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Grex > Iq > #171: The Mysterious Quote Item |  |
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happyboy
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response 175 of 224:
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Nov 25 08:16 UTC 2003 |
fred mertz?
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remmers
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response 176 of 224:
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Nov 25 11:41 UTC 2003 |
Sounds like it could be from _The Color Purple_, so I'll guess Alice
Walker.
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slynne
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response 177 of 224:
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Nov 25 15:53 UTC 2003 |
Nope. None of the above.
First Hint: This book was published within the last 10 years.
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happyboy
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response 178 of 224:
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Nov 25 16:46 UTC 2003 |
fred mertz posthumous?
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mynxcat
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response 179 of 224:
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Nov 25 17:44 UTC 2003 |
"The Wind Done Gone" - Alice Randall?
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remmers
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response 180 of 224:
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Nov 25 18:51 UTC 2003 |
(Mynxcat might just have it...)
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slynne
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response 181 of 224:
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Nov 26 01:17 UTC 2003 |
Nope.
Second Hint: A different book by the same author recently was made into
a movie.
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willcome
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response 182 of 224:
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Nov 27 08:08 UTC 2003 |
whore.
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slynne
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response 183 of 224:
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Dec 1 14:32 UTC 2003 |
Ok, here is a different quote from the same author:
"She stared at the phone. Her relationship with her mother had never
been smooth, but this latest episode was disastrous. For the umpteenth
time that week, [name deleted] punched the number of her parents home
at Pecan Grove. For the first time, she actually let it ring through."
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remmers
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response 184 of 224:
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Dec 1 14:58 UTC 2003 |
My guess is that it's an American author, probably female. Nonetheless
I'll make a wild guess at a British author: Helen Fielding.
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slynne
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response 185 of 224:
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Dec 1 16:14 UTC 2003 |
It is a female American author. Thus, it isnt Helen Fielding.
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remmers
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response 186 of 224:
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Dec 1 19:40 UTC 2003 |
Okay, guess I get partial credit on that one.
<remmers ponders further>
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bhoward
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response 187 of 224:
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Dec 2 03:35 UTC 2003 |
I'll answer on condition that I don't have to guess the next quote
(final exam is in a week and a half and no time to research a fun quote
until after I pass (or otherwise!))
Given the movie hint, my money is on Rebecca Wells.
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polygon
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response 188 of 224:
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Dec 2 05:38 UTC 2003 |
Ann Tyler.
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remmers
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response 189 of 224:
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Dec 2 11:52 UTC 2003 |
Hm... There have been some movies based on Ann Tyler novels, but I
can't think of a recent one.
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slynne
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response 190 of 224:
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Dec 2 15:37 UTC 2003 |
It's Rebecca Wells! The first quote I gave was from _Little Alters
Everywhere_ and the second was from _Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood_
Bruce wins. But since he doesnt want to give the next quote, I guess it
is open to anyone :)
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polygon
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response 191 of 224:
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Dec 2 17:37 UTC 2003 |
THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much.
They are chums of the books of old John Marshall.
They know it all, what a dead hand Wrote,
A stiff dead hand and its knuckles crumbling,
The bones of the fingers a thin white ash.
The lawyers know
a dead man's thoughts too well.
In the heels of the higgling lawyers, Bob,
Too many slippery ifs and buts and howevers,
Too much hereinbefore provided whereas,
Too many doors to go in and out of.
When the lawyers are through
What is there left, Bob?
Can a mouse nibble at it
And find enough to fasten a tooth in?
Why is there always a secret singing
When a lawyer cashes in?
Why does a hearse horse snicker
Hauling a lawyer away?
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remmers
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response 192 of 224:
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Dec 2 18:54 UTC 2003 |
Darn - that style rings a bell...
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aruba
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response 193 of 224:
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Dec 2 19:08 UTC 2003 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.?
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slynne
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response 194 of 224:
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Dec 2 20:43 UTC 2003 |
Kipling?
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polygon
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response 195 of 224:
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Dec 2 21:59 UTC 2003 |
Re 194. Not Kipling.
Re 193. Not Holmes.
Re 192. Not Bell.
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bhoward
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response 196 of 224:
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Dec 2 22:23 UTC 2003 |
(polygon comes to my rescue once again...thanks!)
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remmers
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response 197 of 224:
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Dec 2 23:35 UTC 2003 |
The cynicism level in the quote suggests Ambrose Bierce.
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polygon
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response 198 of 224:
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Dec 2 23:41 UTC 2003 |
Re 196. No problem.
RE 197. Not Bierce.
But, yes indeedy, a dead white American male.
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willcome
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response 199 of 224:
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Dec 3 02:13 UTC 2003 |
Racist.
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