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Grex > Iq > #171: The Mysterious Quote Item |  |
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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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remmers
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response 200 of 224:
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Dec 3 12:14 UTC 2003 |
Wild guess, probably wrong: Don Marquis.
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polygon
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response 201 of 224:
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Dec 3 18:36 UTC 2003 |
Re 200. Not Don Marquis.
Another brief excerpt coming.
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polygon
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response 202 of 224:
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Dec 3 18:42 UTC 2003 |
Hmm, this isn't the kind of excerpt I meant, but I can't resist:
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands
and goes to work."
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md
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response 203 of 224:
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Dec 3 19:34 UTC 2003 |
That's a very familiar quote. Is it Mencken?
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willcome
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response 204 of 224:
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Dec 3 19:51 UTC 2003 |
IT's Pink Floyd.
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dcat
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response 205 of 224:
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Dec 3 22:22 UTC 2003 |
Ben Franklin?
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polygon
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response 206 of 224:
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Dec 4 02:13 UTC 2003 |
Re 203-205. Not Mencken, Pink Floyd, or Ben Franklin.
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polygon
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response 207 of 224:
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Dec 4 02:14 UTC 2003 |
The quote in #202 was published in 1959. The author was living at the
time.
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polygon
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response 208 of 224:
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Dec 4 02:15 UTC 2003 |
Er, um, I'm not actually looking at the source, but it was some time
in the 1950s anyway.
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willcome
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response 209 of 224:
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Dec 4 03:54 UTC 2003 |
I'll hedge my bets and say Pink Floyd.
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remmers
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response 210 of 224:
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Dec 4 13:48 UTC 2003 |
If Larry hadn't said that the author was male, I'd guess Dorthy
Parker.
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remmers
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response 211 of 224:
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Dec 4 14:01 UTC 2003 |
Something about these quotes reminds me of Ezra Pound. So I'll guess
him.
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slynne
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response 212 of 224:
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Dec 4 18:01 UTC 2003 |
I think I need another hint.
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