| 22 FEB 2003 at 4:56pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Hopefully this one will be a little harder. It's from a short story, a ghost story to be exact.
"inner was over, and Dennistoun was in his bedroom, shut up alone with his acquisition....
...All this time a growing feeling of discomfort had been creeping over him - nervous reaction, perhaps, after the delight of his discovery. Whatever it was, it resulted in a conviction that there was someone behind him, and that he was far more comfortable with his back to the wall. All this, of course, weighed light in the balance as against the obvious value of the collection he had acquired. And now, as I said, he was alone in his bedroom, taking stock of Canon Alberic's treasures, in which every moment revealed something more charming...
....his attention was caught by an object lying on the red cloth just by his left elbow. Two or three ideas of what it might be flitted through his brain with their own incalculable quickness.
'A penwiper? No, no such thing in the house. A rat? No, too black. A large spider? I trust to goodness not - no. Good God! a hand like the hand in that picture!'
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey, horny and wrinkled."
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| 12 MAR 2003 at 1:16am |
JPSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Andromus (22 FEB 2003 4:56pm)
Hopefully this one will be a little harder. It's from a short story, a ghost story to be exact.
"inner was over, and Dennistoun was in his bedroom, shut up alone with his acquisition....
That was way easy!
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook by the legendary M. R. James
Bow down before the one you serve&&You're going to get what you deserve !
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| 12 MAR 2003 at 3:30am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By JP (12 MAR 2003 1:16am)
That was way easy!
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook by the legendary M. R. James
Whew, someone posted an answer! I was afraid I had broken the thread. Congratulations, that's right!
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| 13 MAR 2003 at 4:07am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Since no one else posted the next question, I'll do it... this one is admittedly a little bit of a trick question - but it's a well known author:
"Early most mornings Dave climbed up to this isolated spot on the hill and brought small offerings to leave in the shrine of St. Clive, the patron saint of real-estate agents. Today what he'd brought was, so far as he could make out, part of a swimming-pool cleaning device, a sort of large, plastic, sucking lobsterish thing."
I forgot my sig.
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| 14 MAR 2003 at 2:12pm |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | What do you mean by "a little bit of a trick question", Michal?
And I don't know about the rest of you, but I definitely need a hint! (Anyway, I suppose I haven't read this book...which is almost depressing... )
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| 14 MAR 2003 at 6:04pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (14 MAR 2003 2:12pm)
What do you mean by "a little bit of a trick question", Michal?
I can't tell you that, now can I?
And I don't know about the rest of you, but I definitely need a hint! (Anyway, I suppose I haven't read this book...which is almost depressing... )
The book was published in May 2002. Which would easily explain why you haven't read it.
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 1:59am |
JPSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (13 MAR 2003 4:07am)
Since no one else posted the next question, I'll do it... this one is admittedly a little bit of a trick question - but it's a well known author:
"Early most mornings Dave climbed up to this isolated spot on the hill and brought small offerings to leave in the shrine of St. Clive, the patron saint of real-estate agents. Today what he'd brought was, so far as he could make out, part of a swimming-pool cleaning device, a sort of large, plastic, sucking lobsterish thing."
I feel I should know this! - it reads very much like something by Douglas Adams (which is prety much impossible for 2002), or something by Grant Naylor(Red Dwarf) :-/
Bow down before the one you serve&&You're going to get what you deserve !
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 2:01am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By JP (15 MAR 2003 1:59am)
I feel I should know this! - it reads very much like something by Douglas Adams (which is prety much impossible for 2002), or something by Grant Naylor(Red Dwarf) :-/
Hehe, one of them is right... and if you remember what I said earlier, it should be clear which one
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 2:24am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Thanks for the hint, JP...You've got all the credit
"The Salmon of Doubt"
(And of course I haven't read it, Adams' books don't arrive to Argentina )
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 2:55am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 2:23am)
"The Salmon of Doubt"
Hey, how'd you know? Do you have some "inside track" or something??
It is now obvious why this was a trick question - yes, the book was published after Douglas Adams' death... and it isn't even complete.
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 3:18am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Michal wrote (just a minutes ago )
Hey, how'd you know? Do you have some "inside track" or something??
No inside tracking device, although that'd be great
But it's allowed to PM someone and ask... :
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 3:41am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 3:18am)
But it's allowed to PM someone and ask... :
It is? I don't recall allowing that
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 3:56am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (15 MAR 2003 3:40am)
It is? I don't recall allowing that
Oh, and since you're a Grand Master, you set the rules
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 4:16am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 3:55am)
Oh, and since you're a Grand Master, you set the rules
That ought to be fairly obvious, no? :
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 4:24am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (15 MAR 2003 4:16am)
That ought to be fairly obvious, no? :
As Godfather would say:
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 4:27am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 4:23am)
As Godfather would say:
Watch it, young lady! Or you'll get spanked!
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 4:38am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (15 MAR 2003 4:27am)
Watch it, young lady! Or you'll get spanked!
What?? Was that a threat??!! (Oh, I forgot I was talking to the almighty Grand Master :-[)
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 5:05am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 4:38am)
What?? Was that a threath??!!
Threat? That depends I suppose... I understand that some people actually enjoy spanking
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 5:11am |
StammerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 4:38am)
What?? Was that a threath??!! (Oh, I forgot I was talking to the allmighty Grand Master :-[)
Michal don't dare to touch her or i'll sprout you you >
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 5:12am |
StammerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (15 MAR 2003 4:23am)
As Godfather would say:
I would NEVER say this!!!
insteed i would say:
>
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 5:25am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Godfather (15 MAR 2003 5:10am)
Michal don't dare to touch her or i'll sprout you you >
You'll what what? I don't think sprouting works on Grand Masters dude
I forgot my sig.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 5:28am |
StammerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Ok then i'll use my distinguished minigun [img]http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/armed/ar15.gif[/img]
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 9:27am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Godfather (15 MAR 2003 5:12am)
I would NEVER say this!!!
insteed i would say:
>
Sorry Godfather : I should have known by now you'd say something among those lines
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| 15 MAR 2003 at 9:42am |
StammerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Good my child
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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