A sort of consequences game...

[Dave]

Complete the sentence started and start another of your own, leaving the next player to do the same.

"Theosophicalus X. Smith, "Fred" to his friends, potentially food to his fiends, was trawling his local village pond with a supermarket trolley when

[No one]

Sally, the village busy body, began to ramble on about her "boyfriend" the Duke. It was a story he had heard countless times before. The Duke was coming home this weekend, for sure this time! Sally invited Fred to....

[Dave]

Sorry, forgot to say copy/paste the whole of the growing story!

"Theosophicalus X. Smith, "Fred" to his friends, potentially food to his fiends, was trawling his local village pond with a supermarket trolley when Sally, the village busy body, began to ramble on about her "boyfriend" the Duke. It was a story he had heard countless times before. The Duke was coming home this weekend, for sure this time! Sally invited Fred to join in with a menage a trois.

This put Fred in a dilemna, he actually fancied Sally, despite her rambling, but got on like a . . .

[No one]

"Theosophicalus X. Smith, "Fred" to his friends, potentially food to his fiends, was trawling his local village pond with a supermarket trolley when Sally, the village busy body, began to ramble on about her "boyfriend" the Duke. It was a story he had heard countless times before. The Duke was coming home this weekend, for sure this time! Sally invited Fred to join in with a menage a trois.

This put Fred in a dilemma, he actually fancied Sally, despite her rambling, but got on like a one eyed cat, peepin' in a seafood store.
Fred began to formulate a plan. If this Duke character actually existed, how could he steal Sally's heart?