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Answer: Herbert Quain
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Characters created by Louis L'Amour.
Answer: Herbert Quain
BRAVO!BRAVO! http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/appl.gif Specifically, The Sackett BrothersQuote:
Originally Posted by Panurge
Let's not forget Panurge's answer, now:
Answer: Herbert Quain
Author of The God of the Labyrinth
Cuthulhu
The title of famous story by HP Lovecraft: The Call of...?
St Ogg's.
Oh, cool. I didn't know this game existed. It's like jeapardy.
St Ogg's - Town in The Mill on the Floss
Benjy
What is the name of the youngest of the Compson children in Sound and Fury by Faulkner?
Turkish delight.
Ah crap, I was too slow.
Edmund's terrible temptation in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Starbuck.
Who is the first mate on The Pequod in Melville's Moby Dick?
Posthumus Leonatus
Who is Imogen's husband in Shakespeare's Cymbeline?
Fiver.
What is the name of the rabbit whose vision prompts the exodus of both himself and a number of others in the novel "Watership Down"?
Admiral Benbow
What is the name of the inn Jim's parents own in Treasure Island?Quote:
Originally Posted by ShoutGrace
Peggotty.
What was the name of David Copperfield's nurse? (Lord, I hated that book!)
Three Mile Point
OK. That was the first point above New Orleans in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Let's try this:
Quote:
Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
CHORUS
Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Doesn't anyone besides me read Twain? That was from his short story "Punch, Brothers! Punch!" You can also find the lines in Robert McCloskey's Centerburg Tales about Homer Price. It is in the story where the rhyme is:Quote:
Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
CHORUS
Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
"In a whole doughnut is a nice whole hole.
When you take a big bite, hold the whole hole tight.
If a little bit bitten, or a great bit bitten,
Any whole hole with a hole bitten in it,
Is a holy whole hole--
And it just plain isn't!"
I give up. No one more.
Quote:
I sat on their clothes-- to keep them from being stolen...