More than half-a-century ago, a very bright and witty man named Leonard Stern created a word game that came to be known as Mad Libs. (You can read about the history of the whole concept HERE.)

I am certain that many of you, or more likely most of you, have played the game at a party sometime during the course of your lives. For those of you that haven’t, the concept is pretty simple: You start with something like a passage from a book, the Preamble to the Constitution, a popular song, or even a page from an instructional manual, replace many of the key words with blanks and ask people to fill them in with appropriate parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.). The results range from the mildly humorous to the uproariously funny depending on the quality (or lack thereof) of the words given.

I have long had the idea of playing an online version of the game using a particularly unhinged rant from a liberal, but to do it right, one needs lots of participants. Well, now that I have an appropriately sized audience at my disposal to try this, why don’t we have a little fun?

The rules are simple. I am going to tell you what types of words I need and you are going to provide me with some quality words (i.e., more creative nouns than, say, “chair” or “table”). Since we need so many nouns, verbs and adjectives, everyone can start by offering me one each of those, then you may choose a word that fits one of the other needed categories.

Here’s the thing: KEEP IT CLEAN! Pretend you are at a party with your parents and various uncles and aunts and Grandma and the pastor from your church and the sweet old lady who lives next door. Sure, a little spice is nice, a little double entendre here and there is even encouraged, but the thing is, the liberal loon who wrote the source material filled it with more filth than you could pile in the back of a fleet of manure trucks, so we’re going to actually clean it up for them.

It’s a long rant, so we need plenty of words. But in order to give everybody a chance to play, I am going to ask each of you to please only submit a list of words once every half hour or so (and no fair hauling out a drawer full of sock puppets) and to limit your responses to 1 verb, 1 noun, 1 adjective and 1 “other” word per entry. I will try to be fair when filling the puzzle in and use the words in the order in which they are received provided they fit the proper mold. Please indicate what types of words you are giving me in parentheses next to the word.

***UPDATE (8:00 pm CDT, Sat Sept 5, 2009):***

The results post is now up! Enjoy!
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Crowder talks about the gay marriage controversy and double standards and pants-less leprechauns, you homophobe.

I forgot if I officially mentioned it, but I’m on vacation and stuff for like the rest of this week and next. I might have some small posts, but if you see any big posts from me that means Cadet Happy broke onto my blog again and is posting as me so don’t trust those posts. I’m warning you now because I’m going to be camping and out of communication so you’ll have to police yourselves. Anyway, I invited Mr. Right of America is an Obamanation to guest blog and then there is still Harvey and Basil who might actually be me posting under another name. In fact, if you don’t look at the authors’ names, you might not even realize I was gone.

Anyway, for something to do while I’m gone, my silly sister did the costume design for a web show for the WB directed by Jason Priestley called The Lake. I don’t know how big of an overlap there is between my audience and people who like teenage dramas, but I’m proud of my little sister as it’s the biggest profile project she’s done so far (other than her uncredited work for the miniature killer dolls on that one season of CSI).

Tailgating and a football game today (go BSU!). Be honorable, ronin.