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    well i would say 19 has something to do with oscar wilde too although hes irish not British.

    there are like seven american ones there. As i dont read american lit, i forfit this round. The clues dont help me.

    but 14) is Ivanhoe
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    20. Dimaggio: "I got it! I got it! I don't got it." Try saying got another way - American
    Is this to do with baseball somehow?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    well i would say 19 has something to do with oscar wilde too although hes irish not British.

    there are like seven american ones there. As i dont read american lit, i forfit this round. The clues dont help me.

    but 14) is Ivanhoe
    I stand corrected. Irish playwright. However, you don't have to have read any of these books to get the clues. You merely need to have heard of them. I haven't read half the books on this list.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    Is this to do with baseball somehow?
    No it has to do with playing around with the verb of which "got" is a form.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    I stand corrected. Irish playwright. However, you don't have to have read any of these books to get the clues. You merely need to have heard of them. I haven't read half the books on this list.
    There are still more of a chance of you hearing of them than me considering i'm on the other side of the atlantic.

    although just looking at 19) again....
    Call of the Wild.
    9) our mutual friend.
    Last edited by Niamh; 10-20-2008 at 06:40 PM.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


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    13. A disease you catch at the bus station? What's another name for bus station - French

    Could it be Germinal, by any chance? Germ+ terminal, groan

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    Quote Originally Posted by ntropyincarnate View Post
    I miss Pen.
    Well, Nightshade is going to post the next list, but to quote a movie, I'll be back!
    Some of us laugh
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    The Answers Revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    1. It goes right through town Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    2. Patty Hearst? Kidnapped
    3. Burger King theme? As You Like It
    4. Soda Jerk CEO? The Fountainhead
    5. Once it burns to the ground... You Can't Go Home Again
    6. "It's not unusual to be loved by anyone." Tom Jones
    7. Worn out shoes? Dead Souls
    8. On the menu under appetizers: Buffalo Squab? The Wings of the Dove
    9. You like him, I like him. Our Mutual Friend
    10. Eva, Magda, and Zsa Zsa The Three Sister by Chekhov
    11. For Everything there is a season - tern, tern, tern The Seagull
    12. Dear Mom stop Pops bit it stop Love ya and I really mean it stop Eddie Oedipus Rex
    13. A disease you catch at the bus station? Germinal
    14. He has a rake... Ivanhoe
    15. Loam The Good Earth
    16. Sergeant York, for one The Good Soldier
    17. Where do kittens sleep? Cat's Cradle by the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, JR.
    18. "Yoo hoo! Yoo hoo! You in the schooner..." O Pioneers
    19. "Sir, I've got Oscar on line 2." The Call of the Wild
    20. Dimaggio: "I got it! I got it! I don't got it." To Have and Have Not
    Goes to show just how good at this is Mr. Pendragon. Sorry to have sucked the fun out of it.
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    I wouldnt go as far as to say that you've sucked the fun out of it or that they were bad even I just reckon we all got used to Pen's particular brand of scrambled. So if they are all answered I will post the next 20

    1)An analysis of Mrs R. Butler
    2) The gatherer
    3) Parent’s siblings are not transgender.
    4) Hefner is not the original
    5) Offspring of the Industrial age
    6) Of Milton and Helstone
    7) A raging cyclone
    8) The goddess’s name is putrid
    9) He just couldn’t say no
    10) Settlment in the bend of a river
    11) a dreary dwelling place
    12) Needed so others can understand
    13) Sewer rat in two cities
    14) Misplaced royal heir
    15) Cold Monarch
    16) She wore widow’s weeds
    17) Debate on unbalance
    18) Pretentious pageant
    19) The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
    20) The silent grotesque

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    Yours were fun too, PabloQ. Don't beat yourself up!!

    1)An analysis of Mrs R. Butler - Gone with the wind, Michell
    2) The gatherer - The Collector, Fowles
    4) Hefner is not the original - The playboy of the western world, Synge
    11) a dreary dwelling place - Bleak House, Dickens
    14) Misplaced royal heir - The lost prince Burnett
    18) Pretentious pageant - Vanity Fair, Thackeray

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bitterfly View Post
    Yours were fun too, PabloQ. Don't beat yourself up!!

    1)An analysis of Mrs R. Butler - Gone with the wind, Michell
    2) The gatherer - The Collector, Fowles
    4) Hefner is not the original - The playboy of the western world, Synge
    11) a dreary dwelling place - Bleak House, Dickens
    14) Misplaced royal heir - The lost prince Burnett
    18) Pretentious pageant - Vanity Fair, Thackeray
    1) nope but think more about gone with the wind and Mrs Butler in particular youll get the second part of the answer.
    2) Not the one I was thinking of but Ill accept as it is a fitting answer- I was actually looking for the harvester by gene Stratton-porter
    4) 11) 14) and 18) all right!
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    so the list as it now stands is:
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    1)an analysis of mrs r. Butler>>> A study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle
    2) the gatherer >>>the collector by fowles ( or the harvester by stratton-porter)
    3) parent’s siblings are not transgender.
    4) hefner is not the original>>> the playboy of the western world by synge
    5) offspring of the industrial >>>> The railway children by Nesbit
    6) of milton and helstone
    7) a raging cyclone>>>> The tempest by Shakespeare
    8) the goddess’s name is putrid
    9) he just couldn’t say no
    10) settlment in the bend of a river
    11) a dreary dwelling place>>>>>>>bleak house by dickens
    12) needed so others can understand
    13) sewer rat in two cities
    14) misplaced royal heir>>>>>>the lost prince by burnett
    15) cold monarch
    16) she wore widow’s weeds
    17) debate on unbalance
    18) pretentious pageant>>>>>>vanity fair by thackeray
    19) the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
    20) the silent grotesque
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    1: Scarlett. by Alexandra Ripley
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    1. A Study in Scarlet - Doyle
    7. The Tempest - Wee Willy Shakespeare
    19. Three Men in a Boat - Jerard
    No damn cat, no damn cradle - Newt Honniker

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