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Happy 50th Anniversary, Mad Libs

On madlibs.com, Mad Libs
co-creator Leonard Stern writes of bringing the idea to a book publisher in 1958: “These good souls didn’t think it was a book but honestly believed it might appeal to a game manufacturer. The game manufacturer in turn thought it was a book and sent us to another book publisher, who didn’t think it was a book!”

updated: 14 years ago