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1) The Oddysey 2) Cask of Amontillado 3) Huckleberry Finn 4) The Lord of the Rings 5) ? Poisonwood Bible?
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See, my guess for #1 would have been Tommy. I guess it depends on your definition of "classic".
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They find God and it turns out he is actually a 'normal person' who has been asleep for a long time.
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Nth) Poland succeeds in invading Denmark after royal infighting leaves a power vaccuum.
N+1) Verona cops are unable to stop a string of murders ending in a suicide pact between to post-tweens.
N+2)Its a real Jerry Springer situation. The dude's best friend sleeps with his wife, while the dude's illegitimate son, child of a one-time encounter between the dude and his half-sister, tries to take over with a very hostile takeover.
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Does this mean it's my turn to come up with the clues? I hope not because I am terrible at that sort of thing.
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quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: Cal, I was thinking that, but I'm not sure if I'd call Worthing a "normal person"
That's why I included the quotes. Even though he isn't normal to us, his progeny considered his minimal talent to be next to normal.
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x) Man is terrorized by four ghost. He succumbs to the terror giving up half his business, practically kidnapping a young boy, and basically losing a small fortune.
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y) A man loses his best friend to some bad beef, so the man searches for immortality. Eventually he finds it, but loses it to a snake.
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a) Midlife crisis results in man going crazy and, amongst other things, freeing prisoners, stealing basins from a barber, and physically assaulting an alternative energy installation.
b)Its just like "High School Musical" except no music and everyone dies in the end.
c) Its a road-trip where everyone tells different stories, but no one knows how it ends.
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She learns the meaning of life from her Aunt. You know, the one who works at the condom factory. Now, what letter were we on?
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quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: y) A man loses his best friend to some bad beef, so the man searches for immortality. Eventually he finds it, but loses it to a snake.
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aka1) Two boys help their Papa and their Granny repeatedly outsmart the Union Army during the Civil War, but the South still loses.
aka2) Murder and robbery seem like a good idea in theory, but don't work out in practice. Luckily the murderer encounters an angelic harlot who rescues him from himself.
aka3) Four brothers with very different temperaments manage between them to off their sleazy dad.
aka4) Capitalist with intellectual tendencies teams up with a passionate working class foreman to lose a fortune mining lignite in Crete.
aka5) True love wins the day despite being thwarted by a fox-hunting father, various corrupt and lustful ladies, and the penniless state of our hero who fortunately ends up heir to a large estate. (No relation to the cheesy torch singer by the same name.)
aka6) A pair of destitute British sisters make a wish on the head of a gargoyle in the kitchen of their ancient castle home, and subsequently meet a pair of brothers from America. Drama ensues as the older sister, for money's sake, gets the wrong brother to fall for her, when she really loves the other one. Younger sister then falls for her sister's besotted fiance.
Even though it is completely unrealistic, and most women would (and should) smack a guy like him IRL, they end up together.
and another:
They survive, and flourish, and find all sorts of animals that never existed together on the same continent....but they don't let actual facts screw up the story. Then they are rescued.
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Kwea, is the second one a Robert Heinlein book or story? I remember something similar to that about some kids taking a survival course when the transporter messes up and they end up abandoned on a wilderness planet or something.
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quote:They survive, and flourish, and find all sorts of animals that never existed together on the same continent....but they don't let actual facts screw up the story. Then they are rescued.
Swiss family Robinson?
quote:Even though it is completely unrealistic, and most women would (and should) smack a guy like him IRL, they end up together.
Uh, like 4 out of 5 romcoms?
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quote:aka2) Murder and robbery seem like a good idea in theory, but don't work out in practice. Luckily the murderer encounters an angelic harlot who rescues him from himself.
Crime and Punishment
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