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OR says D; but what novelist ever used OR? (this is actually not just a rhetorical question.)
one or two others read like entries to B-L. (It was a dark and stormy day for a ballgame... : )
I like G, I and M...
I like I and M a bit more..
I can't decide, and since the points (probly) don't matter, I cast .500 vote for each of M and I. (wouldn't want a tie on the first game would we?)
Hmmm. Gonna hafta run this one past the roolz committee.
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Sorry, tsuwm. Roolz Committee says it's a dangerous precedent. Ya gots ta git off the fence.
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Let's see if I have the touch of death in this Game too, shall we?
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Might-a bought my vote! Mine, too--I live in Mudville!
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Good to hear from you, Max. Would have liked to have had a submission from you but.
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grats on the CT, Muse... 
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Good to hear from you, Max. Would have liked to have had a submission from you but.
Sadly, that would require gene therapy - to imbue me with something that could, in a dark room at midnight, be mistaken for a rough facsimile of creativity.
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Good to hear from you, Max. Would have liked to have had a submission from you but.
Sadly, that would require gene therapy - to imbue me with something that could, in a dark room at midnight, be mistaken for a rough facsimile of creativity.
Is it midnight already?
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Why? You want an unfair advantage?
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Why? You want an unfair advantage?
Doesn't everyone? Wasn't that the whole point of Strauss's masterwork - The selfish Jean?
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Well, irregardless of all that or not, we await but the fair goaler, BelM. I'll drop her a PM; she seems to have forgotten this thread exists.
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No, no, haven't forgotten. But dang you guys, I thought it'd be easier to choose a real first line from a book than it is to choose a real definition. I've been having trouble making up my mind.  O.k., I choose M. I love playing baseball, so I know exactly what the writer of that sentence meant - The Charlie Brown in me feels that it's always a good day for baseball, even if the winds are gusting and the clouds are looming darkly overhead.
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hehheh, I suspect Sparteye is marvellously happy!
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Sorry, tsuwm. Roolz Committee says it's a dangerous precedent. Ya gots ta git off the fence.
from one RC to another, I say throw the bum's vote out altogether!
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Good choice, DaI! 
talking of dai, allow a brief digression, Fong? This seemed a good context to bring to the multitudinous attention a fun thing from the Beeb:
The competition is: write a happy ending in EXACTLY one hundred words (no more, no less!) including the following seven words selected by Alexander McCall-Smith:
wistful, moon, better, unlikely, happily, ever, after.
and so back to the game, where the scores are tied in the...
Hey Maverick, I'm trying. Just 37 more words to shave before the deadline. 
... it was not for riches that Leon Bottoms souped up his bass boat and begun running guns to rebels in Belize. Leon wasn't thought to be a prize by the ladies and he needed the loot to encourage women to be picked up.
Then Katrina, one-hell-of-a-woman, picked up Leon, guns, and bass boat, and deposited them upside down on an upside down coral reef.
Strange island. The scrub plants there grew berries on the bottom and roots on the top. Leon ate the hippie-looking berries and grew fat.
Then one day a mermaid walked by. She was ugly. Unlike regular mermaids she was human on the bottom and fish on the top. Ugh, decided Leon, I could never kiss a woman who looks like a sea bass!
Leon watched wistfully as the unlikely mermaid frolicked in the shallow bay, diving sea-bass-top first until only her slim waist and curvaceous hips and the wonderful moon of her bottom, and her long sun-tanned shapely legs, were visible above water.
Leon jumped in.
Men have met better fates,and of course, after a time Leon died and went to his fate in the great hereafter -- happily.
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hehheh, I suspect Sparteye is marvellously happy!
You're beginning to make me worry, maverick. But maybe that's the game you're playing at. 
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> maybe that's the game you're playing at. I learnt it from milo minderbinder, purveyor of fine cotton and other flannel... 
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> maybe that's the game you're playing at.
I learnt it from milo minderbinder, purveyor of fine cotton and other flannel...
Chocolate covered cotton. Yum!
All seriousness aside, every one of the perps has voted now. I'll hold the polls open till some time Saturday for any stragglers and tsuwm to vote and then spring the results on y'all. If nothing else we'll see how well Milo's gender assignments panned out.
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If we don't like our gender assignments, can we change them?
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We'll straighten them all out come Saturday, Rock Island. I will say that Milo managed to get his own gender correct, but, considering his overall performance, that could have been by pure chance.
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Well, he got my gender correct, but then, it never really has been in question 
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Hey, Ginette...race you to Carpal Tunnel Vrrrrroooooom Vrrrrrrrroooooooom
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We'll straighten them all out come Saturday, Rock Island. I will say that Milo managed to get his own gender correct, but, considering his overall performance, that could have been by pure chance.
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What? Whom amongst you can testify absolutely to my biological gender? I absolutly sometimes can and absolutly sometimes can't. But no matter.
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> But no matter. then what are you made of?
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> But no matter.
then what are you made of?
Never mind.
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> But no matter.
then what are you made of?
Never mind.
I get it!
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What? Whom amongst you can testify absolutely to my biological gender?
I absolutly sometimes can and absolutly sometimes can't.
But no matter.
Hey! Are you engendering us to contemplate the vagaries of your gender?...engendering gender-bender amenders, as it were?
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you know, WO'N, when I just glance at your avatar, it looks like a Star Wars stormtrooper...
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Today's the day. I'll be posting results in a few hours. If you haven't voted and want to, now's the time.
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Oh my god! Oh my god! . . . Can I change my vote? Can I hide? Disgrace disgrace disgra . . . . !
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Six hours, huh? Well, Faldage, if you must temporize, I must evagationate... A) I never thought, back in the days when my mother would fussingly wash the streaks of sweat and dirt off my face, that my determination to win at all costs would ever get me more than the fleeting attention of one of my teammates' older brothers. Jackie ( not half bad, but only your mother would "fussingly wash" the streaks of sweat and dirt off your face)B) Long before women were burning their bras, and marching for equal rights, a small group of women were striking a blow for equality, one home run at a time. BelMarduk ( straightforward but with a moral)C) Sure, if I had the opportunity to do it all over again, I'd do it in exactly the same way -- well, except for one thing. Consuello (who reserves the right to change her mind at her whim)D) "Dreamer." AnnaStrophic (succinct, but with a certain cynical touch)G) The train conductor entered the bar car calling out "Next stop, Chicago". Sparteye ( who studied brevity, like Hemingway, "Up in Michigan")H) The ball seemed to be hanging against the azure sky, impossibly far yet as threatening as a comet, like the whole promise of her life coming rushing towards her and as if from the echoing passage of her far-off childhood she could hear her dad yelling CATCH it Bunny! Catch it! Elizabeth Creith ( who can't resist writting a story in the opening line)L) He's gonna throw at me, said "Baby" Ruth McGonigal to herself as the pitcher went into his windup, I know 'cause most of them do that even when they know the umpire's watching for it. The female author of the book "She's On First"__________________________________________________________ Nice going gentlewomen, but too bad, the entry winner is a male and is... (M) It was a perfect day for a game, but then, it was always a perfect day for a game. MALEBetter luck in Fibliotheque, Game Two.
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If themilum learns to play better with others, then could he have his own avatar?
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that burns it; I unvote for M.
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The real answers (with Milo's guesses as to the sex of their perpetrators for your amusement and amazement) follow:
A) I never thought, back in the days when my mother would fussingly wash the streaks of sweat and dirt off my face, that my determination to win at all costs would ever get me more than the fleeting attention of one of my teammates' older brothers. <Jackie: musick> F
B) Long before women were burning their bras, and marching for equal rights, a small group of women were striking a blow for equality, one home run at a time. <BelMarduk: AnnaStrophic, Father Steve> F
C) Sure, if I had the opportunity to do it all over again, I'd do it in exactly the same way -- well, except for one thing. <AnnaStrophic: Elizabeth Creith, Alex Williams> F
D) "Dreamer." <inselpeter: Jackie> F
E) Sliding spike-high into first after a pick-off attempt wasn't really a routine play, but those lovely bare legs were such tempting targets, and bled so easily. <WhitmanO'Neill: > M
F) "Stupid Major League equipment rules!", Karen snorted to herself in irritation as she struggled to wear the athletic supporter. <Sparteye: > M
G) The train conductor entered the bar car calling out "Next stop, Chicago". <Consuelo: etaoin, Kelly123, Marianna, sjmaxq> F
H) The ball seemed to be hanging against the azure sky, impossibly far yet as threatening as a comet, like the whole promise of her life coming rushing towards her and as if from the echoing passage of her far-off childhood she could hear her dad yelling CATCH it Bunny! Catch it! <maverick: TEd Remington, WhitmanONeill> F
I) Timothy Michael Curry, known to baseball statistics as T. M. Curry and to his old teammates as Curry Powder, or just plain Powder, sat on the barren bleachers and wiped the sweat off his neck. <Barbara Gregorich: Sparteye, themilum> M
J) At age thirteen little Olga Wilhite, tall and strong and quick of eye and reflex, did not sell her soul to the devil as had her famous great-uncle, Cy Slocum, a six hundred game winner with a 0.92 earned run average for a five year period with the Saint Louis Browns - no, pretty little Olga Wilhite sold her sweet little soul to a modern day demon that was much worse. <themilum: > M
K) The count was three balls and two strikes, and with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning the St. Louis Trojans were down seven to five in this the very first game of the season. <musick: Consuelo> M
L) He's gonna throw at me, said "Baby" Ruth McGonigal to herself as the pitcher went into his windup, I know 'cause most of them do that even when they know the umpire's watching for it. <TEd Remington: > F
M) It was a perfect day for a game, but then, it was always a perfect day for a game. <Elizabeth Creith: maverick, inselpeter, BelMarduk> M
You will note that, although Milo correctly guessed the sex of the real author, he did not correctly guess the sex of the writer of the correct line (although he and Sparteye were the only ones to correctly identify that line as being the correct line [and, as an additonal bonus, it allows me to say that he was one of the only correct answerers]).
The winner in the ha-ha-I-fooled-you category is Consuelo (with a special thanks to sjmaxq for putting her over the top). As previously noted Sparteye and themilum correctly guessed the real author, despite Milo's feeble attempt to provide cover for his nefarious plan to claim he had voted for the wrong choice about which he was equally wrong about the sex of.
This edition of FibliothequeŪ has been brought to you by M&M Enterprises, purveyors of fine, chocolate covered, Egyptian cotton.
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RECOUNT! I demand a recount.
If you will note the post several above yours, Mr Faldage, themilum changed his vote to L, which happens to be my entry.
RECOUNT RECOUNT RECOUNT [/chant]
But I suppose you're gonna tell me there's no recounting for taste.
BTW, the book that was supposed to be sent to you turned up on my doorstep. Come Monday it'll be all right. Come Monday I'll be holding it tight (as I walk up to the PO to drop it in the mail to you.)
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That was really fun, even if nobody wanted to vote for mine just because they liked the joke. I didn't expect to fool anybody into thinking it was the real opening line, but I had hoped for amusement votes. :-/
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Er, did you say the correct answer was J? I think that's what you said.
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RECOUNT! I demand a recount.
If you will note the post several above yours, Mr Faldage, themilum changed his vote to L, which happens to be my entry.
A) No changes allowed. The Roolz Committee has outlawed them
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2) Technically, he didn't attualŪ change his vote; he merely said that that was the right answer.
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