If you are, like me, of a *ahem* certain age, you're almost surely familiar with that old road-trip pastime, the Mad Lib. For those unfamiliar, here's how it goes: you are given a list of particular types of words (nouns, verbs, etc), and you must fill them in with whatever comes to mind. Having done that, those words are then plugged into pre-determined spots in a block of text which you had no knowledge of beforehand. This is then shared with others, hilarity ensuing. Here's an example:

I ask for a noun, and you say, "mattress".

The sentence I was looking at read like this: Please drive the (noun) to town.

You have now inadvertently made the sentence, "Please drive the mattress to town".

See! Hilarity!

Since this offseason is becoming one long, boring road-trip to WallyWorld, without the added benefit/detriment of Chevy Chase doing the driving, what I'm proposing is that we do our own Mad Lib to get us through this winter darkness. Below is a list of words for you to fill in.

Once you've done that, plug your chosen words into the text after the jump, then post your text in the comments for all to see! Like I said: Hi-lar-i-ous!

Enough, then. Here are your words:

Verb
Past Tense Verb
Noun
Noun
Noun
Plural Noun
Verb
Past Tense Verb

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