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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 00:14



How about a fun literary game? Start off with a short quote from a famous writer or speaker. Then modify the words in such a way that you end with a different statement. Like the game 'Telephone' except you morph the original statement yourself.
Example:
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"Be good and you will be lonesome."
~ Mark Twain

becomes:

"Be lewd and you will be gone soon."
~ Shark Stain
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The only constraints are that it must still make sense and that it must somewhat resemble the original statement, which must also be verifiably real. Have fun!


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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 00:50



Here's another example:

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

~J.R.R. Tolkein

becomes:

"Do not peddle your fine wares to lizards, for they are ignoble and lead to danger."

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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 01:10



"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."

~Vladimir Nabakov

becomes:

"The faking of a knave cannot detain the bully."


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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 02:42



"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

~Ernest Hemingway

becomes:

"A penis that makes fun of people is a scary thing to show."


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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 03:05



"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "

~Carl Jung

becomes:

"The feast of kings loses meaning when earthworms of strife can eat toroidal rings around it."


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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 03:17



"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

~Mae West

becomes:

"Why try to rally around 'pimp nation'? Your least movement transcends it!"


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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 03:27



"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

~Emily Dickinson

becomes:

"Loping skies sing with fire that quenches thirst of the soul."


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Postby Ququuluru on 23 Jul 2012, 03:44



"The only journey is the one within. "

~Rainer Maria Rilke

becomes:

"The squeaky gurney is going to win!"


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Postby Ququuluru on 24 Jul 2012, 00:20



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Postby Ququuluru on 24 Jul 2012, 00:28



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Postby Ququuluru on 24 Jul 2012, 00:40



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Postby Ququuluru on 24 Jul 2012, 23:32



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Postby Ququuluru on 24 Jul 2012, 23:38



"To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one."

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

becomes:

"To see oneself as an earring can be a drone."


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Postby Ququuluru on 24 Jul 2012, 23:41



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Postby Jordan~ on 25 Jul 2012, 01:47



This is similar!

The first two-and-a-bit lines of lyrics of The Girl from Ipanema, very badly misheard as a surrealist play about old people sex.

Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema
goes walking and when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah
When sh(e walks...)

Tollund Tannin Jungian Love

Lea: The GILF roam Ippon imagos.
Joaquin: "Wenchy," pa says, "itch! One sheep ass is a wench!"


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Postby Ququuluru on 25 Jul 2012, 02:34



"The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions."

~Italo Calvino

becomes:

"The unconscious substitution of the ineffable for what has been exhumed from your handy luggage
remains just one of many nascent substitutions."


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Postby Ququuluru on 25 Jul 2012, 23:18



“Question your tea spoons.”

~Georges Perec

becomes:

"Question your tee shirts."


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Postby Ququuluru on 25 Jul 2012, 23:21



"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

~Eugene Ionesco

becomes:

"There is not a cancer that frightens it more than rejection."


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Postby polliwog on 26 Jul 2012, 06:28



Can I widen the scope to include lyrics to songs? Well, I'm going to anyway.

"Crazy on you."

-Heart

"Gravy on shoe."

-Room service cart


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Postby Ququuluru on 26 Jul 2012, 23:15



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