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Pete Granzeau
"It was a stark and dormy night."
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Magdaeln
pete.g...@exchange.com (Pete Granzeau) writes:
>"It was a dark and stormy night".
Maddy L'Engle.
Try this... (From a movie)
"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams.")
or this
"In the beginning was The Bird.
Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
Bird..."
---.\\agdaelen
"And so beside the Silent Sea
I wait the muffled oar."
-Whittier, The Eternal Goodness [1867] Stanza 19
David Empey
>Try this... (From a movie)
>"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams.")
>or this
>"In the beginning was The Bird.
>Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
>Bird..."
"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag" ?
I haven't yet seen a reply to my serve, "When the world is going to
end, spend the rest of the time in a bar." (Which may be a paraphrase,
but I don't think so.)
Or how about
"Do ye blow, ye creeping beast, full-throated through the land of
cheese?" I bet _nobody_ (except Dane Johnson) will get this one!
--
-Dave Empey (speaking only for myself)
..all Angelenos *know* that those dastardly Canadians have specially
trained two mile thick glaciers massed at the border, poised to sweep
down on the US of A. -Mark Gonzales
Patrick Reid
>"In the beginning was The Bird.
>Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
>Bird..."
RAH, _The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag_
Double points: This is a book being written in a book. Give both the real
book and authour and the fictional authour of this bit.
"'Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship.
One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another.
Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue
crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. *Slurp!* *Slurp!*'"
That bit always kills me.
-Patrick
Ross Smith
>
>I haven't yet seen a reply to my serve, "When the world is going to
>end, spend the rest of the time in a bar." (Which may be a paraphrase,
>but I don't think so.)
_And the Devil Will Drag You Under_, by Jack Chalker.
I posted some a few days ago, but here's another one anyway...
"The Street Colour Co-ordinator Computer had sent me a message saying
how much it had enjoyed working with my trousers."
--
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Keeper of the FAQ for rec.aviation.military
Cobol is not a necessary evil. Cobol is not necessary.
Samuel S. Paik
>pete.g...@exchange.com (Pete Granzeau) wrote
>>"It was a dark and stormy night".
>Maddy L'Engle.
Shouldn't that be Edward Bullwer-Litton? (sp?) [That's not to say, that no
one else started something with that, e.g. Misty Lackey's song].
>"In the beginning was The Bird.
>Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
>Bird..."
Sounds like "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", R.A. Heinlein.
Here is an easy one:
What was the need to give these people to the fire...
Another easy one (opening line)
He was not alone.
And one perhaps not so easy (then again, maybe it is)
WHAT WILL I BE WHEN I GROW UP?
Sam
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Allan McInnes
>
> "In the beginning was The Bird.
> Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
> Bird..."
_The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag_, by Robert Heinlein?
Return fire:
"I always get the shakes before a drop."
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Craig Hlady
> Return fire:
> "I always get the shakes before a drop."
Way, way too easy. _Starship Troopers_ by R. Anson H.
I gave this one out before, but no one got it, (and I can't think of
anything else offhand) so I'll try again:
"If light is a wave, why not surf?"
--
Craig Hlady Metals and Materials Engineering
cmpe.ubc.ca University of BC (Vancouver)
"I've lived all my life on Planet Earth" - Devo
David Moews
Patrick Reid <pjr...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
|"'Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship.
|One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another.
|Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue
|crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. *Slurp!* *Slurp!*'"
From CHILDREN OF THE LENS (by E. E. Smith, Ph. D.) Kimball Kinnison is posing
as author Sybly White.
How about
"You like them the good old way, I see, without bristles."
--
David Moews dmo...@xraysgi.ims.uconn.edu
Rene Marquette
>
> "The Street Colour Co-ordinator Computer had sent me a message saying
> how much it had enjoyed working with my trousers."
>
From "Only Forward" by Michael M. Smith which I am now reading and which
is not too bad, actually...
Try this:
"And there it stood, a blue spruce, stranger in structure and more alien
in intelligence than any creature in science-fiction.
How can we live among so many wonders and not be overwhelmed by the sheer
mystery of existence?"
> ... Ross Smith (Wellington, New Zealand) <al...@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz> ...
/~\ /^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\
C oo' . o O { Rene~ Marquette <mar...@bosoleil.ci.umoncton.ca>}
_( ^) \ CECI N'EST PAS UNE SIGNATURE /
/ ~ \ \............................................../
Mike Schilling
: Magdaeln <magd...@aol.com> wrote:
: >pete.g...@exchange.com (Pete Granzeau) wrote
: >>"It was a dark and stormy night".
: >Maddy L'Engle.
:
: Shouldn't that be Edward Bullwer-Litton? (sp?) [That's not to say, that no
: one else started something with that, e.g. Misty Lackey's song].
:
: >"In the beginning was The Bird.
: >Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
: >Bird..."
:
: Sounds like "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", R.A. Heinlein.
:
: Here is an easy one:
:
: What was the need to give these people to the fire...
Markus Freericks
> Double points: This is a book being written in a book. Give both the real
> book and authour and the fictional authour of this bit.
>
> "'Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship.
> One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another.
> Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue
> crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. *Slurp!* *Slurp!*'"
>
> That bit always kills me.
>
> -Patrick
E.E. Smith, Grey Lensman (or is it second stage?)
Kimball Kinnison poses as a science fiction writer (whose name I can
neither remember nor look up, here at work ;-)
Another simple one:
"'Kittens', he thought, 'always going for the dramatic'."
Thomas Koenig
article <1994Oct7...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>:
>"I always get the shakes before a drop."
Too easy - Heinlein, "Starship Troopers".
How about "Stupidity not being a crime, I'm not under arrest"?
--
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The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.
Dana Crom
>book and authour and the fictional authour of this bit.
>
>"'Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship.
>One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another.
>Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue
>crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. *Slurp!* *Slurp!*'"
>
>That bit always kills me.
Can only answer 3/4 - my books are at home.
The real author is E. E. (Doc) Smith, in _Grey Lensman_ (I think, may be
_Second Stage Lensman_).
The fictional author is Kim Kinnison, when working under cover as a hack
writer of space operas (Doc Smith parodied himself & friends better and
earlier than Harrison or Garrett). Can't remember his cover name, though.
A lob back - a last line, this time:
"Got any dragons you need killed?"
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Joseph K Mcallister
Allan McInnes <mis...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>Return fire:
>
>"I always get the shakes before a drop."
>
Rico, in _Starship Troopers_ by Heinlein.
Return Fire:
"Where in the Hell _was_ he? The Rockies? The Andes? Another Planet? How could
he have traveld in a single night, by boat and helicopter from the Florida
Keys to this? He tried to map the hemisphere in his mind, but got no
help from the exercise. Had he really been drugged, and hours or days thus
taken from him, and why? This, he thought, is what paranoia feels like."
-Joel "I only have one book in my office" McAllister
Andrew Solovay
Samuel S. Paik <pa...@mlo.dec.com> writes:
>
>Here is an easy one:
>
> What was the need to give these people to the fire...
"The Star", Arthur C. Clarke.
>And one perhaps not so easy (then again, maybe it is)
>
> WHAT WILL I BE WHEN I GROW UP?
I'm pretty sure that's "When HARLIE Was One", David Gerrold. But I'm
guessing, 'cause of the ALL-CAPS.
How 'bout this one (an easy one, too):
"The gate is DOWN!"
--
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"Ha-ha. Merriment and whatnot. Don't apologize. It's
just what *would* happen." --- Eeyore
bad
David Empey <dge...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>I haven't yet seen a reply to my serve, "When the world is going to
>end, spend the rest of the time in a bar." (Which may be a paraphrase,
>but I don't think so.)
by Douglas Adams.
Dorothy J Heydt
Dana Crom <da...@morc.mfg.sgi.com> wrote:
>
>A lob back - a last line, this time:
>
>"Got any dragons you need killed?"
Oh, hecko. Heinlein, _Glory Road._
"There was a green bough hanging on the door. The year was old,
and turning lightward, into winter."
Dorothy J. Heydt
djh...@uclink.berkeley.edu
University of California
Berkeley
Samuel S. Paik
>How 'bout this one (an easy one, too):
>
>"The gate is DOWN!"
Looks like Ender's Game (O.S. Card) to me.
"I am the wind that troubles the water,"
David Shallcross
>Here's another easy one:
>
>"Even the birds above the lake are singing of my love..."
>
Guy Gavriel Kay, _A Song for Arbonne_
how about: "My surname is Li and my personal name is Kao, and there is
a slight flaw in my character."
or even:
"Paper covers stone, stone breaks scissors, scissors cut paper,"
Cynthia said. "Who says the gods haven't a sense of humor?"
(I cheated on that one and copied it out of the book.)
-- David Shallcross
Courtenay Footman
>
>"I always get the shakes before a drop."
_Starship Troopers_.
Try this:
"NURK LURKS IN DOORWAYS"
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"reply-to's". This can be fixed by hand. Sorry.
Ethan A Merritt
>
>"I am the wind that troubles the water,"
The Book of Night with Moon,
as read by Kit and Nita in So You Want to Be a Wizard.
next -
"A Horse has feet, oh one, oh two, oh three, oh four;
a Horse eats wheat, oh one, oh two, oh three, oh four;
a Horse is meat, oh one, oh two, oh three, oh four;
a Horse can snort, oh one, oh..."
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mer...@u.washington.edu
Craig Becker
mis...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Allan McInnes) writes:
...
> "I always get the shakes before a drop."
_Starship Troopers_, of course!
Another easy one:
"Again," she said.
"I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone else," the
bureaucrat said amiably.
Craig
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_Godstalk_, P.C. Hodgell.
"Once the world was not as it has since become."
It is possible I'm misremembering this, but I doubt it.
Double points if you get both books...
Simon.
si...@math.berkeley.edu
Ross Smith
>In article <1994Oct7...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> mis...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Allan McInnes) writes:
>
>Try this:
>"NURK LURKS IN DOORWAYS"
_God Stalk_ or _Chronicles of the Kencyrath_ (depending on whether you
have the American or British edition) by P C Hodgell.
My turn...
"EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
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Patrick Reid
>In article <pjreid.26...@nbnet.nb.ca>,
>Patrick Reid <pjr...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>>Double points: This is a book being written in a book. Give both the real
>>book and authour and the fictional authour of this bit.
>>
>>"'Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship.
>>One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another.
>>Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue
>>crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. *Slurp!* *Slurp!*'"
>>
>>That bit always kills me.
>Can only answer 3/4 - my books are at home.
>The real author is E. E. (Doc) Smith, in _Grey Lensman_ (I think, may be
>_Second Stage Lensman_).
Close: Children of the Lens
>The fictional author is Kim Kinnison, when working under cover as a hack
>writer of space operas (Doc Smith parodied himself & friends better and
>earlier than Harrison or Garrett). Can't remember his cover name, though.
Under cover as Sybly White
>A lob back - a last line, this time:
>"Got any dragons you need killed?"
RAH, _Glory Road_
How about:
"Somehow, he couldn't see himself explaining to an ancient Roman what he was
doing sticking a tubeful of burning leaves into his mouth."
-Patrick
Ruchira Datta
Andrew Solovay <sol...@netcom.com> wrote:
>"The gate is DOWN!"
Ender in _Ender's Game_, by Orson Scott Card.
Here's another easy one:
"Even the birds above the lake are singing of my love..."
Ruchira Datta
da...@math.berkeley.edu
Ruchira Datta
Magdaeln <magd...@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <2d.51448.18...@exchange.com>,I could have sworn he originally wrote "It was a stark and dormy night."
>Maddy L'Engle.
And also someone else:
It was a dark and stormy night.
// Must you even *think* in cliches?! //
>
>Try this... (From a movie)
>
>"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams.")
I don't know where this is from, but I read it on the back of a
Celestial Seasonings box. It's part of a longer poem. I remember
the next line was "World-losers and world-forsakers," and the
final two lines were "But we are the movers and shakers / Of the
world forever, it seems."
>
>or this
>
>"In the beginning was The Bird.
>Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the sons of The
>Bird..."
_The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag_, RAH.
Ruchira Datta
da...@math.berkeley.edu
Scott Drellishak
)
)"I always get the shakes before a drop."
Sheesh...try a hard one next time. _Starship_Troopers_, of course.
This may be too easy as well, but we'll see:
"The only way to make people believe this story is to write it in
German."
(which should probably read "...story would be to write it...")
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David Empey
Well, that's not what I was thinking of. What's the exact quote from
HG?
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trained two mile thick glaciers massed at the border, poised to sweep
down on the US of A. -Mark Gonzales
Susan Cole
>My turn...
>
>"EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
T.H. White, _The Once and Future King_
How about:
"But they didn't have Alton, and they didn't have Kimbo, and Babe screams
at night and has grown very thin"
David Empey
>In article <37428v$a...@agate.berkeley.edu> da...@durban.berkeley.edu (Ruchira Datta) writes:
>>Here's another easy one:
>>
>>"Even the birds above the lake are singing of my love..."
>>
>Guy Gavriel Kay, _A Song for Arbonne_
I wish people would stop saying "here's another easy one."
>how about: "My surname is Li and my personal name is Kao, and there is
>a slight flaw in my character."
Of course, assuming you've read the book in question, I guess some of
'em are easy. That's from _Bridge of Birds_ by Barry Hughart.
(is that hew art or hug hart, or what?)
"The green-furred, six-legged corpse of the blasted thyrx slung across
his brawny shoulders, Captain Comet made his laborious way across the
endless Martian desert."
David Empey
>My turn...
>"EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
1984?
Simon Marchant
Craig Becker <jlpi...@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>Another easy one:
>
> "Again," she said.
> "I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone else," the
> bureaucrat said amiably.
Is it cheating to quote from a book that's already been mentioned?
(_Stations of the Tide_, Micheal Swanwick, which was one of the first
books in the thread.)
Anyhow, serve #4. Only one answer so far.
"He was going to name the plane after his mother," Scholes said to
the ground. "He told me that just this morning. He was going to
call it Enola Gay."
Simon.
si...@math.berkeley.edu
Samuel S. Paik
>Ross Smith writes:
>
>>"EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
>
>1984?
Isn't it in one of Lewis Carrol's books? Something about a kingdom of ants
comes to mind.
Raphael Carter
>"EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
T. H. White, _The Once and Future King_. The first of the four volumes,
whatever it's called -- I always mix them up.
And for the return volley, one word:
"Skeat."
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Magdaeln
Empey) writes:
>EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
Easy. _Once and future king_.
Jane Carlton
jlpi...@austin.ibm.com "Craig Becker" writes:
> Another easy one:
>
> "Again," she said.
> "I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone else," the
> bureaucrat said amiably.
Sounds like Michael Swanwick - Stations of the tide.
How about:
"The booths were full of people yelling their guts out with praise and
joy. All right, I thought, I'll show you.
I raised my voice.
'Oh thank you,' I screamed. I took an ecstasy pill and soared
and soared. I ranted. I screeched until my throat gave out. I hugged
the machinery with unbridled passion, and tears of love ran down my
face."
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Steve Davies
da...@durban.berkeley.edu "Ruchira Datta" writes:
> In article <36v846$k...@newsbf01.news.aol.com>,
> Magdaeln <magd...@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >Try this... (From a movie)
> >
> >"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams.")
>
> I don't know where this is from, but I read it on the back of a
> Celestial Seasonings box. It's part of a longer poem. I remember
> the next line was "World-losers and world-forsakers," and the
> final two lines were "But we are the movers and shakers / Of the
> world forever, it seems."
>
I haven't yet seen the original message you quote, however the poem is
'The Music-Makers' by Arthur O'Shaugnessy. It's one of my favourite
poems, it has such wonderful lines in it ("For each age is a dream that is
dying, Or one that is coming to birth." are the final lines of the whole
poem, rather than of the first verse which are the ones you quote). I've
no idea which film it's quoted in...
Steve Davies
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Douglas Winston
SD: "The only way to make people believe this story is to write it in
SD: German."
Which is the first line in ""Nothing but Gingerbread Left"
by Henry Kuttner from _Bypass to Otherness_ and
Astounding Science Fiction.
Tapio Erola
(Snipped)
: Another simple one:
: "'Kittens', he thought, 'always going for the dramatic'."
Man-Kzin wars II, novel "Children's hour"
Well, These should not be too tough:
"Maybe men are cowards - At the Core."
"She forced her tired body to obey, taking same obeisance (?) as twenty
years ago on reception at Arthelion. 'Your majesty, what are your orders?'"
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-Han Solo
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Markus Freericks
> Well, These should not be too tough:
>
> "Maybe men are cowards - At the Core."
Uh, I am somewhat guessing, but..
could this be the last line of "neutron star"?
Markus
"'What is the difference between a goldfish and a laser beam?'"
Monika Best
(I'm not sure about _Love and Sleep_ because I haven't read it yet...
got it only three days ago.)
-- Moni
Tapio Erola
: In article <37ar9r$5...@ousrvr.oulu.fi> dar...@paju.oulu.fi (Tapio Erola) writes:
: > Well, These should not be too tough:
: >
: > "Maybe men are cowards - At the Core."
: Uh, I am somewhat guessing, but..
: could this be the last line of "neutron star"?
Almost. Last line, yes, but the story ??
: Markus
: "'What is the difference between a goldfish and a laser beam?'"
Moon is a harsh mistress, R.A. Heinlein
Well, a new shots:
"'Tell my sire -my father-, I died a Hero, Would you?'"
"'What are nerves' He put dopestick between his teeth, 'And what is research?'"
Alun Thomas
Ooo, I *know* this one.... just give me a second...
Err, It's one of Simon Hawke's "Time Wars" series isn't it ?
Um?
Got It! "The Cleopatra Crisis"
Try this one:
(As close as I can get - Its been a while since I read the book)
"How long until they discover what we're planning?"
"Three days, plus or minus five."
Alun.
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>"'What is the difference between a goldfish and a laser beam?'"
Neither one can whistle.
oh, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, RAH
"Let's go to Ur for a beer. They always have good beer in Ur."
--
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It's Time! -- Susor/Neutopia in '96! Obscure quote of the day:
Fear death by water.
Markus Freericks
> In article <37b2cp$s...@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> m...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Markus Freericks) writes:
> "Let's go to Ur for a beer. They always have good beer in Ur."
Zelazny, Roadmarks
"Less Bread! More Taxes!"
Baerbel Steininger t2046
>Anyhow, serve #4. Only one answer so far.
>"He was going to name the plane after his mother," Scholes said to
>the ground. "He told me that just this morning. He was going to
>call it Enola Gay."
>
about the atom bomb). I exactly remember the story and the quote, but
the author, WHO WAS THE AUTHOR?? (arghhhl!)
Baerbel
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Ethan A Merritt
>In article t...@agate.berkeley.edu, si...@xi.berkeley.edu (Simon Marchant) writes:
>>Anyhow, serve #4. Only one answer so far.
>>"He was going to name the plane after his mother," Scholes said to
>>the ground. "He told me that just this morning. He was going to
>>call it Enola Gay."
>>
>It's from a short story called _Lucky Strike_ (a alternate history story
>about the atom bomb). I exactly remember the story and the quote, but
>the author, WHO WAS THE AUTHOR?? (arghhhl!)
>Baerbel
Kim Stanley Robinson
Ethan A Merritt
mer...@u.washington.edu
Rob Furr
_Roadmarks_, Roger Zelazny.
(Might be a bit off, but still...): "When was it ever forbidden to free
the captive?"
Rob F.
Duke Toma
M@> "I always get the shakes before a drop."
Is it _Armor_ by John Steakley?
If it is, here's your counterquote:
"No," I answered. "I mean, yes, I'm his apprentice, but he never said
anything about demon-suns."
"That's dimensions," he corrected.
-Duke Toma
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Dorothy J Heydt
David Shallcross <dav...@konig.bellcore.com> wrote:
>
>or even:
>"Paper covers stone, stone breaks scissors, scissors cut paper,"
>Cynthia said. "Who says the gods haven't a sense of humor?"
>(I cheated on that one and copied it out of the book.)
holy shit, that's *mine* ...
And the title is "Things Come in Threes," in MZB's _Sword and
Sorceress [I]_.
Dorothy J. Heydt
djh...@uclink.berkeley.edu
University of California
Berkeley
Dorothy J Heydt
David Empey <dge...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>"The green-furred, six-legged corpse of the blasted thyrx slung across
>his brawny shoulders, Captain Comet made his laborious way across the
>endless Martian desert."
Ah, yes. _Rocket to the Morgue_ by Anthony Boucher (well, the
original by-line was H. H. Holmes), wherein Joe Henderson (~=
Edmond Hamilton) continues the exploits of Captain Comet
(~=Future).
David Empey
>Well, These should not be too tough:
>"Maybe men are cowards - At the Core."
Well, heck, isn't this Niven's "At the Core"?
"There is no hope, there is no hope; the dead return not, the dead return
not. Hope not, for there is no hope."
Rob Furr
writes:
>Is it _Armor_ by John Steakley?
Nope. Close, though. (_Armor_ occasionally seems to be a little too close
for comfort to _Starship Troopers_. It's not plagarism, obviously; the
plot differs in many, many respects, but the combat descriptions in
_Armor_ are _very_ evocative of the _Troopers_ attack on Klendathu.)
>If it is, here's your counterquote:
>
> "No," I answered. "I mean, yes, I'm his apprentice, but he never
said
>anything about demon-suns."
> "That's dimensions," he corrected.
_Another Fine Myth_. Asprin.
Counterserve (may be off; I don't have the book handy)
"Ah, yes. Your wizards wanted those castes to live until something killed
them."
Ethan A Merritt
>How about:
>
>"Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo!"
>
Umm. you mean other than in Mary Poppins?
Ethan A Merritt
mer...@u.washington.edu
Jo Walton
Ja...@tortshel.demon.co.uk "Jane Carlton" writes:
> "The booths were full of people yelling their guts out with praise and
> joy. All right, I thought, I'll show you.
> I raised my voice.
> 'Oh thank you,' I screamed. I took an ecstasy pill and soared
> and soared. I ranted. I screeched until my throat gave out. I hugged
> the machinery with unbridled passion, and tears of love ran down my
> face."
Tanith Lee "Drinking Sapphire Wine" - may be known as "Don't Bite the Sun" in
the US??
"Are you a friend of Gary's?"
"No, actually I'm a wizard from another dimension."
And now for two endings
A really recent one:
"Forests, the woman said."
A really old and soppy one:
"Presently the lorin came."
--
Jo
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Heikki Poso
>"She forced her tired body to obey, taking same obeisance (?) as twenty
>years ago on reception at Arthelion. 'Your majesty, what are your orders?'"
Almost. The quote goes: "Forcing her tired body to obey, she bowed
deeply, the same bow she had made once before, twenty years ago in the
Palace Major on Arthelion."
Smith and Trowbridge, _A Prison Unsought_, last lines.
Not quite sf or fantasy, but if you haven't read the book you definitely
should... :-)
Listen: "Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs.: Words cannot express
the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or
brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action."
Heikki
hp...@pcu.helsinki.fi
Heikki Poso
> "No," I answered. "I mean, yes, I'm his apprentice, but he never said
>anything about demon-suns."
> "That's dimensions," he corrected.
Robert Asprin: _Another Fine Myth_, Skeeve and Aahz.
Return fire:
Actual screen shots taken from a version you haven't bought.
Heikki
hp...@pcu.helsinki.fi
Simon H Le G Bisson
si...@xi.berkeley.edu (Simon Marchant) wrote:
>Anyhow, serve #4. Only one answer so far.
>"He was going to name the plane after his mother," Scholes said to
>the ground. "He told me that just this morning. He was going to
>call it Enola Gay."
Short stories, now? It's Stan Robinson's "Lucky Strike" if I'm not mistaken
(and then add in the metafiction thread and refer to the linked "A
Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions")
Now here's a return to make the net jealous!
"In these, the Later Days of the Earth, the Spring comes less quickly than
in the youth of the world, and flees sooner."
Simon
Simon H. Le G. Bisson: si...@fehen.demon.co.uk,si...@tardis.ed.ac.uk
Programme Manager, Evolution: The Next Step. UK National Sf Convention '96
GOHs: Vernor Vinge, Colin Greenland, Brian Talbot, Dr. Jack Cohen
E-mail me for more information!
David Empey
>In article <3759v3$o...@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
>David Empey <dge...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>"The green-furred, six-legged corpse of the blasted thyrx slung across
>>his brawny shoulders, Captain Comet made his laborious way across the
>>endless Martian desert."
>Ah, yes. _Rocket to the Morgue_ by Anthony Boucher (well, the
>original by-line was H. H. Holmes), wherein Joe Henderson (~=
>Edmond Hamilton) continues the exploits of Captain Comet
>(~=Future).
Heh. I had a private bet with myself that Dorothy J. Heydt
would be the first one to get this and on my site, I was
right.
*sigh*. Don'cha wish you could read the Dr. Derringer
stories?
Btw, if Joe Henderson != Edmond Hamilton, who does he =?
David Empey
>"Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo!"
Well, I think this was originally from the Disney cartoon version
of _Cinderella_, but I suppose you're thinking of that Rick Cook
book about Wiz Zumwalt, not _The Wizardry Compiled_ I don't think,
it was the one before it, it's just on the tip of my tongue...
uh...uh... oh heck.
Hmmpf. Well, I'm gonna serve again anyway, this is fun,
even if my serves do seem to be "out" a lot.
"In the first place, please bear in mind that I do not
expect you to believe this story."
Warren Edward Kenyon
>In article <1994Oct10....@news2.den.mmc.com> ken...@pogo.den.mmc.com (Warren Edward Kenyon) writes:
>>How about:
>>
>>"Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo!"
>>
> Umm. you mean other than in Mary Poppins?
Yes, I mean other than in Mary Poppins.
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Warren Edward Kenyon
>"Are you a friend of Gary's?"
>"No, actually I'm a wizard from another dimension."
Barbara Hambly, "The Silicon Mage"? Been a while, is that the name of
the second in the series?
Scott Drellishak
Actually, it's: "And sell your TV sets before the bottom drops out of
the market." From "Patent Pending", in _Tales_of_the_White_Hart_, by
Arthur C. Clarke.
My latest offering:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should voyage far."
--
/ Scott Drellishak s...@netcom.com \
| "He would see faces in movies, on TV, in magazines, and in books. |
\ He thought that some of these faces might be right for him..." /
Andrew Solovay
Duke Toma <Duke...@corp.aldhfn.org> writes:
>
> "No," I answered. "I mean, yes, I'm his apprentice, but he never said
>anything about demon-suns."
> "That's dimensions," he corrected.
"Another Fine Myth", Robert Aspirin.
How 'bout:
"G'bye, kids! Have fun storming the castle!"
--
Andrew Solovay [PGP public key available on request]
"Ha-ha. Merriment and whatnot. Don't apologize. It's
just what *would* happen." --- Eeyore
Warren Edward Kenyon
"I wonder why there is a 'z' at the end?"
"Because if it was at the beginning, nobody would be able to pronounce
it."
and,
"Shit, we're dead."
and
"Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo! Bibbity bobbity boo!"
da...@telerama.lm.com
>"Less Bread! More Taxes!"
Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carrol
"We don't shoot sitting ducks."
Peter Johannes
: -=> Quoting Misc300 @csc.canterbury.a to All <=-
: M@> "I always get the shakes before a drop."
: Is it _Armor_ by John Steakley?
: If it is, here's your counterquote:
: "No," I answered. "I mean, yes, I'm his apprentice, but he never said
: anything about demon-suns."
: "That's dimensions," he corrected.
The first Myth book, R. Asprin (forgot the exact title)
An easy one:
"And as we stand on the edge of darkness"
Peter
--
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(joha...@imec.be)
Paul Olav Tvete
> Actual screen shots taken from a version you haven't bought.
_Only You Can Save Mankind_ by Terry Pratchett
My turn (The latest book I read -- recommended):
It's a dark time, and we all sound like the Bible.
--
My name is Paul Olav Tvete, my email address pa...@ii.uib.no
and there is a slight flaw in my character
Mike Arnautov
|> how about: "My surname is Li and my personal name is Kao, and there is
|> a slight flaw in my character."
Well, I am too far downstream to be the first, but unless I ignore the
fact, I'll never get to play.
_Bridge of Birds_ Barry Hughart.
How about: "Mip mip." (We are talking SF writings here, not kiddie
cartoons :-)
--
Mike Arnautov
mla...@ggr.co.uk
Patrick Reid
"Neither one can whistle"
RAH - _Moon is a Harsh Mistress_
Here's one:
"The bedroom murmured to itself gently."
-Patrick
Patrick Reid
>"Shit, we're dead."
Simon Hawke, _The Ivanhoe Gambit_
Patrick Reid
> M@> "I always get the shakes before a drop."
>Is it _Armor_ by John Steakley?
Wrong. Starship Trooper, RAH
"Here begins a happy day in 2381"
-Patrick
Charlie Stross
In article <375a1m$o...@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
David Empey <dge...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>In <alien...@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz> al...@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
>
>>My turn...
>
>>"EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN"
>
>1984?
Naah, 1984 was something like "It was a clear, cold day and across London
the clocks were striking thirteen."
However, "EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN" does somehow make me
think of "Agent of Chaos" by Norman Spinrad ...
-- Charlie
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Richard V. quote The Rivina unquote Nawrocki
writes:
>Markus Freericks (m...@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
>
> :In article <37ar9r$5...@ousrvr.oulu.fi> dar...@paju.oulu.fi (Tapio Erola)
> :writes:
> :
> : >Well, These should not be too tough:
> : >
> : >"Maybe men are cowards - At the Core."
> :Uh, I am somewhat guessing, but..
> :could this be the last line of "neutron star"?
>
>Almost. Last line, yes, but the story ??
Ha! "At the Core," of course; the second rather than the first of the
tales of Beowulf Shaeffer. Knew it even without the extra hint. That
makes eight out of several dozen that have been posted over the course
of this thread (only four of which remained unanswered at my site by
the time I got to 'em)...
My turn again. Darn. I *hate* being so far away from the bulk of my
science fiction collection... :-(
But here: "The main line of the future was not easy to alter. The
future is a pyramid shaping slowly, brick by brick, and brick by brick
Talley had to change it. There were some men who were necessary -- men
who would create and build -- men who should be saved. Talley gave
them what they needed. But inevitably there were others whose ends
were evil. Talley gave them, too, what the world needed -- death.
Peter Talley had not asked for this terrible power. But the key had
been put in his hands, and he dared not delegate such authority as
this to any other man alive. Sometimes he made mistakes."
Take care,
-Rich.
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Samuel S. Paik
>holy shit, that's *mine* ...
Hey! No fair! Well... when are you going to get another story published
anyway? I've really liked the ones in the Sword & Sorceress series.
Sam
--
Samuel Paik / Digital Equipment Corporation / 3D Device Support
pa...@avalon.eng.pko.dec.com / 508-493-4048 / I speak only for myself
The spoilers have already started; it's too late for the Yanks to hide.
Kyle Dippery
Markus Freericks <m...@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>"Less Bread! More Taxes!"
>
Lewis Carroll, _Sylvie and Bruno_.
Since I just finished rereading it last night,
"'Io suuicien lui damo amo,' she said softly. 'You are here in place of
the friends I love.'"
Dan'l DanehyOakes
>Return serve (should be fairly easy):
>
>"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
is indeed; is same person who said, "Don't take life so serious. It ain't
nohow permanent."
(Walt Kelly, in POGO)
Try this:
The city was open to the nomad.
--dan'l
David Empey
In <37e8va$s...@inxs.ncren.net> Rob Furr <r.f...@genie.geis.com> writes:
>Return volley:
>"'And the Holy Land? Has it been freed from the paynim?'
>'Well,' said Captain ________, who was a loyal citizen of the Israeli
>Empire, 'Yes.'
>'Too bad. I'd have loved a fresh crusade.'"
_The High Crusade_, by Poul Anderson. (Or is it? As I recall, the hero
ended up getting the girl in that one, so it can't really have been
Poul Anderson, can it?)
"It was the Year of the Behemoth, the Month of the Hedghog, the Day of the
Toad"
Tami Kimmel
> >>"It was a dark and stormy night".
> I could have sworn he originally wrote "It was a stark and dormy night."
> >Maddy L'Engle.
>
> And also someone else:
>
> It was a dark and stormy night.
> // Must you even *think* in cliches?! //
This one's from Misty. Vanyel and Yfandes, I think? Or was it
possibly Kris and his Companion?
How about "Never try to outstubborn a cat."
--Tami Kimmel
kim...@uiuc.edu tam...@imsa.edu
The Wandering Jew
> "'And the Holy Land? Has it been freed from the paynim?'
> 'Well,' said Captain ________, who was a loyal citizen of the Israeli
> Empire, 'Yes.'
> 'Too bad. I'd have loved a fresh crusade.'"
Ah, Sprintnet is finally catching up, I almost got to the Harrison quote
first :)
_The High Crusade_ by Poul Anderson (1960).
Let's try something reasonably obscure.
"So you say you want the truth? Let's see if you can handle the truth..."
(hmm, maybe I am off by a word or two, it's been a while...)
--
Ahasuerus
"...and the truth shall make you free"
Matt Austern
> "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
> the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid
> island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
> not meant that we should voyage far."
"The Call of Cthulhu".
My turn? Hm... OK, this should do.
"Ye shall know the truth, Adams thought, and by the thou shalt
enslave. Or, as Yancy would put it, `My fellow Americans. I have
before me a document so sacred and momentous that I am going to ask
you to---' and so on."
--
--matt
Mary Ellen Curtin
>Return serve (should be fairly easy):
>
>"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
It *is* easy: Walt Kelly in _Pogo_. Although in fact, I recall it as " .
. .and they is us."
Hem, hem. Well, here's one, but though it's a good book and a good
opening line I don't know if anyone will get it:
In the raucous cathedral square the crowd prepared to hang a pig.
Yours,
Mary Ellen
internet: <p01...@psilink.com>
postal: 9 Titus Mill Rd., Pennington, NJ 08534, USA
Darius Bacon
>"Ye shall know the truth, Adams thought, and by the thou shalt
>enslave. Or, as Yancy would put it, `My fellow Americans. I have
>before me a document so sacred and momentous that I am going to ask
>you to---' and so on."
>--
Philip K. Dick, _The Penultimate Truth_.
How about this:
Mary Dahlmann. That was a hard name to pronounce, but I had studied
Australian for almost two years, and I was damned if I couldn't say a
name.
Mike Scott
>"Maybe men are cowards - At the Core."
"At the Core", Larry Niven
Try:
"The ghost of a trumpet call wailed from the other side of the doors."
--
Mike Scott || Confabulation is the 1995 UK national SF convention
Mi...@moose.demon.co.uk || Mail Con...@moose.demon.co.uk for more details
Dorothy J Heydt
David Empey <dge...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>.... I certainly figured
>Henderson to be Hamilton. And D. Vance Wimpole is ~= L. Ron
>Hubbard, I guess;
I don't know; I'll ask Karen next time I talk to her. (I always
did mistrust men who part their names on the side....)
>is Austin Carter ~= RAH?
Yes. And NB that Carter's wife Bernice ~= Heinlein's *first*
wife, Leslyn, since the story was written before WW2. If you
note a resemblance between Mmes. Heinlein 1 and 2, and between
them and a lot of his heroines, it is probably not an accident.
Matt Duncan ~= Cleve Cartmill.
Fowler Foulkes is a sort of amalgam of Arthur Conan Doyle and
Edgar Rice Burroughs. And Hilary FF is at least partially based
on Burroughs's son, who maintained a similar chokehold on his
father's works.
Don Carter, of course, ~= John W. Campbell, Jr.
And Anthony Boucher appears _in propria persona,_ arm trick and
all; however, the original by-line on the novel was "H. H. Holmes,"
so his appearance was almost as much on an in-joke as the rest.
Dorothy J. Heydt
djh...@uclink.berkeley.edu
University of California
Berkeley
Steven K. Kasow
Mary Ellen Curtin <p01...@psilink.com> wrote:
>
>Hem, hem. Well, here's one, but though it's a good book and a good
>opening line I don't know if anyone will get it:
>
> In the raucous cathedral square the crowd prepared to hang a pig.
A marvelous book indeed. Mary Gentle's _Rats and Gargoyles_.
Here's one back at you:
"Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking
toward Tadfield.
"And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not
Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But
Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People traveled with them."
Steven
ka...@columbia.edu
--
Azhural raised his staff. "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork," he
said. "We've got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of
forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing... we're wearing...
sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
Markus Freericks
> Another: (may be too easy)
>
> "I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, moss-like
> vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for
> interminable miles."
Hmm, this might be the scene from "A Princess of Mars", where John Carter
is first transported there.
Markus
"First we must collect the semen. The
globules will emerge at transsonic speeds."
Patrick Reid
>"Look at it this way. God is not so much a sponge as she is
> the behavior of a sponge when confronted with...oh, I don't
> know...say, a middle-aged woman with a bad haircut who's
> recently been crucified. Turn over."
_Only Begotten Daughter_, James Morrow
Here's one:
"It was on December seventeenth, the Saturnalia, that for the second time in
my life I felt a mind other than my own."
-Patrick
Patrick Reid
>Here's one back at you:
>
> "Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking
>toward Tadfield.
> "And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not
>Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But
>Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People traveled with them."
"The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" Terry Pratchett and
some other guy.
Now try:
"According to their biographies, Destiny's favored children usually had their
lives planned out from scratch."
-Patrick
Simon Marchant
Steven K. Kasow <ka...@rabi2.columbia.edu> wrote:
>In article <299098884...@psilink.com>,
> "Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking
>toward Tadfield.
> "And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not
>Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But
>Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People traveled with them."
_Good Omens_, Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett.
"There are bright senses and dark senses. The bright senses, sight
and hearing, make a world patent and ordered, a world of reason,
fragile but lucid. The dark senses, smell and taste and touch,
create a world of felt wisdom, without a plot, unarticulated
but certain."
Simon.
si...@math.berkeley.edu
da...@telerama.lm.com
>"Look at it this way. God is not so much a sponge as she is
> the behavior of a sponge when confronted with...oh, I don't
> know...say, a middle-aged woman with a bad haircut who's
> recently been crucified. Turn over."
Sounds like "Only Begotten Daughter".
Here's a snippet from something a bit older:
"They may return."
-----
Dani Zweig
da...@telerama.lm.com
Aphorism is better than none.
Frodo Looijaard
>"Iron for the birthday,
>Bronze carried long,
>Wood from the burning,
>Stone out of song."
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising - sequence. Returning:
(easy):
"Well," the Goddess said, "your heart didn't heal straight the last time
it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this
time."
(perhaps slightly more difficult):
The elves had a proverb, 'Minnows mourn when bridges fall". Unlike most
elvish sayings, it even made some sort of sense - especially to minnows.
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Rob Furr
hp...@pcu.helsinki.fi writes:
> Listen: "Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs.: Words cannot express
>the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or
>brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action."
_Catch-22_. Heller. Col. Cathcart to the doctor's "widow."
jga...@pomona.claremont.edu
>Once more into the breach:
>
> He hung up.
> On his way back to the lobby, his cigarettes forgotten, he had
>to walk the length of the ranked phones. Each rang in turn, but only
>once, as he passed.
That's easy _Neuromancer_ by William Gibson
How about:
"Dr.Lovell says I have writing talent, so I have to enter this stupid contest,
so I'm stuck with a bunch of extra hours at werp- and with my Full Adult exam
less than three months away, too."
Well, let the games continue!
---Justin
jga...@pomona.claremont.edu
>
>Markus
>
>"First we must collect the semen. The
> globules will emerge at transsonic speeds."
"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" by Larry Niven
(I am not sure if that was your .sig, but it was a hilarious article
nonetheless)
Anyway, on the chance that I didn't just answer your .sig :-) here's another
one:
This is a paraphrase but, "There had been 15 assasination attempts on the
emporer, only 5 of which had been successful"
The numbers are wrong, but that's pretty close.
Until the next round,
Justin
David Empey
>Once more into the breach:
> He hung up.
> On his way back to the lobby, his cigarettes forgotten, he had
>to walk the length of the ranked phones. Each rang in turn, but only
>once, as he passed.
_Last Call_, Tim Powers.
Mmmmm. Here's a kind of obscure one: "Cimon and how to get there."
David Empey
>"First we must collect the semen. The
> globules will emerge at transsonic speeds."
"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex", Larry Niven.
"I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me,
or to any other."
Rob Furr
sol...@netcom.com writes:
>"G'bye, kids! Have fun storming the castle!"
_The Princess Bride_, movie version. Miracle Max (Billy Crystal.)
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