Posted on 06/09/2011 6:09:29 PM PDT by jakerobins
Leonard B. Stern, an Emmy-winning writer, producer and director for television whose frantic search for an adjective one day led him and a colleague to create Mad Libs, the game that asks players to fill in blanks with designated parts of speech to yield comically ________[adj.] stories, died on Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 88.
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Oh, too bad. Mad Libs was lots of fun. Bless this man!
Mad Libs, what fun!
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Darn.
We still play them on long trips with the grandchildren, lots of belly laughs and even more giggles.
Ditto, though I secretly still enjoy them. One filled out with my brothers words said...”You have the brain of a mollusk and the work ethic of a cat”. We still laugh about that one.
When I first found out about this, I was so scrawny that I sandblasted my ukelele.
I loved Get Smart as a kid.
RIP Mr Stern You gave my children Many wonderful memories while doing Mad Libs on our long drives...
Meanwhile the other mad lib, Howard Stern, runs amok.
Lots of good memories of driving through the country to my grandparents’ house, filling out the Mad Libs with my brother in the back seat of the old station wagon. Sometimes we actually completed a few before a fight started!
Mad Libs was lotsa fun for us, 1/2 a century ago. RIP.
Who gives a ____________ (noun)?
Ditto! Do you recall what show they first appeared on? Was it The Steve Allen Show?
Our kids have filled out many a mad lib on long drives . . . cloudy with a chance of meatballs . . .
RIP. Those were amusing in my youth.
I still send my grandkids MadLibs books for Christmas. Total craziness.
I do, and many, many more who were amused, spending time in his world, before DVRs and HDTV and DVDs and video on demand and cell phones and the world wide web and cell phones and digital cameras and GPSs and disco and color TV ... I could go on but the rain delay is over and the umpire is saying, " Play Ball"!
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