{"id":645,"date":"2007-06-18T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:00:02","slug":"rth-mad-lib-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-mad-lib-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Mad Lib Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ring a bell?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Greetings, fellow RTHers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeing as how my last attempt to bring a little fun and games to the hallowed halls was such a dismal failure…I’m trying again!<\/p>\n

This time, I’m looking for a little creativity from you. Assisted creativity<\/strong>, that is. Following is a list of words and\/or phrases. Your job is to produce a brief writing sample using the stipulated number of words and\/or phrases, in all required categories. Format is unimportant — free verse, drama\/play, haiku, essay, satire, whatever — but you must use the required words as indicated below! As always, the “winner”<\/strong> — determined by our Moderator — receives a prize and a virtual raspberry from all assembled.<\/p>\n

I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n

Category A — Look (choose two)<\/strong>
\nWeatherbeaten leather jacket
\n“Aviator”-style sunglasses
\nChuck Taylors
\nDavid Lee Roth “full bug” cowboy boots
\nSteve Vai Hair
\nBill Cosby sweater
\nMr. Moderator’s coiffure
\nTom Petty’s teeth
\nKeef’s false teef
\nKneepads
\nY-front underpants
\nOne sparkly glove
\nWalter Becker’s beard
\nBob Seger’s grandpa glasses<\/p>\n

Category B — Music (choose up to two)<\/strong>
\nHip-hop
\nPower pop
\nDeath metal
\nClassic rock
\nDisco
\nOom-pah
\nPolka
\nField hollers<\/p>\n

Category C — Key Personalities (choose one or two)<\/strong>
\nBill Wyman
\nLou Reed
\nBilly Barty
\nSeth Dick III
\nSib Hashian
\nThe Prince Of Wales
\nAlex Van Halen
\nJoe Tex
\nJeff Lynne
\nJim Dandy
\nWaddy Wachtel
\nLee Sklar
\nRay Cooper
\nPaul McCartney
\nBob Seger<\/p>\n

Category D — Catch Phrases (choose no more than three)<\/strong>
\n“That’s gotta hurt!”
\n“Look at the size of that thing!”
\n“Shut up and scrape the bowl.”
\n“Ever since Nicholson won his Oscar, it’s been like this.”
\n“Does that thing have peanuts in it?”
\n“Now that’s what I call an ass-whuppin’!”
\n“I… I am filled with shame.”
\n“Ride ’em, cowboy!”
\n“Never mind all that. Have you seen Soul Plane<\/em> yet?”
\n“GOD, that stinks!”
\n“Matt Damon!”
\n“That’s what SHE said!”
\n“Like a rock!”<\/p>\n

Category E — Lyric Snippets (choose at least one)<\/strong>
\n“Come about hard, and join the young and often spring you gave”
\n“Mama say, mama sah, mama-ku-sah”
\n“I started a joke, which started the whole world laughing”
\n“My best friend, he shoots water rats and feeds hem to his geese”
\n“78 revolutions a minute, now!”
\n“There was nothing in my life bigger than beer”
\n“Juicy fruit… juicy!”
\n“Let me tell you how it will be”
\n“Wang dang, what a sweet poontang… she got a thang like a rang-a-dang-a-dang!”
\n“You keep scraping away”
\n“Her mommy was Mex’can, and her daddy was the ace of spades”
\n“Just get an electric guitar, and take some time, and learn how to play”<\/p>\n

Category F — Food (choose no more than two)<\/strong>
\nDr. Brown’s Celery Soda
\nZagnut
\nBurgers ‘n beer
\nOne hot<\/em><\/ins> kielbasa
\nJack Daniel’s
\nThe bearded clam
\nOne pinched loaf
\nChicken legs
\nDinty Moore Beef Stew
\nVienna sausages
\nMelons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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