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A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:27 am
by englishangel
My husband and his brother are currently texting each other with films where you drop one letter of the title to make a new name. Good for lovers of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".

Here are a couple to get you started.

The LIon, The Itch, and The Wardrobe
Casio Royale (Prince Charles's watch?)

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:30 am
by MKM
Like the one about the brewery "The Canterbury Ales" or the medical drama "One With the Wind" . Then there's the one set in a Cathedral "All Quiet on the Western Font". Political drama: "West Side Tory". The life story of a sailor: "A Tar is Born".

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:09 am
by MKM
Or a story about the end of WW2 - "All Quit on the Western Front"

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:17 pm
by Jo
Or Flaubert's gynaecological tale, Madame Ovary

(sorry, I nicked that from Monty Python's Big Red Book :lol: )

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:21 pm
by Mid A 15
Or the geographer with one more river to find....

The Deehunter

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:57 pm
by englishangel
the one set in a pub. Vanishing Pint

For cheese lovers. Brie Encounter

Confessions of a Hopaholic

the one about the girlie tattoo parlour. Pretty in Ink.

Father of the Brie.

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:05 pm
by Mid A 15
A story of a twitchy football manager

Arrie

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:09 pm
by Mid A 15
A story of promiscuity.....

Easy Ride

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:11 pm
by Mid A 15
A fascinating biopic of the 2001 London Marathon winner

2001 A Pace Odyssey

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:19 pm
by Mid A 15
A controversial film to antagonise Tree conservationists

Chariots of Fir

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:18 pm
by AKAP
Do I come last with
"Tes of the d'Urbevilles"?

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:06 pm
by englishangel
Looking for a depressed adolescent fish. Finding Emo

The holiday park fo our canine friends 'All Dogs Go To Haven'

H G Wells has a complication choosing what to wear to a formal turn of the century party in.... "The Tie Machine"

The ever so popular tales, loved by children and adults, of a water dwelling creature that can cast magical spells: "Harry Otter and the...."

An epic tale when dinosaurs invade the PGA Tour: "Jurassic Par"

When Hen Nights get out of control 'Invasion of the Boy Snatchers'

Yes, my film student daughter has got her mates doing it too.

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:48 pm
by NEILL THE NOTORIOUS
A Florist's advertisement ---

For Weddings and a Funeral

OUch !

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:37 pm
by Mid A 15
The film of the book Hardy would have written had he lived in the time of Hitchcock

Far From The Madding Crow

Re: A bit of fun

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:53 pm
by michael scuffil
This sounds like the regular cartoon feature in The Literary Review, called Illustrations to Unwritten Books. This month's features a stout lady of morose countenance in Georgian dress, behind a steering wheel, captioned "Northanger Cabbie".