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Merged Book Contest
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: December 25, 2011 01:42AM

Readers are asked to combine the works of two authors, and to provide a suitable description of the merged book.

Example 1.

"Jane Eyre Jordan" -
Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship.

Example 2.

"Paradise Lost in Space"-
Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and two annoying children.

Example 3.

"Green Eggs and Hamlet" -
Would you kill him in his bed?
Thrust a dagger through his head?
I would not, could not, kill the King.
I could not do that evil thing.
I would not wed this girl, you see.
Now get her to a nunnery.


Oh, wait! It's already been done.

Washington Post Invitational contest, Merge-Matic Books:
[www.laughbreak.com]

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 27, 2011 08:10PM

The Jungle Book of Jonah

Jonah loses three days of useful life when a stripey carnivore swallows him whole. He is rescued on the third day by a Real Boy.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: Eoink (---.brhm.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: December 28, 2011 03:00PM

Paradise Lost in a Good Book - Satan is surprised by the appearance of two women in his poem as his rebellion gathers pace.

All's Well that Ends Well Of Lost Plots - Helena insists that her non-existent husband Bertram does exist and has merely run off to be an itinerant soldier.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 28, 2011 05:05PM

A Town Called Alice Through The Looking Glass

A dreamy young girl consructs a new-town in the great Australian desert with the help of a carpenter, a walrus and a mult-millionaire called Humpty van Stuyvesant Dumpty.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: Eoink (---.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: December 29, 2011 02:01PM

Five have a Wonderful Time's Arrow - a scientist is rescued from a castle by 4 children, a dog and some travellers, the children and the travellers then have a falling out, before the children start a lovely holiday camped in the field next to the travellers.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: December 29, 2011 04:30PM

Bad Monkeys in a Strange Land - the very disgruntled travelogue of a guy that got robbed by a troop of baboons when he thought it was him going on a safari.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: December 30, 2011 06:49PM

The Shadow of the Wind in the Willows - a story involving animals, a library with a lost book, a hatter, and other incomprehensibles.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: December 31, 2011 06:29AM

The terrorist group "Bennet-free Britain" packs a classic Austin 7 with explosives and mistakenly destroys Netherford House.

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

Yes, I've just finished reading pTerry's "Snuff."

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-179.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 03, 2012 10:12AM

Woman in White Fang...after therapy large fierce timber-wolf cross realises what has been wrong with him and comes out to the rest of the pack.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-144.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 21, 2012 12:16AM

The Da Vinci Highway Code - The proper way to get from Paris to Scotland safely.

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Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: Eoink (---.midd-bam-1.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: January 21, 2012 10:07PM

And quickly moving to the stage, we find two tramps on stage while various people come on and perform sexual acts
Waiting for GodOh Calcutta

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: January 24, 2012 02:58PM

Gullivers Travels with my Aunt.
A curious book about the many pitfalls that can befall you during a trip on the Orient Express. Despite it's biting satire on all forms of society the book has a surprisingly happy ending when Gulliver moves to South America to marry a horse.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: January 26, 2012 12:24PM

How Green was my Valley of the Dolls.
The inspirational tale of Huw Morgan's escape from a life of coal mining, becoming a rising Hollywood musical starlet and finally establishing the Mattel company.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-135.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 04, 2012 01:10PM

Burmese Days Of Wine And Roses
Life story of a colonial land owner and his struggle to grow grapes vines and tend his rose garden from stampeding elephants.

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Joint winner Colouring Competition 2007
and outright winner of the 3 time winner of the Ffestival Dodo Feeding competition.
Fforde Ffiesta Ffotos are here - [www.flickr.com]

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: processdrone (---.wlms-broadband.com)
Date: February 04, 2012 06:18PM

Shades of Greed

Chris Ryan Explores the whimsical & unlikely notion of a society governed by how much stuff you can get rather than what colours you can see. *cough*

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-181.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 05, 2012 10:04AM

Treasure Island of Dr Moreau


The doctor becomes alarmed when an invasion of one legged treasure seekers upset set his carefully planned experiments.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: February 06, 2012 09:19AM

Welcome processdrone. if no-one has offered you refreshments yet then feel free to help yourself. The drinks trolley is usually hiding somewhere near the treehouse (but remember that is an action only zone - please no talking!)

I have a fresh batch of pies over there <points> and another, slightly less fresh, over there. <points>

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 06, 2012 11:14AM

Endless Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

A group of surfer discover what life is like in normal society

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-177.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 06, 2012 12:13PM

Railway Children of The New Forest

Abandoned Royalist children make their home in a derelict railway station and learn self sufficiency. They earn money by weaving red petticoats for the camp followers of opposing armies.

Re: Merged Book Contest
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: February 15, 2012 05:45AM

Gone with the wind in the willows


a tragic tale of flatulence in a forest in the deep south.



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