Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: hellymedic on 23 February, 2011, 03:29:15 pm
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Any sentence from any kids' book qualifies.
'Wobbletown wobbled.'
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Mrs. Wobble the Waitress?
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Is it the Junior Bible for Little Boys & Girls?
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No.
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D'you mean: No and No?
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I'm guessing a Roger Hargreaves Mr. Men book. Mrs. Wobble the Waitress springs to mind, but I think Wobbletown cropped up in more than one.
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Mr Noisy, Roger Hargreaves.
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Mr Noisy, Roger Hargreaves.
I'm going to sulk now.
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"And she ran, and the giant ran, and they both ran, until they came to the Bridge of the One Hair, and Molly ran over but the Giant could not..."
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D'you mean: No and No?
Yes. Second suggestion appeared at the time I was typing first reply.
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Mr Noisy, Roger Hargreaves.
Yup!
Your turn.
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Well, I confess to having had a google, but I did read the entire story.
Molly Whuppie and the Double faced Giant. Sounded dangerously hairy-arsed feminist to me.
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"I expect my stick's stuck."
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Winnie the Poo ?
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(from memory)
'Father, when are we getting a car?'
(father, from behind newspaper) 'Not while I'm alive'
'Oh. How soon after you're dead, then?'
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Winnie the Poo ?
Don't forget the h at the end of Pooh. But it was The House at Pooh Corner. Poohsticks wasn't invented until the second book.
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Well, I confess to having had a google, but I did read the entire story.
Molly Whuppie and the Double faced Giant. Sounded dangerously hairy-arsed feminist to me.
My favourite book as a small hairy-arsed feminist. It's Scottish; I wondered if Kirst would know it. Your go.
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Well, I confess to having had a google, but I did read the entire story.
Molly Whuppie and the Double faced Giant. Sounded dangerously hairy-arsed feminist to me.
My favourite book as a small hairy-arsed feminist. It's Scottish; I wondered if Kirst would know it. Your go.
I discovered that the Bridge of One Hair actually exists, it seems. It's a rock formation in Aberdeenshire.
I had my go and Tom B is bamboozling us at the moment.
Edit: it was on a website called The Baldwin Project, allegedly of English fairly tales. Charterhall will be along in a moment to object to this anglocentricity.
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Tom B, is yours one of the William books?
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My favourite book as a small hairy-arsed feminist. It's Scottish; I wondered if Kirst would know it. Your go.
No, never heard of it. But I was only in Scotland from age one to age not quite five, and then the rest of my childhood was in Yorkshire.
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Tom B, is yours one of the William books?
That's a good bet.
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Tom B, is yours one of the William books?
Tim and WB, yes it is but I can't recall which one. I think it belongs in the 1920s or 30s, tho, as Brown family car ownership was occasionally alluded to after that.
(re-read most of the books last spring and summer during work down-time and am now wanting to do so again. I think I'll be even happier on the bike, tho :) )
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Hah! Does that mean it's my go?
If so:
This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.
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Hah! Does that mean it's my go?
If so:
This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.
I recognise it. Is it Roald Dahl?
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No it isn't but I had to google it so I'll keep shtum.
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being a bit of an eejit, i've plumped for a first line, rather than any quote. Clue - much older than dahl.
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It's The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis. The Narnia book nobody bothers about.
It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - as to the quality of the fireworks laid in for the Guy Fawkes celebration.
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Sounds a bit Nesbit-ish. I shall ponder.
You were right about the Magician's Nephew btw.
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I know. ;D
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having consulted other people, is it The Phoenix and the Carpet?
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having consulted other people, is it The Phoenix and the Carpet?
It is!
(I knew that one too)
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Hah!
OK, then, from memory:
It was cold in the car and uncomfortable, but Mr. <name withheld to make it harder> was so tired he didn't notice.
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Would that be Mr. Bear's Holiday by any chance?
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Close.
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Miss Z the younger has this one. "Peace At Last".
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The monster ate the dinner.
Then it watched the television.
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Is it "The monster who came to tea"?
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Sounds right to me...
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OK, on helly's say so then...
"<x> sat in the dark and thought dark thoughts"
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Mog The Forgetful Cat (we have a book and tape), and you still haven't got mine right.
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bugger. I shall consult The Girl.
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First published in 1980.
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The monster ate the dinner.
Then it watched the television.
Not Now Bernard
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The monster ate the dinner.
Then it watched the television.
Not Now Bernard
:facepalm:
But of course!
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"Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children."
How creepy is that. This image gave me nightmares for quite a while when I was a child.
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The Girl says it's Peter Pan. It's Mrs. Darling talking to her children about night lights before she goes out to dinner.
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Having checked the correctness of The Girl's answer, I give you:
"I'm glad it's wick!" she cried out in her whisper. "I want them all
to be wick. Let us go round the garden and count how many wick ones
there are."
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The Secret Garden?
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Yes NSTN, you got this one- wick meaning alive in the Yorkshire dialect people use in the book- do people still use that word?
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Ooh excellent!
'I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,' she mused. 'Nobody likes you. People run away and scream out: 'Oh! What a horrid rat!'
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Yes NSTN, you got this one- wick meaning alive in the Yorkshire dialect people use in the book- do people still use that word?
Only time I ever heard it was in the expressions 'As wick as an eel', or 'I never heard in all my wick'.
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Ooh excellent!
'I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,' she mused. 'Nobody likes you. People run away and scream out: 'Oh! What a horrid rat!'
My source (The Girl) says "A Little Princess", by the same Frances Hodgson Burnett. It seems her education wasn't a complete waste of time. My niece appears on the cover of a recent adaptation.
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Really? That's interesting. :)
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Yes NSTN, you got this one- wick meaning alive in the Yorkshire dialect people use in the book- do people still use that word?
Only time I ever heard it was in the expressions 'As wick as an eel', or 'I never heard in all my wick'.
Never heard that either. Mind you Yorkshire is an awfully big place and it doesn't have one standard dialect. It's not a York or East Riding or the South of North Yorkshire saying. Could be Dales or North North Yorkshire though.
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Really? That's interesting. :)
Aye. I think it's the Stepping Stone Classics adaptation.
Anyway, seeing as The Girl has been answering for me, she suggests:
It was a big pin, too strongly sprung for little hands to open
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Ooh excellent!
'I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,' she mused. 'Nobody likes you. People run away and scream out: 'Oh! What a horrid rat!'
My source (The Girl) says "A Little Princess", by the same Frances Hodgson Burnett. It seems her education wasn't a complete waste of time. My niece appears on the cover of a recent adaptation.
Correct!
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"I'm versatile!" said Charlotte.
"Does that mean full of eggs?"
Name added for clue purposes and comic effect.
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Really? That's interesting. :)
Aye. I think it's the Stepping Stone Classics adaptation.
Anyway, seeing as The Girl has been answering for me, she suggests:
It was a big pin, too strongly sprung for little hands to open
One of the Borrowers books?
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Well done that learned cyclist! The Borrowers, by Mary Norton.
Your go. And we've got Wow's to contend with too.
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"He has green parakeets who pick holes in his suit"
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Mr Magnolia
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Indeed. :)
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"Once upon a time...
There was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. One day he was in a very good humour, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness."
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"Once upon a time...
There was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. One day he was in a very good humour, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness."
The Snow Queen.
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Yup.
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OK, I'll set another one.
She flashed her horrible, wicked eyes upon me and said 'Victory.' 'Yes,' said I, 'Victory, but not yours.' Then I spoke the Deplorable Word.
(currently reading this one to Miss Z)
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OK, I'll set another one.
She flashed her horrible, wicked eyes upon me and said 'Victory.' 'Yes,' said I, 'Victory, but not yours.' Then I spoke the Deplorable Word.
(currently reading this one to Miss Z)
The Magician's Nephew - again!
I really ought to have a go now, oughtn't I? ;)
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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
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"I'm versatile!" said Charlotte.
"Does that mean full of eggs?"
Name added for clue purposes and comic effect.
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Charlotte's
Secrit Bunker Web?
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Charlotte's Secrit Bunker Web?
Indeed. I like the thought of her being "full of eggs". :D
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Goody.
'He was father,' said xxxx.
Nobody said anything for a minute, and then yyyy, looking at the paper, said, 'So that was what they called it. Well it's Kanchenjunga now. It's no good changing it now we've climbed it.'
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<mode=Paxman>I'll have to hurry you
</mode>
xxxx= Nancy
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Is that an Arthur Ransome? Swallows & Amazons?
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Yes. No.
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I read them in the early 1960s but haven't since.
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Istr, they climb Kanchenjunga in Pigeon Post.
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Unfortunately you recall incorrectly. It is a book where they are (mostly) on land though.
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Winter Holiday?
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no.
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Swallow ale?
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Ding!
I think it's the only mention of Nancy and Peggy's father. They've just climbed (probably) the Old Man of Coniston and found a brass box hidden at the foot of the cairn. There's a note inside:
August the 2nd 1901. We climbed the Matterhorn. Molly Turner. J Turner. Bob Blackett.
'That's mother and Uncle Jim,' said Peggy in a queer voice.
'Who is Bob Blackett?' asked Susan
Over to you Wow.
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'Hello, Houston!' he cried into the mike. 'There's something crazy going on up here! There's a thing orbiting ahead of us and it's not like any space-ship I've ever seen, that's for sure!'
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'Hello, Houston!' he cried into the mike. 'There's something crazy going on up here! There's a thing orbiting ahead of us and it's not like any space-ship I've ever seen, that's for sure!'
Might that be Roald Dahl's "Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator"?
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'Hello, Houston!' he cried into the mike. 'There's something crazy going on up here! There's a thing orbiting ahead of us and it's not like any space-ship I've ever seen, that's for sure!'
Might that be Roald Dahl's "Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator"?
It might indeed!
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Oi! Mr. Larrington! Your public awaits!
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Oi! Mr. Larrington! Your public awaits!
I'm surprised he's got such a wide knowledge of children's literature. I gained the impression he only knew one: Goldilocks...
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Or Paddington.
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Oi! Mr. Larrington! Your public awaits!
I am away from The Library. You may have to wait.
(Consults teh Intarwebs)
"All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity."
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Roald Dahl - the twits?
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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
Peter Pan.
I'm not sure why your one got skipped!
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Roald Dahl - the twits?
If that was in reply to mine, no.
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Oi! Mr. Larrington! Your public awaits!
I'm surprised he's got such a wide knowledge of children's literature. I gained the impression he only knew one: Goldilocks...
Or All Mary
Or Rupert
Or House at Pooh Corner
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Oi! Mr. Larrington! Your public awaits!
I'm surprised he's got such a wide knowledge of children's literature. I gained the impression he only knew one: Goldilocks...
Or All Mary
Or Rupert
Or House at Pooh Corner
The advantage of my story over the others is that you get three for the price of one.
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Mary Plain comes from Berne Zoo, where I believe there may be even more ;)
EDIT: Actually, there are no bears now in the bearpit, but there is a huge new Bearpark instead.
Linky (http://www.baerenpark-bern.ch/index.php?id=info)
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Mine does have Bears in it, but that's all the Clue you're getting.
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Mine does have Bears in it, but that's all the Clue you're getting.
I knew I recognised the quote but couldn't pin it down. I have now done so with Google's help so am hors concours for this round.
Bugger.
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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
Peter Pan.
Yup!
I'm not sure why your one got skipped!
Oh, I just assumed all the other readers of this thread had me on "ignore". ;D
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I'm not sure why your one got skipped!
Oh, I just assumed all the other readers of this thread had me on "ignore". ;D
I just hadn't the faintest idea (as seems to be the case for most of the quotes in this thread) :-[
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Mine does have Bears in it, but that's all the Clue you're getting.
Are they big scary armoured bears?
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Mine does have Bears in it, but that's all the Clue you're getting.
Are they big scary armoured bears?
(Touches nose, points at Tim)
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one of mr pullman's books. Let's say northern lights.
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'twas The Amber Spyglass, but I reckon getting the big scary armoured bears entitles you to next go.
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It was a combination of your avatar, the bear clue and the Big Moral Message in the quotation wot dun it.
"A ship!" squealed the kittens. "How frilling!"
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Clues: It has cats. No bears. It's at the seaside (Aldeburgh apparently). Toasty connotations.
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Clues: It has cats. No bears. It's at the seaside (Aldeburgh apparently). Toasty connotations.
Something with Orlando in it? I only know one Orlando book (where they get a pet), and it's not that one...
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Very good.
Orlando <fx:The Girl retrieves the book from her room> (The Marmalade Cat) A Seaside Holiday was the tome in question. Ours is quite old, seeing as I had it when I was a nipper and I'm <ahem> quite old on Tuesday.
Your go Arch.
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Woohoo! I've had this in mind since the thread began and never got in on time... No idea how well known this book is, but a favourite of mine:
"You and your burning, " said Victor. "You'd like to see a fire fighting vehicle crash though me in an emergency wouldn't you? That's the landing light on a Phantom"
(I'm offline now until tomorrow evening - if anyone gets it, and someone else can confirm, go on without me...)
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Is it Thunder & Lightnings, by Jan Mark?
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Is it Thunder & Lightnings, by Jan Mark?
Well that was difficult, wasn't it... :facepalm:
Correct. It's one of those books not mentioned much, but when you bring it up in company, someone will know it.
Your go.
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Well yes, there are enough of us about who will have loved that book. I didn't remember the quote, but I put together the name Victor and the mention of a Phantom.
Not got too many kids books where I am, so do you want another go?
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Not got many here either! I can't think of a single quote...
Oh, hang on... Only my favourite children's book of all...
"There he got out the luncheon basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw covered flask containing bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes".
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That's a distinctive and amusing bit of writing, but I haven't a hope of identifying it.
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It's not the best known picnic in the book, I think.
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I've gewgalled it now, so I'm out.
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Is it Thunder & Lightnings, by Jan Mark?
Well that was difficult, wasn't it... :facepalm:
Correct. It's one of those books not mentioned much, but when you bring it up in company, someone will know it.
Your go.
Love that book.
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Not got many here either! I can't think of a single quote...
Oh, hang on... Only my favourite children's book of all...
"There he got out the luncheon basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw covered flask containing bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes".
The Man who was Magic, by Paul Gallico?
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Nope....
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I've had to gewgle it too. Obvious when you
think about it apply a search engine. ::-)
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The Wind in the Willows?
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Now my brother refers to red wine as "liquid sunshine".
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The Wind in the Willows?
Yup! Your go!
(It's the chapter where the Water Rat meets a seafaring rat and is bewitched by tales of foreign travels).
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I remember reading "The Wind in the Willows" as a child, and it was one of the first purchases for my Kindle last fall. Note to Wowbagger, I think it would be more appropriate to call white wine "liquid sunshine", but I'll take a glass of good red anytime, by any name.
"The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers."
Apparently this line (and story it came from) was a great favorite of my eldest niece. Not sure what that says about my sister's child-raising style, but all three of her children seem to have turned out quite well.
Edit: I had to correct this about 20 minutes after I posted it, I checked the original text.
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Is it a Roald Dahl thing? Umm, Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf?
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You're right, Tim. "She said "Hello, and please do note / My lovely furry wolfskin coat"" (or words to that effect). Revolting Rhymes. I loved those. :)
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You're right, Tim. "She said "Hello, and please do note / My lovely furry wolfskin coat"" (or words to that effect). Revolting Rhymes. I loved those. :)
"And when she goes from place to place
Please note her pigskin travelling case." :o
Another line, from a well-known tale recycled by Mr. Dahl:
"They kissed young Snow White fore and aft."
That's one that's lost on 8-year-olds, although I have a suspicion that had Julian been in my class when she was 8 that statement wouldn't have been true. (looks for finger-wagging smiley).
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xxxx loved her bicycle and rode it everywhere. The bicycle had belonged to Aunt Amy and was quite old, but xxxx thought it was the best bicycle in the world.
No bears.
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But it does feature a family of mice.
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Bagpuss?
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No.
Isn't Bagpuss a TV programme rather than a book anyway?
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Perhaps I was thinking of Bagpuss the Movie.