World's Longest Mad Lib Online at Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

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World's Longest Mad Lib Online at Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
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Call me Ishmael. Or Marsha Brady. Or, maybe, Mr. Potato Head. Using the literary classic Moby Dick, nearly 200 writers registered for the upcoming University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop (www.HumorWriters.org) have created the world's longest "Mad Lib®" at MadLib.HumorWriters.org. A Mad Lib is a story with blank spaces where words have been left out. The leader asks the other players to provide words to fill in the blanks but doesn’t tell them what the story is about. The result is humorous story with lines such as, “Call me Mr. Potato Head.” Mad Libs is a registered trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. “I think Herman Melville would approve of using Moby Dick as the base for the world’s longest Mad Lib,” said Tim Bete, director of the workshop. “After all, Melville wrote, ‘A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.’” (More...)
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