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Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III opens shortly after England has lost its American colonies and shows the Establishment gone amuck. The King is mad, the Prince of Wales is scheming to displace his father, the Queen and the Prime Minister are determined to keep him in power and a host of incompetent doctors and parliamentarians wander in and out of the center stage. Politics as usual...
Moreover, the whole humor thing works only if your populace is mad for the Games anyway. Australians snapped up tickets to all sorts of sports that had enjoyed almost no profile in the country before last month. They had to be turned away from shooting events. They flooded the Olympics merchandise store, waiting more than three hours in line to buy silly-looking slippers. They would have gone to a staring contest if it had been a medal event. Live theater performances, including Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the Opera House, came to a halt while a big screen...
...seniors know exactly what I'm talking about. Aren't you pissed? You should be. This mad lib will make that subconscious anger rise to the surface. If you come up with particularly good entries on this example, send it to me and I'll print it next week...
...think you saw Svetlana mad during the team competition, nothing could have prepared anyone for the fury that came when she discovered that the vault had been mismanaged. Spouting and screaming, twitching and reddening, she took everyone to task for a conspiracy that she believed was intended solely to derail her gold medal hopes. When reporters tried to get her to sum up her feelings, she had two words for them: "Piss...
...what their mamas gave them! After their first song, the guys moved into a remix dance sequence of some of their old hits, like "I Want You Back" and "Tearing Up My Heart." Justin continued to fire up the stage as he engaged his thousands of teenyboppers with his mad rapping and drumming skills. (And people say they have no talent...