[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
Here's an idea. There've been such sort of "fantasy story" threads on some forums where the first guy says "Once upon a time...", then the next one adds 3-4 words, then the next one and so on and so forth. In time, a completely incoherent and often hilarious never-ending story is compiled this way, every next commenter adding a few words to it and eventually it starting to look like the ramblings of a drunken maniac. :-)

So I thought... could we make a political story here? So here's how I imagine it:


- First guy starts the story with a 1-line statement. It could start with the usual "Once upon a time..." and it could be about any political person or event.
- Second guy adds the next 1-line addendum to the story.
- Etc, etc, etc. It's about politics (mostly) and it could take the narrative into all sorts of UNpossible directions. Fiction works that way, no?

So? Who's in? Let me just begin with the classic line, and may the next commenter add the next 1 line. But let's make it like a string of follow-up comments rather than many separate sub-threads! It means every next guy should comment below the previous one and not open a separate thread, because that'd be confusing. This way we would make it more coherent (like that's ever possible!?)
So...

Once upon a time, there was a...
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Date: 24/2/12 19:38 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
The sound of which is able to knock down entire fleets of predator drones,

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Date: 24/2/12 19:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luvdovz.livejournal.com
...cause mass miscarriage in one hundred killer whales,
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Date: 24/2/12 20:10 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
On learning about this dangerous plan, good old Lord Vetinari the paragon of Realpolitik smirked and said,

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Date: 24/2/12 20:15 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com
"It's time to see what is on TV!"
Edited Date: 24/2/12 20:15 (UTC)

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Date: 24/2/12 20:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luzribeiro.livejournal.com
And to his surprise, he saw a very famous presidential candidate in an intimate position with his chauffeur at the back-seat of his campaign bus.

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Date: 24/2/12 20:20 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com
And he let out a little kitty gasp!

*mew-Gasp*

And quickly changed the channel to.....

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Date: 24/2/12 20:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com
He decided, "Screw TV! Time to go outside and see what's going on." And lo, he found....

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Date: 24/2/12 21:05 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com
...thirty thousand occupiers occupying the stands at the Superbowl, munching chips & popcorn and waiting for the cheerleaders show and the subsequent 1-hour commercial break.

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Date: 24/2/12 21:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luzribeiro.livejournal.com
But instead of boobies and butts, what they had to endure was a 50 minute speech by a Moon alien with a particularly large head who was running for President Of The Ultragalactic Sherriffate (POTUS).
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Date: 24/2/12 22:15 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luvdovz.livejournal.com
This effectively turned the last remaining brain cells in their skulls into one vast homogeneous mass of jelly.

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Date: 25/2/12 10:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com
And fired a ballistic rocket at Hollywood.

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Date: 25/2/12 18:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kardashev.livejournal.com
Who barely noticed because they're in the same city as Compton and Watts. Areas where the Crips and Bloods have far better ordnance than even the S.W.A.T. Team.

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