# Write a story, one sentence at a time!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131>\
**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\
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**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 28, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/481 "2007-03-28T04:27:54Z")

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The sentient beer, having heard the voice, paused in its oozing towards the door.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/482 "2007-03-28T04:35:52Z")

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“Why?” thought the beer as it pondered having been brought to sentience without its consent.

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**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 28, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/483 "2007-03-28T13:34:01Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
to which Wu replied, “What?”  
[/QUOTE]

“Who, Watt?” asked the Rabbi.

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**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 28, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/484 "2007-03-28T16:48:23Z")

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A sensuous pale ale oozed toward the sentient beer, burbling, “Hey, good-looking, want to go out?”

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**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 28, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/485 "2007-03-28T17:58:26Z")

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“Mmmm, you look cold and wet,” said the beer appreciatively.

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**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 28, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/486 "2007-03-28T19:02:23Z")

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“No, I’m not Watt, I’m Wu”

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**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 28, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/487 "2007-03-28T20:12:57Z")

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“I know, I know,” said the bartender, Tony Xiang, rolling his eyes as he polished a highball glass.

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/488 "2007-03-28T20:17:19Z")

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Rabbi Levai suddenly and furiously started making a transmutation circle on the ground while muttering under his breath about something called “the law of equivocal exchange”

“I hope this works or we’ll all be turned into motza” he declared, wiping the sweat from his yamulkah.

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**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 28, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/489 "2007-03-28T20:23:01Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
“No, I’m not Watt, I’m Wu”  
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“Yes, I want to talk to Wu.”

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**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 28, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/490 "2007-03-28T20:23:20Z")

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Xiang and Wu, oblivious to what was going on in Israel, watched as the two pools of alcoholic beverage began courting.

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**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 28, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/491 "2007-03-28T20:47:57Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
“Yes, I want to talk to Wu.”  
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“Why?”

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**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 29, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/492 "2007-03-29T00:01:30Z")

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The pale ale quivered when her shy amber tendril trickled into the sentient beer’s leading edge.

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**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 29, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/493 "2007-03-29T00:18:01Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
“Why?”  
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“Never mind, I forgot already.”

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/494 "2007-03-29T00:28:56Z")

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“Dave’s not here, man.”

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**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 29, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/495 "2007-03-29T01:32:54Z")

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“Wu’s Dave?”

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/496 "2007-03-29T02:04:36Z")

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“No, Watt’s Dave.”

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**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 29, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/497 "2007-03-29T02:29:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Xiang and Wu, oblivious to what was going on in Israel, watched as the two pools of alcoholic beverage began courting.  
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[Secret Squirrel,](http://victoria.tc.ca/~jomt/secret_squirrel.JPG) alerted by Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai in Philadelphia, shiska or no, having disguised himself as a beer garden mural, prepared to arrest Goyisch Squirrel’s beverage minyans. Minions.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/498 "2007-03-29T02:43:52Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
[Secret Squirrel,](http://victoria.tc.ca/~jomt/secret_squirrel.JPG) alerted by Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai in Philadelphia, shiska or no, having disguised himself as a beer garden mural, prepared to arrest Goyisch Squirrel’s beverage minyans. Minions.  
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Meanwhile, the scanitly clad serving wench brought out a big plate of mini onions.

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**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 29, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/499 "2007-03-29T03:46:32Z")

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Being a rodent, [Secret Squirrel](http://www.dayorama.com/archives/secret_squirrel.jpg) calmly chided the comely serving wench (say that fast three times) and put the cuffs on the beer, “You’re under arrest, Lager!”

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**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 29, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/500 "2007-03-29T14:49:40Z")

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The beer, being Chinese, didn’t understand the Squirrel and simply flowed out of the cuffs.

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