How about a web site where users all around the world can create a story one word at a time. Users log on, and read the story. There would be a pool of words and the users cast a vote for which one should be the next one in the story. Every ten minutes or so, the votes are tallied and the next word is added to the story. After a certain amount of words or time, the old story is saved and archived, and a new story is started. [--August 1, 2001]
Half bakers have been kneeding the dough of this idea a bit by commenting on it one word at a time... As a result, the page is taking a long time to load, so I have started deleting some of the words, while keeping comments and recaps. If you're a first-time visitor to this idea, that is why it doesn't make a lot of sense. [--August 9, 2001]-- sdm, Aug 02 2001 On the toasty side. http://www.halfbake...ive_20web_20fictionLike this and the associated links. [angel, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004] magnetic poetry http://www.magpo.comliterary fridge magnets [mihali, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004] For [DrBob] http://www.parliame...mons/lib/almsad.htmClwyd, Ann; Cynon Valley; Lab [angel, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004] Time to bake http://story.mauldeth.eu.orgI liked this idea so much I just had to bake it. It's still in it's infancy, I'm still cooking it some more to make it more usable and less archaic. [Update] No longer online, it went a little off, I'll revive it somepoint in the future if people want. [Peej, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004] Epicureanism, for UB. http://www.xrefer.com/entry/551929Its central purpose was happiness: a mind free from disturbance and a body free from pain. [lewisgirl, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004] Useful reference http://www.dictionary.comFor when somebody gets a bit too wordy for my shrivelled little brain [babychaos, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004] Wikipedia: (Sandbox) Wikistory http://en.wikipedia...Wikipedia:WikistorySame game, roughly the same amount of sense. [jutta, Sep 14 2006] On this "interactive web site" you should be able to turn words in to links to take you to another storyline - ie click on "Joe" to take you to another storyline that starts with the word "Joe" - this way rather than saving one story and starting another there would be an ever-expanding number of stories with everything linking together, and you might find out why Joe was looking for his gear in the first place.-- Jim, Aug 02 2001, last modified Aug 09 2001 Isn't this called "Exquisite corpse"? Ah yes. The sky, the sky...The sky's gone out! It all comes flooding back.-- Nadir, Aug 03 2001 <recap> It was an elf that axonomically preferred eating custard with chopsticks. They denied circumventing firewalls, yet traction slipped before Joe found his gear. "How bizarre! Burning can destroy most EVERYTHING!" exclaimed Billy the centurion. "aaaarrrrrrgh!" bellowed Joe whilst rogering Billy's performing pectorals, "Stop sneezing gaskets, buy automotive lubricant." Plaster me stupid. Suddenly, Blimey! viscous liquid spewed and from everywhere sounds of flying squirrel offal exploding tape-worms rang throughout Tokyo. Roughly, Jim-Bob massaged a porcine bobby’s tea-set whilst discombobulating Maria von Trapp, the cellist's cupboard love. Rabid UnaBubba despises green eggs performing purple haze although leathery underwear tickles erotically. Coiling erotically around electric acorns and not manual frying, only Peter moaned. Spigot... "Architect sluggo aspidistra?" said beer slave of coconuts meandering aimlessly though flocks of quiet mimes. However, lightly twisting clairvoyant pigeon stoats exploded. Frigidly, Billy strained against Joe's mysterious sideburns. Poleaxed, choosing humbly not unexpectedly, yet bizarrely, Richard III threw up selected chewy bits scævola-style à la carte. Some people defenestrate woolly spud gloves, however Wilmanita's sister-in-law's sturgeon's wreck tachometer fiendishly extrapolated Pi. Rather, they fastidiously undermined cinco lupo outgrabe heretofore madness referred back to as frighteningly then Dwaine triumphantly triumphed. “By Jove!” Ejaculated Cholmondeley-Warner; “These dreams”, “Yes?” Cried Joe DiMaggio whilst frantically Marilyn showering/bathing attempted pumping tantric apparatus blithely, using mayonnaise. Unfortunately for Billy, Marguerita masticated lunch vulture-like but gracefully, adenoids devolved in a gherkin. “Mmmmm... aaaaaarrrrrrrgh... not bubble ‘n squeak?!” cried Walter’s nipple masseur provocatively, bacteria notwithstanding. Pumpkins without Halloween are woebegone pitiful plotlines. Theoretically, if humungous lizards mate, minotaurs masquerading witlessly as parsimonious fairydust will extrapolate melon-scented knickers. “Monkeys!”, elfin decapitation of elves caused dissension amongst Latvian elves’ collectives. Pumpkins worshipped thespians performing Billy’s Roman candelabra [sub-editorial control exercised here] opera silently, although semaphoric peeling skin machines tend to invade seductively. Meanwhile, elves were flaying wildly still waters, announced Billy. Eponymous or, suffice tachycardia gremlins showed. Mucilaginously, eolian aioli ails alienly,allegedly. Suddenly elves stor med the Parliament and defenestrated nn Clwyd. Impossibly, nobody cheered up. Meanwhile, malevolent synapses fired bananas maliciously. For Christmas, Joe comes home pectacularly wearing decreasing quantities of, deliberately, aubergine depleted thongs. Trafalgar Smith-Smith!" [double-barrelled name] exclaimed Marjorie 's hippopotamic simulator operator, grunted flatulently. Tangerine-toed trilobites terrorised Trafalgar, tantalisingly trepanning trespassers toasting tupperware. Hypochondriac hydrophobics hover hedonistically who. Tralfalgar mis-spelled witchery whilst whittling willow warblers. Elves College, Cambridge can't EGGPLANT [ill take that as part of the story] Immanuel Kant, piss ant recants pedants. Whosoever sellotaped thesauruses to my Tyrannosaurus's sore ass should flypast </recap>
If this were a puppy, I would have put it to sleep by now.-- sdm, Aug 13 2001 [Hey... be careful of typos when recapping. It makes no sense as it is. No reason to make it any more difficult. :) ]
taxidermy-- PotatoStew, Aug 13 2001 inexorably-- bristolz, Aug 13 2001 Poleaxe-- DrBob, Aug 14 2001 Trillobite-- PotatoStew, Aug 14 2001 pteranadons-- globaltourniquet, Aug 14 2001 microcosmic-- globaltourniquet, Aug 15 2001 omnibus-- PotatoStew, Aug 16 2001 The End.-- benfrost, Aug 16 2001 although-- PotatoStew, Aug 16 2001 Flimflam-- PotatoStew, Aug 16 2001 crybaby-- PotatoStew, Aug 16 2001 a-- PotatoStew, Aug 16 2001 sliced-- PotatoStew, Aug 16 2001 inexorably-- globaltourniquet, Aug 17 2001 yet-- PotatoStew, Aug 17 2001 extolled.-- PotatoStew, Aug 17 2001 and-- angel, Aug 17 2001 occasionally-- angel, Aug 17 2001 universally-- Viennoise, Aug 17 2001 They
["Tarantulas, however, water-ski because they can." That's a grand total of two sentences that actually make sense.]-- PotatoStew, Aug 17 2001 have-- PotatoStew, Aug 17 2001 supper-- lubbit, Aug 17 2001 -ing-- PotatoStew, Aug 17 2001 blasting-- globaltourniquet, Aug 18 2001 with-- Toreadorothy, Aug 18 2001 wild
[UnaBubba: I didn't say that it was grammatically correct, or even a true statement. All I meant was that if someone said it to me, I would understand what they were trying to communicate.]-- PotatoStew, Aug 18 2001 exaggeration-- lubbit, Aug 18 2001 vehemently,-- technobadger, Aug 18 2001 damn-- globaltourniquet, Aug 18 2001 nation-- PotatoStew, Aug 18 2001 Anfraxious-- lummox, Aug 18 2001 and-- PotatoStew, Aug 19 2001 Lascivious-- Viennoise, Aug 20 2001 innuendo (recap) It was an elf that axonomically preferred eating custard with chopsticks. They denied circumventing firewalls, yet traction slipped before Joe found his gear. "How bizarre! Burning can destroy most EVERYTHING!" exclaimed Billy the centurion. "aaaarrrrrrgh!" bellowed Joe whilst rogering Billy's performing pectorals, "Stop sneezing gaskets, buy automotive lubricant." Plaster me stupid. Suddenly, Blimey! viscous liquid spewed and from everywhere sounds of flying squirrel offal exploding tape-worms rang throughout Tokyo. Roughly, Jim-Bob massaged a porcine bobby’s tea-set whilst discombobulating Maria von Trapp, the cellist's cupboard love. Rabid UnaBubba despises green eggs performing purple haze although leathery underwear tickles erotically. Coiling erotically around electric acorns and not manual frying, only Peter moaned. Spigot... "Architect sluggo aspidistra?" said beer slave of coconuts meandering aimlessly though flocks of quiet mimes. However, lightly twisting clairvoyant pigeon stoats exploded. Frigidly, Billy strained against Joe's mysterious sideburns. Poleaxed, choosing humbly not unexpectedly, yet bizarrely, Richard III threw up selected chewy bits scævola-style à la carte. Some people defenestrate woolly spud gloves, however Wilmanita's sister-in-law's sturgeon's wreck tachometer fiendishly extrapolated Pi. Rather, they fastidiously undermined cinco lupo outgrabe heretofore madness referred back to as frighteningly then Dwaine triumphantly triumphed. “By Jove!” Ejaculated Cholmondeley-Warner; “These dreams”, “Yes?” Cried Joe DiMaggio whilst frantically Marilyn showering/bathing attempted pumping tantric apparatus blithely, using mayonnaise. Unfortunately for Billy, Marguerita masticated lunch vulture-like but gracefully, adenoids devolved in a gherkin. “Mmmmm... aaaaaarrrrrrrgh... not bubble ‘n squeak?!” cried Walter’s nipple masseur provocatively, bacteria notwithstanding. Pumpkins without Halloween are woebegone pitiful plotlines. Theoretically, if humungous lizards mate, minotaurs masquerading witlessly as parsimonious fairydust will extrapolate melon-scented knickers. “Monkeys!”, elfin decapitation of elves caused dissension amongst Latvian elves’ collectives. Pumpkins worshipped thespians performing Billy’s Roman candelabra [sub-editorial control exercised here] opera silently, although semaphoric peeling skin machines tend to invade seductively. Meanwhile, elves were flaying wildly still waters, announced Billy. Eponymous or, suffice tachycardia gremlins showed. Mucilaginously, eolian aioli ails alienly, allegedly. Suddenly elves stormed the Parliament and defenestrated Ann Clwyd. Impossibly, nobody cheered up. Meanwhile, malevolent synapses fired bananas maliciously. For Christmas, Joe comes home spectacularly wearing decreasing quantities of, deliberately, aubergine depleted thongs. Trafalgar Smith-Smith!" [double-barrelled name] exclaimed Marjorie 's hippopotamic simulator operator, grunted flatulently. Tangerine-toed trilobites terrorised Trafalgar, tantalisingly trepanning trespassers toasting tupperware. Hypochondriac hydrophobics hover hedonistically who. Tralfalgar mis-spelled witchery whilst whittling willow warblers. Elves College, Cambridge can't EGGPLANT [ill take that as part of the story] Immanuel Kant, piss ant recants pedants. Whosoever sellotaped thesauruses to my Tyrannosaurus's sore ass should flypast. Wherefore do-do shrinketh taxidermy inexorably, uxoriously Blimey! Chapter 2. Poleaxe Polecat, polevaulting Poland, exsanguinated exquisite exhibitionists exhibiting exceptional examples exhaustively. “Trigonometry triumphs!”, trilled Trilobite Trixie truculently. Ptolemy’s ptarmigan’s pteroform pteridophyte pteroclomorphised pteranodons pterribly. Nonetheless, microcosmic adaptors Napster’s nefarious, vicarious omnibus “The End Is Nigh” Oh good. lied Lionel Richie. Perdurability notwithstanding, Aloysius’s bean bomb blast permeated perpetuity quizzically. Alliteration always alludes, allegedly, although alligators’ alimony arose allegorically awry. Finally, fellating flautists felched Friar Flimflam Frottage fortuitously. “Turing! Turtles turbulently turbulently tumbling…”, cried crybaby. Meanwhile, underground, a halfbaked licorice gigantilaser sliced pizza turbulently, resulting inexorably scoreably yet extemporaneously extolled. Herrings often swim. Tarantulas, however, water-ski because they can. Flatulence notwithstanding, Sheep, goats, Norfolk and Somerset occasionally cupellate themselves then terminally. Dance(cupellate = vaporise) yellowbelly! Enough. sophistry can't replace lovers ' epicureanism. Epicureanism is really enjoyable. [see link] Flagellation misspelled Nervosa , and excessive twice universally but no-one speculated a Spanish Inquisition in Tierra Del Fuego , especially since Joe [bringing back in an old character...] & Billy inserted Inquisitors intricately intrasententially inanely. Flibbertigibbet! They would have been supper -ing quietly while (expression=true) blasting away Elves with wild exaggeration vehemently, damn nation came swiftly. Anfraxious antelope antlers are alliterating and astronomically avid. Terebinthinate turtles theantropically truncated. Lascivious lickspittles ingratiated ludicrous hydatiform monkey coprophiliacs. Menacingly, Joe 's ASCII (OK, if you insist) hamster died. Tintinnabulatory telephones roused Joe from his fitful cathexis. Emotionally, but verbosely prolix innuendo(Please delete previous annotaions.)-- angel, Aug 20 2001 [admin: This idea breaks every once in a while when a "delete" command for an annotation gets aborted halfway through. (Or maybe it's two overlapping appends -- not sure.) Since I'm not going to have time to fix this before a major upcoming rewrite, maybe it's time to move it to the sites written for the purpose?]-- jutta, Aug 27 2001 little-- thumbwax, Aug 27 2001 amongst-- lewisgirl, Aug 28 2001 shrimp-- angel, Aug 28 2001 cultivators.-- lewisgirl, Aug 28 2001 Reykjavik-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 is-- lewisgirl, Aug 28 2001 not-- stupop, Aug 28 2001 geographically-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 suited-- thumbwax, Aug 28 2001 , to-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 Nor-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 is-- Lemon, Aug 28 2001 The-- hippo, Aug 28 2001 platitudes-- stupop, Aug 28 2001 nodules-- angel, Aug 28 2001 flexibly;-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 fascias-- lewisgirl, Aug 28 2001 transubstantiated-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 elves-- hippo, Aug 28 2001 presley-- po, Aug 28 2001 into-- -alx, Aug 28 2001 Billy's [could it be we're heading towards a denouement here?]-- Lemon, Aug 29 2001 pectoralsIndeed, we have come full circle back to Billys pecs-- thumbwax, Aug 29 2001 . Trafalgar-- -alx, Aug 29 2001 root-- PotatoStew, Aug 29 2001 beer-- angel, Aug 30 2001 gushed-- The Military, Aug 30 2001 (man, that's the prettiest sentence I've seen yet)into-- thumbwax, Aug 30 2001 brooks.-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 enough(It was like the tennis elbow foot game that used to be on the radio.)-- angel, Aug 30 2001 , Archbishop-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 conjugated-- lewisgirl, Aug 30 2001 Latin-- angel, Aug 30 2001 verbs-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 Meanwhile-- babychaos, Aug 30 2001 , prams-- PotatoStew, Aug 30 2001 , Derringers(Next time [sdm] stops by, would he please delete his recap.)-- angel, Aug 30 2001 and-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 Joe-- babychaos, Aug 30 2001 Doofi (Doofuses just didn't look right.)-- lewisgirl, Aug 30 2001 dalmations-- babychaos, Aug 30 2001 magnetically.-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 ones-- angel, Aug 30 2001 parrot-- babychaos, Aug 30 2001 perch-- Lemon, Aug 30 2001 preys-- PotatoStew, Aug 30 2001 piously-- po, Aug 30 2001 upon-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 pretty-- po, Aug 30 2001 parrot-- PotatoStew, Aug 30 2001 perches.)-- -alx, Aug 30 2001 Praise-- PotatoStew, Aug 30 2001 Be!.-- babychaos, Aug 30 2001 Profound!-- Lemon, Aug 31 2001 parrotedYes, I noticed that UnaBubba, that was why I just had to comment on the beauty of it.-- thumbwax, Aug 31 2001 the-- babychaos, Aug 31 2001 parrot.-- -alx, Aug 31 2001 "Pie-- PotatoStew, Aug 31 2001 are-- -alx, Aug 31 2001 scared-- angel, Aug 31 2001 !" cried-- babychaos, Aug 31 2001 Persephone-- lewisgirl, Aug 31 2001 Telecom,-- -alx, Aug 31 2001 stroking-- babychaos, Aug 31 2001 egos-- keats27, Aug 31 2001 , eagles,
[Ha! "Pie are scared" ...Ha! I just got it. Good one.]-- PotatoStew, Aug 31 2001 and
[was pleased that angel picked up on the cue...wasn't sure anyone would]-- -alx, Aug 31 2001 beagles.-- PotatoStew, Aug 31 2001 right-- reensure, Aug 31 2001 spoon
(I just like that word)-- kaz, Aug 31 2001 Mplayer.com has an excellent game along these lines:
http://www.mplayer.com/cardgames/games/yarn/
(Note: it's not a "card game," as the url leads you to believe. Naughty url! Naughty!)-- jester, Sep 01 2001 (There is a link feature you may have missed in the excitement.)shaped-- thumbwax, Sep 01 2001 fork-- PotatoStew, Sep 01 2001 -like-- babychaos, Sep 02 2001 like-- po, Sep 02 2001 Illogically-- babychaos, Sep 03 2001 , magically-- lewisgirl, Sep 03 2001 , gingerly-- babychaos, Sep 03 2001 and-- Lemon, Sep 03 2001 anti-gravitationally,-- lewisgirl, Sep 03 2001 defiantly-- babychaos, Sep 03 2001 anxious-- DrBob, Sep 03 2001 [Oh my! (In true Professor Farnsworth style) Is this thing still alive? I would have thought everyone would have got bored of it by now. Especially seeing as it's actually been baked. Ah well]-- CoolerKing, Sep 03 2001 Violence [sorry, bad afternoon...]-- babychaos, Sep 03 2001 ensued.-- Lemon, Sep 03 2001 Violins-- PotatoStew, Sep 03 2001 exploded-- babychaos, Sep 03 2001 valance-- po, Sep 03 2001 existentialist-- lewisgirl, Sep 03 2001 valium-- po, Sep 03 2001 voted-- pussygalore, Sep 03 2001 nonviolence (Where is Moneypenny?)-- thumbwax, Sep 03 2001 shake-- lewisgirl, Sep 04 2001 it-all
[hmmm, I see a song arriving here]-- babychaos, Sep 04 2001 a-bout-- thumbwax, Sep 04 2001 time-- angel, Sep 04 2001 for-- st3f, Sep 04 2001 tea!-- lewisgirl, Sep 04 2001 Elsewhere-- The Military, Sep 04 2001 boogied-- thumbwax, Sep 04 2001 wearing-- lewisgirl, Sep 04 2001 underpants-- babychaos, Sep 04 2001 Emblazoned-- st3f, Sep 04 2001 on-- babychaos, Sep 04 2001 shepherds'-- lewisgirl, Sep 04 2001 was-- st3f, Sep 04 2001 thongfully-- lewisgirl, Sep 04 2001 without-- st3f, Sep 04 2001 overly-- babychaos, Sep 04 2001 Overdue,-- -alx, Sep 04 2001 over-worked,-- babychaos, Sep 04 2001 ovaries-- po, Sep 04 2001 of-- PotatoStew, Sep 04 2001 orangutans-- babychaos, Sep 04 2001 originally-- angel, Sep 05 2001 oscillated-- babychaos, Sep 05 2001 overtime-- thumbwax, Sep 05 2001 origami-- angel, Sep 05 2001 over-- babychaos, Sep 05 2001 orotund-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 officials.-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 Caprification
( UB..Mmmmmm.....that thought kinda lingers)-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 or emasculation-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 permitting,-- angel, Sep 05 2001 and sterilisation-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 asked-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 Mother.-- pussygalore, Sep 05 2001 goose-- po, Sep 05 2001 the-- hagfish, Sep 05 2001 Lugubrious, (this really is tired now isn't it. I may be deciding not to come back any more. Bye!)-- lewisgirl, Sep 06 2001 BelaShe'll-- thumbwax, Sep 06 2001 Lugosi... be back-- thumbwax, Sep 06 2001 . --------------------------- Epilogue: ----------------------------- Lemon, Sep 07 2001 quack-- Phaedrus, Sep 13 2006 Damn, I just posted something like this and someone brings this up. Bad luck.-- DesertFox, Sep 15 2006 Is this idea why one-word-at-a-time stories are banned from the 'bakery (or at least frowned upon), 'coz I remember reading something to that effect in the help file...-- froglet, Sep 15 2006 random, halfbakery