{"sf1_id":1349307,"sf2_id":"dmBaAKKe","title":"FurLibs 2017 - The Grand Furry Pastime by Ianus (and panel attendees)","author":"IanusJWolf","words":396,"posted_at":"2018-07-07T16:23:00.000Z","tags":["Anthrocon","Comedy","FurLibs","silly"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1349307-furlibs-2017-the-grand-furry-pastime-by-ianus-and-panel-attendees","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmBaAKKe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6b/c1/6bc1fd61-329f-4939-9ce9-ab98ee79422b","description":"Results from Anthrocon's FurLibs Panel 2017: The Grand Furry Pastime.\nThis is one of the results from the gang at FurLibs in Anthrocon back in 2017. As with other mad story games, attendees suggested words to fill in the blanks having NO IDEA where in the story it would go. This silliness is the result of that.","content":"The Grand Furry Pastime\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAh, baseball! A tradition as American as \\_roadkill\\_\\_, \\_drawing\\_\\_\\_, and \\_onion paste\\_\\_\\_. From young \\_\\_\\_chinchilla\\_\\_ playing stickball in the park to big star athletes like the famous ­­­­\\_\\_plain old regular cat\\_\\_ player \\_\\_Martha\\_\\_\\_ \\_\\_Jones\\_\\_\\_, who braved the adversity of lacking any \\_\\_toe-beans\\_\\_ and led the \\_Pittsburgh \\_\\_Mothmans\\_\\_\\_\\_ to victory with his patented \\_effervescent\\_\\_ slider, baseball is America's true pastime.\n\nThe first games were informal affairs with homemade equipment such as using \\_\\_silk\\_ to make a ball and honing \\_\\_meringue\\_\\_\\_ into something resembling a bat. In those days you could be called out for \\_\\_slurping\\_\\_ against the \\_\\_tire iron\\_\\_ or if another player managed to \\_\\_explode\\_\\_\\_ your \\_belly button\\_\\_\\_ with the \\_grandmother\\_\\_. As clubs began to gather to play the game with each other, rules had to be standardized, giving us the well-known three \\_murders\\_\\_\\_ and you're out and switching \\_\\_\\_mushrooms\\_\\_\\_ after three outs. Then as the game grew, new rules had to be introduced to keep the game fresh, interesting, and \\_\\_sleazy\\_\\_. Though many traditionalists say this ruins the game, such as with the controversial \\_\\_sassy\\_\\_\\_ \\_\\_\\_pitcher\\_\\_\\_ rule, which is hotly debated even to this day.\n\nOf course, as we enjoy this pastime, we still must admit its checkered past. For a long time, \\_\\_\\_turtles\\_\\_ were forbidden to play and had to form their own leagues, just because of the \\_taste\\_ of their \\_\\_\\_sassafras\\_\\_. During the war, people were fine to have teams made up entirely of \\_\\_\\_lies\\_\\_\\_, but as soon as the boys came home, they were told to get back to the \\_\\_underworld\\_\\_\\_\\_ and focus on \\_\\_bald spot\\_\\_ once again. The sport has also been rocked by scandals such as players that avoid being tagged out by \\_\\_catapulting\\_\\_\\_ their \\_\\_triangles\\_\\_, or players that would throw a game because they had been \\_\\_\\_bouncing\\_\\_ in the hopes of making more \\_spoons\\_\\_. Even with these blemishes though, the game still remains an American \\_Taco Bell's 7-layer burrito\\_\\_\\_ for all species.\n\nSo what will be the \\_tuba\\_\\_ of baseball? In the last several years, other sports have surpassed it in making \\_\\_\\_\"Jeremy\"\\_\\_\\_. With the popularity of \\_\\_\\_spelunking\\_\\_, \\_\\_BMX\\_\\_\\_, and \\_\\_making children cry\\_\\_\\_, some say that the baseball is on the way out.\n\nStill, no matter what happens, baseball has endured and will continue to \\_desecrate\\_\\_ in the hearts and minds of Americans young and \\_\\_\\_fluffy\\_\\_\\_. It is truly the great American furry \\_\\_Germany\\_\\_\\_\\_.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}