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Willravel · 08-29-2004, 09:20 PM

Oh by the way, the quotation marks are actually there to show someone is speaking.

Fire · 08-30-2004, 01:29 AM

Enders game-

Fire · 08-30-2004, 01:44 AM

as for my line- its a movie

Your........From Baker

Willravel · 08-30-2004, 08:17 PM

I knew I shoudln't have made it so easy! Crap!

Kadath · 08-31-2004, 01:06 PM

Fire:
Is that "You're...from Baker"?

Fire · 08-31-2004, 05:42 PM

yes, it is - so do you know it kadath?

Kadath · 08-31-2004, 06:46 PM

I don't. I feel like it should be Blade Runner or something, but it isn't.

Fire · 08-31-2004, 11:22 PM

I'll give everyone a hint- it is a western

if no one gets it by tommorow night I'll post the answer

Fire · 09-01-2004, 10:16 PM

ok- no one knows it- so,

Its the first line from "the good, the bad and the ugly" sergio leone's masterpeice

but you have to wade throught about 15 minutes to get to it (including a gunfight that with no dialog)

over to kadath if you want it.....

Kadath · 09-02-2004, 05:22 AM

Book.
"All this happened, more or less."

Grancey · 09-28-2004, 10:44 AM

Let's revive this.....the last one was:

Slaughterhouse-5

this is a book: Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

d4in · 09-28-2004, 11:48 AM

Just stumbled upon this topic, but that's an easy one...Tropic of Capricorn.

Not as good as Miller's Tropic of Cancer though.

Try this one
Book: "In the tower of the nameless necromancer it is always cold."

If you can google it, good luck, but this was an awesome book.

Kadath · 09-29-2004, 05:13 AM

Mary Gentle, Grunts?

d4in · 09-29-2004, 05:31 AM

That's it Kadath, you're next.

Kadath · 09-29-2004, 10:20 AM

Hmm.
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

A book, in case it wasn't obvious.

pocon1 · 10-05-2004, 08:43 AM

Nobody else answered it, so I googled and cheated. The answer is Ulysses, by James Joyce.

Here is one from me. Book

" "Man" said Terl, "is an endangered species". "

d4in · 10-05-2004, 02:13 PM

Thats an easy one.
L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth

How about
Book : "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."

Tophat665 · 10-05-2004, 05:32 PM

Heinlein: A Stranger in a Strange Land.

Book: I am all alone in my pad, man, my piled-up-to-the-ceiling-with-junk pad.

archer2371 · 10-05-2004, 05:56 PM

The Fan Man.

Book: Within five minutes, or ten minutes, no more than that, three of the others had called her on the telephone to ask her if she had heard that somethng had happened out there.

10-05-2004, 07:44 PM

Right Stuff?

archer2371 · 10-07-2004, 08:58 AM

That's correct, you're up.

Tophat665 · 10-20-2004, 07:05 PM

Untitled or Archer, start us up again.

espi · 10-22-2004, 02:13 PM

Well, since no one is playing, I think I'll start it up again. If Archer decides I'm playing out of turn, feel free to disregard my post.

This should be fairly easy, it's from a book:

Quote:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Kadath · 10-22-2004, 04:20 PM

Ah, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

Movie(And an easy one):

Quote:

I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir!"

Tophat665 · 10-22-2004, 05:12 PM

Full Metal Jacket!

OK, this may be a toughie. I'll give a new one tomorrow if no one gets it. It's a book:

Quote:

She came out of the store just in time to see her young son playing on the sidewalk directly in the path of the gray, gaunt man who strode down the street like a mechanical derelict.

Tophat665 · 10-24-2004, 03:10 PM

OK, that was a bit tough, but the tnew book just came out, so the whole seires was on my mind. "Lord Foul's Bane" by Donaldson.

Try this one out for size. Also a book, but one of the characters is there by name:

Quote:

There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says.

08-30-2004, 01:29 AM	#42 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	Enders game- __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

08-30-2004, 01:44 AM	#43 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	as for my line- its a movie Your........From Baker __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

08-31-2004, 01:06 PM	#45 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	Fire: Is that "You're...from Baker"? __________________ it's quiet in here

08-31-2004, 05:42 PM	#46 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	yes, it is - so do you know it kadath? __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

08-31-2004, 06:46 PM	#47 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	I don't. I feel like it should be Blade Runner or something, but it isn't. __________________ it's quiet in here

08-29-2004, 09:20 PM	#41 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Oh by the way, the quotation marks are actually there to show someone is speaking.

08-30-2004, 08:17 PM	#44 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	I knew I shoudln't have made it so easy! Crap!

08-31-2004, 11:22 PM	#48 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	I'll give everyone a hint- it is a western if no one gets it by tommorow night I'll post the answer __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

09-01-2004, 10:16 PM	#49 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	ok- no one knows it- so, Its the first line from "the good, the bad and the ugly" sergio leone's masterpeice but you have to wade throught about 15 minutes to get to it (including a gunfight that with no dialog) over to kadath if you want it..... __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

09-02-2004, 05:22 AM	#50 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	Book. "All this happened, more or less." __________________ it's quiet in here

09-28-2004, 10:44 AM	#51 (permalink)
Grancey Life's short, gotta hurry... Location: land of pit vipers	Let's revive this.....the last one was: Slaughterhouse-5 this is a book: Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. __________________ Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.

09-28-2004, 11:48 AM	#52 (permalink)
d4in Computer Nerd Location: Bishop, TX	Just stumbled upon this topic, but that's an easy one...Tropic of Capricorn. Not as good as Miller's Tropic of Cancer though. Try this one Book: "In the tower of the nameless necromancer it is always cold." If you can google it, good luck, but this was an awesome book. __________________ I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown

09-29-2004, 05:13 AM	#53 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	Mary Gentle, Grunts? __________________ it's quiet in here

09-29-2004, 05:31 AM	#54 (permalink)
d4in Computer Nerd Location: Bishop, TX	That's it Kadath, you're next. __________________ I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown

09-29-2004, 10:20 AM	#55 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	Hmm. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." A book, in case it wasn't obvious. __________________ it's quiet in here

10-05-2004, 05:56 PM	#59 (permalink)
archer2371 Sarge of Blood Gulch Red Outpost Number One Location: On the front lines against our very enemy	The Fan Man. Book: Within five minutes, or ten minutes, no more than that, three of the others had called her on the telephone to ask her if she had heard that somethng had happened out there. __________________ "This ain't no Ice Cream Social!" "Hey Grif, Chupathingy...how bout that? I like it...got a ring to it." "I have no earthly idea what it is I just saw, or what this place is, or where in the hell O'Malley is! My only choice is to blame Grif for coming up with such a flawed plan. Stupid, stupid Grif."

10-05-2004, 07:44 PM	#60 (permalink)
Untitled Guest	Right Stuff?

10-07-2004, 08:58 AM	#61 (permalink)
archer2371 Sarge of Blood Gulch Red Outpost Number One Location: On the front lines against our very enemy	That's correct, you're up. __________________ "This ain't no Ice Cream Social!" "Hey Grif, Chupathingy...how bout that? I like it...got a ring to it." "I have no earthly idea what it is I just saw, or what this place is, or where in the hell O'Malley is! My only choice is to blame Grif for coming up with such a flawed plan. Stupid, stupid Grif."

10-20-2004, 07:05 PM	#62 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Untitled or Archer, start us up again. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

10-05-2004, 08:43 AM	#56 (permalink)
pocon1 Banned	Nobody else answered it, so I googled and cheated. The answer is Ulysses, by James Joyce. Here is one from me. Book " "Man" said Terl, "is an endangered species". "

10-05-2004, 02:13 PM	#57 (permalink)
d4in Computer Nerd Location: Bishop, TX	Thats an easy one. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth How about Book : "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith." __________________ I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown

10-05-2004, 05:32 PM	#58 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Heinlein: A Stranger in a Strange Land. Book: I am all alone in my pad, man, my piled-up-to-the-ceiling-with-junk pad. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.