Random Sequence: 'Indecorous Stultification'

[random phrases worked into a story]

Lloyd, a 30-something high-school mathematics teacher, was the victim of a larcenous shellacking by the common cold, which had hijacked his Saturday thus far. Not wanting to sacrifice the blind date he'd scheduled for the evening, he dragged himself to the local pharmacy and purchased the most aggressive over-the-counter medication he could find -- a nonprescription tyrannosaurus that he hoped would eviscerate the indecorous stultification of his normally sparkling personality.

Alas, the decongestant arduousness of this elixir failed to provide the resurgent perspicacity he was seeking. By the time he met his Internet-dating acquaintance, the marginally attractive Katarina, at the local caffeine emporium, his energy level was at low ebb, and the repartee devolved into nonverbal lousiness. Lloyd tried to cover the awkward silence by evacuating his sinuses into a well-worn handkerchief, but his prolonged and cacophonous nasal honking repelled Katarina, who was reminded of a terrified goose being strangled. She had neglected to mention her hypochondriacal fear of cold viruses in her online autobiography, and by the time Lloyd looked up from his hankie, she had vanished. "What a snot," Lloyd grumbled.

[not to be continued]