From jmrobins @ condor.sccs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 19:12:28 1999 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:54:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Snibor Eoj To: _swat.org.swil <_swat.org.swil @ cc.swarthmore.edu> Subject: Adjective, please, or SWILnews Libs #4 Please choose words fitting the following categories. Then fill them into the SWILnews below for a fun and exciting time! (adjective) (animal) (verb) (rock band) (adverb) (noun) (item on Potato Bar) (noun) (adjective) (blunt object) (co-president) (town in CA with population below 50,000) (participle, preferably "scampering") (body part) (name of Fred Bush) (piece of furniture) (famous person) (adverb) (adjective) (name of cohort) (six letter word for apotheosis ending in 'z') (adverb) (adjective) (superhero) (verb) (evil adjective) (plural noun) (gender-specific possessive pronoun) (yet another body part) (obsequious form of address) (noun) (small insect) (foodstuff not to be found in Sharples) (sidekick) (murder method) (noun) (verb) (adjective) (noun) (participle) (preposition) (indefinite article) (smooth surface) (proposition) (exclamation) (White-boy) (adverb) (verb) (region of the damned) (high-tech piece of transportation equipment) (freshling) (verb) (surface on which that equipment travels) (vehicle part) (adverb) (verb) (Fred) (adverb) (Baltic State) (co-president) (doomsday) (adverb) (letter) (vegetable) (former co-president now living on Parrish 3rd West) (poor, innocent, bewildered freshling) (Roman numeral) (another Roman numeral) (Baltic state, indiscernable from the one above) (noun) (part of a house) (item of commerce) (toy) (Russian for "yes") (animal beloved of Scotsmen) (noun, and be outrageous with this one!) (derogatory term) (Russian for "Prepare to die, capitalist pig!") (adjective) (adjective) (character from a movie) (adverb) (punctuation mark) (3rd World nation) (unit of time) (trashy talk show) (type of political leader) (your name) (n, 0 < n < 20) (revolutionary slogan) (body part) (vegetable) (sanitorium) (your name) (underworld crime organization) And now, the ones you won't actually use, but will be fun to think of anyway: (nicer body part) (style of hat) (Monty Python-esque exclamation of joy) (small South African rodent or politician) (Goddess who caused the Trojan War) (Fred) (tawdry sex scene) (Capitol of Nairobi) (amount of wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood) (Capital Letter of Russian) (verb) (No, a better one.) (We mean it. A cool verb.) (C'mon, please? It can't be that hard to think of a cool verb...) (That's not a verb!) (Much better.) It was a dark and (adjective) night. The (animal) was (verb)ing along the road, humming a (rock band) tune to itself when it suddenly sensed something was wrong. It (adverb) turned around, and then it saw the (noun) coming up the road towards it. It turned to flee, but tripped over a (item on Potato Bar). Before it had a chance to pick itself up, the (same noun as before) was upon it. A (adjective) scream split the night, like a (blunt object) through butter. (Oops. That should've read "sharp object" -(co-president)) We know switch to a different scene. The place: (town in California with population below 50,000) The time: The hour of (participle, preferably Scampering) The (body part): swollen (Name of Fred Bush) was sitting at a (piece of furniture). The (famous person) abduction was going (adverb). He (adjective) grumbled to his trusty cohort, (name of trusty cohort). "(Six letter word for apotheosis ending in 'z')!" he exclaimed (adverb). "We've tried everything, but that (adjective) (superhero) keeps (verb)ing my (evil adjective) (plural noun)!" (Trusty Cohort) knodded (gender-specific possessive pronoun) (another body part). "I know what you mean, (obsequious form of address). He sticks to your (noun) like a (small insect) to (foodstuff too good to be found in Sharples). And that annoying (sidekick), I could just (murder method) her!" Suddenly, (noun) (verb) a (adjective) (noun) (participle) (preposition) (indefinite article) (smooth surface). "(Proposition)!" it cried. "(Exclamation)!" responded (White-boy, as above). "(adverb), cohort! Let's (verb) the (region of the damned) out of here!" As they fled in the (high-tech piece of transportation equipment), they came across (freshling) standing (verb)ing by the side of the (surface upon which the high-tech piece of equipment travels). "What a large (vehicle part) your (same piece of high-tech equipment) has!", she said (adverb). "The better to (verb) you with," said (Fred). "(adverb)! Get in the (same high-tech piece of equipment)! We must hurry to (Baltic State) (Not to be confused with Baltic Ave. -(co-president)), where we purchase our weapons to bring about (doomsday)." "(doomsday)?!" she exclaimed (adverb). "I thought that was spelled with a (letter). Do you mean (vegetable)?" (Former co-president who lives on Parrish 3rd West), bored of this conversation, drove off and left (poor, innocent, bewildered freshling) all by herself. Act (Roman Numeral), Scene (Roman numeral): (Baltic State, indiscernable from the one above) The vehicle: (same high-tech piece of equipment) Weapons of mass (noun) lay scattered all over the (part of a house), like weapons scattered about a (same part of house). (You know who, by now) walks in carrying a briefcase of (item of commerce). "Do you have the (toy)?" asked (him again). "(Russian word meaning "yes"), comradeski. Do you have the (animal beloved to Scotsmen)?" "No. I have something better. A (noun, and be outrageous with this one)." "Do you take me for a (derogatory term)?!?!? (Russian for "Prepare to die, capitalist pig!")" Suddenly, to speed this (adjective) story along, in came the great (adjective) agent, (character from a movie). "I'll handle this!" (he/she/it) stated (adverb)(punctutation mark) (Guess whose name goes here) took the weapons and ran to (Third World Nation). Two (unit of time) later, he was a guest on (trashy talk show), discussing his life as a (type of political leader). Suddenly, (your name), who had been waiting in the audience for (n, 0 < n < 20) days, stood up, shouted "(revolutionary slogan)!" and shot him in the (body part). He never recovered, and lived out his days as a (vegetable) in (sanitorium). Authorities have not yet found (your name), but they will. Soon. So you'd better get some protection from the (underworld crime organization). You're gonna need it. SWILbusiness: Movies happen. Coming up are ones that already happened because this SWILnews is late. A coup failed. We continue to reign. Bwahahaha! We have decided to adopt the tiny Alpine town of WilderSWIL. JimMosk will be providing further details at some unspecified time in the future. PhilCon approaches fast. If you wanna go, talk to Melissa. If you wanna stay in the hotel overnight, talk to Kira. (If you wanna.... -name of copresident censored) It's now official, by vote: SWIL's official game is the meta-game, dithering. One sentience proof today, and it's a doozy: Ben Newman: Ben, like Joel, is capable of climbing walls. Ben, unlike Joel, chooses not to climb walls. Ben manages to convince Fred to climb walls in his place. Figure the rest out, 'cuz it didn't get written down. Non-SWILbusiness: Jim... is... from... the... national... slow... talkers... of... America. SWIL held its first Clean up the Crum project. This will occur again in the future. We need to create a verbal equivalent of Wink. Any ideas? If you don't know about the mailing lists (fun, chit-chat, rounds, silly) ask one of your trusty co-presidents. Heather looks really fabulous today Healthy List (9/27): Anna "I'm not really healthy, but I'm definitely not sick, so can I sign the edge of the paper?" Hess Ben Newman Tim "Your mother wears suspenders" Handley Lindsay "...but it's a long, hard road outta Hell." Herron Fred "terror that quacks in the night " Bush Jimmy Kong Jim "Wen speling beecums simplifide, evrywon wil no how to spel" Moskowitz Catherine "My mind comes up to the gutter to feed" Osborne chaos "col. mustard in the drawing room with the dining room" golubitsky Andrea "Just tired, not sick, although less tired" Hall David Phillips ~.5 Sarah "Sick is a state of mind" Bergstrom Sick List (9/27): Kira "and twisted, too" Goetschius Kyla "I'm almost better... I swear" Tornheim Jessica "I must be sick if I'm cheering" Harbour David Phillips ~(other .5) Otavia "choke, hack, cough" Propper -- Abort, Retry, Ignore