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'oo was 'enry 'iggins's 'ousekeepah?
Raymond and Marie
Remind me not to post on this thread any more, someone. http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/sad2.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Where does Sherlock Holmes keep his pipe tobbacco? That should have been a given. I'm shocked, Scherlock! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e010.gif And his cigars are in the coal scuttle! Sheesh! http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/sad2.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Who are Meursault's two companions refered to as "the prisoner's mistress" and the man "of more than dubious reputation," in Camus's The Stranger?Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
"In the Johannesburg mines
There are 240,000 natives working."
I'll do no such thing! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Boy! Did I kill this game? I'm sorry. That's from a great non-poem by Langston Hughes entitled "Johannesburg Mines."
How about this one?
"beside the white
chickens."
Came from this poem, I think, no?
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
William Carlos Williams
he could balance an eel on the end of his nose!
What was Father William's party trick?
gleaming in purple and gold.
The colors of the Assyrians’ banners as they came down came down "like a wolf on the fold"? :nod:
"Once there was an elephant, who tried to use the telephant..." :)
Who got his trunk entangled in a telephunk?
wanwood leafmeal.
Where do worlds lie where you will weep and know not why? Great poem by the way, Wiff.
"An’ one time a little girl ‘ud allus laugh an’ grin,"
So, did I lock it up again? Tsk! Well, before I throw in the towel, let's try these lines from the same poem, OK?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
"An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!"
Oh that poor Little Orphant Annie...
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance
in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year
old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether
stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it
will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.
A Swift, and Modest Preposal, to be sure...
"Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs"
What would Ogden Nash call a kitten and a mouse, and what would they do?
"Where I lived, and What I Lived For"
What did Thoreau call Walden? The nutcake!
"Some are bojums!"
OK. Sorry about that. The answer would be: What is a SNARK? From Lewis Caroll's The Hunting of the SnarkQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Now for another question:The question is: Where was Sam McGee from?Quote:
There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold.
The arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold.
The northern lights have seen queer sights
But the queerest they ever did see,
Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
When I cremated Sam McGee.
Tenessee, if I remember rightly. Perhaps you can tell me the meaning of "dog-dirty and loaded for bear" in another lively poem by the same author?
Well, it's from The Shooting of Dan McGrew, and it tells how he looked as a miner straight from the mines, and that he was armed to the teeth, (he is called "Dangerous" Dan McGrew" in the poem.) Robert W. Service had a way with words, his poems are hard to forget.
New question:
"...but I with mournful tread, walk the deck..."
"...my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead."
Walt Whitman
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(calls out from his room).
Is that my little lark twittering out there?
....
Is it my little squirrel bustling about?
How long have you been blocking the thread, my dear Jean? I usually get booted by now. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...lies/acc32.gif
Questions called by Torvald Helmer to his young wife Nora as she opens parcels on the table in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
Once a dream did weave a shade,
O're my Angel-guarded bed...
I could have answered this long ago, but I was testing something I probably should have left alone... http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../whimsical.gif
I'l not drag this out. First two lines of A Dream, by William Blake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Now. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld...
Come now, come now. Dr. Frankenstein's words upon his completed experiment, from Mary Shelley's classic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
As no one seems interested, I will not leave another line. Maybe someone was offended at me or something. If so, I apologize. I'm only human, subject to like feelings as anyone else, and as I said, I took the wrong approach. My bad. Don't let my mistakes ruin a perfectly good game for the rest of you.
Pendragon
Pen,Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
This game has never been very popular so please do not think that the reason it does not get many replies is you. And I sincerely do hope that you will be taking part again in future.
The new question:
The Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
What is the name of the chancellory suit in Bleak House?
Stephen Blackpool
Ah, he wanted so to marry Rachel...but, Hard Times is hard times.
Sorry, Pendragon. I do love this game, but I haven't been around for a bit, what with school 'n all. But I'm back (sort of) so let's play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
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Then half Signior Benedick's toungue in Count John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior Benedick's face--
Leonato puts together the perfect man for Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, I believe.
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I seem sixty and married, but these effects are due to my condition and sufferings, for I am a bachelor, and only forty-one...
hi pen...great short story
the invalid's story....mark twain
here's one of my all time favs....hopefully someone feels the same..
"I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction. I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it. But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it."
Since there are no takers for littlewing's question, I will post another one:
42!
Yes, fine answer, but what is the ultimate question?
Littlewing's clue is from My Antonia by Willa Cather.
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Now the sneaking serpent walks
In mild humility,
And the just man rages in the wilds
Where lions roam.
Only William Blake would try a Marriage Between Heaven and Hell
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And the gunner we had was apparently mad,
for he sat on the after rail;
And he fired salutes with the Captain's boots,
in the teeth of the booming gale...
Oh, what a capital ship, the Walloping Window-blind.
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Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with...and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Schooling taught under the sea, the art master was an old conger eel, who taught drawling, and stretching, and fainting in coils...
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He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk descending from a bus:
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus.
“If this should stay for lunch,” said he, “There won’t be much for us!”
No takers?
Hallucinations ~ Lewis CarrollQuote:
He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk descending from a bus:
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus.
“If this should stay for lunch,” said he, “There won’t be much for us!”
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI - by O. Henry
For conceited men see all other men as admirers
The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery
"You bring Johnny home and pay me $250 in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands."
Dear me! That was, of course, the words of the father in O. Henry's The Ransom of Red ChiefQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Carfax Abby
To All> Please do give us the question belonging to the previous answer, not just the name of the literary work it comes from! :)
What is the name of the estate bought by the Count in Dracula?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Next answer: Zeena.
A sonnet writer like myself should get this: What was Charles Deemer's pen name for writing sonnets? (Make you blush, some of them! :blush: )
Bayport
What city is home to the magnificant Joe, Frank, and Fenton Hardy??
West Egg
Which Egg in the Great Gatsby was home to the newly rich?
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