Original "Mad Libs"



You remember playing "Mad Libs" as a child (or maybe you still do, or you still ARE a child), don't you? Of course you do! Those hilarious little stories that come in small books from Price/Stern/Sloan© and which you fill in the blanks with words WITHOUT knowing where those words are going! These Mad Libs bring back the same hilarity and then some. With some key differences:
1. They are sometimes MUCH longer.
2. They are more specific, and use terms that the normal Mad Libs usually don't. Explanations of some of the more exotic/confusing ones are listed below.
3. They have continuity.
4. And best of all, they are written by ordinary people like me and you, not some big company! If you'd like to see your OWN Mad Lib here, then just send it to me and I'll be happy to put it up here. Make sure you've read the submission guidelines first.

NOTE: I really, really, REALLY wanted to make these things interactive. I got a Javascript generic Mad-Lib program, studied it until my eyes almost fell out and my brain almost exploded, then tried as HARD AS I COULD to copy their technique with a story of my own, but no matter HOW hard I tried, I just couldn't make it work. To this day I have no clue what I was doing wrong. So these Mad Libs will have to be filled out in the following pain-in-the-butt way:
First, write down all the words it asks you for on a piece of paper.
Then when you get to the story part, just IMAGINE your words into the spaces between the parenthesees, in place of the "Noun"s, and "Adjective"s, and such. If you have a real computer with cut and paste and such, you may make a copy of the story and TYPE your words into the blanks, should you so desire. But it will be time-consuming and you'll have to do all the work yourself. I'm really sorry for this.

And now, on to the Mad Libs!



Chaos Theory's Mad Libs

I have been writing Mad Libs on all kinds of different subjects for years now, and have MANY of them. And now they're getting a permanent home on "Sandopolis". Enjoy!

Chaos Theory's 1st Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 2nd Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 3rd Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 4th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 5th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 6th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 7th Mad Lib--IMPORTANT: This is a sequel to #6, and it will be a lot less complicated and confusing if you fill out #6 first and write down what all your words were, so you can use them again in #7. Thank you.
Chaos Theory's 8th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's Mad Lib #9
Chaos Theory's 10th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 11th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 12th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 13th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 14th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 15th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 16th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 17th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 18th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 19th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 20th Mad Lib
Chaos Theory's 21st Mad Lib.

Other Peoples' Mad Libs:

None so far.



Glossary of Mad Lib Terms, in Order of Appearance:

ANIMAL: DUH. Try to NOT use things from the Sonic universe if you can, though. On the first and second Mad Libs, I mean.
YEAR: Like, ya know...1984...1673...1,000,000, ya know, a year-type kinda thingie.
NOUN: A person, place, or thing. And if you don't know THAT by now then what are you doing on this page, hmmn?
GEOMETRIC SHAPE: Circle, sphere, cube, pyramid, rectangle, etc.
ADJECTIVE: A describing word. Sticky, sweet, thick, hard, stupid, crazy, etc. And again, if you've done Mad Libs in the past enough to be interested in this page, then how can you POSSIBLY not know what one of these is by now?
DISTANCE: 3 miles, 45 inches, 623 light years, etc.
SUBSTANCE: Okay, this one's kinda hard to describe...a substance is anything that can be just....stuff. Not specific individual pieces, but a mass. It can be very similar to a Plural Noun but there are subtle differences, as follows:
Plural noun: spaghetti noodles.
Substance: spaghetti.
Plural Noun: droplets of water.
Substance: water.
See what I mean? A substance is stuff like grass, dirt, Jell-O, ice, oil, fire, air, vaccuum (as in space), soup, glue, etc.
COUNTRY: England, France, Japan, Germany, South Africa, etc.
AMOUNT OF TIME: 14 hours, 23 years, .0000000001 nanoseconds, etc.
PART OF THE BODY: Anything you like, internal or external, but if you DON'T keep it clean, you might seriously regret it. And it doesn't have to be human--wings, tails, antennae, claws, fangs, tentacles, scales, feathers, and more are acceptable too.
VERB: Something that you DO. Eat, breathe, grow, sleep, sing, run, fly, skip, punch, etc. are all verbs. And again, if you don't know what that means, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
ABSTRACT NOUN: This is another hard-to-describe one. An abstract noun is basically a CONCEPT--a thing that is talked about a lot in the form of a noun, but which you can't actually see, hear, feel, or touch. Things like freedom, slavery, justice, victory, revenge, love, happiness, order, chaos, sleep, anger, cowardice, and more are abstract nouns. It also includes emotions.
PERIOD OF TIME: This differs slightly from Amount of Time. An Amount of Time is very very specific: exactly "three hours" or "45 seconds" or whatever. A period of time is just a generic time-term, such as "hour" "year" "day", etc. If you were doing an AMOUNT of Time, you would say ONE hour, if it's a Period of Time, you say just "hour". The difference is slight, but it makes the sentence structure of the finished Mad Lib make more sense and read better.
ADJECTIVE ENDING IN "ER": Better, sleepier, sillier, happier, taller, etc.
PERSONALITY TRAIT: Optimistic, brave, bad-tempered, depressed, sneaky, dishonest, generous, jealous, etc.
REGION: A place. Like country names, state names, "the south", a different planet or something from another universe if you like, a town name, etc.
MATERIAL: Anything that anything is made out of. It differs from a "substance" in that many substances you DON'T usually make things out of.
TITLE: NOT the title of a television show, book, video game, etc. I mean as in a status-title. Like King, First Violin, Janitor, Temp, Mad Scientist, Head Cook and Bottle-Washer, etc.
ADVERB: It describes how you do something. Stupidly, crazily, hungrily, slowly, quickly, superbly, etc. And again--say it with me, everyone!--if you don't know what that is by now, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
MYTHICAL CREATURE: Cyclops, unicorn, dragon, phoenix, Elf, Gnome, Brownie, Leprechaun, Beholder, etc. Stuff like that.
PHYSICAL TRAIT: Strong, weak, tall, short, fat, thin, young, old, etc.
PRECIOUS MATERIAL: Like a Material, only something expensive and/or rare. Gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, etc.
EMOTION: Happy, sad, angry, scared, etc.

HISTORICAL ERA: The Days of Disco, the Old West, Ancient Rome, etc.
TYPE OF PERSON: Uh, this one's kinda vague and hard to explain--basically, it's stuff like "girl" "boy" "kid" "geezer" and any job you can think of--temp, President, shoemaker, car-repairman, etc. If you use this one for ethnic/religious/preference slurs, we'll find you and we'll kill you. Well, obviously not REALLY. But try to be nice when you do these, 'kay?
SOUND, PLURALISED: How the heck do you pluralise a sound, you may be wondering? Simple. Moos, beeps, squawks, thuds, meows, etc. Those are all pluralised sounds.
FEELING: This is not only emotions, but also physical sensations, such as itch, burning, sneeziness, sleep/sleepiness, hunger, etc. Please don't go X-rated with this one...
STATE OF BEING: Another complex one...a state of being could be an emotion, a physical feeling, or a state of health, such as "flu" or "hyperactivity". Basically ANY way that you can feel or any word that can be used to describe someone's state of health or mind would work here. It's a very large category and hard to describe.
FREQUENCY: This is NOT like a radio frequency; it's stuff such as "always", "never", "once in a blue moon", "twice a month", etc.
AMOUNT OF ENERGY, ANY TYPE: 250 Horsepower, 1.21 gigawatts, 32 calories, etc.



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1384 curious tourists have stopped by to do Mad Libs at Sandopolis since August 22, 1999. Of course, they all died of heatstroke, but hey...