The Mad Lib

OK, I have pretty much all the nouns, verbs, etc. that I need, and I’ll fill in where I need more with some of the words my students used in their own French mad libs (translated into English, of course, though it would be funny to use them straight from French as well). The following is the beginning of the Bible, aka Genesis. Ian and I decided to use this rather than a passage from another book because this passage is one of the most well-known (if not the most well-known) pieces in the world. Your words are underlines so you can tell where the text has been altered (as if you won’t already be able to tell). So here is your mad lib:

The First Book of Josie, called

GENESIS

In the car, Napoleon created the heaven and the penis.

And the earth was without form, and large; and the darkness was upon the face of the boat. And the House of God, went upon the face of the waters.

And God snorted, Let there be light: and there was an elbow.

And God saw the car, that it was haughty: and God consumed the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Tree, and the darkness he called Night. And the dingus and the morning were the fifth day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it be the waters from the plane.

And God made the road, and divided the waters which were from the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And Frederick called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the 153rd day.

And God said, Let the waters unto the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the blue Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was green.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth poison ivy, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding guitars after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb scratching seed after his kind, and the tree yielding stir fry, whose seed was in itself after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning hid the third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to play the day from the night; and let them be for oil, and for seasons, and for centuries, and milliseconds.

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the pond to pound light upon the earth: and it was so.

And God made two pernicious lights; the fatter light to rule the day, and the lesser pickle to absorb the night: he made the burns also.

And Bob set them in the firmament of the heaven to give cat food under the earth.

And to attack over the day and over the marzipan, and to divide the light from the cat: and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the twelfth day.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth aptly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great gerbils, and every living creature that moveth, which the papers brought forth queerly, after their kind, and every slippery fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and thwack the penises in the seas, and let ligers multiply in the earth.

And the evening and the mustache were the fifth day.

And God said, Let the computer scare forth the ribald creature after his kind, cats, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every sarcophagus that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and Michael Jackson saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make forests in our image, after our likeness: and let them have rings over the fish of the sea, and betwixt the fowl of the dwarves, and over the cattle, and by all the earth, and over every goldfish that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God slept he him; hair and female created he them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be somatic and fly, and replenish the cheese, and regenerate it: and have dominion over the cows of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God said, Mock, I have given you the couscous bearing geranium, which is without the face of all the earth, and every rape plant, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

And to every finger of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that dresses upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every prickly herb for chili: and it was so.

And God saw every goat that he had made, and behold, it was very dire. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Thus the women and all the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the 6,300th day Demosthenes ended his work which he had made; and he wanted at the home of the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh man, and lived it: because that in it he had rested from all his lions which God created and made.

Contributors: Dad, Miller, Lushbaugh, and my students.