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Thursday, March 27, 2008

O, you acrostiverbalists, Part 2: Politics

Please post an acrostic poem using the letters of either BEIJING or OLYMPICS.

In your poem, please express your opinion as to whether the United States (or any country) should consider boycotting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing due to alleged human rights violations enacted by China upon Tibet.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Rip-Off Wednesday #4: Make Like a Pogo

On Rip-Off Wednesdays, I steal someone else's idea and translate it into an ipost.

Today, I am borrowing the format of Boing Boing, which calls itself "a directory of wonderful things." Please post a blurb about the last thing you can remember that you saw, found, or experienced that you thought was worth sharing with everyone you know. Post a link if you can find your wonderful thing online.

Monday, March 24, 2008

If I was Peter Piper, I'd pick your peck.

Please post an alliterative pick-up line. Every word need not begin with the same letter, but should rely somewhat heavily on alliteration.

Thanks to AH for today's ipost.

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If you would like to find the original story for yesterday's Mad Libs post, see Mad Libs Mondays Get Apocalyptic. Feel free to post your completed Mad Lib with all the substituted words in place in the comments section.

Mad Libs Mondays Get Apocolyptic

Every Monday, ipost a mad libs list. If you still want to play, you can find the list of blanks for which you will supply words (see the special notes before you begin). Otherwise, below that you will find the original story and where your words should be substituted for the originals. The number for each blank will help you substitute them correctly.

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1. Noun*
2. Noun*, opposite of 1 would work well
3. Verb
4. Past Tense Verb
5. Noun*, rhymes with 1
6. Verb
7. Verb
8. Verb
9. Number of times 8 occurs, rhymes with 2
10. Verb
11. Noun*
12. Noun*
13. Adjective, rhymes with 11
14. Verb, rhymes with 2

*Special Notes: 1) All nouns in this mad lib are plural in that they can follow the word "some," as in "We will get some wind and some rain today." 2) Although following the rhyme scheme will make your mad lib even better, it's not absolutely necessary.

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"[1] and [2]" not by Robert Frost

Some say the world will [3] in [1],
Some say in [2].
From what I've [4] of [5]
I [6] with those who [7] [1].
But if it had to [8] [9],
I think I [10] enough of [11]
To say that for [12] [2]
Is also [13]
And would [14].

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Beautify this blog

Create a banner for ipost | upost and we may choose to display it for a week (the banner is the title at the top of the blog). Any kind of art is welcome (ie. oil paint, decoupage, bad, etc). The only rule is that it must say 'ipost upost' in some form. We recommend that banners be 900 pixels wide, less than 450 pixels high, and under 100KB. It's fun to break the rules, but sometimes it just doesn't look as good.

Please email banners or other images to ipostupost (at) gmail (dot) com.

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