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Alright, a bit of blabbering before I actually get to explaining the game. I made this thread on the old forums, and I've suddenly realized that I'm not sure why I haven't reintroduced it here yet. Back then, I called it "Professor Farnsworth's Secrets of the Universe"... (Or, mysteries, maybe?) Someone then informed me that the joke (from Futurama, just in case you've been living under a rock or whatever...) was based off of a cumulative children's song, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea". And now that I'm reincarnating the thread, I'm kinda not sure how in love with any specific title I am... Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I guess I was torn about how silly I'd feel just naming after the original kids' song (because FG is super srs business amirite), or using the old thread's title, or trying to come up with a better one. Meh. Anyway, I decided on this title but I'm not like married to it I guess, so if you can think of a better one then feel free to make a suggestion I guess. Say "I guess" again, you fucking dork. Okay, let's move on.

Professor Farnsworth wrote: Good news, multiplayers! After a lifetime of toil, I'm on the verge of solving all the mysteries of science! Observe, as I demonstrate this new microscope lens, made from the debris of that diamondium comet.

Due to the lens' remarkable quark-lattice structure, it should be capable of unthinkable magnification! Come. Follow me to the lab!

Let me just insert the lens in the microscope... There! Now, for the first time, we may be able to see the infinitesimal fabric of matter itself. Laying bare the most fundamental laws of the universe! Now, to examine some matter. Any old matter will do. It's just a log I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea. Now, to penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Oh, my! There's a frog on a bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

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Wait! There's a snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

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So, as you can see (and ignoring what happened next in the actual episode), the game is simply to take a turn looking through the microscope at ever-increasing magnification and tell everyone what you see. And, so as not to make it too hard, let's just say that you aren't at all required to rhyme anything, if you don't wanna. (Remember: Things only rhyme below ten to the minus five angstroms, you dope!)


Alright, I go first...

Dear Eliza! There's a bell on the shell of the snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

do i create my own or work off yours?

I hadn't considered that. I don't suppose there's any particular reason why we couldn't have multiple branches.

What fortune! There's oil in the bell on the shell of the snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

Holy cow! There's a bubble in the oil in the bell on the shell of the snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

There's a double by the bubble in the oil in the bell on the shell of the snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!