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Boris
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I don't know if anyone has ever suggested a game like this...I just thought it would be fun. Anyway, one person suggests a title for a story, and the next person to post suggests a possible plot/story for that title and gives a new title. I suppose it's a good idea for a creativity exercise [Smile]

Something like this:
"Falling from Grace"
A young man meets a girl named Grace. They climb a large tower, and he falls off.

Mostly, just put a creative spin on whatever the person before posts. Like my example, it doesn't have to be a good story or anything...Just fun.

Okay...Here we go.

"Broken Limbs"

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An elephant discovers the perils of trying to collect the highest acorn from the tallest branches of an oak tree.

"All In a Day's Work"

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A young woman named Day is an intern.

"Gravy Train"

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The crew of an intergalactic food delivery company struggle to meet a deadline for a thanksgiving delivery.

"Bad to the Bone"

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[edit] this was for "broken limbs" I'm utterly slow.


The story of a tree doctor who falls in love with a client...and that client happens to be confined to a wheel chair.

After getting to know the client, the tree Dr. realizes that his work is being sabotaged; equipment stolen, broken, or bad rumors spread about his ability to dr. trees.

Finally, through some investigating, he discovers that the saboteure is this client with whom he is in love. When he confronts her, she reveals that she is confined to a wheel chair because SHE was a tree Dr. and fell to her doom while on the job. She just didn't want the same thing to happen to him.

Yeah. That was really dumb! This is fun! [Smile]


Ok, we'll put Boris' old title on to continue the flow: "Bad to the Bone"

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

I think that about covers it.

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A secret military cover up agency does well.

"Slap Happy"

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A young man discovers his school is having a slapping contest. The person who can take the most slaps to the face wins free school lunches for the rest of his day. The story outlines his rigorous training.

"It Could Be Worse."

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A young man discovers that he's little sisters freind does not have cooties, and in fact, is slightly atractive.


"Boy Scouts Gone Wild* (keep it clean)

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A group of young boy scouts discover that one of their merit badge leaders has a laptop computer. They steal the computer, but fail to leave the leaders tent. The leader walks in on them as they are looking at pictures of naked women. He beats them severly and forces them to live in trees. Thus, they have gone wild.

"I Can't Believe Its Not A Novel!"

[ May 30, 2005, 06:19 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]

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An ex-butter substitute marketing executive is recruited to help with the marketing of a new collection of short stories and spends hours attempting to come up with a title.

"Raising Cane"

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A former millionaire who lost all of his money satisfying his wife's opium addiction buys woodworking machinery with the last of his money. He starts a store selling decorative walking canes, the store becames a chain and then corporation. The story shows his fall from wealth and his rise back to it.

"Ragtime Murder"

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A woman is found strangled to death in her apartment. The murder weapon is a section of crazy quilt that she had been making. It's up to the owner of The Rag Shop - the victim's favorite craft shop - to solve the mystery.

(disclosure: The Rag Shop is a real store, I just don't know where, and an online acquaintance does write murder mystery novels along these general lines. So I'm not being very creative... LOL)


Next: "Floating Dragon"

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A brilliant young hacker who calls himself Floating Dragon falls in love with a girl and decides to "hack" a romance with her. After leading (and following) her through the Orient in a breathtaking series of maneuvers, he finally discovers that compatibility just can't be programmed.

Next: "The Grand Unified Theory"

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A miser has the brilliant idea to gather pennies until he has unified a thousand dollars.

"Roll Over Beethoven"

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The sadistic sequel in which the St. Bernard trains the family to do humilating tricks and sells them to the circus.

Next: "If it's not Butter, what on Earth is it?"

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A stunning sci-fi novel where margarine is discovered to actually be the spawn of aliens.

"Pie Another Day"

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[DIGRESSION] This thread reminds me of the game "Balderdash." Has anyone played it? It's really fun, and it has a very similar idea. [/DIGRESSION]
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A baker's son commits his life to finding the man that pushed his Pop over.

"Take Two, They're Small"

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The beloved story of a family of twelve trying to decide how many children to take with them in the Pinto.

"Meatloaf"

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The heart-warming story of a poor but loving family that grows closer as they overcome financial difficulties. Based on a children's book by Beverly Cleary.

"The Luxury of Polyester"

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A school based film on how polyester can change not only the way we wear clothes, but the world too.



"The cheese-capades"

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quote:
Next: "The Grand Unified Theory"
(afr, what brought this on? Are you reading Angels and Demons? Because I am and Dan Brown just mentioned that in the book.)

This story relates the life of a man who spent his whole life punching the holes in Swiss cheese. He decides to quit and find a new life writing Broadway musicals about cheese.

"Stuck in a Clown Shoe"

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[aside] No, that's been the working title of one of my own story concepts for a long time--long before I ever read anything by Dan Brown *coughhackcough*. Still working on the story. [/aside]
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The John Wayne Gacy story.

"Last Time Once More"

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A retired super heroe realizes that he must come back to defeat his arch enemy. Even though, he fondly remembers, the last time he beat the bad guy he screamed, "This is the Last Time!"

"Advice for Robots" ( [Razz] )

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Isaac Asimov returns from the dead to write one final story about the public reading of Dr. Susan Calvin's will.

"Bringing Home the Bacon"

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A mailman discovers that one of the houses he delivers mail to is home of a mass murderer who grinds people into bacon bits and feeds them to his mother's dog. (I'm in a morid mood.)

"Cow's Tongue is Gross!"

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The story of a 20 year old man who's friends trick him into eating a lengua taco while he helps a young immigrant family run their authentic Mexican food business. (AKA, what happened to one of my companions on my mission [Razz] )

"Breaking the Ice"

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A story of Boy Meets Girl while skating on a local pond in April.

"New Age Rhymes with Sewage"

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A successful lawyer burns out. Realizing that he really loves teaching and getting back to nature, he buys a house and large tract of land, consisting mostly of meadowlands. He opens a preschool, teaching children to love nature and work with their hands early in life. A typical day would consist of tie-dyeing tshirts in the morning, and planting small clumps of oak seedlings in the afternoon. Name of show:

"Dye young and leave a pretty copse."

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The adventures of a Hollywood sanitation engineer.

"Boredom in the Boardroom"

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Donald Trump narrates his last days on The Apprentice. He realizes that he is going to get fired. And he finally understands, he always looked really bored.

"Correcting Your Face"

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A cartoon animator discovers that he has the ability to control the way his friends look by drawing the way they look, then animating a transition to what he thinks they should look like.

"Breaking the Habit"

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The story of a nun who constantly hits her head on the door frame.

"The Jet Stream"

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A serial killer starts murdering people in jacoozies by holding their heads in the jet stream till they dround. Now its up to detective, Scott P. Derfunkle, to solve the crime.


"Whats that got to do with anything?"

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Two internet addicts with the screen names "got" and "anything" fall into cahoots and try to commit online organized crime. anything hits his head on his monitor accidentally and gets amnesia and the story then follows got as he tries to coach anything through the rest of the crime and get him safely back to real life, all the while getting more and more frustrated at anything and everything anything does.

"One Cool Dude and A Camel"

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The story of a surfer and his lumpy board.

"To the Moon, Alice!"

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A new sci-fi version of the classic "Alice in Wonderland."

"Show Me the Money"

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A currency expert discovers that Alan Greenspan is the notorious forgerer whose prowess has dictated the value of the U.S. dollar for decades.


"Goober Takes a Holiday"

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The story of two peanuts and their heartwarming journey through the northern extremes.


"How Sleepy I Am"

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Yoda details a 20,000 year sleep strike during which time he discovers the meaning of life and the location of his lost ear muffs.

"Tucan Sam Sings The Blues"

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Upon discovering that his fruit loops were no longer rainbow colored, Toucan Sam wrote a swingin' tune bemoaning the loss of his colorful life.


"X marks the spot where pillows lie in wait"

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The story of a man named Pillow X, who sells pillows on the side of the street.

"The Institute: Recounting the Tale of Frank Warshock"

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The story of a writer, Frank Warshock, institutionalized for his obsession with word counts.

"Silicon Valley"

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The story of a dot-com millionaire and his new waitressing job.

"The Grand Adventure of the Snrelenphoplox"

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Snrelenphoplox, a small green chicken, leaves his farm in the land of Gralentoponx to find his long lost parents.

"Pedestrian Polo"

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A weekly "how to" series focusing on how to cope with road rage.

"Gray's Matter"

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Dr Stephen Gray discovers a way to form objects using just his mind. Whackiness ensues.

"Boarderline Psychotic"

(this game is fun)

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A Canadian detective is called to solve a series of murders that took place on the U.S./Canadian border.

“Compact Parking Only”

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