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 Post Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:41 am 
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I sense a certain theme in the choices this time.

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 Post Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 11:58 am 
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Looks like this is a book we all know pretty well.

Unfortunately, that means a whole raft of eerily similar choices... :sam:

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 Post Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 12:00 pm 
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kitoba wrote:
Looks like this is a book we all know pretty well.

Unfortunately, that means a whole raft of eerily similar choices... :sam:



Makes it hard for me to remember the actual line from the book. But I already made my guess. So I can go look it up now.

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 Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:28 am 
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Come on SC, let us know, which hole was the right one? :torg:

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 Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:47 pm 
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kitoba wrote:
Come on SC, let us know, which hole was the right one? :torg:

If I had a nickel for every time I heard tha... Oh, right, the entries.
inspiration wrote:
It was a very good hole.

Jorodryn wrote:
Not a damp dark hole, but a warm comfortable hole.

kitoba wrote:
You mustn't think of some nasty, dirty animal's den hollowed into the earth; no, this was a hobbit's hole and that means comfort.

AlternateTorg wrote:
Because it was a hobbit hole, you would not find dirt, or mud, or sand, or tree roots, or serpents, or worms; rather, you would first encounter a perfectly round, green door with a brassy knob in the center.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote:
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

Correctly guessed by Jorodryn, CCC, Solara Hanover, drachefly, kitoba, and AlternateTorg.
CCC wrote:
Now, you must not think that this was in any way a mean or humble dwelling.

drachefly wrote:
It was a quiet hole with a circular wooden door, with a brass lantern on each side, and the initials 'B.B' inscribed just below the knocker.

Solara Hanover wrote:
Not a cold, dark, smelly damp hole, nor a dry desert-like hole, but a hobbit hole.

Fooled inspiration.

kitoba: 8+2=10
CCC: 7+2=9
Solara Hanover: 5+3=8
Jorodryn: 5+2=7
drachefly: 4+2=6
AlternateTorg: 3+2=5
Stan Cold: 5
inspiration: 1

Take it away, Solara!


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 Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:51 pm 
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Shouldn't Solara have earned 3 points that round?

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 Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:55 pm 
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You are correct, and that is why you are both a gentleman and a scholar.

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 Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:14 pm 
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I'm beginning to suspect insp is deliberately throwing this game! :kiki:

I'm surprised how close mine was to the real thing. I haven't read that book in at least a decade. I guess it's just lodged deeply in my memory. I'll have to go buy a copy somewhere.

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 Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 9:10 am 
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Upon much reflection and consideration, I'm going with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis wrote:
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

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 Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 9:42 am 
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One of my very favorite opening lines ever ever.

(No, I have no idea what comes next. :torg: )

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 Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:47 pm 
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I'm beginning to suspect insp is deliberately throwing this game! :kiki:

I'm surprised how close mine was to the real thing. I haven't read that book in at least a decade. I guess it's just lodged deeply in my memory. I'll have to go buy a copy somewhere.


I almost picked yours.

And to Solara, Why couldn't you have went with The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe? I might have had a shot with that one.

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 Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 3:28 pm 
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And to Solara, Why couldn't you have went with The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe? I might have had a shot with that one.


Because the opening line of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is BORING LOL

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 Post Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:24 am 
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Double post, because all the lines are in :)!!!

  • I say "almost" because while Eustace was a thoroughly wretched person, he grew much during the experiences chronicled herein, and not just in size.

  • He was quite disliked by his schoolmates, but never seemed bothered about it---a state of affairs which made him even more unpopular.

  • It wasn't entirely his fault, however; he had been badly bought up, and had read none of the right sort of books.

  • His parents called him Eustace Clarence, and masters called him Scrubb.

  • He went to a very progressive school where they were instructed to call their teachers by their first names, and had ever-so-artistic parents who encouraged him to express all his worst impulses freely; and the upshot is he was just as miserable a person as you might well imagine.

  • Deserved to remain a dragon for the rest of his days.

  • Every summer, the Pevensies were subjected to him, along with the hospitality of his even more regrettable mother.

  • He was a troublesome lad and only excelled at rabble-rousing.

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 Post Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:03 am 
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What fun! They're all quite different this go round...

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 Post Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:31 am 
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Hmmm.

So, first I seperated out four lines that I really don't think are plausible. The other four lines can be divided into two groups; those that are possible but that I don't consider likely, and that line which seems, on the face of it, to be the most likely.

At this point, my careful work is derailed by the fact that the line I have determined to be the most likely is the one that I submitted, and which therefore ought to have been taken out of the running in step 0...

I guess I'll just have to go for one of the 'possible' three.

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