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Post by brooks on Aug 12, 2010 19:07:47 GMT -5
Bara and RR It is not Cheating to look stuff up, it is expected.
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Post by Bara on Aug 13, 2010 7:06:08 GMT -5
Sorry, Brooks. Quite right.
I'll go with Tennyson, but then I don't know your other Mirror reference.
Jabberwocky is quite right, Tee! Here's another 'Alice' - just a quote : I want to know which character spoke it and was it 'Wonderland' or 'Through the Looking Glass'?
"We learned reeling and writhing and fainting in coils."
;D
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Post by Deb on Aug 13, 2010 8:59:13 GMT -5
Drat, "Jabberwocky" was going to be my next attempt.
However, It is from "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", circa 1872.
I don't know who spoke it though.
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Post by Bara on Aug 13, 2010 9:27:19 GMT -5
;D Neither do I! But I think it was the Lobster in the Lobster Quadrille. "Will you walk a little faster", said the whiting to the snail. "There's a lobster close behind me and he's treading on my tail." (  ?!) MTS : PORPOISE! There's a porpoise close behind me ... More Alice (I had a mis-spent youth) : Who was Bill The Lizard? And where was he? For a bonus point - what happened next? |
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Post by brooks on Aug 13, 2010 22:50:59 GMT -5
We learned reeling and writhing and fainting in coils.
Actually it is quiet a long part but here is some of it, ( this comes from "Alice's adventures in Wonderland")
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic---Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
I just got done reading the books for the first time. My Mom as much as she said she encouraged us to read she never did. I love fantasy.
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Post by Bara on Aug 14, 2010 6:43:05 GMT -5
Joint first, Deb and Brooks! Gold stars!
Someone else's turn ...
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Post by Deb on Aug 14, 2010 9:08:28 GMT -5
Here I present "Silas Marner". The novel's author had a given name and a pen name. What was Silas' occupation? What was his falsely accused crime? Year of first publication?
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Post by brooks on Aug 14, 2010 11:09:34 GMT -5
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a dramatic novel by George Eliot. Her third novel, it was first published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a reclusive weaver, in its strong realism it represents one of Eliot's most sophisticated treatments of her attitude to religion.
He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while sitting with a very ill elder of the group. Two clues are given against him: a pocket-knife and the discovery of the bag formerly containing the money in his own house. Silas says that he last used the knife to cut some string for his friend William, who leads the campaign against him. Silas is proclaimed guilty and the woman he was to marry casts him off, and later marries William. With his life shattered and his heart broken, he leaves Lantern Yard and the city.
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Post by brooks on Aug 14, 2010 11:14:12 GMT -5
;D ;D
Lilian Jackson Braun, what did she write, when, how many books, who were the 3 main characters.
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Post by Deb on Aug 15, 2010 7:53:26 GMT -5
Right on, Brooks! George Eliot's given name was Mary Anne Evans.
Lilian Jackson Braum:
1) Wrote light-hearted mystery novels.
2) Between the years 1966 and 1968.
3) She wrote 3 novels: "The Cat Who Read Backwards"
"The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern"
"The Cat Who Turned Off and On
4) There were 3 main characters: Newspaper Reporter James Qwilleran and his 2 Siamese cats, KoKo and Yum Yum.
Next....
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Post by brooks on Aug 15, 2010 18:01:42 GMT -5
Very good Deb, She actually wrote more the 25 books in the series. I love reading them all the way through  Ok who's next?? Bara ? Big Tee with that lightning fast computer, flash us something. |
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Post by Big Tee© on Aug 15, 2010 18:37:36 GMT -5
What was the most recently banned song in Canada? Title, artist, year and why? I left the answer elsewhere on the board ;D
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Post by brooks on Aug 16, 2010 14:03:18 GMT -5
ROUGH TRADE - High School Confidential or is it Aug 8, 2010 ... This one is a banned beer commercial from Cool Beer in Canada. ... 1 day ago. Name of the song is "womd" by The crystal method. ... The google went nuts and gave me lots of music that had been banned. |
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Post by Big Tee© on Aug 16, 2010 19:05:46 GMT -5
Yes, it was High School Confidential.....but no reason why, Brooks!!!ROFL The ban was in the 80s. Commercials do not count. To find out why, go to the word association thread and click on the link to the song or at least read the lyrics.
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Post by brooks on Aug 17, 2010 12:15:58 GMT -5
The first two reds were introduced by _____________
one made from ______________
and one from _____________
Prior to this, palettes were restricted to ____________
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