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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:56 AM
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Let's play the 'Convoluted Language' Game for book and/or movie
titles. Tell us if it's a book, movie or both and give the title in the most twisted, hoity-toity kind of language you can manage. Here's one to start, it was both a book and a movie.

"The Same Name as That of the Young Woman who Resided on the Pastoral Acreage of a Small Running Water Body Bathed in Beams of Diurnal Celestial Light."
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Paul Hood Donating Member (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:17 AM
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1. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm? n/t
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:25 AM
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6. Just "Rebecca" (the Hitchcock film) ....'same name' as Sunnybrook
Farm that was used just as a clue...good one!
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:19 AM
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2. "Traversing the Reflecting Surface...
Edited on Fri Mar-12-04 01:20 AM by Richardo
...and the Items that Ms. Liddell Discovered in that Locality"
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:26 AM
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7. Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There)
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:28 AM
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9. I must admit I was influenced by the Alice thread earlier today...
BTW Nice avatar, grannylib!
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:31 AM
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10. I wondered about that! And thanks, that avatar took me forever, the
link on the page wasn't working and being a non-techie, it took me a while to figure out how to do it.
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:22 AM
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3. Wow , tough one, GL
Here's a movie:

Murderers Brought into this World without Artifice
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:23 AM
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4. Natural Born Killers!
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:26 AM
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8. Yep,
Edited on Fri Mar-12-04 01:27 AM by darkstar
but both you and GL got me stumped....
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:24 AM
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5. Movie: The Male Baptismal Proxy
:7
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:33 AM
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11. Golly I can't seem to wrap my brain around this one... I feel stupid...
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:35 AM
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12. Hint?
Mafia.
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:40 AM
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14. Ah,
The Godfather.

Very nice.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:40 AM
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16. Oh duh. The Godfather. Sheeeeeeite. Ok here's one....
This was a movie.

"One Bowing A Stringed Instrument while Atop a Residential Dwelling."
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:45 AM
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19. Fiddler on the Roof
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:58 AM
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22. Yeppers. One last one before I head off to bed: Movie....
"What Was the Degree of Verdancy of the Depression between Two Hills that is In My Possession?"
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:20 AM
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26. How Green Was My Valley n/t
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 10:17 AM
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32. Yep, you got it
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:38 AM
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13. Glad I ain't the only one
I'm, ahem, chalking up my poor showing to a loooong day.
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:40 AM
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15. The Godfather
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:42 AM
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17. Special characteristic regarding madona-monikered female.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:46 AM
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20. There's Something about Mary
took me a minute...
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:44 AM
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18. Movie: Of All Humankind's Numerous Historical Accounts, By Far the Most
Fantastic and Splendiferous Yet to be Uttered
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furrylitldevil Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 01:58 AM
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21. The Greatest Story Ever Told?
Just a guess
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:02 AM
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23. Yep,
hey furrylitldevil

:hi:
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furrylitldevil Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:05 AM
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24. Hi there
I would join the ring of questions, but I'm better at the answer part anyway.
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furrylitldevil Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:08 AM
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25. Actually, I just got one
"A procedure used to mine the vertebrae for past illegal drug use, or to diagnose medical conditions."
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:21 AM
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27. This Is Spinal Tap
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:23 AM
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29. Argh! Beat me by a few seconds! (nt)
Edited on Fri Mar-12-04 02:23 AM by jpgray
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furrylitldevil Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:23 AM
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30. Correct
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:22 AM
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28. Spinal Tap? (nt)
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furrylitldevil Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 02:24 AM
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31. Correct
and here's an

Not the best one, I know, but it's late and I'm tired
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 10:22 AM
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33. Let's go...
Movie:
"The uncomfortable yet not quite painful feeling of suffering a small perforation"

Book:
"Having one's surface as close as possible to another"
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:17 AM
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34. Sheesh I must need more coffee...can't....think.....
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:21 AM
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35. Hey, your avatar is...
...THE FAMOUS CHARISMA LABEL!!!
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:23 AM
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37. Hey cool! Isn't Tenniel just the best??
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:29 AM
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39. I didn't know the guy's name
The Alice in Wonderland illustrations are delightfully old-style wacky!
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sarahbellum Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:28 PM
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42. movie: "departing from physical existence firmly"
krista suggested the move itself.

here's another movie. "an unpleasant thought, image or emotion during sleep at the lane named for the ulmaceae family." that one's probably one of those ones that are really wordy but, surprisingly enough, someone gets it right away.
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sarahbellum Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:32 PM
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43. oh no.
i seem to have posted the other message in the wrong place, although i could have sworn that i clicked on the original message.

and i cannot figure out how to (or even if i can) delete messages.

grr, i say.
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SPQR Donating Member (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:32 PM
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44. Nightmare on Elm Street
and I'm still working on that "small perforation" one......
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sarahbellum Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:39 PM
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45. too right.
did you get my other one?
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SPQR Donating Member (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:40 PM
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46. Die Hard, I think.
yes?
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sarahbellum Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 12:42 PM
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47. yep.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:22 AM
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36. Book: "Skin Tight" by Hiaasen?
Movie: Still working on it.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:23 AM
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38. Nope (nt)
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:33 AM
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40. Book - Contact
Do I win a cigar?
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:38 AM
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41. Sure
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