# Write a sentence that has never been written before. **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 20, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109 "2015-11-20T20:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/1 "2015-11-20T20:32:43Z")
Write a sentence that has never been written or spoken by anyone ever. Sentence must be grammatical and intelligible (no gibberish) though of course it need not be true, logical or make all that much sense. Try to make it fun. To add a little challenge, incorporate a word from the previous poster in your sentence. I’ll begin: After spray painting all the traffic cones green, I went home and realized I had left my wallet under the dog the entire time. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/2 "2015-11-20T20:42:08Z")
“Ah, that’s the thing, Watson,” remarked Holmes, “the dog DID bark in the night; no use to us whatsoever.” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/3 "2015-11-20T20:44:08Z")
The night is when Pooh Bear did things for money that no one would ever know. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/4 "2015-11-20T20:47:54Z")
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes Goldilocks eats you. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/5 "2015-11-20T20:51:11Z")
> [@WF\_Tomba](#): > > Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes Goldilocks eats you. I tried to eat my foot quickly, before anyone saw I’d stuck it in my mouth. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/6 "2015-11-20T21:00:02Z")
Stop putting words in my mouth and I’ll stop leaving my Jim Nabors records all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/7 "2015-11-20T21:13:49Z")
As soon as the hogtied Dutchman in the trunk of my car finally stopped screaming, I knew I would have no choice but to order the tandoori. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/8 "2015-11-20T21:19:24Z")
By the time _The Dutchman’s Waltz_ had finished playing, my true love had found true lust in the arms of a large tortoise. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/9 "2015-11-20T21:26:39Z")
I tried Googling for ideas but found nothing. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/10 "2015-11-20T21:40:57Z")
Nothing gets my dander up more than listening to that neighbor of mine brag about his fifty boa constrictors. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/11 "2015-11-20T21:45:54Z")
Boa constrictors eat frogs and cows and shoes and watermelons and narrators of Shel Silverstein songs and chicken tikka masala, but not robots. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/12 "2015-11-20T21:49:48Z")
Since the shaft had to be fifty feet deep I figured I’d start digging in the basement to get a head start, but I hit a robot twenty feet down. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/13 "2015-11-20T22:08:16Z")
Try as he might, Smedley couldn’t figure out why eBay kept taking down the auction for his unique collection of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s toenail clippings. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/14 "2015-11-20T22:09:33Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I tried Googling for ideas but found nothing. [Gives two results](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22I+tried+Googling+for+ideas+but+found+nothing.%22&gbv=2&oq=%22I+tried+Googling+for+ideas+but+found+nothing.%22&gs_l=heirloom-hp.3...1201.3156.0.3364.6.3.1.2.0.0.189.530.0j3.3.0....0...1ac.1.34.heirloom-hp..6.0.0.Yaip-E0tWLw) (including this thread). 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/15 "2015-11-20T22:17:27Z")
Nice catch, **buddha\_david**. 🙂 Might we have one interval in this board meeting in which no one punches anybody else or defames their parentage? ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/16 "2015-11-20T23:18:53Z")
I may return later, but first I have to eat my dwarf figurine. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/17 "2015-11-20T23:29:50Z")
Surprisingly ‘Zugswang Magnetohydrodynamics’ is not a Googlewhack. zugswang is achess term; magnetohydrodynamics is the study of the magnetic properties of electrically conducting fluids; googlewhack is a two word Google search that returns precisely one answer. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/18 "2015-11-20T23:41:22Z")
No matter how many times he went over it in his head, Zugzwang Googlewhack simply couldn’t figure out why nobody had shown up for his 176th birthday party. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/19 "2015-11-21T00:06:46Z")
For her birthday dinner Ermentrude requested grilled zorse with lingonberry puree and sauce bearnaise. ---
**Author:** ![Highway68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Highway68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Highway68)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109/20 "2015-11-21T00:17:25Z")
The carpenter turned the tables and grilled the mephitic detective by peppering him with questions [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-sentence-that-has-never-been-written-before/738109.md?page=2)