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Sioni Sais
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I ws reminded of this on "Cabin Pressure", a BBC Radio comedy, and I present this as a Circus game.
The game is simple in concept, but suitable titles take some finding. Remember only the last character of the last word can be removed to transform the title to something different or amusing.
Only one each and don't anyone monopolise the thread with any work that may already have been done in cyberspace as the Hosts will surely kill it PDQ.
To start I give you: The Da Vinci Cod
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mousethief
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The Tale of Peter Rabbi
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Alice in Wonderlan -- a precocious young girl meets a gallery of weird characters on-line as she logs in for the first time.
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Ariston
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Albert Camus, The Strange
Probably fits Camus better than the original title.
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Quinine
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No Log
A psychological drama about an embattled couple, neither of whom wishes to admit it is their turn to go out to the woodshed.
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Dafyd
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Par.
A shy girl joins up at her relatives' golf club.
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Ariston
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Julia Child's classic on the raising of babies, The Way to Coo.
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Hilda of Whitby
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Proust's mystery novel set in fin de siecle Paris:
In search of lost Tim
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Pigwidgeon
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Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boa - the inspiration for "La Cage Aux Folles."
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Ariel
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"Gone With the Win" - how a secretary named Scarlet absconded with the office lottery syndicate's jackpot, and the story of her extravagant lifestyle.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Gone With The Win A mediocre football team does not reap the fabulous benefits the players anticipated from a fluke win.
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Starbug
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Miser by Stephen King
The story of a spendthrift novelist
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mousethief
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Listen to the War
Rod McKuen finds peace and poetry on the battlefield.
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Dafyd
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Brighton Roc A giant eagle goes to the seaside and wonders whether it's damned.
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comet
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The Return of the Kin
A Middle-Earth family reunion.
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comet
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ooh ooh!
The Silver Chai
Narnian tea time!
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Sioni Sais
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Invisible Ma
Ralph Ellison loses his mother but makes a name for himself.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Crime and Punishmen
Of course, women are perfectly innocent ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Firenze
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Cold Comfort Far - a novel of Antarctic exploration.
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Albertus
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Why be happy when you could be Norma? , Jeanette Winterson: a sympathetic portrait of the ups and downs of marriage to John Major
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Baptist Trainfan
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That's brilliant!
My own 'umble offring is from Jules Verne: The First Men in the Moo - intrepid explorers decide to examine bovine digestive systems from the inside.
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Firenze
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Emm - biography of a doughty Cockney char.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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The Thin Ma -- the mystery surrounding the death of a woman suffering from anorexia is solved by her children.
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Ariston
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From my textbook shelf—French for Readin.
Français pour des ploucs (French for Rednecks) indeed.
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Leorning Cniht
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A Brief History of Tim
The successor to Mr Tompkins in Paperback?
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Leorning Cniht
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Accidental Her
Dustin Hoffman rescues survivors of a plane crash, but due to an unusual mix-up at the hospital, wakes up having undergone a sex-change operation. After struggling with gender identity for the bulk of the movie, he falls in love with Andy Garcia and decides to live life as a woman.
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Piglet
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Animal Far: a guide to long-distance wildlife photography by George Orwell
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mousethief
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Sh
Rider Haggard's plea for quiet.
(aside to Comet: Silver Chai is inspired.)
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Pigwidgeon
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The Naked and the DEA Norman Mailer's novel about strippers in the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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comet
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my kids and I are having fun with this. Their contributions:
A Wrinkle in Tim
Tim considers botox treatments
followed by:
A Swiftly Tilting Plane
the moments before the crash...
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Leorning Cniht
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The Murder Roo - A kangaroo and his sidekick investigate a murder.
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comet
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almost forgot:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fir
Harry competes for a wooden cup
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Leorning Cniht
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There's always Graham Greene's classic tale of polygamy in a lesbian family: The Third Ma
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W Hyatt
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Of Mice and Me: a drama about a man who has devoted himself to protecting his simple-minded gentle-giant friend, but who finds the greatest challenge comes from his own alter ego.
[oops - cross-posted (sorry Lamb Chopped ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) )]
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Welease Woderwick
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Inspired by some above:
Glimpses of the Moo - Edmund Crispin hunts an elusive cow.
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Ariston
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Carlos Fuentes, A Change of Ski—an old gringo gets into an accident and breaks one of his father's cherished wooden skis, then goes on an epic quest to find a replacement.
Looking at my copy of Borges' Collected Fictions (hi Kelly!)...
The Library of Babe—pig writes a lot of books. A lot of books. Somehow less surreal than the original.
Three Versons of Juda—why don't you try 2 Kings for that?
A Dialog Between Dead Me—very short indeed, even for somebody else's dream.
Borges and —And what, exactly? Are we supposed to draw something from this incomplete sentence? Is this a commentary on the sudden end to life? Are we going to find the answer five stories later in an oblique reference we hardly even notice? And what exactly is the deal with the blind tigers stuck in an infinite labyrinth built in Shakespeare section of the library? Is it something to do with the Minotaur/Argentine national heroes/your great-grandfather/Ramon Llull?
The Elderly Lad—immaturity is forever. Let's party!
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lilBuddha
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Great Expectation from the abridged Dickens
Birdson Avian coming of age tale
The Shadow of the Win The dark side of fortune
Life of P The autobiography of the 16th letter
Dun The epic tale of a hill fort
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Sioni Sais
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The Wizard of O
Nothing like Histoire d'O by Pauline Réage. Had it been, the 'Friends of Dorothy' would have been something completely different.
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The Imitation of Chris
How the example of Mr Huhne led to an epidemic of spouses taking penalty points for each other until....
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Welease Woderwick
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John Keay's love affair with an evil character from The Eagle comic:
Mad about the Mekon
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The5thMary
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Joseph Heller's novel about the craziness of war: Catch 2.
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ma: A woman with many, many, many children (she's Irish, after all!) tries to find time to write novels, paint pictures, and dance.
J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy about a very small creature and how he spends his leisure time: "The Hobbi".
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of the end times of one man: "The Stan".
Stephen King's story about a spooky hotel in the middle of nowhere, an alcoholic dad with a very bad temper, psychic horror and destruction written with a bad Southern accent: "The Shinin".
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