I pity the fool

May 20, 2003

“So you think you can write a bet­ter A-Team episode than those crazy writ­ers did, do you? Well, let’s start the process with some baby steps.” It’s an A-Team Mad Lib, sucka.

Speak­ing of Madlibs, the other day I pur­chased a 3-pack from the store. I didn’t even know that they were still being made. Madlibs were a fun past­time that I can remem­ber shar­ing with my cousins and fam­ily. Although, I remem­ber the urgency to com­plete the ‘lib cou­pled with the con­fu­sion as to what an adjec­tive was. “What’s an adjec­tive?”, they would exclaim. “A describ­ing word, you fool.”

Even I remem­ber what an adjec­tive is to this day, but just in case, there is a ref­er­ence chart in the book that explains the def­i­n­i­tions of verbs, nouns, plural nouns, etc. When I was in grade school (or ele­men­tary) I remem­ber learn­ing about ‘plural nouns’ for the first time. The noun was ‘rat’ and to teach us what a plural was, the teacher sim­ply added an ‘s’ on the end of the word. We were amazed how sim­plis­tic that was. I won­dered while sit­ting in my desk if I spoke in plural for the rest of my life, would it throw peo­ple off? Imag­ine walk­ing up to some­one and ask­ing them how they’re doing, they look at you puz­zled and reply, “I’m going okay todays. Doesn’t the Statue of Lib­er­ties look grand today?”

Yeah, sure buddy. Where’s the bus stop to your world? Point me in the right direction.

Click here for the A-Team slash Mad Lib experiment.

*Mr. T says, “I pity the fool who doesn’t click that link!” 

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