the "taken out of context, it makes a lot less sense" game

The object of this game is to find something you wrote before today (you’re on your honor, obviously) and pull a line or two- up to a paragraph say- out of context and post it. It could be from a fiction or non-fiction story, just something that has an actual plot or point. It would be more challenging if you didn’t post lines from something you’re written in an SD thread, but that’s up to you.

Pick a couple of letters that identify you to label your post with, so people can follow along. (I’ll use EK for Elfkin, for example). If you think that you’d like to post more than one bit, please number them as well so we can keep track of them. [sub] this is like the movie/book line games’ labeling systems if you’ve played those [/sub]

Allow five people to guess what it’s about before revealing the truth- please repost the line(s) with the explaination as to how it fits your piece of writing.

No one has to wait until any are resolved to post theirs. It would be sort of nice to have lots for people to guess at at once while posting new ones, actually. Oh, you can guess more often than you post lines, as well, or else we’d end up with a huge amount of lines to guess :smiley:

To sum it up (because even I’m getting confused):
First:
a. try to guess what others posters stories are really about based on their out of context quote and/or:
b. post your own labeled lines from something you’ve written.

Then:
c. allow people to guess until either five have guessed, or someone guesses correctly.
d. after the guesses, repost your line and explain how it makes sense in context.

To start I’ll post the lines that gave me the idea for this game in the first place. Ready to give this a whirl?

EK1: Noel gave the puppy an unhappy look. He seemed disappointed that there were no midgets.

I’m really hoping this is a perv story about Christmas.

Really.

EK1: A birthday party?

RC1: Be careful with the donuts.

RC2: Arrrrrrr. ARRRR! Arrr, ARRR ARRRRRRRR!

MON1: 2. Act pitiful: As you will see, this technique can be used in many different endeavors. Although it may seem degrading, its definitely worth it.

For some reason, MON1 sounds like it comes from a How-To book for dogs. Or young children who want a flamethrower for a birthday present.

[sub]I’m thinking of Calvin practicing in the mirror.[/sub]

RC1: Advice for guys about to goof off in an icy parking lot?

RC2: An elocution lesson?

Oh, I get the label thingy now. Call my post NCB1

You do go out of your way to make sure we all understand your username, doncha?

:wink:

NCB1: Is it, perhaps, a Harry Potter parody?
Or not.

LC2: Excited about the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie?

Er, RC2, that is.

Is RC1 a story about villians who use explosives formed out of pastries?

Is RC2 a pirate doing a Santa impression?

Is MON1 bad advice for “nice guys”?

Is NCB1 a magical recipe gone awry?

EK2: Oh sure, at first there will be a huge increase in accidental deaths, what with people mixing drugs and alcohol alone, but the results will be worth it.

off and this is mm1

I’ll give you a hint for NCB1…

It was Christmas day and I was having “bread” problems.

Here another to help this along:

NCB2 Or, partially deflate it, photograph it, and e-mail the results to my freinds, complaining about how hot it is here.

OS1: “Mrs. Kennedy, sorry to bother you, but do you know what John did with our envelope of eyes?”

NCB2: Inflatable tanks?

RC2 is indeed a pirate. He’s telling a story.
RC1 is advice from one character in a story I wrote, to another character, about a third character who was known to kill a fourth character with a poisoned donut.

Yes! ;j

Egad, I don’t believe I remembered your post from that thread. Weird. Eerie.