# 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:** 23
**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, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/441 "2007-03-23T22:11:28Z")
“Leave the map reading to some one else, Rabbi. You need to repair the Golem again” Elijah drew the Rabbi’s attention to the bottom of the falls where several large chunks of clay lay strewn. ---
**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, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/442 "2007-03-23T23:11:45Z")
"Maybe we are in [Australia,"](http://www.greenforce.org/destinations/australia/images/australia2_lg.jpg) suggested the Rabbi, “Look at those young ladies over there,” as Elijah took his chariot down to collect his terra cotta friend. ---
**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, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/443 "2007-03-23T23:31:41Z")
“Oh come on. Now, you’re just randomly naming places for which you’ve found cool photos” chided Sadie. ---
**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, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/444 "2007-03-23T23:45:09Z")
“Oye, a better picture from Australia **you** can find?” enquired the Rabbi. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/445 "2007-03-24T02:05:59Z")
“[Why,](http://gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/places-and-sights/_more2001/_more01/Australia-Queensland-Springbrook-National-Park-waterfall-tweaked-1-MB.jpg) [yes.](http://www.richard-seaman.com/Underwater/Australia/Cairns2003/Butterflyfish/Sampler/BlueBlotchButterflyfish.jpg) [Yes](http://www.holiday.ae/images/australia.jpg) [I](http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Mark-Cosslett/Innovation-Blue-Mountains-Australia-Print-C10076937.jpeg) [can](http://www.totaltravel.com.au/photos/wildway/tour-australian-outback.jpg).” stated just about everyone else in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/446 "2007-03-24T02:08:02Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] “[Why,](http://gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/places-and-sights/_more2001/_more01/Australia-Queensland-Springbrook-National-Park-waterfall-tweaked-1-MB.jpg) [yes.](http://www.richard-seaman.com/Underwater/Australia/Cairns2003/Butterflyfish/Sampler/BlueBlotchButterflyfish.jpg) [Yes](http://www.holiday.ae/images/australia.jpg) [I](http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Mark-Cosslett/Innovation-Blue-Mountains-Australia-Print-C10076937.jpeg) [can](http://www.totaltravel.com.au/photos/wildway/tour-australian-outback.jpg).” stated just about everyone else in the room. [/QUOTE] “Hey, I know that fish, we used to have drinks together,” said a passing kangaroo conversationally. ---
**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 24, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/447 "2007-03-24T02:13:16Z")
“We _must_ be in Australia, only they would carry bicycles up a mountain,” said the Rabbi, “I was really hoping we were in Philadelphia, shiksa or not.” ---
**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 24, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/448 "2007-03-24T20:07:35Z")
A duckbill platypus, swimming along a nearby creek, had nothing to say. ---
**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 24, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/449 "2007-03-24T23:14:32Z")
A passing roo, hearing the rabbi’s lament, pulled a small but well-formed shiksa from its pouch and hopped away. ---
**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 24, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/450 "2007-03-24T23:20:02Z")
Rabbi realized that a picture of a shiska would get him in as much trouble as his Australia pic, and began the task of repairing the Golem as Said kept Joshie away from the shiska, “Think of your Mother!” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/451 "2007-03-25T01:58:45Z")
To which the [shiksa](http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14866) replied as she sidled up to Joshie “My mother always told me to marry them young and train them right.” ---
**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 25, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/452 "2007-03-25T02:00:47Z")
Joshie said, “Wow, what’s Uma Thurman doing Down Under?” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/453 "2007-03-25T02:03:16Z")
Lefty, Bucky, and the partially repaired Golem simultaneously said “I’d like to see her down under…me!” and high-fived each other ---
**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 25, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/454 "2007-03-25T02:37:03Z")
“Oye,” muttered the Rabbi, approaching the Golem with a Phillips screwdriver, "That’s the last time I install a used [positronic brain."](http://www.new-trekcommand.de/img/div/positronic.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 26, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/455 "2007-03-26T15:18:29Z")
The beautiful starlet asked thoughtfully, “Say, that Golem isn’t bound by the Asimovian Three Laws, is he?” ---
**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 26, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/456 "2007-03-26T17:06:17Z")
“Rabbi Israel Ben Carwreck,” began Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai with a distressing amount of enthusiasim, “holds that a Golem is not a person, and as such is not bound by any mitzvote save ‘thou shalt not commit murder’,” as the Jewish persons persent look upwards, realizing that this [Talmudic](http://www.forumuniversitaire.com/images/talmud-Big.jpg) exercise was going to take a _very_ long time, Sadie going so far as to tap her watch to observe the second hand and mutter, “You had to ask”,“but Rabbi Shlomo Ben Harrassment writes that being created by a person, the intent is create…” ---
**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 26, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/457 "2007-03-26T17:39:31Z")
“That was a single sentence?” Joshie muttered wonderingly to his Teddy Ruxpin, which nodded. ---
**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 26, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/458 "2007-03-26T19:23:20Z")
“…but Rabbi Elezear Ben Malcontent did reply that the intent of creation has no bearing on the results of creation, and it should be considered that…” ---
**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 26, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/459 "2007-03-26T19:34:36Z")
The Shin Bet squad leader raised his HK submachine gun and snarled, “Shaddup, Rabbi, or I’m gonna ventilate ya!” ---
**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 26, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/460 "2007-03-26T19:50:15Z")
Sadie slapped the Squad Leader with her purse, “Your \*\*_Mother_ \*\*knows you talk this way to a _ **Rabbi** _?” she inquired with decades of experience at inflicting guilt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131.md?page=24)