Only one person took the challenge here ...

The answers:

"Don't look now but ... " "I'm dead."
That was "Don't Look Now" - Daphne du Maurier.


"Doady?" I married the wrong woman.
That was "David Copperfield" by Dickens. The clue was the use of Dora's name for him - Doady.


Fatal drifting tendency led to murder.
Tess of the D'Urbevilled - Thomas Hardy - I built on a famous quote:
it was not clear to him till later; that his original Tess had spiritually ceased to recognize the body before him as hers—allowing it to drift, like a corpse upon the current, in a direction dissociated from its living will.


Boy's best friend isn't always Mum.
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles. And here I was inspired by Tom Lehrer's take on it:
"One thing on which you can depend is ...
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is!"

It might be fun trying to encapulate existing novels / films in the six words.


"Don't look now but ... " "I'm dead."

"Doady?" I married the wrong woman.

Fatal drifting tendency led to murder.

Boy's best friend isn't always Mum.



You, of course, get to spot 'em.

Or rather, scarletdemon does. Brilliantly.

See here: http://scarletdemon.livejournal.com/190338.html

Spam so surreal it verges on becoming intriguing:

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Puporting to come from: tony.blair at downingst.gov

It said:

Webdesign has become an extremely desirable subject of late, and economically it is very valuable for the continued growth of this country. Sadly, good teachers and lecturers of this complex subject are extremely underpaid, and there is a huge temptation for them to quit education and take on jobs in industry where the salary is much higher in general. Hence, we would like to count on your support for our proposal to increase the salaries for those dedicated, and grossly underpaid educators of web design, by a minimum of %100.

Your humble prime minister

Tony


Guess which word gave it away? (Well, yes, lots do, and the grammar too - but one word just leaps out and hits you.

Greg has just told me something.

As some of you know, he works in publishing. He's in secondary (K12?), and one of his colleagues is in primary. As designers, they act as liaison between the artists (illustrators) and the editors.

Well, today Greg's co-worker had a worried phone call from a studio. They were worried about fitting these new characters into Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

"New characters?" said Douglas.

Yes. A brother and a sister.

Well, that was all right. There's no reason why the author couldn't write in a brother and sister for Goldilocks.

Only ... these weren't Goldilocks' brother and sister. They were the bears' brother and sister ... and the art house wanted to know how they were meant to accommodate them - especially when there is legendarily a lack of extra utensils and furniture in the bears' place ...

This is fun!

Go to: http://iconmovies.co.uk/brightyoungthings/index.html

Select Splendidser ...

Enter the URL of your choice ... and Enjoy.

Here is some of Lucas:

He lifts a careful hand to ascertain the damage ... just above the ear it seems to be ... the left ... ear ...

The scream that Lucas lets out would do credit to the whistle of a small but powerful steam engine trundling coal up and down Welsh hillsides.

"M'sieur called?" says a gloomy voice.

Lucas opens his heavy-lidded eyes and regards the lugubrious face of Gaston, his faithful valet.


and Splendidised:

The splendid chap lifts a careful hand to ascertain the simply dashing damage ... just above the simply unbearable ear it seems to be ... the priceless left ... ear ...

The simply dashing scream that Lucas lets out would do credit to the simply marvellous whistle of a frightful small but powerful steam engine trundling coal up and down Welsh hillsides, isn't it too divine?!

"M'sieur called?" says a simply dandy gloomy voice .

Lucas opens his heavy-lidded eyes and regards the divine lugubrious face of Gaston, his faithful valet, darling!

Students' answers to science tests ...

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From Canada.com ...

The "quite plump and unthreatening" Montreal-based mafioso Frank Cotroni always loved food, Canada's National Post reports. So it was hardly surprising that he used his 15-year jail sentence for smuggling cocaine to write a cookery book.

"We used to joke among ourselves about what Frank liked more, eating or cooking," one of his associates recalled fondly. "I honestly think he would rather cook. He'd spend hours on it. Hours. He'd have pots bubbling away on the stove and wear an apron and he'd talk forever about his ingredients, how this was such-and-such cheese and these were such-and-such tomatoes.

"It was a bit ridiculous 'cause none of us f***ing really cared. But he was the boss and if he wanted to talk about tomatoes, then we talked about f***ing tomatoes."

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