Commentary: Trump. 'Cats.' Peloton. Kanye. Why culture sounded like Mad Libs in 2019
by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times
Dec 16, 2019
4 minutes
If you were a child in the United States at any point in the last 50 years or so, chances are you've whiled away at least a few hours playing Mad Libs, amusing yourself on a long car ride by turning the word "fart" into as many parts of speech as possible.
The fun of the game - in which players fill in the blanks using randomly selected words - comes from the nonsensical, puerile and strangely evocative sentences that result from tossing a bunch of nouns, verbs and adjectives together.
It has been ubiquitous for generations, selling more than 100 million print copies. It has inspired numerous novelty editions, been spun off into
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