Questions Only — the Christmas Edition

[countessalmirena]

Let’s try a new word game for the festive season.

The idea is to progress a scene or storyline, using questions only. We can only post one sentence per post, and it must be a question. Hopefully the scene can come to a natural conclusion with a funny ending, after a certain number of posts (let’s say between 10 and 20 questions… as a rough idea).

The person who finishes the scenario can then start the next “round” with a new scenario-starting question, and so on.

I envisage this lasting up to middle of January (hopefully), and then coming to an end as the Christmas season itself will have done.

(We can always start a non-Christmas edition in a new thread if this takes off.)

Please keep the scenarios to a Christmas theme, however vaguely or tenuously.

And we’re off!

Does Santa really give Christmas gifts to the reindeer?

[mytreechange]

Why do I expect a call from the federal police whenever I search for BOM on my computer?

[countessalmirena]

Is there an evil elf holding a detonator?

[mytreechange]

Doesn't Santa process the proper background checks before hiring his elves?

[countessalmirena]

Isn’t there a naughty or nice list especially for this purpose?

[mytreechange]

How many lists does Santa have, and does he have them catalogued correctly so as not to confuse naughty elves with good children?

[twyngwyn]

Can we agree that naughty elves outnumber good children, and even the **bleep**py tale of Santa Claus?

[countessalmirena]

Is it even possible for us to assume that, given that elves are notoriously hard to locate even at the best of times, and that their naughtiness would have to be established under strict guidelines?

[mytreechange]

Why is everyone obsessed with guidelines and lists, why not just wing it?

[countessalmirena]

Are you saying that the bad elves have wings and can swoop through the air?

[twyngwyn]

Come to think of it, shouldn’t the reindeer have wings?