Time to play environmental consulting Mad Libs!

[XemaSab]

Here's how this is going to go down: I give you a prompt, you supply the requested word, and when you're done, I will PM you with the completed story!

1. Type of mollusc

2. Type of job

3. City or town

4. Something a NIMBY would be opposed to

5. Country

6. Local or state agency

7. Federal agency

8. Bird

9. Animal

10. Five different numbers

11. Two different months

12. Type of farm equipment

13. Something made out of concrete

14. Handicraft

15. River or stream

16. Liquid

17. Fruit

18. Type of land use

19. Noxious weed

20. Architectural style

21. Furniture style

22. Adjective

23. Type of public building

24. Fruit

Enjoy!

[Auggie]

1. Okay...

1.Slug
2.Bank CEO
3.Cleveland
4.the Crawford Ranch
5.Paraguay
6.water department
7.FEMA
8.Albatross
9.Armadillo
10. 10, 21, 13, 51, 3
11.January, February
12.Combine
13.Bomb shelter
14.Macrame
15.Cuyahoga River
16.Antifreeze
17.Kumquat
18.Industrial Park
19.Marijuana
20.Victorian
21.stuff from Ikea
22.moist
23.City Hall
24.Gooseberry

Sounds like fun. Thanks XemaSab

on edit: left one out

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Ok I'll play...

1. Chiton

2. pig fat renderer (or rendering)

3. Fresno

4. Public transportation

5. Sweden

6. Department of Agriculture

7. ATF

8. Vulvous whistling duck

9. Spotted hyena (does OctoMom qualify as an animal...? :P )

10. 7, 2, 8, 19, 33

11. April, October

12. Thresher

13. Something made out of concrete

14. Moccasin beading

15. Nile

16. Kool-aid

17. Kumquat

18. homesteading

19. Jimson Weed

20. Baroque

21. Furniture style

22. Adjective

23. Type of public building

24. Fruit

[Dead_Parrot]

3. OK, this sounds too surreal to pass up:

1. Type of mollusc: Abalone

2. Type of job: Maggot farmer

3. City or town: Dunwich

4. Something a NIMBY would be opposed to: Iron Maiden Concert

5. Country: Mongolia

6. Local or state agency: Corpo Forestale dello Stato (Hey, you didn't say which state... )

7. Federal agency: Roscosmos (...or which federation :P)

8. Bird: Dodo

9. Animal: Velociraptor

10. Five different numbers: 1, 2, π, 42, 987.34

11. Two different months: June, October

12. Type of farm equipment: Water trough

13. Something made out of concrete: The SS Faith

14. Handicraft: Flint knapping

15. River or stream: River Shannon

16. Liquid: Mead

17. Fruit: Pawpaw

18. Type of land use: Parking lot

19. Noxious weed: Poison Oak

20. Architectural style: Sicilian Baroque

21. Furniture style: Rococo

22. Adjective: Beamish

23. Type of public building: Amphitheater

24. Fruit: Lychee

[Nihil]

4. Hey, it's lunchtime anyway ...

1. Type of mollusc: Periwinkle
2. Type of job: Brewer
3. City or town: London
4. Something a NIMBY would be opposed to: Nuclear waste dump :evilgrin:
5. Country: Afghanistan
6. Local or state agency:
7. Federal agency: FBI
8. Bird: Red kite
9. Animal: Hedgehog
10. Five different numbers: 1 2 3 5 8
11. Two different months: December June
12. Type of farm equipment: Plough
13. Something made out of concrete: Road bridge
14. Handicraft: Glass engraving
15. River or stream: Thames
16. Liquid: Nitric acid
17. Fruit: Strawberry
18. Type of land use: Nature reserve
19. Noxious weed: Tobacco
20. Architectural style: Georgian
21. Furniture style: Ikea :-)
22. Adjective: Confusing
23. Type of public building: Museum
24. Fruit: Raspberry

[phantom power]

5. I'm going to get you for this.

1. Giant Land Squid

2. Municipal Land Squid Infestation Controller

3. Vancouver

4. Land Squid Relocation Facility

5. Canada

6. British Columbia Fish and Game (Land Squid Dept)

7. Canadian Dept of the Interior

8. Land Squid Nesting Warbler

9. Land Squid tentacle mite

10. 3, 7, 31, 127, 8191

11. January and July

12. Apple Press

13. Land Squid Relocation Containment Facility

14. Land Squid chitin scrimshaw

15. Seymour River

16. Land Squid Ink

17. Apple

18. Land Squid Ranching

19. Dalmatian Toadflax

20. Brutalism

21. Scandinavian Contemporary

22. Squishy

23. Library

24. Durian

[phantom power]

8. My Giant Land Squid theme did not work out perfectly, but...

if you squint, it might be something you could read in a publication 250 million years from now.

[Auggie]

6. Thanks, XemaSab. Very, very funny.

Wonderful way to log onto DU this morning.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Bookmarking this...

Are you going to post the story into which we fit the words?

I'll try to remember to make a list tomorrow---(yawn)

Hey, I found a baby sea lion on the beach today in distress...it got better and went back into the water! :P

[GliderGuider]

9. OK, here's mine.

1. Type of mollusc: limpet

2. Type of job: chimney sweep

3. City or town: Schenectady

4. Something a NIMBY would be opposed to: pig farm

5. Country: Kyrgyzstan

6. Local or state agency: Disobedient Child Removal Agency

7. Federal agency: Porkbarrel Accounting Office

8. Bird: Apteryx

9. Animal: Megatherium

10. Five different numbers: 7, 99, 31, 137, 42

11. Two different months: March, November

12. Type of farm equipment: scythe

13. Something made out of concrete: overshoes

14. Handicraft: basket-weaving

15. River or stream: Dnieper

16. Liquid: hydrazine

17. Fruit: Durian

18. Type of land use: cocoa plantation

19. Noxious weed: creeping charlie

20. Architectural style: Stalinist

21. Furniture style: Shaker

22. Adjective: ineluctable

23. Type of public building: library

24. Fruit: persimmon