Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:12 pm

Right you are. I'll go and give you a Sherlock (if I can find it...)

Your go.

mccormack44: I too enjoy this thread a lot! It is a great way ot catch a little glimpse of books you haven't read - but might want to.

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:01 am

Whee! Let's try this one:

It is a curious thing that at my age - I shall never see sixty again - I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history.

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:14 am

A time for a clue again. The line is from the first Chapter not from the Introduction. It's an old adventure book, not SF or fantasy.

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:31 am

I'm sure I know this, but can't pin it down. From the late 19th or early 20th century? (Not a question, but a tickle for someone else's memory.)

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:54 pm

Well, I'm gonna answer it anyway: late 19th. It's a part of a series of books.

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:14 am

H. Rider Haggard -- King Solomon's Mines.

(I thought this looked familiar when I first saw it, but couldn't think of it for some reason. Wrong place on the screen, I guess.)

Anyway, someone else can post the next one. 90% of what I read is rather obscure.

Post by **Ghost** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:24 am

You canâ€™t win a Sherlock if you donâ€™t post the next quote, and it sounds like you could use one of your 10% non-obscure books.

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:47 pm

I SAID it was familiar; I'm ashamed that I didn't get it!

Post by **Kvetch** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:18 am

mccormack44 wrote:I SAID it was familiar; I'm ashamed that I didn't get it!

What she said.

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:34 am

Grumble, grumble, grumble. Okay. Since I see I can't get out of it so easily...

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:
"Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:01 pm

No idea. Perhaps a hint, or shall we declare it cold?

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:12 am

Genre: "classics." The book was written before women's liberation.

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:31 pm

Cold, I think.

Anyone want to step up the the podium to post a quote? Spiphany, perhaps you'd like to try an easier one?

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:43 pm

Can Spiphany give us the answer? (Or is that against the rules?)

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:51 pm

The theoretical way to do it (in the MQG) is to let it go 'cold', so people can come back to it at a later date (and earn the Sherlock) - but in practise, the setter often gives the solution. I don't mind either way.

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:31 am

I won't post the title since anyone who is curious should be able to find out easily by googling (it's out of copyright).

Try this (from what I've been reading recently):

On the night that XXX was born a thunderstorm was raging over the mountains, such a storm that all the goblinfolk in Matt's Forest crept back in terror to their holes and hiding places. Only the fierce harpies preferred stormy weather to any other and flew, shrieking and hooting, around the robbers' stronghold on Matt's mountain. Their noise disturbed Lovis, who was lying within, preparing to give birth, and she said to Matt, "Drive the hell-harpies away and let me have some quiet. Otherwise I can't hear what I'm singing!"

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:05 am

Since this game has gone cold not just by days but by months, I'm trying to revive it. This one shoud be easy. I've erased a name (twice the same one) that was too much of a giveaway.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother _____ got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and ____'s fear of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

By the way, I indeed easily googled spiphany's fist quote on the "sapristi"-repeatiing parrot:
"The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
but that does not vcount.

spiphany wrote:I won't post the title since anyone who is curious should be able to find out easily by googling (it's out of copyright).

Try this (from what I've been reading recently):
On the night that XXX was born a thunderstorm was raging over the mountains, such a storm that all the goblinfolk in Matt's Forest crept back in terror to their holes and hiding places. Only the fierce harpies preferred stormy weather to any other and flew, shrieking and hooting, around the robbers' stronghold on Matt's mountain. Their noise disturbed Lovis, who was lying within, preparing to give birth, and she said to Matt, "Drive the hell-harpies away and let me have some quiet. Otherwise I can't hear what I'm singing!"

I also googled this one
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
but it has been sitting here so long I doubt anyone would have found it "honestly".

Don't google mine! You'll find it in a jiffy!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:54 pm

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother _____ got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and ____'s fear of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

I can't believe noone has found that one yet!

OK, so here is the unexpurged form:

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fear of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:22 pm

Brad wrote:
Don't google mine! You'll find it in a jiffy!
You hid it in a jar of peanut butter ?!

j/k

Not in a jar! In a small, blue box of baking mix

I was afraid that I used the wrong word, but Wikipedia did confirm that ,asisde from a baking mix, a "jiffy" is a small unit of time. Why do you "Boo" me in the dark like that?

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:13 pm

"Jiffy" is one of our too most popular names for supermarket peanut butter. (The other is Skippy.) I suppose the marketing people thought these names would appeal to children and be easy names for them to remember.
Sue

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:36 am

Sue, I can't believe it!

When I saw your name as a new poster on this thread, I was sure you had the answer to the quote, not that your contribution was on the running joke between Brad and me!

I mean, I cannot believe noone found that book, with all the hints I am leaving on the way... (yes, there are many hidden hints all over!

)
I thought it'd be found in a couple of hours (just the time lag, time for you to wake up on the other side of the Atlantic)

/enter paranoid mode

Besides there is a collusion between you and Brad to mock me about my ignorance of US society, you behave as two cats playing with a hapless birdie, when you know very well that there is no such thing as Jiffy peanut butter. Jiffy Pop is a brand of popcorn, and two popular brands of peanut butter are Skippy (indeed) and Jif, not Jiffy! Is your aim, both of you, to push me to kill myself in despair? wouldn't that be a sin? non sequitur: there is more in Italy than just Rome....
/exit paranoid mode

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:29 am

wow, guys, Alfred's right LOL and we don't even HAVE Jif in Canada.... I kept wondering why Jiffy looked wrong

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:44 am

Ok, I have to say it since everyone else is too shy. The book is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:44 am

Yes, of course!

However, I read the rules of this game: you do not get the Sherlock unless you post a next opening line!

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:51 am

I'll post when I get home tonight.

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