Here's a game we used to play on long car rides. Come up with the name of a book after the fiends at Reader's Digest have had a chance to downsize it.
Examples:
The Two Musketeers
Tale of a City
The Snack Counter at the End of the Neighborhood
The Wind of a Skirmish
A Few Things You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
*But Haven't Gotten Around to Asking, Yet.
My Body, My Self
Have at it, friends.
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Missing in the breeze?
A grape of mild irritation?
Oliver slightly bent?
I could go on for days! I like this game. . .
wait, was I supposed to guess yours?. . .
The Fourth Night
Grudge and Peace
Romeo
To Injure A Mockingbird
Pride and Slight Condescension
Med Student Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Alice in KindOfOkayLand
The Nudge of the Wild
Rhythmic Movements With A Wolf
Aesop's Fable
Managed Expectations
Gulliver's Vacation
The Forest Book
The Man in the Plastic Mask
The Boy With Mild Scoliosis from Notre Dame
Paradise Misplaced
Dr. DooLess
Uncle Tom's Storage Shed
And...I'm spent. :)
Mild altercations and lack there of.
(Unalive) (eye) (expletive for a male organ).
Unavailable Off Ramp
Deli-counter Four
Ahab's Fishing Trip
Low Self Esteem and PC Behavior
American Neurotic
Paradise Temporarily Misplaced
Dante's Grease Fire
Green Egg Beaters and Spam.
Try with game with movie titles, it is just as fun...
Secret Flowerpot
Spare Change Island
Little Woman
Red Badge of Malaise
Are You There, Bob? It's Me, Margie
Gulliver's Long Weekend
Gone with the Breeze
Tropic of Aquarius
A Clockwork
Of Mice
Lord of the fleas
One flew over
Purple color
Scary New World
The Sun also goes down
Catcher in the bushes
These were all great.. I can't compete! :)
Lowered Expectations
Catch-2
The old man and the small fishing pond
"6,800 Maniacs: The Inside Story" by Natalie Merchant
"The 42 Minutes of the Triffids" by John Wyndham
"Almost Forgotten Acquaintance in a Slightly Odd Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.
"Have Spacesuit, Will Go to Supermarket" by Robert A. Heinlein.
"Harry Potter and the Slightly Itchy Hallows" by J. K. Rowling (Abridged, it's down to a mere 700 pages).
"A Couple Hundred Thousand Little Pieces" by James Frey. As promoted as part of Oprah's Pamphlet Club.
"Like Story" by Erich Segal
"The Minor Annoyance of Khan" novelization by Vonda McIntyre
"Fahrenheit 227" by Ray Bradbury
I will try movies....
The Split with Matt Damon/Jack Nicolson
Mansion Slightly Scary On A Mound...With Jeffery Rush
The World According To Who? With Robin Williams
Chronicles Of A Crazy Bitch
The Terminally Sarcastic with Tom Hanks and also Woody Gumpster
That's all I got.. it was fun..
Temporary Jest
A Dunce or Two
Gatsby Had His Moments, I Suppose
That Person You Meet in Heaven--Oh Wait, There Is No Heaven ... Never Mind
Your Parachute Is Blue
Um. I don't like this game.
Where are the new pics of TED and MB?
But what of the blog world?
"Someone who Hasn't Met the Comedienne"
"The Oh, never mind of Anon1"
"David in Arlington"
"Insidious Neutral Assertions"
"chef.boy.ar.dee spaghetti"
"Sometimesrecycledblog"
Good Heavens, thank you friends.
Entries above have evinced muffled chortles, out-loud chuckles, two snorts, three snuffles and a guffaw.
I don't want to sleight anybody by missing their gem here, so I'll just take special note of the entry that topped my Douglas Adams reference.
Heinlein references and a sly Star Trek/Vonda McIntyre aside also caught my eye.
So did all the tributes to Shakespeare, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Melville, Tolstoy, John Kennedy Toole, and whichever Bolles brother wasn't blown up by mobsters.
Love the Oprah reference too.
Good golly we're a literate bunch of wise asses.
l.b.: RFB wants to know if that's a Rugrats reference in the midst of your Judy Blume parody.
Was typin at same time as dmarks.
Am liking his twist:
Of Sound Mind in Ashburn
Live Life, Love Life (the prequel).
Tales of a Mildly Palatable Redhead
Faux-suede in Dupont
WE WANT TED!
And don't forget
Clear Dade
:)
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