Count As High As You Can...Before "The Man" Stops You. [03]

[VSMIT]

Yeah, but that was difficult sometimes.

13.

[Mao]

14.  That was half the fun.  It's fun writing a story.

[VSMIT]

16.  But only when you knew where the story was going.  Writing something new on the spot is rather difficult.

[Aisha deCabre]

17.  Well, there's been one-word-at-a-time stories created, and those went crazy.  But this was the first time I've actually seen a serious few-words-at-a-time story going on.  oO

[Mao]

18. I liked the one with the few words at a time the most.  It was just fun to see where folks would take it.

[VSMIT]

19.  Because you'd take it in one direction and they'd blast it off to a whole new one?

[Jairus]

20. Exactly. Though to me, that was kind of the fun... you write a sentence thinking "okay, here's where it goes from here" and then someone does something unexpected.

[VSMIT]

21.  But not unexpected like the Spanish Inquisition.  Because that would be silly.

[Jairus]

22. Well, to be blunt, by this point everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition. The problem with really good humor is that everyone starts copying it, and eventually it just becomes a cultural meme, and you start to forget that once upon a time it was original and new.

[VSMIT]

23.  Well, jokes about the inquisition were always funny.  Especially when the inquisition does a song and dance routine.

[Jairus]

23. Oh indeed. "Making light of the persecution of Jews in the Spanish Inquisition, bad. Doing so in a long and elaborate big-budget Hollywood song-and-dance number with a water torture scene envisioned as an aquatic ballet, funny."

[VSMIT]

25.  Of course.  As long as you include the Jews in the music, I don't think they'll get as indignant at you.  Especially since the guy who wrote it is Jewish.

[Jairus]

26. Well, I think that Mel Brooks is the only one who could get away with it, really. Apparently, and I'm quoting the TV Tropes Wiki here, "In an interview for 60 Minutes, he stated that his life's goal was to reduce Hitler to a figure of such ridiculousness that no one would ever take his ideas seriously again." Presumably, this could include all racism, in which case I have nothing but support for the man.

[Darkdragon]

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[llearch n'n'daCorna]

0.

I'm in favour of the story idea, myself.

Hey, it kept you lot entertained and busy for days... ;-]

[VSMIT]

1.  Yeah, only because you didn't show your face in here.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

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What can I say, I was on holiday.

[Mao]

1. It was a sunny day, much like every other.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Not here, it's not. It's raining.

[Mao]

1. It was a still and quiet day.

[VSMIT]

2. A family was walking through a park,

[Aisha deCabre]

3. With their three dogs in tow.  Suddenly...

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

... llearch posted. ;-]

[Aisha deCabre]

1.  ...Or not.

[Darkdragon]

2.
"It is done, my master."
"Excellent. We will start at once - blood will be spilt tonight."

[Aisha deCabre]

3.  ((Should we start a new story?  I'm thinking that not everyone knows how to continue that one. x3))

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Let me assist. ;-]

[Aisha deCabre]

Why thank yew, box. x3

What, nobody wants to start?  Very well.

1.  The sun beamed brightly on the beach, and...

[Darkdragon]

2. the waves come peacefully into the beach with a hypnotic frequency.

[e_voyager]

3) an the groups of people gather at the wayside under it's spell