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I would like to propose a new game, which I am calling dibs on as soon as the dust from the UMAMI is settled.
The game can be bought for the princely sum of $48US and goes by the name Liebrary™. This is ridiculous. We have all we need to play it ourselves; players and the books they read.
The game is played as follows:
The Liebrarian chooses a novel and gives the players the title and a plot outline. The players then invent first lines and PM them to the Liebrarian who presents them, along with the real first line, much in the manner of Hogwash®.
I have a novel and am prepared to be the first Liebrarian. I will start it within four days after UMAMI is settled, if there is sufficient interest.
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It will the best of games and the worst of games. Count me in.
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Excellent, Fong - as my dear grandma used to say, a change is as good as a rest to a blind donkey. 
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It will the best of games and the worst of games. Count me in.
LOL!  I told Faldage that would be the one book lots of people know the first sentence of yet none of them has read (me included).
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Sounds like fun! I'll play. And, AnnaS, sorry to spoil your bon mot, but I've read ToTC - twice (once for each city....) 
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me too, i love dickens!
the book that haven't gotten much past the first line starts:
Call me Ismael...
but i love the one that opens:
Ahab was neither my first husband, nor my last.
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C: Oh, well, not to worry, not to worry. Can you help me with "David Coperfield"?
P: Ah, yes, Dickens.
C: No....
P: (pause) I beg your pardon?
C: No, Edmund Wells.
P: I... *think* you'll find Charles Dickens wrote "David Copperfield", sir....
C: No, no, Dickens wrote "David Copperfield" with *two* Ps. This is "David Coperfield" with *one* P by Edmund Wells.
P: "David Coperfield" with one P?
C: Yes, I should have said.
P: Yes, well in that case we don't have it.
C: (peering over counter) Funny, you've got a lot of books here....
P: (slightly perturbed) Yes, we do, but we don't have "David Coperfield" with one P by Edmund Wells.
C: Pity, it's more thorough than the Dickens.
P: More THOROUGH?!?
C: Yes...I wonder if it might be worth a look through all your "David Copperfield"s...
P: No, sir, all our "David Copperfield"s have two P's.
C: Are you quite sure?
P: Quite.
C: Not worth just looking?
P: Definitely not.
C: Oh... how 'bout "Grate Expectations"?
P: Yes, well we have that....
C: That's "G-R-A-T-E Expectations," also by Edmund Wells.
P: (pause) Yes, well in that case we don't have it. We don't have anything by Edmund Wells, actually: he's not very popular.
C: Not "Knickerless Knickleby"? That's K-N-I-C-K-E-R-L-E-S-S.
P: (taciturn) No.
C: "Khristmas Karol" with a K?
P: (really quite perturbed) No....
C: Er, how about "A Sale of Two Titties"?
P: DEFINITELY NOT!
C: (moving towards door) Sorry to trouble you....
P: Not at all....
C: Good morning.
P: Good morning.
C: (turning around) Oh!
P: (deep breath) Yesss?
C: I wonder if you might have a copy of "Rarnaby Budge"?
P: No, as I say, we're right out of Edmund Wells!
C: No, not Edmund Wells - Charles Dikkens.
P: (pause - eagerly) Charles Dickens??
C: Yes.
P: (excitedly) You mean "Barnaby Rudge"!
C: No, "Rarnaby Budge" by Charles Dikkens. That's Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author.
P: (slight pause) No, well we don't have "Rarnaby Budge" by Charles Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author, and perhaps to save time I should add that we don't have "Karnaby Fudge" by Darles Chickens, or "Farmer of Sludge" by Marles Pickens, or even "Stickwick Stapers" by Farles Wickens with four M's and a silent Q!!!!! Why don't you try W. H. Smith's?
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me too, i love dickens!
the book that haven't gotten much past the first line starts:
Call me Ismael...
but i love the one that opens:
Ahab was neither my first husband, nor my last.
I know both those, too -- read the first because I had to for school and the second because I wanted to for me. But n.b.: I have a feeling Faldage and future Liebrarians are gonna pick books nobody's ever heard of to give us full creative space.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a Porsche.
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"If I could tell you one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head."
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Sounds cool, Faldage.
And if the $48 people get mad we can change the name
from Liebrary to Fiburary and tell the $48 people to go take a hike.
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.... Why don't you try W. H. Smith's?
OK, eta, who'd you steal this from? 
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> steal why, Monty Python, of course!
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If that was the one with Miss Haversham, count me in - I always liked the sound of her dress, can't remember the second city, I know the first one was Bognor ...
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Sounds like we've got a game. Expect the title and plot summary probably this coming weekend.
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Whoever comes up with the funniest faux opening sentence will be given the honorary title of...
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I don't anticipate contributing very much to this new game, but even so I'm not sure I see a need to wait until UMAMI is over. Surely we've had two games running in parallel before!
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Excellent idea, Faldo!
It was a dark and stormy night.
That's my permanent entry and I'm stickin' to it!...(well, sumbuddy had to do it...[roll-eyes-e])
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I don't anticipate contributing very much to this new game, but even so I'm not sure I see a need to wait until UMAMI is over. Surely we've had two games running in parallel before!
And I was in the vanguard of those complaining about it.
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