May 27, 2010
Mad Libs’ Depressing Propaganda for Children
Orison’s loves his Mad Libs books. He has fun with “those weird stories” and he’s learning his parts of speech at the same time.
The little nonsense essays deal with such topics as what to eat for lunch and what to play on the playground and a day at the farm.
Then, all of a sudden, this one comes along:
Seriously? Read those last two sentences again. Sheesh about it.
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The Debby Downer bit made it for me. LOL (yeah, I really did).
All posts at the DG site on the doctrine of Hell should henceforth be labeled as “the doctrine of Another Place.”
Yes, you filled that blank in the same as we did at our house.
I’ve never seen sheesh used in the phrase ‘sheesh about it’. Is that a regionalism? (This isn’t irrelevant: it would help me fill out a mad-lib knowing what part of speech the ‘sheesh’ plays here.)
I think it’s a colloquial substitutionary interjection. Either that or a species of bird…
That is I wrote, “Stop terrorizing our children about the future, and making them feel like they are merely an invasive species”
at our local Natural History Museum, where we were invited to post our Helpful Suggestions concerning Global Warming.
But we do try to set an example of good, (not fear-based) stewardship of the Earth to our children as we compost, recycle, and my husband rides his bike to work everyday. And compact fluorescents are in every light fixture. With our eight kids in our tiny house with one bathroom, we certainly have less of a carbon footprint than Al Gore.
Yikes…I’m sure Orison didn’t know most of the words in that thing..it’s like a 6th grade reading level. For chemical, did you put peanut butter or coffee? Both today are thought of as equally evil!