Seasons

Prof --

Is it possible to make "meta" plug-ins like the one you described? That would be sort of awesome ... it would allow mad-libs of an unprecedented degree of variety.

In the mean-time, here are three more two-line poems:


No, I was only
kidding about the pelican.


Everything related to death is either ridiculous
or named Gary.


"Genius" is easy to say
if you don't have a lisp.

I love it! Have you ever played "Wise or Otherwise"? It's a board game kind of like Balderdash except you have to complete wise sayings from around the world. I often end up on the floor laughing. The sayings end up sounding a lot like your poems. It's a great game.

I'll make sure meta-plug-ins work if someone wants to build the random-news thing.

There's a game called Tabloid Teasers which works like Balderdash only you fill in the second half of a tabloid newspaper headline. My favorite one that someone made up was "UFO is a Fake, Says Elvis".

If you believe Weekly World News, Bill Clinton was in negotiations with an alien race. They had pictures... What I haven't figured out is why, now that the technology exists, they don't at least TRY to make the pics look real.

A headline generator would be great, although it'd be even nicer if you could do the same thing with haiku or stories or something. (Shouldn't be too hard to generate something like a TV Guide blurb for a movie, for instance.) It's ironic that I'll most likely be too lazy to use it myself though, considering I haven't even gotten around to including currently usable features yet.

isaacc - love the poems

Does anyone know of a "foldover story" type game online, where each person writes a couple of lines of text, but only the last 2 or 3 words are shown to the next user? I'd love to make one myself but I don't know crap about how to go about it. You could do the same thing with poems, only just let each user see the line before rather than the whole thing.

It's not just Clinton, Ulrike. Around election time, every president, and even some presidential candidates, negotiate with aliens. Why, I don't know, since the aliens can't vote.

Maybe the aliens have mind-control rays to force people to vote one way or the other, only now there are two rival factions of aliens vying for control and they're about equally matched which is why the past two elections have been so close and I really need to stop and gasp for breath about here. *gasps!*
(Disclaimer: chocolate)

You mean cathode ray tubes actually shoot alien mind control rays?

I was thinking more along the lines of things planted on the power lines, but cathode ray tubes work, too. Maybe that's why reality TV suddenly got so popular! There are subliminal alien messages on those shows!

On some of them, I'm not sure about the subliminal part.

To be honest, I've never watched them enough to decide. The first I heard about Survivor was when it appeared on the cover of Time as a "phenomenon sweeping the country." I looked at it and said, "Huh? What's Survivor?"

www.newzoid.com plays around with headlines