Captain Birdseye in a guerilla advertising campaign

I'll take that as a "no" then shall I?

That's just what they *want* you to do.

Free the Pea!

Did you know that can annoy small animals and children with a bag of frozen peas and a cake tin?

Yes, but all the best people use sweetcorn and a jelly mould.

Recently had an argument with somebody who claimed that Portrait of a Lad sounded much more interesting than Portrait of a Lady.

geg, you never cease to confuse me.

Oh, sorry.

The Road to Wigan Pie is a game that involves removing the last letter of a book title in order to make the book sound more interesting.

ie. The Rave by Edgar Allan Poe, which sounds infinitely more interesting than the original.

The thread then became, film titles with the last letter removed:

Snakes on a plan

Then just random vegetable abuse.

The question is: does The Portrait of a Lad qualify, or does it fail to sound more interesting than the original?

Depends on which lad, and which lady, I would say.

What about the forgotten novel "Rebecc" by Daphne du Maurier, in which Mrs Danvers learns to play a medieval string instrument to keep the second Mrs de Winter from sleeping at night?

Or

Re: BECC

A novel based in and around the Children's Centres of Borehamwood and Elstree?

PTerry's rather racist religious read, "The Colour of Magi"



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J.R.R. Tolkien probably described his family reunion in "The Return of The Kin"

I'm not sure I'm tempted to read the children's book "Winnie the Poo", about the journey through the intestines of a small child, and then through the sewage system of a medium-sized town.

oh, geg, what have you stirred up?!!

my sarcasm/bad joke meter just started screaming, and begged me never to return to this thread... (although secretly it wants to read the previous 4 pages to see just how bad it really is...)

"28 Days Late" The story of a suspected pregnancy

"Austin Power" a restrospective of the might of the Marina

Hitherto unknown stories from Watson's casebook:

The Lion's Man (a circus story? a high-society mystery?)
The Naval Treat (fishy dishes?)
The Veiled Lodge (I dare not speculate)

There is allso merit in adding a letter. Try the

39 Steppes,

a story of crime and evil across the bread basket of Russia.

Shades of Gary.

The Lineker biography

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To begin at the beginning

The third ma..... a tale of adultery in post-war Vienna

Or, if we're playing Bunyip Rules:

The Third Manx - underground drug dealing in post war Isle of Man?

The last of the Mohican...the demon barber of Carnaby Streetor


or The last of the Mohicant...an end to the bumph from the Ministry of Hopeless Ideas.