New game - stolen from a comedy on Radio 4;
remove the last letter of a novel title to make it sound more interesting.

They gave:

Three Men in a Boa
A Dance to the Music of Tim

Can also offer:

Far From the Madding Crow

Ptolemy's Gat

That great novel of life in a library: Sh! by H. Rider Haggard

or

Jane Austen's screenplay for Fritz Lang: Emm


(It is probably easier if you can remove a single letter from anywhere in the title)

Shakespeare's play about part-time office workers:

The Tempes

or the film where the world doesn't end:

Apocalypse No

I can't believe how quick you lot are - it took me two whole days to come up with The Road to Wigan Pie.

Am off to be humble in a corner.

Someone who won the lottery:

Gone with the win


Also:
Days of wine and Rose

And:

Robin Hood: Men in Tight (X rated comedy)

Finally: (contributed by my daughter):
Sean Connery in the story of a fabulous bird:

The Roc

Also, the circle finally closes for the US: American Pi


And a very short Tolkien story about a telephone: Lord of the Ring (clean option)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/08/2009 03:24PM by bunyip.

Well, if we're including film titles...

There's the Star Wars film where the Rebel Alliance defy the Empire with their innovative method of jumping around on one leg (A New Hop), the one where a hillbilly comes back to help them (Return of the Jed) and the one where the Empire retaliate by bringing in famous '80s television dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse (Revenge of the Sit - to be honest that one would work better if it had an exclamation mark on it, and if more people knew who Barbara Woodhouse was).

Or what about the one about the ultra-violent ginger-haired ape: A Clockwork Orang?

Or the one about the aircraft you're not allowed to board: Forbidden Plane?

Or the one about a Scottish policeman burned alive in a giant wooden replica of his mother: The Wicker Ma?

Or Edgar Allan Poe's poem about dance music: The Rave?

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and if we're allowing poems, there's always

The Waste LAN

Although that could be disqualified on the grounds of sounds less interesting not more. Unlike The Rave which sounds infinitely more interesting although it may be some while before I get the image of Poe waving glo sticks out of my head.

Talking of disqualification; orang - what kind of a word is that? you can't just take the "e"'s out things to make them more interesting you know, ask robert.

Crime and Punish Men.

-Utan?

Alien anorexics terrorise a team of scientists in Antarctica in John Carpenter's... The Thin.

And people who can't tell fiction from reality will probably be relieved when they discover that Ridley Scott's classic science fiction horror movie was A Lie.

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Was Yann Martel playing this game when he wrote "The Life of Pie"?

Monsters, In
Twelve Angry Me
Spider-Ma

<Imagines twelve angry Egons>
<Laughs>

Dr N

A Thousand Pieces of Gol

<imagines twelve angry Bibwits>

<blushes>

<Sues the other eleven Bibwits for fraud>

<Destroys the multiplicator device>

<Chuckles>

<Wonders what to do with the eleven spare Bibwits>

Hey, we could start a circus!

But I can't juggle!

Stilts?

Why would you want to juggle stilts?

You'd need long arms!

For those spendaholic lottery winners: Last of the Summer Win