# Write a story, one sentence at a time! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131 "2007-02-21T20:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/381 "2007-03-19T13:37:22Z")
Stage Directions: Cue [Julius Fucik,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_music)_Entrance of the Gladiators._ “What did you say about my eyes?” Sadie asked the distracted Prime Minister. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/382 "2007-03-19T14:30:23Z")
“Um, your eyes…your eyes…oh yeah, your eyes…” he stammered, “are like firestorms on the surface of the sun…wait, no!” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/383 "2007-03-19T14:36:06Z")
Sadie jerked so hard on the trigger of the flamethrower that she lost her balance and began reeling and staggering, sending gouts of flame in every direction. ---
**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 19, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/384 "2007-03-19T14:43:23Z")
The Golem shrieked horribly and, in an instant, was melted into a massive, steaming puddle of formerly-enchanted clay. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/385 "2007-03-19T14:44:25Z")
The Fire Department arrived on the scene quickly, but wisely chose to wait until Sadie recovered her composure, or ran out of napalm; there were those who consuled both solutions to be appropiate. ---
**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 19, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/386 "2007-03-19T15:01:30Z")
“Hey, buddy, only I get to appoint consuls,” the Prime Minister warned. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/387 "2007-03-19T15:15:58Z")
Forgive the extra post, but we have hired a new Yiddish translator, Rabbi Ben Carwreck. What Sadie actually said was, “tee, hee, hee _sigh_. Tell me more about my eyes.” And the Golem, “Oye Gevalt!” -The Management ---
**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 19, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/388 "2007-03-19T15:53:54Z")
Sadie dropped the flamethrower from nerveless fingers and threw herself into the quickly-cooling pool of ex-Golem, sobbing, “What have I _done_?” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/389 "2007-03-19T15:59:33Z")
“Not to worry already!” Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai of Prague calmed the Bubie, (as he did quite often, not our bubie, but other bubies, but your author doth digress) shoveled the clay into his [Mitzvah Tank](http://www.answers.com/topic/mitzvah-tank) and began, well, doing whatever one does to re-create a Golem. ---
**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 19, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/390 "2007-03-19T16:02:08Z")
“You can’t do that!” said the Prime Minister crossly, er, Star-of-David-y. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/391 "2007-03-19T16:14:01Z")
“You want the support of the [Lekham party](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekhem) in the next election, or not?” grumbled the Rabbi from inside his Mitzvah Tank. Footnote: .04% in the last election. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/392 "2007-03-19T19:21:36Z")
Emanating from a window on the hill off in the distance you could hear the faint sound of a television… “I’ll take Jewish Politics for a $1000, Alex!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/393 "2007-03-19T19:29:41Z")
The back door of the Mitzvah Tank opened, and as the repaired Gloem stepped out, Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai of Prague gave the [Kohane Blessing.](http://www.thereminvox.com/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/phpG0D9vC.jpg) ---
**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 19, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/394 "2007-03-19T20:17:29Z")
The Rabbi stared, dumbstruck by the realization that he’d made a Gloem and not a Golem. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/395 "2007-03-19T20:25:43Z")
While the Rabbi considered the confusion of writing left to right, the Golem calmed [Sadie,](http://www.michaelchabon.com/images/golem.jpg) saying, “It was a perfectly normal mistake; hey, let me borrow your flamethrower for a minute.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/396 "2007-03-20T00:20:17Z")
“Gramma, Gramma!” little Joshie sat upright in his bed and called out to his mother’s mother “I had the most awfullest nightmare about you!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/397 "2007-03-20T00:40:23Z")
“It’s alright, Tchatzhkellah,” Bubie hugged her grandchild, “Bubie stays on the [Straight Dope](http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/transparent_laptop_1.jpg) too much; Go back to sleep,” and she closed her laptop and held the child while he slept. ---
**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 20, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/398 "2007-03-20T13:01:25Z")
There came a knock on the door. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/399 "2007-03-20T13:18:38Z")
“Beat it,” hissed the Golem as he warmed up his [1920’s Style Death Ray,](http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/images/060419_gort_lg.jpg) “the kid’s asleep!” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/400 "2007-03-20T13:34:38Z")
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