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.
It will the best of games and the worst of games. Count me in.
Excellent, Fong - as my dear grandma used to say, a change is as good as a rest to a blind donkey.
Sounds like fun! I'll play. And, AnnaS, sorry to spoil your
bon mot, but I've read ToTC - twice (once for each city....)
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.
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?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a Porsche.
"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."
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.
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 ...
Sounds like we've got a game. Expect the title and plot summary probably this coming weekend.
Whoever comes up with the funniest faux opening sentence will be given the honorary title of...
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!
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])
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).
