# 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:** ![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:** [March 24, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1142 "2019-03-24T18:06:53Z")

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started getting seriously weird.

We were all surprised when my grandmother’s head…

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**Author:** ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1143 "2019-03-24T21:58:14Z")

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…stopped swiveling, as we were certain that the exorcism had failed!

So we all sat down to Christmas dinner, when…

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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:** [March 24, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1144 "2019-03-24T22:07:26Z")

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The neighborhood creep knocked and\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

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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:** [March 25, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1145 "2019-03-25T08:34:48Z")

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… asked for a Three Musketeers, and a ball point pen, one of those combs there, a pint of Old Harper, a couple of flashlight batteries and some beef jerky.

Needless to say, we …

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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:** [March 25, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1146 "2019-03-25T09:06:57Z")

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Shooed him away.  
Because I really wanted to keep\_\_\_\_.

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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:** [March 25, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1147 "2019-03-25T17:03:52Z")

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that beef jerky, even though I noticed a few mold spots and what looked like some yak fur stuck to it.

Yak fur, surprisingly enough, is…

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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:** [March 25, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1148 "2019-03-25T22:15:23Z")

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… rather tasty.

The problem comes in harvesting it, when …

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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:** [March 26, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1149 "2019-03-26T15:41:11Z")

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…forget your dart gun.

Dart guns, by the way, also come in handy when…

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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:** [March 27, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1150 "2019-03-27T04:13:55Z")

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… competing in the dart tournaments that ESPN shows when they have nothing else to show.

The strangest thing that ESPN ever showed, though, was …

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**Author:** ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1151 "2019-03-27T23:47:29Z")

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…the 2005 record-setting 43-Man Squamish World Championship match held in Stanstanistan City, Stanstanistan.

The most thrilling moment…

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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:** [March 28, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1152 "2019-03-28T00:00:14Z")

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Came when squash was thrown in protest.

They were protesting the\_\_\_\_\_\_.

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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:** [March 28, 2019, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1153 "2019-03-28T06:37:47Z")

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… foul called on the field by the umpire, who (as anybody who knows the rules knows) has no power after play begins.

But 43-Man Squamish has nothing on Calvinball, where …

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**Author:** ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1154 "2019-03-28T12:50:15Z")

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…the outcome was pre-destined.

Nevertheless,…

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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:** [March 28, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1155 "2019-03-28T21:54:22Z")

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… it was fun to play anyway.

And if you played it in the rain, then …

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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:** [March 28, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1156 "2019-03-28T22:23:10Z")

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Mud wrestling was fun afterwards.  
I just put on a white shirt when\_\_\_\_\_\_.

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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:** [March 28, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1157 "2019-03-28T23:06:52Z")

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… I play in the snow, because it makes me harder to see.

But now that summer is coming …

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**Author:** ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1158 "2019-03-29T10:30:42Z")

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…I bought a ticket to attend the sunrise matinee on June 21 of “Sumer Is Icumen In (Lhude Sing Cuccu)”, annual production of the Blawnox Crop Circle Choir, led by noted Medievalist Orson Bean.

But little did I realize,…

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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:** [March 31, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1159 "2019-03-31T08:17:34Z")

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… that Bean wouldn’t be able to make it, and that Arnold Schwartzeneggar would be taking his place.

When we got to the part where the cuckoo sings, Schwartzeneggar …

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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:** [March 31, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1160 "2019-03-31T08:36:36Z")

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Burped out a little tune.

He was loudly\_\_\_\_.

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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:** [March 31, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/1161 "2019-03-31T22:59:52Z")

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… applauded for his performance.

He simply smiled and said …

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