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At approximately 1:15pm EST today, I started teaching myself Ruby.

Two and a half hours later, I submitted a Mad Lib program to the Week 5 challenge of the 52 Weeks of Code thing we got going on. Is it ugly? Yup. Is it rudimentary? You know it. Is the formatting absolute crap? Indeed it is. Does it work? You're damn right it does! w00t! w00t!

Here she be - my first actual program in Ruby:

puts "\n\nThe Bedtime Story Mad Lib\n\nby B9\n\n"
puts "Name 1 location: "
print "1. "
loc=gets()
puts "\n\nEnter 5 adjectives: "
print "1. "
adj1=gets()
print "\n2. "
adj2=gets()
print "\n3. "
adj3=gets()
print "\n4. "
adj4=gets()
print "\n5. "
adj5=gets()
puts "\n\nName 2 female celebrities: "
print "1. "
femceb1=gets()
print "\n2. "
femceb2=gets()
puts "\n\nName 1 male celebrity: "
print "1. "
malceb=gets()
puts "\n\nEnter 2 plural nouns: "
print "1. "
pln1=gets()
print "\n2. "
pln2=gets()
puts "\n\nName 4 body parts: "
print "1. "
body1=gets()
print "\n2. "
body2=gets()
print "\n3. "
body3=gets()
print "\n4. "
body4=gets()
puts "\n\nSelect 2 nouns: "
print "1. "
noun1=gets()
print "\n2. "
noun2=gets()
puts "\n\nChoose 2 numbers: "
print "1. "
numb1=gets()
print "\n2. "
numb2=gets()
puts "\n\nName 1 famous building: "
print "1. "
build=gets()
puts "\n\nChoose 1 animal: "
print "1. "
animal=gets()
puts "\n\nEnter 1 verb: "
print "1. "
verb=gets()
puts "\n\nChoose 1 past-tense verb: "
print "1. "
ptverb=gets()
puts "\n\nYour Bedtime Story Mad Lib\n\n
	  Once upon a time in a place called #{loc} there was a/an #{adj1} Princess named 
	  #{femceb1}.  Her kingdom was huge but her #{pln1} were bigger.  She was beautiful 
	  from her #{body1} to her #{body2}.\n\n
	  One day, she saw a/an #{adj2} prince named Sir #{malceb}.  He had a/an #{adj3} 
	  face and his #{noun1} was over #{numb1} feet long.  As soon as her #{pln2} 
	  touched his #{noun2}, they fell in love.  She felt a/an #{adj4} sensation rush 
	  through her #{body3}.  They were married in #{build} the following day.\n\n
	  Not long after, they had a baby.  They named her #{femceb2} because she looked 
	  a/an #{animal}.  They would #{verb} her #{numb2} times a day, so that her #{body4} 
	  would be shiny and #{adj5}.  And they #{ptverb} happily ever after.\n\n
	  The End\n\n\n"