Saturday, April 01, 2006

DIRTY MAD LIBS, ANYONE?



Mad Libs have been around for over fifty years and chances are, if you weren’t raised in a cave on a deserted and still unmapped Pacific island, you’ve played Mad Libs at least once as a kid. The object of the game is simple enough: players are to replace selected blank words in stories, designated by either their parts of speech (adjective, noun, adverb, verb) or sometimes by more specific instructions (girl in the room, part of body, exclamation, etc.). Once the (usually in)appropriate words are plugged in, the story is then read aloud to a soundtrack of laughter.

While a regular game of Mad Libs is silly and fun, you haven’t lived until you’ve participated in a game of Dirty Mad Libs. Dirty Mad Libs is sophomoric humor (is there really a better kind of FUNny?) at its finest.

I could provide you guys with a few examples but wouldn’t want to offend the delicate sensibilities of some readers. So, all of you non-killjoys out there, pick up a Mad Lib from your bookstore or go to
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html to play Dirty Mad Libs online.

If it doesn’t make you laugh, you’re dead inside.

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