Originally Posted By alexbook (I just found this topic and got very excited and didn't read it carefully enough to realize what the rules were. Sorry again.)
Originally Posted By monorailblue No problem, and I apologize myself. I promised a post and I didn't deliver. My boss yanked us in and ordered me to begin drafting an application for a pre-judgment writ of attachment, and I feel like I'm drowning in it. So let's go ahead and play off alexbook's post, if no one minds.
Originally Posted By alexbook avromark: Was that a guess as to monorailblue's job or my quote? If the latter, it's wrong. Sorry.
Originally Posted By alexbook I seem to have killed this topic. I feel terrible. I may have to go to the LP Confessional. >>"It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express."<< That was the opening to "Murder on the Orient Express." Somebody else better try one. I'll go and hide now.
Originally Posted By avromark That be it, Well I figured it would kick start the topic back Did you see my latest greatest ever quote?
Originally Posted By alexbook I'm thoroughly abashed. Here's one that shouldn't be too tough: "Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die."
Originally Posted By avromark Fight Club, a collection of pages with words written by this dude named chuck?
Originally Posted By avromark That took forever, believe it or not, I used to read a lot. Book - easiness of first words, 10 out of 10, where 10 is easy and 1 is hard. This is the first words of the book, following a poem: "The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me."
Originally Posted By alexbook Okay, I'll bite: The Tale of a Body Thief. (Sheesh. Maybe we should have a 24-hour rule around here.)