On 8 Jul, 20:22, Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> On Jul 7, 8:35 am, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote:
> > And now it's homophones!
> The next thing you know, people will be talking about Isaac Asimov's > "The Dolphin of Eternity".
> The End of Eternity -> > The Purpose of Eternity -> > The Porpoise of Eternity -> > The Dolphin of Eternity
There's also his baseball/cricket cross-over novel - "Base and Umpire".
Back to the original subject, there are some other candidates:
P. Anderson's book about accounting: _The Man Who Quantifies_ G. Lucas' book about the failure of imperial regression: _The Empire Stops Working Back_ A.C. Clarke's book of unhealthy cooking: _The Deep Cooker_ H. Harrison's book of the problems purchasing depts have in collecting money from important people: _Invoice the Galactic Hero_
In article <c17ddc8b-01cd-48eb-8120- ca399d269...@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, ncwa...@hotmail.com says...
> Back to the original subject, there are some other candidates:
> P. Anderson's book about accounting: _The Man Who Quantifies_ > G. Lucas' book about the failure of imperial regression: _The Empire > Stops Working Back_ > A.C. Clarke's book of unhealthy cooking: _The Deep Cooker_ > H. Harrison's book of the problems purchasing depts have in collecting > money from important people: _Invoice the Galactic Hero_
Alexander Lloyd: _The Drunk King_? Or maybe _Communist Planet_ by RAH.
The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter of a title, which gives you things like A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?) or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine (why yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
-- Kay Shapero Signature munged - to email me use kay at domain of my website, below. http://www.kayshapero.net
Kay Shapero wrote: > The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter > of a title, which gives you things like > A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?) > or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of > The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine > (why yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
Preceded by the feminist horror story, The Bobbit.
In article <wL8dk.13745$uE5.6...@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>, mscottschill...@hotmail.com says...
> Kay Shapero wrote: > > The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter > > of a title, which gives you things like > > A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?) > > or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of > > The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine > > (why yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
> Preceded by the feminist horror story, The Bobbit.
No doubt inspired by _The Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe_. -- Kay Shapero Signature munged - to email me use kay at domain of my website, below. http://www.kayshapero.net
On 10 Jul, 06:44, Kay Shapero <k...@see.sig.invalid> wrote:
> In article <wL8dk.13745$uE5.6...@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>, > mscottschill...@hotmail.com says...
> > Kay Shapero wrote: > > > The title change game I recall playing involved changing one letter > > > of a title, which gives you things like > > > A Fighting Man of Bars (by Edgar Rice Krispies?) > > > or the celebrated iceskating trilogy, Lord of the Rinks, consisting of > > > The Fellowship of the Rink, The Two Towels, and Return of the Kine > > > (why yes, I can keep this up until the cows come home. :) )
> > Preceded by the feminist horror story, The Bobbit.
> No doubt inspired by _The Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe_.
Also known as _The Lying Bitch and her Wardrobe_
I used to work on some fuzzy matching software that defined a good match as being one letter added, one letter removed or two adjacent letters swapped in a word. We tried this with James Bond films and got:
One letter added: Diet Another Day. One letter removed: You Only Lie Twice Two letters swapped: Golfdinger
On 4 Lip, 23:09, Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people > would like to play a game. Lo these many years ago, when I > was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by > altered titles. The rules were simple: change one word to > a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the > meaning of the title.
> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:
> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.
> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read, > erudite group can come up with some new ones.
