# Let's tell a story four words at a time (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 19, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289 "2025-08-19T21:31:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/721 "2026-04-30T19:48:05Z")
proclaimed the judge, melifluously. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/722 "2026-04-30T20:15:28Z")
(Make sure to work with the punctuation in preceding posts, sportsfans!) Wonka’s lawyers assured him ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/723 "2026-04-30T20:19:07Z")
that for enough money ---
**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:** [April 30, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/724 "2026-04-30T20:20:32Z")
, they could get the ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/725 "2026-04-30T20:35:25Z")
Punctuation Laws revoked, and ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/726 "2026-04-30T21:05:09Z")
reduce his sentence to ---
**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:** [April 30, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/727 "2026-04-30T22:36:15Z")
consuming 1,764,562,999 Everlasting Gobstoppers, ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/728 "2026-05-01T09:28:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Make sure to work with the punctuation in preceding posts ? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/729 "2026-05-01T13:41:51Z")
Post 720 ended with a period and close-quotes. Post 721 continued the same sentence. In play: but Wonka would have ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/730 "2026-05-01T13:48:42Z")
loosed his Oompaloompas on ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/731 "2026-05-01T15:01:54Z")
the court, were it ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/732 "2026-05-01T17:02:45Z")
not for the awful ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/733 "2026-05-01T18:26:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Post 720 ended with a period and close-quotes. Post 721 continued the same sentence. No, it didn’t. The full sequence :- At his trial, however,the Oompa Loompa jury condemned him to incarmelization. “I hereby sentence you to 3,765,876 Doopity Do’s, And a hard-boiled egg.” proclaimed the judge, melifluously. I rest my case. In Play: fact that they were ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/734 "2026-05-01T19:48:58Z")
very naughty eggs indeed, ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/735 "2026-05-01T19:59:59Z")
If that were so, shouldn’t “Proclaimed” be capitalized? Seems a sentence fragment, in any event. In play: as _The Blawnox Babbler_ ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/736 "2026-05-01T21:50:39Z")
was famously sued about. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/737 "2026-05-01T22:48:59Z")
Wonka was libeled as ---
**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:** [May 2, 2026, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/738 "2026-05-02T03:35:49Z")
"an oddball foreign confectioner ---
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with a fetish for ---
**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:** [May 2, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/740 "2026-05-02T11:58:46Z")
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