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A U.K. source shared that this was because this wasn’t an audience of Tom Petty fans but rather random people who’d put in for tickets and wouldn’t have been encouraged to be enthusiastic.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a decades-old word game in which players fill in the blanks of a prewritten story with random adjectives, nouns, and verbs before reading the surrealist results out loud.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
"It's hard because all of us aren't going off much, it's just trying to pick at random bits... as hard as it is, it's good vibes, even though it's stressful."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Before Thursday, connections were consistently failing at high speed, whereas the situation now is random, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
I open my palm and I see no palm pattern—just the regular inside of a hand, with random streaks and curves.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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