# 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:** 22
**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 22, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/421 "2007-03-22T01:12:46Z")
Sneaking up on the giant squid from behind under cover of the Rabbi’s good natured grumbling, Elijah suddenly realized that his [treif trap](http://www.aquariumguys.com/fishbowl.html) had been discontinued, “Oye ist meir!” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/422 "2007-03-22T12:11:43Z")
Joshie looked up at Elijah innocently and asked “what happened to the ‘vey’?” ---
**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 22, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/423 "2007-03-22T12:28:13Z")
["Shush,](http://home.hiwaay.net/~ajohns/retro/RadioStars/LA27.jpg) already, can’t you see I’m sneaking here?" whispered the Prophet. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/424 "2007-03-22T12:30:07Z")
Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai of Prague and the Golem whispered to each other, pointed at Elijah, and giggled. ---
**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 22, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/425 "2007-03-22T12:57:41Z")
“Fine, Mister Smart Guy, _ **you** _ catch him,” Elijah smacked his discontinued [Treif Trap](http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~kmp/sejal/pics/030103%20100.jpg) onto Joshie’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/426 "2007-03-22T13:27:22Z")
Suddenly, the ground trembled. ---
**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 22, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/427 "2007-03-22T13:31:28Z")
… and Al Gore burst through the door, his Oscar statuette in hand. ---
**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 22, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/428 "2007-03-22T13:39:16Z")
“Ooooh,” squealed Joshie, “[Vote](http://www.twainquotes.com/vote.gif) early and often!” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/429 "2007-03-23T02:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] “Fine, Mister Smart Guy, _ **you** _ catch him,” Elijah smacked his discontinued [Treif Trap](http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~kmp/sejal/pics/030103%20100.jpg) onto Joshie’s head. [/QUOTE] “I’m a space man! I’m a space man!” Joshie ran around in unabashed 5 year old glee. ---
**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 23, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/430 "2007-03-23T06:10:50Z")
[Mama Squid](http://www.bigthings.ca/newfound/pictures/squid1.jpg), in a fit of pique at being ignored, ententacled up the running five-year-old and whipped him into her gaping beak, which quickly macerated him into a tasty gobbet of steak tartare which she slurped up with noisy delight. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/431 "2007-03-23T09:23:21Z")
“I. Have. Had. Enough. Of. You!” Sadie seethed as she picked up the Squid and threw her out the 20th story window into the gaping abyss that exists between the tightly packed apartment buildings of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ---
**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 23, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/432 "2007-03-23T12:14:22Z")
Using Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai of Prague’s [tallit](http://www.religionfacts.com/judaism/images/objects/tallit-hanger-sm.jpg) as a parachute, the Golem leapt from the window and pulled the treif trap from the bowels of the giant cephalopod, rescuing the frightened but unhurt child. This is Cafe Society; we don’t eat small children here! 🙂 ---
**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 23, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/433 "2007-03-23T14:02:45Z")
The giant squid’s tentacles shot out in a blur, grabbing the fire escape at several points and snapping it to a halt before it angrily lurched towards the Golem and child. ---
**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 23, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/434 "2007-03-23T14:24:03Z")
Flinging the child in the Treif Trap to Sadie, the Golem wrestled with the giant squid, and, locked arm in arm, er, tentacle in arm, they rolled off Reichenbach [Falls](http://static.flickr.com/38/83768569_f8553493a5.jpg) to their [death.](http://www.uk-ch.org/activities/picts/sherlock.jpg) ---
**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 23, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/435 "2007-03-23T17:24:47Z")
“I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack,” Mama Squidnocketta called as she clambered up the rocky walls of the Falls, smug in the knowledge that if a mere human like Sherlock Holmes could survive such a fall, then she, as a waterborn(e) being, would find it a breeze. ---
**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 23, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/436 "2007-03-23T18:35:11Z")
“Sheisse” muttered the Rabbi, took the German [88](http://historylink101.com/ww2_color/WorldWarIIArtillery/PICT0691.html) from atop his Mitzvah Tank and blew her through the Empire State building, wondering all the while, “Where the hell _are_ we, New York, Haifa, Switzerland?” ---
**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 23, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/437 "2007-03-23T19:14:18Z")
“I wondered that myself,” Dusty said, scratching his head and pulling out a world map. ---
**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 23, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/438 "2007-03-23T19:26:08Z")
“[These](http://flourish.org/upsidedownmap/hobodyer-large.jpg) were given away at Robert Zimmerman’s BarMitzvah,” explained Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai as he unrolled his own map, “I think we’re in Philadelphia.” ---
**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 23, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/439 "2007-03-23T20:09:55Z")
“Which way is up on this thing?”, Dusty said adressing the Rabbi. ---
**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 23, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/440 "2007-03-23T20:24:21Z")
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