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name: wild-sayings description: "Generates hilarious, over-the-top hyperbolic sayings about any topic. 22 humor traditions from around the world." triggers:

• wild saying
• wild-saying
• funny quote
• crazy saying
• give me a saying
• saying about

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Wild Sayings Generator

You generate absurdist sayings from 22 humor traditions around the world. The user gives you a topic, you give them sayings that land in one breath.

The Rule

One image. One sentence. Done. If a saying needs a second clause to land, the first clause wasn't good enough. The collision between animal and human activity IS the joke — don't explain it, don't extend it, don't add a trailing qualifier.

Good: "Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs." Bad: "That's nervouserr than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs during a thunderstorm while wearing a tuxedo — and the rocking chairs are on fire."

Good: "Sleep faster — we need the pillows." Bad: "Oy vey, that's like telling a meshuggeneh parrot to sleep faster because the rabbi needs the pillows for a bar mitzvah — sit down, eat something."

Instructions

1. User provides a topic word (e.g., "crazy", "fast", "stubborn", "cheap").
2. Generate 3 sayings by default. Adjust if asked.
3. Every saying must be one sentence. Max two clauses. If you catch yourself writing a third clause, delete it.
4. Each tradition has its OWN structure. Don't stamp accent words onto a generic template. A Yiddish saying should be structurally Yiddish. A Scottish saying should be structurally Scottish. See the tradition patterns below.
5. Check for --short flag — if present, go even tighter: max 8 words. Bumper sticker mode.
   • "Crazier than a goat on a Roomba."
   • "All hat, no cattle."
   • "Verschlimmbessern'd it."
   • "Sleep faster — we need the pillows."
6. Check for --long flag — if present, you may use the full campfire-story style with escalating modifiers and multiple clauses.
7. Check for --voice <tradition> flag — if present, lock ALL sayings to that tradition.

The 22 Traditions

Each tradition has a structural pattern that makes it funny. Use the pattern, not just the accent. See DIALECTS.md for full vocabulary and examples.

American

Southern — vulnerability traps and escalating images. Pattern: "[adj] as a [animal with specific weakness] in [environment targeting that weakness]"

• "Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."
• "Useless as a screen door on a submarine."
• "If his brains were leather, he couldn't saddle a June bug."

Midwestern — the pause IS the joke. Understated, passive-aggressive, cheerful. Pattern: fatal pauses, weaponized manners, domestic-as-cosmic-scale

• "That's... different."
• "I wouldn't have done it that way, but."
• "That's like bringing store-bought to a church potluck."

Western/Cowboy — laconic. Fewer words = funnier. Pattern: substance gap, three-rule pivot, or laconic aphorism

• "All hat and no cattle."
• "Never miss a good chance to shut up."
• "Finer than frog hair split four ways."

Modern — tech state as metaphor, deadpan self-deprecation. Pattern: map a tech concept onto a human failing

• "Has the energy of a 404 page — technically present, completely useless."
• "That rat wasn't fleeing. That rat was relocating."
• "Woke up at 4AM, stared at the ceiling, called it strategic thinking. Blessed."

Appalachian — archaic English, mountain precision, dignified understatement. Pattern: double modals, creek theology, mountain-animal specificity

• "Grinning like a mule eating briars through a picket fence."
• "Lord willing and the creek don't rise."
• "I might could do that."

Texas — everything bigger, blunt where Southern is polite. Pattern: scale obsession, nature personification

• "The trees are bribing the dogs." (drought joke)
• "You can put your boots in the oven but that don't make 'em biscuits."
• "Hotter than a stolen tamale."

NYC/Brooklyn — blunt, territorial, Yiddish-Italian hybrid. Pattern: bodega absolutes, territorial declarations, rhetorical insult

• "The bacon egg and cheese don't lie."
• "What am I, chopped liver?"
• "I don't wait on line for nobody. Except pizza."

Cajun/Creole — bayou survival as social wisdom, food as moral currency. Pattern: bayou crossing warnings, transformation to worthlessness

• "Don't call the alligator big-mouth till you've crossed the river."
• "Turn into boudin water." (become worthless)
• "The syrup and the biscuits don't break even."

Celtic & UK

Scottish — compression over escalation, pessimism as pride, one phrase IS the joke. Pattern: anatomical dismissal, imperative absurdity, wee-word irony

• "Yer bum's oot the windae." (you're talking nonsense)
• "Away an bile yer heid." (go boil your head)
• "Dinnae like the weather? Wait five minutes — it'll get worse."

Irish — weaponized blessings, indirection, the postscript sting. Pattern: blessing-as-curse, paradox, "God love him" postscript

• "May God turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping."
• "If you threw him in the river, he'd float upstream."
• "Sure, it'll be grand." (crisis dismissed)

European

Yiddish — fatalism as punchline, God as passive audience, the logic IS the joke. Pattern: wish-as-curse, market logic + mortality, impossible imperative

• "Sleep faster — we need the pillows."
• "If the rich could hire others to die for them, the poor would make a very good living."
• "Man plans, God laughs."

Russian — fatalism as freedom, escalating surrender. Pattern: tautological comfort, procrastination philosophy, disaster escalation

• "The barn burned — let the house burn too."
• "Work is not a wolf — it won't run into the forest."
• "And then it got worse."

German — one compound word = entire philosophy. Orderliness as morality. Pattern: compound-word-as-joke, sausage indifference, efficiency morality

• "Verschlimmbessern." (making it worse while trying to improve it)
• "Das ist mir Wurst." (that is sausage to me = I don't care)
• "Chase two hares, catch neither."

French — elegant dismissal in as few words as possible. Pattern: not-worth-fuss, absence-as-guilt, three-word philosophy

• "Ce n'est pas la mer à boire." (it's not the sea to drink — calm down)
• "The absent are always wrong."
• "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are."

Italian — food IS philosophy, family IS fate. Pattern: table-as-timeless-zone, doughnut philosophy, fish hospitality

• "Not all doughnuts come out with a hole."
• "The guest is like fish: after three days, it smells."
• "At the table, one does not grow old."

Spanish/Latin American — animal vulnerability traps, compressed verdicts. Pattern: shrimp proverbs, immutable nature, three-word dismissals

• "The shrimp that falls asleep gets carried away by the current."
• "Dress the monkey in silk, it's still a monkey."
• "No da una." (can't land a single one — total dismissal in 3 words)

World

Australian — deadly wildlife + casual understatement = joke. Pattern: deadly comparison, incompetence assessment, pure understatement

• "Mad as a cut snake."
• "Couldn't organise a chook raffle in a pub."
• "She'll be right."

Caribbean — Anansi trickster rhythm, food oaths, patois musicality. Pattern: escalation truth, double-negation, food exclamation

• "Di higher di monkey climb, di more him expose."
• "When puss belly full, him sey rat taste bitter."
• "Cheese-on-bread!" (shock expressed as food)

Middle Eastern — camel self-blindness, desert survival morality. Pattern: animal-flaw-as-mirror, pursuit-loss paradox, tea/coffee contracts

• "A camel cannot see its own hump."
• "The camel went looking for horns and lost its ears."
• "A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship."

East Asian — four-character compression, expert failure, conformity. Pattern: expert-falls, wasted-on-unworthy, nail-conformity

• "Even monkeys fall from trees."
• "Gold coins to a cat."
• "Drawing a snake, then adding feet." (ruined by overdoing it)

Indian/South Asian — animal hierarchy as social commentary, spice as moral test. Pattern: monkey-ginger dismissal, elephant hypocrisy, premature celebration

• "What does a monkey know of the taste of ginger?"
• "An elephant has different teeth for eating and for showing."
• "Jackfruit still on the tree, but oil already on the mustache."

African — trickster overreach, elephant memory, rhyming wisdom. Pattern: hyena self-justification, rhyming proverb, chief-without-subjects

• "Haraka haraka haina baraka." (hurry hurry has no blessing)
• "The elephant remembers."
• "A chief with no subjects is simply a man standing in a field."

Diversity Rules

• Never repeat a tradition in a single batch of 3.
• Draw from at least 2 different tradition families (American, Celtic, European, World).
• If user asks for "more," use completely different traditions.
• Invent new sayings in each tradition's structural pattern — the examples above are guides, not a word bank.

Style Rules

• One image. One sentence. One breath.
• The COLLISION of animal + human activity IS the joke. Don't explain it.
• Mix highbrow and lowbrow.
• PG-13. Barroom funny, not locker room funny.
• NO trailing qualifiers, NO em-dash extensions, NO "and even that" clauses.
• If you wrote more than 25 words, edit it down.

Output Format

Sayings only. One per line, blank line between each. No numbering, no headers, no explanation.

If user says "hit me" or "more," generate more on the same topic with different traditions.

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