“How does that happen?” said Mr. Gruenfeld, the morning’s newspaper in hand. “How do they catch someone with 2,300 rare turtles for the illegal pet trade when they’re coming into the country? Don’t you think someone would notice when they were leaving wherever they came from?”
Republic of San Martin, two days earlier
“Excuse me, sir,” said one of the Sanmartinese airport guards. “Your cargo pants seem to be…moving.”
“Oh, that’s just my medical condition. I have something that clears it right up.” The guy proffered a roll of colorful Sanmartinese currency.
“I feel better already,” said the guard. “Have a nice flight.”
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May 13, 2013 at 4:10 pm
On an unrelated note, I had total form failure and only received your first few answers to the Mad Lib challenge!!! Could you do me a huge favor and leave your answers in a comment instead? Much obliged and sorry for the inconvenience.
May 13, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Ahh, I didn’t write any of them down 😦 Tell me what the ones you have were and I’ll try to reconstruct the rest.
May 13, 2013 at 4:21 pm
GRRRR. This is what happens when you try something new. Apparently, there is a limit to the number of fields even though they let you add as many as you want. 😐
This is what I got:
GERUND (verb ending in -ing): rearming
NOUN: dragonfruit
ADJECTIVE: juicy
ADVERB (adjective ending in -ly): assassinatingly
PERSON’S NAME: Murgatroyd
PAST TENSE VERB: demilitarized
PERSON’S NAME 2: Ruddygore
VERB: crash
PLURAL NOUN: mecha-ants
PASSIVE VERB CONSTRUCTION (e.g. “to be” or “to learn”): to boldly go
PAST TENSE VERB ending in -ed: plummeted
May 13, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I’ll get right on it 🙂
May 13, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Sorry. I suppose I should have tested it before I posted it. 😦