The Baker's Dozen!

[Polynikes]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

[Mitchell Hattaway]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[Dan Mancini]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses - James Joyce

[Polynikes]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses - James Joyce
10. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

[Tom B]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses - James Joyce
10. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
11. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."--The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ccb]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses - James Joyce
10. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
11. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."--The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - 1984, George Orwell

[Steve T Power]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses - James Joyce
10. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
11. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."--The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - 1984, George Orwell
13. "At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-Seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thiefmaker of Camorr paid a sudden and unannounced visit to the Eyeless Priest at the Temple of Perelandro, desperately hoping to sell him the Lamora boy." - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

[Steve T Power]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[Dan Mancini]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig

[Gabriel Girard]

Memorable first line of a book or short story

1. ''Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour'' - Patriot Games -Tom Clancy
2. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. "Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. "It was love at first sight." - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. "A screaming comes across the sky." - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time"--Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
8. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem broke his arm badly at the elbow." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses - James Joyce
10. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
11. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."--The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - 1984, George Orwell
13. "At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-Seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thiefmaker of Camorr paid a sudden and unannounced visit to the Eyeless Priest at the Temple of Perelandro, desperately hoping to sell him the Lamora boy." - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

A bonus because you guys missed one of my favorites 'It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer'' -The Thing On The Doorstep - H.P. Lovecraft

[ccb]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five

[Gabriel Girard]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button

[Dan Mancini]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant

[Dimwitted]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits

[Gabriel Girard]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

[Bryan Pope]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. E.L. Doctorow's characters in Ragtime (book, movie and musical) watch the lives of J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, among others, unfold around them (sometimes fictional, sometimes not).

[ccb]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. E.L. Doctorow's characters in Ragtime (book, movie and musical) watch the lives of J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, among others, unfold around them (sometimes fictional, sometimes not).
9. Royal Flash - the despicable Flashman meets Lola Montez & Otto von Bismarck. Stick with Geo. MacDonald Fraser's novels.

[tucco]

Re: The Baker's Dozen!

Postby ccb on Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 pm
Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. E.L. Doctorow's characters in Ragtime (book, movie and musical) watch the lives of J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, among others, unfold around them (sometimes fictional, sometimes not).
9. Royal Flash - the despicable Flashman meets Lola Montez & Otto von Bismarck. Stick with Geo. MacDonald Fraser's novels.
10. Not a movie, but just to get the list moving..."City on the Edge of Forever" Star Trek episode...The "guardian of time" was displaying real history...which Kirk, Spock and earlier, McCoy jumped into

[Stubby]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. E.L. Doctorow's characters in Ragtime (book, movie and musical) watch the lives of J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, among others, unfold around them (sometimes fictional, sometimes not).
9. Royal Flash - the despicable Flashman meets Lola Montez & Otto von Bismarck. Stick with Geo. MacDonald Fraser's novels.
10. Not a movie, but just to get the list moving..."City on the Edge of Forever" Star Trek episode...The "guardian of time" was displaying real history...which Kirk, Spock and earlier, McCoy jumped into
11.The Time Tunnel-Mid-60's TV Show where the 2 Chrononauts constantly arrive at pivotal points of history

[Tom B]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. E.L. Doctorow's characters in Ragtime (book, movie and musical) watch the lives of J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, among others, unfold around them (sometimes fictional, sometimes not).
9. Royal Flash - the despicable Flashman meets Lola Montez & Otto von Bismarck. Stick with Geo. MacDonald Fraser's novels.
10. Not a movie, but just to get the list moving..."City on the Edge of Forever" Star Trek episode...The "guardian of time" was displaying real history...which Kirk, Spock and earlier, McCoy jumped into
11.The Time Tunnel-Mid-60's TV Show where the 2 Chrononauts constantly arrive at pivotal points of history
12. Twilight Zone episode "No Time Like the Past," in which a guy goes back in time to assassinate Hitler, stop the bombing of Hiroshima and prevent the sinking of Lusitanie. He fails on all three, of course.

[Polynikes]

Movies where fictional characters (other than Forrest Gump) find themselves marching through history (not alternate history).

1. Indiana Jones comes face to face with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Rally in 1938 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Leonard Zelig appears alongside all sorts of major 20th century figures, including Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chaplin - Zelig
3. Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Benjamin Button
5. The Wild, Wild West - Jim and Artemus meet Ulysses S. Grant
6. The Time Bandits
7. Bill and Ted meet up with Abe Lincoln and Joan Of Arc, amongst others - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. E.L. Doctorow's characters in Ragtime (book, movie and musical) watch the lives of J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, among others, unfold around them (sometimes fictional, sometimes not).
9. Royal Flash - the despicable Flashman meets Lola Montez & Otto von Bismarck. Stick with Geo. MacDonald Fraser's novels.
10. Not a movie, but just to get the list moving..."City on the Edge of Forever" Star Trek episode...The "guardian of time" was displaying real history...which Kirk, Spock and earlier, McCoy jumped into
11.The Time Tunnel-Mid-60's TV Show where the 2 Chrononauts constantly arrive at pivotal points of history
12. Twilight Zone episode "No Time Like the Past," in which a guy goes back in time to assassinate Hitler, stop the bombing of Hiroshima and prevent the sinking of Lusitanie. He fails on all three, of course
13. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

[Polynikes]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between

[Gabriel Girard]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)

[Mitchell Hattaway]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory

[ccb]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)

[Polynikes]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

I don't know if I am allowed to add to a list which I proposed, but I shall put down number five just to keep things moving. I promise you, there are many films which include a cricketing scene.

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel

[Tom B]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

I don't know if I am allowed to add to a list which I proposed, but I shall put down number five just to keep things moving. I promise you, there are many films which include a cricketing scene.

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game

[ccb]

And the next subject is films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

I don't know if I am allowed to add to a list which I proposed, but I shall put down number five just to keep things moving. I promise you, there are many films which include a cricketing scene.

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)

[Gabriel Girard]

Maybe we could include croquet as well?

[Polynikes]

Films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)
8. The Final Test

Maybe we could include croquet as well?

My good sir, croquet is to cricket as basketball is to baseball. No need. A few clues: Think Leonardo di Caprio, Tilda Swinton and a lot of sand.........two Russell Crowe films......some World war Two films.......Harold Abrahams.....

TV programmes allowed too, which makes it really easy.

[Tom B]

Films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)
8. The Final Test
9. The Beach

[Tom B]

Cricket seems to be a tough sell here in the colonies.

[Polynikes]

Films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)
8. The Final Test
9. The Beach
10.Chariots of Fire

We're getting there.....I honestly did not realise how difficult this would prove to be. Unless lots of people are on holiday?

[Steve T Power]

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)
8. The Final Test
9. The Beach
10.Chariots of Fire
11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sort of... shut up)

[Gabriel Girard]

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)
8. The Final Test
9. The Beach
10.Chariots of Fire
11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sort of... shut up)
12. Shaun of The Dead (same as above)

[Tom B]

Films in which there is a scene with cricket (the quintessential English game, so "Pinocchio" is disallowed).

1. The Go-Between
2. La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis)
3. Hope and Glory
4. What's New, Pussycat? (a demo during a group therapy session)
5. Carry On - Follow That Camel
6. The Crying Game
7. Wondrous Oblivion (IMDb)
8. The Final Test
9. The Beach
10.Chariots of Fire
11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sort of... shut up)
12. Shaun of The Dead (same as above)
13. Master and Commander

[Tom B]

Pinging off a recent category...

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury

[Gabriel Girard]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe

[ccb]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

[tucco]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck

[Gabriel Girard]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tael of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

[Dan Mancini]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tael of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell

[Gabriel Girard]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell

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[Tom B]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)

[Gabriel Girard]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)
8. ''There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest'' -- I Am The Doorway - Stephen King

[Dan Mancini]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)
8. ''There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest'' -- I Am The Doorway - Stephen King
9. "And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

[Bryan Pope]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)
8. ''There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest'' -- I Am The Doorway - Stephen King
9. "And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
10. "'tis." -- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

[Dave Ryan]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)
8. ''There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest'' -- I Am The Doorway - Stephen King
9. "And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
10. "'tis." -- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
11. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Dan Mancini]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)
8. ''There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest'' -- I Am The Doorway - Stephen King
9. "And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
10. "'tis." -- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
11. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off." -- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

[Gabriel Girard]

Memorable last line of a short story or book:

1. "Then...some idiot turned on the lights."--October Game, Ray Bradbury
2. ''And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all'' -- The Masque of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
3. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
4. "Now what the hell you suppose is eatin' these to guys?" - Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
5. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." --A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. "He loved Big Brother." - 1984 - George Orwell
7. "Romance on short notice was her specialty"--The Open Window, Saki (HH Munro)
8. ''There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest'' -- I Am The Doorway - Stephen King
9. "And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
10. "'tis." -- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
11. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off." -- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
13. ''We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.'' --The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft