# Finish my sentence, and start a new one!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [June 30, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050 "2018-06-30T16:06:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/742 "2018-09-10T22:47:39Z")

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… my VIP pass, so I didn’t get to hobnob with any celebrities.

However, the night turned out pretty well, because …

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/743 "2018-09-11T03:34:13Z")

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I found a chicken, whom I will name Cackles. Yes, I will.

Colonel Sanders called to say\_\_\_\_.

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/744 "2018-09-11T03:48:14Z")

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"I must have your precious Cackles! He is the chosen one foretold…

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/745 "2018-09-11T04:08:29Z")

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by that weird Jedi prophecy that no one’s ever heard of."

I don’t know about you, but I usually ignore what Col. Sanders tells me because, frankly, \_\_\_\_\_\_

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/746 "2018-09-11T04:35:02Z")

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… he’s now dead, so if I hear him, he’s only a voice in my head, and I ignore those.

On the other hand, when Ronald McDonald tells me …

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/747 "2018-09-11T04:37:21Z")

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…to murder my family, I listen.

He’s only asked me do that…

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/748 "2018-09-11T06:48:28Z")

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The one time. It was a Tuesday in the deep winter of January. A cold, cold time to be In cold blood.  
My blood type tells the doctor\_\_\_\_\_.

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**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/749 "2018-09-11T17:34:35Z")

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that i am a Romulan.

Speaking of things that are green…

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/750 "2018-09-11T20:27:00Z")

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… that was the color of somebody behind me on the roller coaster some years ago.

Thankfully, the ride ended before …

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/751 "2018-09-12T21:20:45Z")

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She had a chance to tell her life story.

I don’t go on carnival rides anymore, after\_\_\_\_\_.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/752 "2018-09-12T23:06:32Z")

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… suffering through the Merry-Go-Round incident of 2005.

What a mess; there were …

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/753 "2018-09-12T23:21:25Z")

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…flaming toddlers running everywhere.

The smell was…

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**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/754 "2018-09-12T23:21:43Z")

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painted horses strewn through the air.

Meanwhile, the calliope played…

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/755 "2018-09-13T02:42:47Z")

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… “If I Should Fall from Grace with God,” which didn’t seem appropriate for a children’s party.

However, things got _really_ inappropriate when the party clown …

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/756 "2018-09-13T02:50:28Z")

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Dropped his nose in the pudding. ( You thought I was gonna say pants, you did, didn’t you?)

It was fished out with great\_\_\_\_\_.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/757 "2018-09-13T03:33:20Z")

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> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> …flaming toddlers running everywhere.

> [@Patx2](#):
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> painted horses strewn through the air.

You folks should be in the Rhyming Couplets game thread–nicely done!

> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Dropped his nose in the pudding. ( You thought I was gonna say pants, you did, didn’t you?)
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> It was fished out with great\_\_\_\_\_.

trepidation, because it was not a fake clown nose.

The doctor said that …

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**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/758 "2018-09-17T05:15:31Z")

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…she’d never seen a transplant from a proboscis monkey before.

The clown said his new nose came in handy ……

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/759 "2018-09-17T05:41:54Z")

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… when he did his Jimmy Durante and Karl Malden impressions.

The impressions were big hits with today’s oldsters, but the younger audience …

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/760 "2018-09-17T06:08:53Z")

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Begged for the end of the show.

The cake was\_\_\_\_\_\_.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/761 "2018-09-17T06:31:16Z")

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… decorated with an American Express card, in honor of Karl Malden.

It was a festive and pleasant evening until …

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