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Fantastic word game

The person in question might say whatever is instructed, before editing, which means that we take a moment to have a hearty laugh as we once again parse through wheelbarrows full of hooey.
 
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Parse through wheelbarrows full of hooey, you say? Not in this lifetime. I'd rather conjugate a hogshead of balderdash.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. Now I have this and the Song Name Game to rob me of productive time.
 
A whole heap of trouble awaits us whenever we neglect the cat treats, resulting in our bags being packed and waiting outside the door when we arrive home.
 
When we arrive home, the first place I will go will be the refrigerator, where four bottles of what used to be a six-pack of Sam Adams Summer Ale await my parched gullet.
 
My parched gullet envied the hummingbirds, which had plenty to drink, while I had to brew a fresh gallon of iced tea, to which I added raspberry juice after steeping the raspberries for a few minutes.

CTListener, perhaps instead of seeing it as a theft of time, consider the possible inspiration to write instead of just editing. Someone once made a lot of money from my words, while others helped to disguise it by various means. Then they all went away one day, their efforts came to naught and I still have the real life.
 
For a few minutes, I shall now review the rules of our little game for CTListener's benefit because he has already broken the One-Sentence Rule.

Rules of the Fantastic Word Game (TFWG as most everyone except Miss Silkie prefers):
-All contributions must be one sentence and one sentence only. We will accept a contribution in haiku form in honor of our late friend, Anyacat.
-Please begin your contribution with the full bolded ending clue from the previous contribution and please bold your new ending clue. If you are unable to bold, you may use CAPITAL LETTERS to indicate your clue.
-All dialogue should preferably be italicized or somehow differentiated from the game contribution.

TFWG Staff:

WMC: Game Czar
dmargalotti: International Director of Band Camp; Director of Early Morning Contributions
Miss Silkie: Head Librarian; Chief Mixologist; Director of Fun; Owner/Manager of Miss Silkie's Tasty Tidbits
quadraphonic (on sabattical but probably never ever coming back): Director of TPS Reports
LARR/LARadioRewind/RadioRewind: Director of Fun and Interesting Factoids
darth/darth vader: Director of Internet Technology (Radio Insight only)

Peanut Gallery: Kenny, scanman, crainbebo, CTListener, and whomever else decides to show up.

The Fantastic Word Game is a wholly owned subsidiary of PowerWorld LLC. TFWG, the FWG, tFWG, band camp, Megan, Olivia, TPS Reports, Illusions, the mechanical bull, bottled water, Miss Silkie's Tasty Tidbits, the lovely young library interns, topless driving and Dave & Kenny's 80's Rockfest are all intellectual property of PowerWorld LLC.

We welcome anyone and everyone who can write a well structured sentence. Come one, come all, stay awhile, and above all, take us with a grain of salt or two and have fun.
 
The One-Sentence Rule is very hard to follow for those of us who are very garrulous and verbose and we have to work around the rule by running all our sentences together in order to say everything we want to say in a single sentence, and not everyone at the FWG enjoys reading overly long sentences and I apologize for that and I hasten to explain that at least I'm adhering to the rule and nobody has a right to complain.

And...and... Hmmm. I know I had something else to say and now I've lost my train of thought.
 
A right to complain, in the Constitution, is implied in the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, but not in the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to bear arms, so if you want to drive home the validity of your complaint by pointing or firing a gun at the person with whom you have a beef, be aware that by doing so you could find yourself in deep doodoo.

A word game somewhat similar to this has been running on BBC radio for nearly half a century. It's called "Just a Minute," and features a panel of contestants, mainly British comedians, attempting to speak on a given subject for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition (except for common words like a, the, in, etc.) or deviation. It is nearly impossible to make it through a full minute and the overall result is hilarious. There's an Internet station that runs old shows 24/7. If you're curious, go to tunein.com and search for "Just a Minute radio." Oh, and the show's host, Nicholas Parsons, is 90 years old and has appeared on each of the hundreds of episodes dating back to the very first, in 1967! The latest episode aired on BBC Radio 4 just this past Monday!
 
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A big shovel is needed to scoop up all the words that don't actually make it into one of LARR's contributions.

They are sent for recycling. And speaking of recycling, I bet LARR has a fun and/or interesting factoid regarding recycling, don't you LARR. Hmm?
 
One of LARR's contributions appeared on the jumbotron during a ballgame; and people groaned and threw their concession products at the nearest screen.
 
The World Cup is growing in popularity here in the USA but if the organizers of the event want to make it as popular here as our version of football they should consider adding some young cheerleaders on the sidelines wearing skimpy outfits.
 
Young cheerleaders on the sidelines wearing skimpy outfits were very distracting to the two elderly gentleman at the park who were just trying to concentrate on their chess game.

Yes. Mister WMC, I have two Fun Factoids about recycling: In 1690 in Philadelphia, a mill was established on the Wissahickon Creek for the recycling of paper...and the first US city to mandate recycling was Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1981. Now you can recycle the words "chess game." ;)
 
"Chess game, da!" said Boris Spassky to Bobby Fischer in 1972, not realizing that, by agreeing to a match with his American rival, he was heading for a humiliating defeat.
 
Across the finish line we found a concession stand sponsored by none other than the 719,245 looky loos who have stopped by the FWG over the years.
 
The years have been kind to Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" but not to Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life," at least in the eyes of classic hits radio consultants.
 


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