pantless
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men. They were
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pantless, of course.
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This caused problems
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for the women
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who gagged at
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the sight of
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Hairy pantless men.
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The men decided
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to remain pantless
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until they recieved
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enough money to
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buy new pants.
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It was agreed
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one man should
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climb the sacred
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tree of DOOM
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which would give
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them access to
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the pants-vending
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kiosk. When they
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gathered their courage
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they drew straws
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to see which
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poor unfortunate soul
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would have to
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shout the national
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creedo at full
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volume. The guy
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chosen ate beans
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to fart enough
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to cause trouble.
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One fart's enough
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in my opinion.
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to cause trouble.
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The rest of
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the underscored fiasco
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was more memorable
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for starting a
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bonfire party with
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science fiction fans.
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The SF Nerd
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decided that he
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should just go
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To Worldcon innocently
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, or as innocent
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to do battle
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with darkest forces
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Of mother's porridge.
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The fight started
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the gloppy upperhandedness
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of Mother's Porridge
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so soon deteriorated
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that the nerd
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Split his pants
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. He reacted by
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pulling out his
Don't even go there, guys.
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thing which he
too late, you already did
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kept in a
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protective orange wrapper.
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This thing was
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a SUPER SLIDERULE!
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The Nerd gripped
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his trusty sliderule
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transforming him into
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a monster that
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could multiply and
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find square roots.
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In its head.
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Mother's Porridge was
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strong with rage
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, but weak with
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ability.
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However, she never
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insinuated that the
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porridge was female.
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Having shocked the
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multitude of grovelling
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peasants, she decided
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to remove her
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<deleted for decency>
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from the dryer.
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Unfortunately, the pantless
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men were angered
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and began to
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surge forward pantlessly.
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It was embarrassing.
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The End.
ok, ignore my post if you want, but I thought that was a good end. So, you have two choices, ignore me, or start a new one, perhaps a sequel
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The Sequel:
Once again, the
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world was in
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extreme moderate peril
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from Mother's Porridge.
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It ate Jam