January 9, 2009

The Story Game

It's time to play The Story Game again. I just want you to have something entertaining to do if you swing by for a visit this weekend while I'm slaving away putting together a yacht club dinner. So play nice. Okay?

Here's how it works. I'll start a story. You continue it in comments. Each commenter picks up where the last left off. Next week I'll give it an ending and post our story with the links to everyone who participated under the heading, "Contributing Authors". You can play as many times as you want and the game will run all weekend. Thanks for playing along.

Here's the beginning of our new story: The new bartender was tall and handsome, but there was something very mysterious about him too...

54 Brilliant Opinions:

ettarose said...

many times I saw him watching her out of the corner of his eye as she bent over the fire.

Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

"What are you doing?" he asked. She appeared out of sorts. "My boyfriend left me and I'm debating jumping in the fire." The bartender sighed, "It's a fake fireplace, Miss..."

a pot, a thought & a smidgen of dirt said...

"oh" she said with a face so pitiful."Come with me" said the bartender with a warm smile, "I'll buy you a drink".

Belle said...

'Make it a large one' she said
'No problem he said'. 'I can make it as large as you like' he said.

Raphnix said...

She smiled to him sweetly and felt relieved somehow. When he handed her the drink she was surprised with what he gave. It's...

WillThink4Wine said...

a cupcake! She hadn't had a cupcake since her seventh birthday party. She remembered that party well because...

Star8278 said...

that was the year, grandma had taken the "pin the tail on the donkey" game too literal and brought a LIVE donkey to the party. But something else reminded her of that day...

Anne said...

It was a faint scent of vanilla. When she was younger, her mother used to...

Julia Smith said...

...let her lick the beaters when they made vanilla cupcakes. And then they used to place a paper doily over the top and sprinkle icing sugar over the light brown surface of the cupcakes. Maybe she would make some for old-times-sake this weekend. But then she remembered her boyfriend, or her not-boyfriend, and a tear finally made its way down her cheek.

Karen, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry" said...

have vanilla scented candles in the house all the time. Sometimes she even put some vanilla into her bath because...

PurpleGreenPops.com said...

it helped with her acne.

(This is a comedy blog, right?)

Rhonda said...

at least it helped with some skin imperfections.
Now what to do she thought as she stepped out of the bath.

Empress Bee (of the High Sea) said...

and smeared icing on her face. (it's a story about cake, right?)

smiles, bee
xxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Mike Golch said...

the enjoying the icing licked off by......

Ivanhoe said...

...her chihuahua Sparky. Sparky loved cake icing and pickles...

abelle | Only in Silence said...

but hated her acne. She wept, but then she realized that the bartender was silently staring at her as if he wanted to tell her something. When suddenly . . . . .

Clara said...

...the door was jerked open and in walked...

Jen said...

Her boyfriend who looked at her, the bartender and the cupcake and fell to his knees

Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

Luckily, the bartender was actually there trying to get her mind off her depressing. He munbled something as the boyfriend approached. The boyfriend said

Da Pixie said...

"Hey, do you know where my basketball jersey is? I left it at your house two weeks ago." The girl looked to him, then...

Jack K. said...

Basket ball jersey? I haven't the foggiest. Furthermore, I could care freaking less.

Perhaps you used it lieu of TOP. Who knows? I don't maybe you need to contact...

Matt said...

someone who gives a damn. Now, is that all you came here for or do you just enjoy...

Furkidsmom said...

cupcakes. As he thought about his answer little Sparky started to....

Julia Smith said...

...kneeling on my cupcake?

Her boyfriend looked down at his jeans and realized the cupcake paper was stuck to his knee. And Sparky her chihuahua was licking what remained of the mashed cupcake off of the denim...

Arv said...

and before he could pull his leg away, Sparky peed on his leg...

Mimi Lenox said...

(oh shoot, Arv. I was gonna say something really naughty and so unlike me)
Carry on, people...

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Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

The Sheriff of the villiage was walking in as Sparky peed. I'll put him out of our miserey. First I'll...

Matt said...

finish off that last cupcake if no one else wants it. I just love 'em. When I was a boy my momma would always let me have a cupcake after I...

Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

let our dog Fido pee.

Matt said...

Of course, that meant walking him in three feet of snow and having to clear a spot in the snow for him to pee. I'll never forget the time I was clearing a spot and I uncovered...

FoxxFyrre said...

...And the room came to a dead silence for there was a loud noise that came from the direction of the bar. "Damn it," the bartender hollered just after the crashing noise. Everyone looked over at the bar. The bartender was covered in icing and smelled of Cointreau. "This is the third time this month that someone switched the blender top with the tip jar," he said in a very annoyed manner. The tip jar and blender top look almost identical an it does fit on the blender, but when you start the blender the contents explode right out because the lid doesn't fit properly.

The sheriff and everyone else started laughing at the sight of the bartender covered in white-orange smelly icing. "Well Cupcake," the sheriff said (referring to the bartender). "How about a very dry Martini -- Stirred not shaken!"

"Cupcake? That one better not stick," the bartender said even more annoyed.

"Too late," said the Sheriff. "Looks like you're stuck with it, litterally."

Reaching for the gin and vermouth to fill the sheriff's martini order, Cupcake happened to.....

Mimi Lenox said...

accidentally shoot the dog.

shoshana said...

Instead of blood, strawberry jelly came out of Sparky and a huge bubble gum hanged on the gun. The bartender fainted...

FoxxFyrre said...

But...We all know bartenders never faint because they have seen everything possible. Cupcake actually slipped on the spilled icing which resulted in the Sheriff's martini being shaken instead of stirred. So it was back to the drawing board, and remix the martini. Cupcake thought to himself, "What kind of place is this. I'm new here and we have had a bake off, exploding blenders, drunken Sheriffs, and jelly-filled mutts and there's still two hours before Happy Hour starts. Well, if you can't beat em ...."

Cupcake reached for a big brown bottle of ......

Jack K. said...

...Kahlua and a bottle of Stoli. The perfect ingredients for a Black Russian. He knew that a tall one would put him in the proper mood to....

Shelly said...

Clean up the bar, go after the girl, teach the not-so-much-boyfriend a lesson, and get Sparky a bath.

Matt said...

Of course, there was just one problem - who would look after the bar. Surely he couldn't ask...

Mike Golch said...

Sparky to watch the bar.....

Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

Sparky pointed out the a black russian with Smirnoff or Ketel One beats Stoli hands down. He called the owner. Sparky said, "The bartender left for a threesome and I got shot. Who should take over?" THe owner answered

Anonymous said...

"Whoa, whoa, slow down, let me get this straight,..."

Dawn (Twisted Sister) said...

oh forget it... there's no way to get this story straight... someone get me a drink??? Pleas...

Mimi Lenox said...

The owner answered...."Bud Weiser should take over with a round of Smirnoff for all so that when Sandee gets back from the boat party we'll all be intoxicated and have an excuse for not keeping this story on track."

Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

After Sparky went off to the vet. The bartender and the woman returned. "I'm back! Who drank all the Smirnoff? And the Godiva is gone, too." The old man in whiskers smiled. He said,

Mimi Lenox said...

That Pencil Skirt woman took the Godiva and ran but I have something even better. It was.....

Bud Weiser, WTIT said...
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Bud Weiser, WTIT said...

a fresh fruit salad. The old man said to the bartender, "You are supposed to mysterious. Sandee said so. The only thing you mysterious, is what happened when you lefdt with the idiot woman, who thought that was a real fireplace, and her boyfriend go off to?"

The bartender smirked and said, "You will not believe it! We..."

Matt said...

met at the Blogger Cafe and had a great meal while we laughed at all the great comments on Sandee's blog."

The old man, confused, asked, "Sandee? Now just who is this Sandee?", to which the bartender replied...

FoxxFyrre said...

"Last call is over, everybody. We serve booze not breakfast so knock em back." The tall, dark, handsome, and mysterious bartender, now known as Cupcake, turned away to rinse out his shot glass and other utensils. As he did this, a glowing aura seemed to surround him. Everyone in the room noticed the aura and watched in awe as the bartender seemed to transform right before their eyes. Bartender laughed a wicked laugh as he continued to transform and said, "I'm really Foxxfyrre the Meme Thief Of Bloggingham. I have escaped the perils of the dungeon. No ones memes are safe any more Bwahahahah!"

The patrons watched as Foxxfyrre fled from behind the bar and disappeared in plain sight. And they trembled, for they new that their treasured memes were safe no longer....

WillThink4Wine said...

nor were their cupcakes! And they were now out of Smirnoff, Godiva and fruit salads. Luckily, Empress Bee makes a mean Peanut Butter Frosting Cake! She promised she would bring them over as soon as all the lurkers commented on her blog.

Just then the emergency exit door opened revealing only a pair of red spiked heals and part of Mimi's leg. The Pencil Skirt had returned with...

PurpleGreenPops.com said...

The End.

Lynda said...

Or was it just the beginning? No one knows for sure except for Sandee, as she is the Story Game Madame...
The pencil skirt lady, who was known as the Queen of Meme's and also the holder of the dungeon key, was looking high and low for Foxy Fyrre, for he had crossed the line. She had allowed him to evade all of the meme's in the blogosphere, but, now he had gone too far, and besides that, she had enjoyed the time Budweiser had shown her when he was temporarily tending bar...
All of a sudden there was the fresh scent of Vanilla, so fragrant that it filled everyones senses, and also had a kick to it, leaving everyone in a foggy, stoned like state. Music was playing and so everyone started dancing or swaying, having a great time, not knowing exactly why, and then the back door to bar opened and in walked....

Speedcat Hollydale said...

Then a man called Speedy walked in and said, "I am very confused by all this" .......

Amazing Gracie said...

verboseness. Besides, I kinda like all of the dancing and swaying. It reminds me of the time I...