Jack Hoff's City Hall Mad Libs!

Since folks at City Hall seem to have plenty of time to play games and hurl insults over the so-called “gang crisis,” I thought that perhaps today all of us should take a moment to relax and join in on the fun!

So grab a pencil and paper and let's play:

City Hall Mad Libs!

First, number your paper from 1 to 13, then fill in the appropriate word – be creative!

After the jump, read your new creation out loud.

1. an adverb
2. a plural body part
3. an animal
4. a plural noun
5. another plural noun
6. your favorite cartoon character
7. your favorite Brady Bunch Family Member
8. plural unit of time
9. a body part or orifice
10. yet another plural noun
11. an adverb
12. another adverb
13. a bodily function

(With major apologies to our source: the Daily News and political scribe/hero/ombudsman Rick Orlov, who wrote an excellent article…after you play City Hall Mad Libs, please go out and buy a Daily News so we can keep Rick employed)

In a (adverb) awaited confrontation over the future of Los Angeles' anti-gang programs, City Controller Laura Chick and Councilman Tony Cardenas butted (plural body part) Friday over her proposals to revamp the city structure and move the programs under the authority of the Mayor's Office.

"The words `turf war' are gang terminology and have no place at City Hall," Chick said in opening remarks to the Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and (animal) Development.

"I know there are many questions on what we are proposing," she told the panel, which is chaired by Cardenas. "But I hope we move (plural noun) to discuss what can be - and not what can't."

But after a three-hour hearing with impassioned testimony about the need for reforms of gang-intervention management, Cardenas said he still had too many (plural noun) to act.

Chick, joined by (favorite cartoon character) and (favorite Brady Bunch Family Member) swiftly countered that action is needed immediately.

The end of the hearing came (plural unit of time) after Chick and Cardenas began the day with a confrontation in which Cardenas retorted: "Get out of my (body part or orifice)."

Chick said she wanted to clear up some differences with Cardenas over whether her report on (plural noun) was delivered late.

Cardenas said later that the two were talking (adverb) and (adverb) when Chick made a (bodily function) - which he would not detail - that he considered an insult.