“Mad Libs” now sounds like the title of a Fox News commentary show

Digging through the pile of detritus that accumulates around my workspace, I just found an unopened Amazon envelope that had been there for a while. Inside? A copy of Snoopy Mad Libs, the second Peanuts volume for this classic word game, where someone lists specific sorts of words and a friend puts them into the story. I flip it open, and the story that I land on starts:

…and I’m shouting “no, no, no! Charlie Brown cannot read Snoopy’s mind!! Who do you think he is, Woodstock? You are misinforming our children!”

Maddening Libs is what they should call it.

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