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BREAKING: We received a phone call today from a Sony strike captain who says a male comedy writer showed up at the picket lines this morning NOT wearing New Balance sneakers. When the unnamed writer attempted to sign in, a strike captain confronted the man, who explained sheepishly, "The strike has hit me hard and I just can't justify buying $125 sneakers. The Avias were on sale." While WGA policy prevented the captain from barring the writer from picketing, other writers were not happy with the middle-class footwear.

**LATEST NEWS BREAKING ALERT UPDATE**: According to a Fox exec with an office window facing a picket line, several dozen bored Fox picketers found a way to write without putting pen to paper: the "one word at a time" script. Starting with person number one, and going down the line, each writer said just one word to build off the words previously said. Starting with "exterior," then "beach," and so on, the script continued for three hours. By the time the words "the" and "end" were spoken, eight writers had fainted and five were institutionalized.

Because they cannot actually write down the story, each participating scribe was asked to remember his or her words. The story clocks in at 22,761 words, and with 87 contributing picketers, each person is responsible for remembering approximately 264 words. And the order in which they said them. And who went before them. And after. Should the spoken-but-as-of-yet-unwritten script sell, it would be a first for an initially-spoken-but-transcribed-weeks-later script.