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Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:23 am
by MajGenl.Meade
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Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:28 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Some for you to guess:

Man's house goes up in flames, so he marries the governess.
Nice-eyed sister stalks aristocrat, marries him.
Native American man breaks window with plumbing fixture, runs away. Does not marry.
Earth moves, several times. They don't marry.
Man catches fish but does not successfully land it. Likes baseball.
Flier tries to plead madness to get out of war but is declared sane.
Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated.
Prince can't make up his mind.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:57 pm
by Burning Petard
I recognized Old Man & the Sea, Catch 22, Hamlet. But the rest ? ?

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 4:29 pm
by TPFKA@W
Nice-eyed sister stalks aristocrat, marries him.
If this is supposed to be Pride and Prejudice it is woefully misrepresented by the stalking term.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 4:36 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Oh I think going to his house while she thinks he is out of town constitutes stalking. 4/4 so far, folks.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:54 pm
by TPFKA@W
ex-khobar Andy wrote:Oh I think going to his house while she thinks he is out of town constitutes stalking. 4/4 so far, folks.
She went because her aunt and uncle wanted to go. Additionally it was an attraction apparently open to the public.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:56 pm
by TPFKA@W
Native American man breaks window with plumbing fixture, runs away. Does not marry.
Sounds like One flew over the Cukoo's nest, sort of, I don't recall the not marrying part though.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:38 pm
by Bicycle Bill
Earth moves, several times. They don't marry.
"From Here to Eternity"?
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Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:41 am
by BoSoxGal
Man's house goes up in flames, so he marries the governess. - Jane Eyre

Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated. - :shrug

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:56 am
by Joe Guy
"Prince can't make up his mind."

Purple Rain.... :D

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:57 am
by Gob
Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated.

Stranger in a strange land?

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 2:39 am
by Bicycle Bill
Gob wrote:Man claims to be minor deity, is assassinated.

Stranger in a strange land?
Weren't the Roman emperors considered to be demigods?  If so, then this one might be Shakespeare's tragedy, "Julius Caesar".
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Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:41 pm
by TPFKA@W
I could only come up with Julius Caesar for that one as well, but rather doubted it.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:16 pm
by wesw
yeah. I got "one flew over the cuckoo s nest"

I assumed that the "not marry" part was because he was killed, IIRC, I haven t seen it in 30 yrs, at least....

(I got "the old man and the sea" , too)

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:38 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Ok I am going to have to give some hints.

The one about the minor deity might have been better phrased as a junior deity. As in Jr.

Did the earth move for thee? Robert Jordan and the guerilla fighter Maria, during the Spanish Civil War.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:58 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
For Whom the Bell Tolls is the second one there. But really, not a very convincing summary since it missed the salient events (well, the public ones :-) anyway)

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:22 am
by TPFKA@W
MajGenl.Meade wrote:For Whom the Bell Tolls is the second one there. But really, not a very convincing summary since it missed the salient events (well, the public ones :-) anyway)
Go home Meade, you're drunk.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:31 am
by MajGenl.Meade
TPFKA@W wrote:
MajGenl.Meade wrote:For Whom the Bell Tolls is the second one there. But really, not a very convincing summary since it missed the salient events (well, the public ones :-) anyway)
Go home Meade, you're drunk.
No, not a drop. Why? FWTBT is the correct answer? Sorry, don't understand your banter? :shrug

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:54 am
by TPFKA@W
The "second one there" is Pride and Predjudice not your offering.

I decided you were drunk.

Re: Even better than Reader's Digest canned books

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:35 am
by Econoline
ex-khobar Andy wrote:The one about the minor deity might have been better phrased as a junior deity. As in Jr.
Well, yeah, I thought of The New Testament before I thought of Julius Caesar...but I like Gob's answer, Stranger in a Strange Land, even better...