Changing titles
Rebecca Rice
would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
meaning of the title.
However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
erudite group can come up with some new ones.
Rebecca
Rich Horton
Tolkien's novel about a gossip, Lord of the Phone Calls
Asimov's baseball novel, Second Base
Le Guin's horror novel, The Sinister Darkness (OK, that one's a
stretch)
Johnny Tindalos
news:s25t64ldn61n6j43v...@4ax.com:
To make _A Dance With Deadlines_ joke would be crass, no?
Daphne Brinkerhoff
> > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:09:05 -0700, Rebecca Rice
> > <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> >>would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> >>was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> >>altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> >>a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> >>meaning of the title.
>
> To make _A Dance With Deadlines_ joke would be crass, no?
>
Well, it wouldn't really be following the rules of the game (unless
"dragons" is a synonym for "deadlines" that I'm not aware of).
The Armageddon Menstruation, on the other hand, would qualify.
--
Daphne
D.F. Manno
Rich Horton <rrho...@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Rebecca Rice <philos...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> >would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> >was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> >altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> >a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> >meaning of the title.
> >
> >However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
> >
> >The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
> >
> >I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> >erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
> Tolkien's novel about a gossip, Lord of the Phone Calls
>
> Asimov's baseball novel, Second Base
>
> Le Guin's horror novel, The Sinister Darkness (OK, that one's a
> stretch)
Clarke's Indian romance novel, "Date with Rama."
--
D.F. Manno | dfm...@mail.com
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification
for selfishness. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Quadibloc
> In article <s25t64ldn61n6j43vmtn5kprt5gjabe...@4ax.com>,
> Rich Horton <rrhor...@prodigy.net> wrote:
> > Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > >Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> > >would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> > >was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> > >altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> > >a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> > >meaning of the title.
>
> > >However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> > >The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>
> > >I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> > >erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
> > Tolkien's novel about a gossip, Lord of the Phone Calls
>
> > Asimov's baseball novel, Second Base
>
> > Le Guin's horror novel, The Sinister Darkness (OK, that one's a
> > stretch)
>
> Clarke's Indian romance novel, "Date with Rama."
Fairly trivial ones come to mind: "The Clock Machine" by Wells, and
"At the Mountains of Anger" by Lovecraft, Alfred Bester's "The Station
Man", Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Thuvia, Domestic of Mars"... or even
Philip Jose Farmer's novel of the joys of obtaining protein, "Meat".
Stretching things a bit, John Brunner's war novel "Stand active,
Zanzibar!".
Arthur C. Clarke's melancholy "Against the Autumn of Night"? Isaac
Asimov's "Twilight", and John W. Campbell's "Nightfall"?
Ah, finally something slightly better... Cyril Kornbluth and Frederic
Pohl's "The Room Merchants", a sordid tale of apartment hunting in New
York.
John Savard
Kurt Busiek
Asordid tale of apartment-hunting in New York? I wrote one of those:
http://www.watt-evans.com/ClashofTitans.html
kdb
ppint. at IMT
philos...@sbcglobal.net "Rebecca Rice" playfully proposed:
>
>Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people would like
>to play a game.
- there're times when the denetzens of this newsfroup would not?
>Lo these many years ago, when I was in high school, a friend and I would
>refer to books by altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word
>to a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the meaning of the
>title.
- the principle of synonymity may get strained - just a little;
>
>However, the only one I can remember off-hand is: The Power That Preserves
> -> The Power That Jams. I know we had several others, and I figured this
>well-read, erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
- you stamp-collector, you; but yes, the observable interests (not
to say, predilections) of the froup do make this appear at least
tolerably likely, yes; i hope none is more politically unsound than:
_The Moon is a Harsh Mattress_
- love, a ppint. happy to have two thrids the shop open again
[please drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g",
should you wish to cc. to, or email, me]
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- jim darby, 2/9/96 (9/2/96 for merkins)
Gene
news:20080705.0756.80701002snz$@i-m-t.demon.co.uk:
> i hope none is more politically unsound than:
>
> _The Moon is a Harsh Mattress_
The Moon is an Irritating Whore?
Gene
207.115.33.102:
>> _The Moon is a Harsh Mattress_
>
> The Moon is an Irritating Whore?
Of course, the original rules were to change just one word, so how about:
The Moon is a Harsh Dominatrix?
David Cowie
>
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
Will this do?
Alfred Bester's novel about stalkers: THE CELEBRITIES MY DESTINATION.
Alfred Bester's grammatically controversial THE FEATURES A PERFORMANCE
BY MY DESTINATION.
Scott Fluhrer
"David Cowie" <david...@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:da5e0dcd-84fd-484a...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
I prefer his book about a construction accident, _The_Bulldozed_Man_
--
poncho
Kurt Busiek
I like Zelazny's suspended-animation novel, NINE PRINCES IN RESIN.
kdb
Mike Schilling
Will in New Haven
There was John M. Ford's book about a fence whose stock was
mysteriously vanishing: <The Last Hot Watch>
Although watch/time is such a stretch that I didn't submit it until I
saw some of the other posts.
The last kid goes off to college, leading to <Time Enough for Sex>
Poul Anderson's story of an attracitve actress <Celebrity Fox>
And his non-fiction history of the movement to legalize pot <The
Stoned Crusade>
Or PK Dick's book about an occupant of one of the big houses on Haight
<The Man in the Wasted Castle>
Vernor Vinge's <Shoot upon the Deep> the story of an unforgetable sea
battle.
--
Will in New Haven
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
> "David Cowie" <david...@lineone.net> wrote in message
> news:da5e0dcd-84fd-484a...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> On Jul 4, 10:09 pm, Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
>>> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>> Will this do?
>> Alfred Bester's novel about stalkers: THE CELEBRITIES MY DESTINATION.
>> Alfred Bester's grammatically controversial THE FEATURES A PERFORMANCE
>> BY MY DESTINATION.
His computer novel, sold in the U.K. under the title "OS X.4! OS X.4!"
is popular among computer geeks.
--
Sea Wasp
/^\
;;;
Live Journal: http://seawasp.livejournal.com
Mike Schilling
As is his sex novel _Cougar! Cougar!_.
Kurt Busiek
<bill....@taylorandfrancis.com> said:
> On Jul 4, 5:09 pm, Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
>> would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
>> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
>> altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
>> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
>> meaning of the title.
>>
>> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>>
>> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>>
>> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
>> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>>
>> Rebecca
>
> There was John M. Ford's book about a fence whose stock was
> mysteriously vanishing: <The Last Hot Watch>
>
> Although watch/time is such a stretch that I didn't submit it until I
> saw some of the other posts.
I think you have to go to CASABLANCA, and "Such watch, Clara!" for that.
THE LAST HOT RHYTHM, though, is about the fall of pre-Castro Cuba.
> The last kid goes off to college, leading to <Time Enough for Sex>
TIME ENOUGH FOR ZERO, a gripping tale of 1940s aerial war in the Pacific.
> Poul Anderson's story of an attracitve actress <Celebrity Fox>
THE ASTERISK FOX, a love story between two people who never meet,
played out via footnotes between a textbook writer and his line-editor.
> And his non-fiction history of the movement to legalize pot <The
> Stoned Crusade>
THE ACME CRUSADE, the first in-depth biography of Wile E. Coyote.
> Or PK Dick's book about an occupant of one of the big houses on Haight
> <The Man in the Wasted Castle>
THE HIGH KEEP, a novel about achieving immortality through mind-altering drugs.
Or maybe THE HIGH ROOK, about a daring swindle on a space station.
> Vernor Vinge's <Shoot upon the Deep> the story of an unforgetable sea
> battle.
FIRE UPON THE MEANINGFUL, the tale of an anti-intellectual purge.
kdb
David Cowie
SO BIG AND NEGRO.
rmoldsk...@online.no
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
Well, there's always Heinlein's sardonic tale of class struggle, as played
out in the microcosm of a luxury starliner, "Starship Footman".
--
Leif Roar Moldskred
Wayne Throop
: The Moon is an Irritating Whore?
The earth's satellite is an obstreperous termagant.
That's if you're channeling Stewie Griffin I suppose.
But anyways, this ia drifted fairly far from a single pun-substitution
as per the OP, naict.
: Message-ID: <Xns9AD2139C6805Dge...@207.115.17.102>
: The Moon is a Harsh Dominatrix?
Still not a pun, nor yet one that doubles and alters the meaning.
Maybe "Isle of the Dude", aka, "Dude, Where's My Island"?
Nope, still profoundly unsatisfactory, for a multitude of
reasons, IMO. Hm. "To Die in an Roman Pub"? Nah.
Um, yes, requium in terra pax, and so forth.
--- Stewie Griffin
Wayne Throop thr...@sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
Wayne Throop
: As is his sex novel _Cougar! Cougar!_.
"Oh, he's not a cougar. He's a puma!"
--- one of Kim Possible's clients
Erol K. Bayburt
Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Boxing Arena, The Two Haulers, and The
Return of Elvis.
Doc Smith's Optometrist series: First Optometrist, Galactic Beat, etc.
Bujold's Swear-Word of Chalion. And her Tactful Immunity.
Piper's Little Out-of-Focus, and Volume Viking
--
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Ero...@comcast.net
Howard Brazee
<Ero...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Bujold's Swear-Word of Chalion. And her Tactful Immunity.
But we can't do this with her titles such as _Komarr_ or Brust's
_Jhegaala_...
Quadibloc
> Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Boxing Arena, The Two Haulers, and The
> Return of Elvis.
Ah; I wish I could have been so imaginative!
> Doc Smith's Optometrist series: First Optometrist, Galactic Beat, etc.
Perhaps First Photographer... which would make it a biography of Louis
Daguerre! (Or maybe that Talbot fellow...)
John Savard
Dan Goodman
> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:09:35 -0500, Erol K. Bayburt
> <Ero...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Bujold's Swear-Word of Chalion. And her Tactful Immunity.
>
> But we can't do this with her titles such as Komarr or Brust's
> Jhegaala...
Well, not in English.
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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> said:
> Fairly trivial ones come to mind: "The Clock Machine" by Wells,
> and "At the Mountains of Anger" by Lovecraft, Alfred Bester's "The
> Station Man"
How are you getting from "Demolished" to "Station?"
--
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Quadibloc
> In article <cf0dc688-461c-4641-9861-dbd5ceffe...@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> said:
>
> > Fairly trivial ones come to mind: "The Clock Machine" by Wells,
> > and "At the Mountains of Anger" by Lovecraft, Alfred Bester's "The
> > Station Man"
>
> How are you getting from "Demolished" to "Station?"
I was actually thinking of another work... perhaps I had the author
wrong. "Bus Stop" was another synonym for the word I substituted.
Actually, "Railroad Station" would have been better.
A different possibility would have been "The Video Display Unit
Man"... it was "The Terminal Man" that I was thinking of. Ah - Michael
Crichton.
John Savard
Robbie
Rebecca Rice <philos...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
Poul Anderson's cookbook: Noodle Wave
An examination of celebrity drug use by Agnew H. Bahnson Jr.: The
Celebrities Are Too High
A collaboration by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Kube-McDowell that
examines equestrian influences in westerns: The Horse
Let's not forget Clarke's piece about sobering up: Reverse From The
White Hart
While on the subject of Clarke, we might as well mention his touch-feely
piece about spirituality: Tales From The White Emotion
On the popular subject of stars, there is also James P. Hogan's work
about the children of famous people: Inherit The Celebrities
For those who are into that kind of thing, there is C.M. Kornbluth's
collection of porn stories: A Mile Beyond The Buttocks
Confusingly, Kornbluth also wrote a book with the same title that deals
with college pranks. This itself was the source of some pranks, when
people interested in reading about high jinks would be directed to the
former work.
Lastly, we have Neal Stephenson's lesser known steampunk piece: The
Carbon Age
art...@yahoo.com
> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> meaning of the title.
>
> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
The Anubis Founder of Microsoft?
And He Built a Corrupt House? (Another Political Story by Heinlein)
The Really Bad Golfer and the Ants? by Rudy Rucker
Sir Lancelot of the Living Dead (OK, I cheated and it is horror not
SF)
Robert Carnegie
> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> meaning of the title.
>
> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
If I can (like others) change more than one word, please accept _The
Sea Monster Funerals_. But also either _Quatermass and the Cherry-
stone_ or _Quatermass and the Orchestra Stalls_. (Was that a book?
Never mind.)
_No Adolescent Consumed Mind-altering Small French Biscuit_.
Don't forget Asimov went on to _Moment Cellars_. (And when he was
still good. Arguably.)
Maybe we could have another game, actual SF titles that /sound/ as
though they've been through that process, and possiibly have. For
instance I am reading _The Year of Intelligent Tigers_, although I
don't really see what the original "was". (There's a planet where
human colonists find packs of tigers living around. They're fairly
tame animals. Then a bunch of the tigers announce themselves as
intelligent.) And I lately looked into _Chasm City_. Couldn't do
anything with that.
Robert Carnegie
wrote:
> Lastly, we have Neal Stephenson's lesser known steampunk piece: The
> Carbon Age
Hey! We're doing synonyms, not allotropes! :-)
johnma...@yahoo.com
> On Jul 4, 5:21 pm, "D.F. Manno" <dfma...@mail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > In article <s25t64ldn61n6j43vmtn5kprt5gjabe...@4ax.com>,
> > Rich Horton <rrhor...@prodigy.net> wrote:
> > > Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > > >Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> > > >would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> > > >was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> > > >altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> > > >a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> > > >meaning of the title.
>
> > > >However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> > > >The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
> Ah, finally something slightly better... Cyril Kornbluth and Frederic
> Pohl's "The Room Merchants", a sordid tale of apartment hunting in New
> York.
>
> John Savard-
Which in turn inspired Harrison's _Make Space, Make Space_ about
dealing with all the stuff after you found an apartment, and of course
Hersey's classic novel of an undersupplied engineeer _My Petition for
More Vaccum_
-JM
Which was
ncw...@hotmail.com
> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> meaning of the title.
>
> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
Let's see:
D. Adams: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Twix
P. Anderson: The Dirty Book of Stormgate
I. Asimov: The Dried Fruit of Space
Cheers,
Nigel.
Wayne Throop
:: Carbon Age
: Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com>
: Hey! We're doing synonyms, not allotropes! :-)
The Infield Age?
Robert Carnegie
And now it's homophones! ;-)
Anthony Nance
> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> meaning of the title.
>
> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
Ooh fun - and I see several good ones elsethread. Here are my few
meager efforts:
Stephen King's _The Raised Platform_
Clarke's _Thrice 666, Plus 3_
The Zelazny/Sheckley collaboration _Bring Me the Toilet of Prince Charming_
Simak's _Fashion Station_
and these which use multi-word synonyms:
Zelazny's _Car Lifter of Shadows_
and
Budrys' _Rogue Exposure of Buttocks_ (sorry)
Tony
art...@yahoo.com
Lord of the process which is repeated once by your mail delivery guy
(This gets in 2 novels although only one is SF)
Robert Carnegie
> and these which use multi-word synonyms:
>
> Zelazny's _Car Lifter of Shadows_
Did anyone else read that one as _Cat Litter of Shadows_?
"In the sense of a family of kittens", that is.
Not "It's early morning and I just got up and it's dark and the stuff
from the cat's box is all across the floor here."
That came later.
> and
> Budrys' _Rogue Exposure of Buttocks_ (sorry)
I think I've seen that...
(And I think no one touched Niven's _Unmentionableworld_?)
Par
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
Chicks of Prey (Drakes only "adult" book)
The Arayan Plague by Frank Herbert, about the rise of a new and
powerfull Klan.
/Par
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Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has
to see you in order for you to be safe -- to see you, and to
give a fuck -- you've already blown it. -- Neal Stephenson, 'Zodiac'.
cryptoguy
Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Jul 4, 10:09�pm, Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> > would like to play a game. �Lo these many years ago, when I
> > was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> > altered titles. �The rules were simple: �change one word to
> > a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> > meaning of the title.
> >
> > However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
> >
> > The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
> >
> > I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> > erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
> If I can (like others) change more than one word, please accept _The
> Sea Monster Funerals_. But also either _Quatermass and the Cherry-
> stone_ or _Quatermass and the Orchestra Stalls_. (Was that a book?
> Never mind.)
>
> _No Adolescent Consumed Mind-altering Small French Biscuit_.
>
> Don't forget Asimov went on to _Moment Cellars_. (And when he was
> still good. Arguably.)
PKD actually has a character play this game (in either Ubik, or
Galactic
Pot Healer, I think):
The Male Sibling Also Gets Up
by
Serious Borderingpath
Peter Trei
cryptoguy
Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Jul 4, 10:09�pm, Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> > would like to play a game. �Lo these many years ago, when I
> > was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> > altered titles. �The rules were simple: �change one word to
> > a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> > meaning of the title.
> >
> > However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
> >
> > The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
> >
> > I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> > erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
> If I can (like others) change more than one word, please accept _The
> Sea Monster Funerals_. But also either _Quatermass and the Cherry-
> stone_ or _Quatermass and the Orchestra Stalls_. (Was that a book?
> Never mind.)
>
> _No Adolescent Consumed Mind-altering Small French Biscuit_.
>
> Don't forget Asimov went on to _Moment Cellars_. (And when he was
> still good. Arguably.)
PKD actually has a character play this game (in either Ubik, or
Lawrence Watt-Evans
<treif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>PKD actually has a character play this game (in either Ubik, or
>Galactic
>Pot Healer, I think):
>
>The Male Sibling Also Gets Up
>by
>Serious Borderingpath
Male Offspring, surely?
--
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Quadibloc
> And now it's homophones!
The next thing you know, people will be talking about Isaac Asimov's
"The Dolphin of Eternity".
The End of Eternity ->
The Purpose of Eternity ->
The Porpoise of Eternity ->
The Dolphin of Eternity
John Savard
Gene
news:d23774lqm5n4riift...@news.rcn.com:
>>The Male Sibling Also Gets Up
>>by
>>Serious Borderingpath
>
> Male Offspring, surely?
The Male Offspring Likewise Levitates.
David DeLaney
Wendell Urth did this better than us. But only once.
Dave
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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:: The Purpose of Eternity ->
:: The Porpoise of Eternity ->
:: The Dolphin of Eternity
: d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney)
: Wendell Urth did this better than us. But only once.
Transporting gulls across staid lions for immortal porpoises?
David Cowie
> The Anubis Founder of Microsoft?
THE ANUBIS BILL.
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Containment Failure + 40756:06
Taki Kogoma
allegedly proclaimed to rec.arts.sf.written:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:32:07 -0700, art...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> The Anubis Founder of Microsoft?
>
> THE ANUBIS BILL.
_Charge the Galactic Sandwich_?
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Capt. Gym Z. Quirk (Known to some as Taki Kogoma) quirk @ swcp.com
Just an article detector on the Information Supercollider.
ncw...@hotmail.com
Now, now. Don't accuse me of being homophonic!
Cheers,
Nigel.
ncw...@hotmail.com
There's also his baseball/cricket cross-over novel - "Base and
Umpire".
Back to the original subject, there are some other candidates:
P. Anderson's book about accounting: _The Man Who Quantifies_
G. Lucas' book about the failure of imperial regression: _The Empire
Stops Working Back_
A.C. Clarke's book of unhealthy cooking: _The Deep Cooker_
H. Harrison's book of the problems purchasing depts have in collecting
money from important people: _Invoice the Galactic Hero_
Cheers,
Nigel.
Kay Shapero
ca399d...@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, ncw...@hotmail.com says...
>
> Back to the original subject, there are some other candidates:
>
> P. Anderson's book about accounting: _The Man Who Quantifies_
> G. Lucas' book about the failure of imperial regression: _The Empire
> Stops Working Back_
> A.C. Clarke's book of unhealthy cooking: _The Deep Cooker_
> H. Harrison's book of the problems purchasing depts have in collecting
> money from important people: _Invoice the Galactic Hero_
>
Alexander Lloyd: _The Drunk King_? Or maybe _Communist Planet_ by RAH.
The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter of a
title, which gives you things like
A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?)
or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of
The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine (why
yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
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http://www.kayshapero.net
Mike Schilling
> The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter
> of a title, which gives you things like
> A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?)
> or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of
> The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine
> (why yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
Preceded by the feminist horror story, The Bobbit.
Kay Shapero
mscotts...@hotmail.com says...
No doubt inspired by _The Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe_.
ncw...@hotmail.com
> In article <wL8dk.13745$uE5.6...@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>,
> mscottschill...@hotmail.com says...
>
> > Kay Shapero wrote:
> > > The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter
> > > of a title, which gives you things like
> > > A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?)
> > > or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of
> > > The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine
> > > (why yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
>
> > Preceded by the feminist horror story, The Bobbit.
>
> No doubt inspired by _The Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe_.
Also known as _The Lying Bitch and her Wardrobe_
I used to work on some fuzzy matching software that defined a good
match as being one letter added, one letter removed or two adjacent
letters swapped in a word. We tried this with James Bond films and
got:
One letter added: Diet Another Day.
One letter removed: You Only Lie Twice
Two letters swapped: Golfdinger
Cheers,
Nigel.
Michal Jakuszewski
> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I
> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to
> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> meaning of the title.
>
> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
>
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
>
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> erudite group can come up with some new ones.
>
Other Donaldson titles:
Lord Malodorous' Bane
The Unhealthy Earth War
The Caucasian Gold Wielder
The Runes of the Soil
The Unfortunate Revenant