# Let's tell a story four words at a time (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 2, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-1/711587 "2015-02-02T09:12:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 381
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To honour its achievement, ---
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a monument shaped like ---
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a three-headed beaver ---
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was erected, incongruously, on ---
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Danny Bonaduce’s front lawn. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-1/711587/7607 "2024-07-16T13:23:44Z")
A partridge in a ---
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pear tree. However, he ---
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hated pears and often ---
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smashed them in pairs ---
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mostly to impress his ---
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au pairs, Eugenie and ---
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The emperor Napoleon, then ---
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the three of them ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-1/711587/7615 "2024-07-17T04:38:49Z")
left immediately for Prague. ---
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Having gathered his troops, ---
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Napoleon broke the news: ---
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“I left my heart” ---
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[assume second quote is gone] with Josephine in the ---
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the old latrine near ---
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