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The Greatest Story Ever Told   (+19, -8)  [vote for, against]
An interactive web site where users add to a story one word at a time.

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_20fiction
Like this and the associated links. [angel, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

magnetic poetry http://www.magpo.com
literary fridge magnets [mihali, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

For [DrBob] http://www.parliame...mons/lib/almsad.htm
Clwyd, Ann; Cynon Valley; Lab [angel, Aug 02 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Time to bake http://story.mauldeth.eu.org
I 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/551929
Its 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.com
For 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:Wikistory
Same 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


pectorals

Indeed, 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


parroted

Yes, 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


Bela

She'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



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