Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:39 pm

Eeeeek - I was thinking of the quote I was going to post. I guess that's out for now; I'll save it for the future.

That one's obviously 'The Great Gatsby', F Scott Fitzgerald. Sorry.

RecluceMage · Post by **RecluceMage** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:07 pm

Good job Edge, again.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:15 pm

Thank you. And here's a relatively easy one - though I think it does deserve a Sherlock:

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

RecluceMage · Post by **RecluceMage** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:17 pm

AARRRGG.... it's so familiar, and even so I am bound by honor not to answer... (ok, honor and the rules)

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:23 pm

RecluceMage wrote:AARRRGG.... it's so familiar, and even so I am bound by honor not to answer... (ok, honor and the rules)

I expect nothing less - but it's still great of you to play so fair.

Post by **Kvetch** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:02 pm

Great Expectations, Chjarles Dickens

(I admit to getting it by recognising the name then rifling through all my family's Dickens. Since I've seen the book, I'll post staight away.)

I'm also going to use this quote to show what I feel should be exemplary conduct (

) - note: Genre (generally, for difficult quotes, to narrow it down), quote and shelock awardness

Fantasy wrote:In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...

SHERLOCK WILL BE AWARDED

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:44 pm

Kvetch wrote:
Pirate Queen ChoChiyo wrote:I am clueless on the Sherlock thing. Explain it to me.
here: viewtopic.php?t=202

the idea is you gain a point for knowing/finding an obscure piece of knowledge (such as recognising a quote in the MQG)

So, do I go over there and add the point into the thread for RM? Or is there someone else in charge of that?

/me am clueless still. But cute, none the less...../

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:45 pm

Well, you already know that you're quite correct, Kvetch.

Now I guess by the rules of the game I can't give the answer to yours unless no-one else gets it within 3 days.

Alas, poor Sherlock - I know it so well....

RecluceMage · Post by **RecluceMage** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:52 pm

Yes ChoChiyo, you must do it, I cannot do it for myself, just go the last page and take a look at the last couple posts for examples.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:55 pm

It's done.

Whoo hoo.

Post by **Kvetch** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:48 am

Edge: Big Grin. Thought you'd know it

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:54 am

I know it too Shh.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:38 pm

Through boredom: I lay this quote open to the first person who posts (provided it's correct), regardless of whether they have guessed one recently.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:51 pm

Dang--it's Discworld, Terry Pratchet....but what's the actual title? Brain fart....

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:57 pm

you have until I next check this thread to get the title, or you get a half point. If someone else gets the title, you share the point.

RecluceMage · Post by **RecluceMage** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:38 pm

The Colour of magic.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:07 pm

half a point each then.

The first person to post a quote gets to do so (only way of deciding between you)

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:24 pm

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

If this one isn't guessed in an hour, something's very, very wrong.

Post by **Ghost** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:37 pm

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

/frankly me dear, me donâ€™tâ€™ give a dam

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:24 pm

One sherlock for Iron Ghost Kidd.

BTW, you must post the next quote, my dear.

Post by **Ghost** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:44 am

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight.

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:58 am

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey

TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:38 am

Is this a short story opening? Poe? Tell-tale heart?

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:00 am

"Yes, yes! It's the beating of that hideous heart!!"

Well done, Cho. Sherlock pour vous.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:52 am

Whoo hoo!

I like the idea of using short stories as well as novels!

The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:

TIME SAFARI, INC.
SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.
YOU NAME THE ANIMAL.
WE TAKE YOU THERE.
YOU SHOOT IT.

(This is a short story: Hint, hint.)

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Yet Another Quote Game [First line game]