Forum    Search    FAQ

Board index » Chat Forums » Word Games and Random Silliness




Post new topic  Reply to topic  [ 109 posts ] 
 
Author Message
 Post Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:10 pm 
Member of the Fraternal Order of the Emergency Pants
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Mon Feb 18, 2002 12:00 am
Posts: 3167
AOL: drachefly
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Who's left?

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:47 am 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Wed May 15, 2002 12:00 am
Posts: 11381
At the time of your post, Drachfly, there was one left. That one submitted a second line shortly afterwards.

So. Here are the lines (I've taken the liberty of editing one or two to remove spelling and punctuation errors):

Quote:
Alice leaned back to look at the clouds and began daydreaming as she decided that the cloud just above her reminded her of some sort of fish.


Quote:
As the summer's heat deepened, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she surely would have fallen asleep - but for a flash of white.


Quote:
It was nearly noon.


Quote:
Presently, a white rabbit came scurrying past, wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch. `Curiouser and curiouser,' thought Alice.


Quote:
She had even begun to feel a trifle drowsy when her attention was suddenly drawn to a large white rabbit.


Quote:
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.


Quote:
"They are not `conversations,'" corrected her sister, "You are thinking of `dialogue.'"

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:50 am 
Member of the Fraternal Order of the Emergency Pants
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:00 am
Posts: 2994
Mind if I join the next round?

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:59 am 
Senior Community Staff
Senior Community Staff
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Tue Feb 26, 2002 12:00 am
Posts: 2667
Location: super-entropy
Please do, AT! The more, the merrier!

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:15 pm 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Wed May 15, 2002 12:00 am
Posts: 11381
Wow, the guesses came in quickly.

Alright, then. The second lines were originally placed in alphabetical order, so I'll use the same ordering here:

Jorodryn wrote:
Alice leaned back to look at the clouds and began daydreaming as she decided that the cloud just above her reminded her of some sort of fish.


No-one chose it.

Drachefly wrote:
As the summer's heat deepened, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she surely would have fallen asleep - but for a flash of white.


Chosen by no-one.

Inspiration wrote:
It was nearly noon.


Again, chosen by no-one.

Solara Hanover wrote:
Presently, a white rabbit came scurrying past, wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch. `Curiouser and curiouser,' thought Alice.


Chosen, again, by no-one.

Kitoba wrote:
She had even begun to feel a trifle drowsy when her attention was suddenly drawn to a large white rabbit.


Once again, chosen by no-one.

Lewis Carroll wrote:
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.


Chosen by Kitoba, Drachefly, Jorodryn, Solara and Stan Cold

Stan Cold wrote:
"They are not `conversations,'" corrected her sister, "You are thinking of `dialogue.'"


Chosen by Inspiration

Scores:

Kitoba 5 +2 = 7
Jorodryn 3 + 2 = 5
Stan Cold 2 + 3 = 5
Solara Hanover 2 +2 = 4
Drachefly 2 + 2 = 4
CCC 3 + 0 = 3
Insp 1 + 0 = 1
AlternateTorg: Joining next round (0)

...wow, I dropped like a stone that round.

So what did we learn from this? That Carroll's style is almost impossible to completely imitate, I think, even for just one sentence.

Jorodryn, I don't believe you've gone yet. Would you like to take the next round?

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:44 pm 
Offline
Joined: Wed May 13, 2009 2:42 am
Posts: 1959
ICQ: 8854007
Yahoo Messenger: jorodryn
Location: Well since the universe expands infinitely in all directions, The center of the universe.
Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Quote:
Marley was dead: to begin with.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:18 am 
Offline
Joined: Wed May 13, 2009 2:42 am
Posts: 1959
ICQ: 8854007
Yahoo Messenger: jorodryn
Location: Well since the universe expands infinitely in all directions, The center of the universe.
CCC wrote:
Dead and buried.

guessed by inspiration and Stan

inspiration wrote:
That was the first affair.


kitoba wrote:
Scrooge was quite sure of it.

Guessed by drachefly

Chucky wrote:
There is no doubt whatever about that.

Guessed by CCC and AT

Solara wrote:
Therefore, the fact that he had suddenly appeared in Scrooge's study was a matter of some consternation.

Guessed by kitoba

drachefly wrote:
Dead, and forgotten for the time, but not quite yet gone.


Stan wrote:
But not quite as dead as one - oh, I'm getting ahead of myself.


AT wrote:
This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

guessed by Solara



Scores:

Kitoba: 7+1=8
CCC: 3+4=7
Jorodryn: 5=5
Stan Cold: 5=5
Solara Hanover: 4+1=5
Drachefly: 4=4
AlternateTorg: 0+3=3
Insp: 1=1

So dfly, Kit, CCC, and I have all gone, so it must be Stan's turn.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:39 am 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Wed May 15, 2002 12:00 am
Posts: 11381
Whoo! Catching up to Kitoba again. Thanks, Inspiration, Stan!

...it's interesting how these sentences could almost follow on from each other. I mean, consider...

"Marley was dead: to begin with. Dead and buried. That was the first affair. Scrooge was quite sure of it. There is no doubt whatever about that. Therefore, the fact that he had suddenly appeared in Scrooge's study was a matter of some consternation."

(After that, they don't all follow on nearly as well).

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:23 pm 
Member of the Fraternal Order of the Emergency Pants
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:00 am
Posts: 2994
This one played to my wheelhouse, as I've read it numerous times, and I've always loved how he started the story.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:49 pm 
Offline
Joined: Wed May 13, 2009 2:42 am
Posts: 1959
ICQ: 8854007
Yahoo Messenger: jorodryn
Location: Well since the universe expands infinitely in all directions, The center of the universe.
AlternateTorg wrote:
This one played to my wheelhouse, as I've read it numerous times, and I've always loved how he started the story.


I picked it because we get inundated with the story every year at Christmas time, just about everyone knows it, yet I assumed not many have actually read the book.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:03 pm 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:09 pm
Posts: 5432
Website: http://grillick.blogspot.com
WLM: [email protected]
Yahoo Messenger: Giltaras
AOL: Giltaras
Location: Brooklyn, NY
My favorite part was that you captioned Charles Dickens as "Chucky"

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:24 pm 
Offline
Joined: Wed May 13, 2009 2:42 am
Posts: 1959
ICQ: 8854007
Yahoo Messenger: jorodryn
Location: Well since the universe expands infinitely in all directions, The center of the universe.
Grillick wrote:
My favorite part was that you captioned Charles Dickens as "Chucky"


I figured 'the little dickens' was too cliche.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:42 pm 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:13 am
Posts: 2604
AOL: [email protected]
Location: Somewhere doing something.
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Quote:
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:35 pm 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Mon Sep 23, 2002 12:00 am
Posts: 2699
Website: http://kitoba.com
Location: Televising the revolution
Any updates?

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 12:23 am 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:13 am
Posts: 2604
AOL: [email protected]
Location: Somewhere doing something.
Quote:
It was a very good hole.

Quote:
Not a damp dark hole, but a warm comfortable hole.

Quote:
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.

Quote:
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.

Quote:
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.

Quote:
Now, you must not think that this was in any way a mean or humble dwelling.

Quote:
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.

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

Top 
   
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
 
Post new topic  Reply to topic  [ 109 posts ] 

Board index » Chat Forums » Word Games and Random Silliness


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 1 guest

 
 

 
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to: