MadLibs Cap and Trade Bill
Inspired by the House’s cap and trade bill, I would like to propose the following legislation:
1. Title: This legislation shall be known as the _______ (Save/Stop — pick one) Our _________(adjective) ____________ (noun).
2. Definitions: (a) _______ (noun) shall include all _________ (noun) not otherwise referenced in _________ (statutory section); (b) _________ (verb) is the act, knowingly or purposefully, of _________ (recondite verb) the _________ (complicated acronym) for the purpose of __________ (participial phrase); (c) _________ (complicated acronym, maybe the one used in 2(b) above) shall be defined________ (later/much later, if at all — pick one) by ____________ ( Executive Order/the judiciary/the I-Ching – pick one) unless _________ (senseless and inexplicable exception; trust us on this one, it will be a doozy).
3. Thirty ________ (unit of time) after _________ (date, preferably in the Roman calendar) for any _______ (noun) not otherwise _________ (verb) under the auspices of _________ (common acronym that in this legislation actually stands for something else), it shall be _________ (legal/illegal/void where prohibited/forbidden if not mandatory — pick one) to _____ (noun used as verb) the __________ (adverb) _________ (gerund).
Like a majority of our illustrious congressmen, I vote aye.
Vader
June 29, 2009
MadLibs.
Heh.
Heh heh.
Heh heh heh heh heh.
Was that deliberate, Adam?
Adam Greenwood
June 29, 2009
Of course not. Also, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Vader
June 29, 2009
MadLibs.
Mentally disturbed liberals.
Adam Greenwood
June 29, 2009
Mentally disturbed liberals? No, I was talking about Madlibs, like adlibs but mad. Any inadvertent capitalization that might suggest otherwise is, of course, inadvertent, and also a figment of the reader’s imagination.