Let’s end 2010 with a little larceny. I’m gleefully stealing this from Jen Forbus: The Title Game.
Here’s how you play. One person starts by listing a title — of a book, movie, TV show, song, or poem (I’m liberal about the rules here, because it’s New Year’s Eve). The next person must list a new title that contains one word from the previous entry.
Let’s see how far we can take this without me forcing my relatives to log in under fake names to add my own entries.
And a title to start: A Darkness More Than Night (Michael Connelly).
Get to it!
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Night Shift (movie with Michael Keaton). I had to go through my DVDs to find that (since I didn’t have any luck with my books).
Happy New Year!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.
Plenty to choose from!
Happy New Year, everyone.
Wow, Stacy! You used both a movie AND a book (Stephen King).
Night Tales: Night Shift & Night Shadow by Nora Roberts
Oy! Guess I need to change mine!
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Case Of The Fiery Fingers. (Erle Stanley gardner can always be counted on for a “case” novel.)
Worst Case by James Patterson
Let your fingers do the walking. It is a song by the danish band Sort Sol (Black sun).
Basketcase by Carl Hiaasen
Dammit. We’ve already got this game f’d up.
Dana Jean: The Hiaasen book is actually titled Basket Case. Two words. So the game’s de-f’ed.
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
And, since we now seem to have two simultaneous threads, I’ll add to Susanne’s:
Let the Right One In (Swedish vampire movie)
They Call Me Mr Tibbs
To Susanne’s/Meg’s: The Right Stuff
Dana’s Jean’s: Case Histories (book by Kate Atkinson)
Whoops.. I blew right past Dru’s. Sorry.
Following his: The Call of the Wild.
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
Trial by Fire by J.A. Jance
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
Oops, simul-posting! Changing to:
Trial and Retribution by Lynda La Plante
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young by Fire, Inc. (How’s that for loading up on a title?) The song is from the soundtrack to the movie Streets Of Fire.
Playing with Fire (Peter Robinson)
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe.
Le Morte D’Arthur (Thomas Malory)
Knitting all these threads together, we could make a tabloid headline: “Night Trial for Curious Case of Call Girl Who Let Young ‘Mr Right’ Fire Her”
Happy New Year! (-4 hrs 52 min. here)
O.K., if you’re scoring at home (or even if you’re alone), I think I am to take off on “Le Morte D’Arthur” (Thomas Malory) on one thread, and “Case Histories” (book by Kate Atkinson) on the other.
It took some Googling, but I discovered a title that knits the two threads together: “Morte d’amour with subsequent electrophysiologic studies” by Stephen C. Vlay, MD. This is an article published in The American Journal of Cardiology, Volume 61, Issue 15, 1 June 1988, Page 1364. The abstract is: “Morte d’amour” (death by love) has been commonly described in men with coronary artery disease in which the excitement and cardiovascular stress of sexual relations has caused ischemia or fatal arrhythmia, or both. We describe ventricular fibrillation after sexual intercourse in a young woman without coronary artery disease.
You’re welcome.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Well, of course, now that I’ve posted that ridiculousness, I realize that I got so – you’ll pardon the expression – excited when that article appeared in my Google search which used both thread titles that I didn’t realize that the words “case” or “histories” don’t appear at all.
Nevermind.
Without Fail — Lee Child
I see. That qualifies because you are labelling my post “Epic Fail.” Fine.
“Without a Trace” Starring Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, Stockard Channing
Fail-Safe – Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
O.K. Too late. Let’s try: Without Remorse – Tom Clancy
I think we must realize that this game lives in a quantum universe where simultaneous realities come into being whenever a new entry appears. Multiple answers exist and must be accepted.
Besides, Fail Safe and Without Remorse are flip sides of the same idea, aren’t they?
And no, I wasn’t drinking last night. Or today.
A Quantum Sampler:
curious incident/dog: Curious George and The Dogs of War
case: “Paul’s Case”
f’d up: Knocked Up or De-f’d-Con 4
call: “Call me Ishmael” ["A Descent into the Maelstrom"]
Henry Kissinger: Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
safe: “Is it safe?” (The Marathon Man)
quantum: A Quantum of Solace
Whew! I’m glad I was out of town and out of internet range for this one…. Happy New Year, all.
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