WELCOME to Monday June 25, 2012. Merge-Matic Books….
Merge-Matic Books: Combine the works of two authors, and to provide a suitable description of the merged book.
“Machiavelli’s The Little Prince” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic children’s tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are executed.
“Green Eggs and Hamlet” – Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery.
“Where’s Walden?” – Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in each richly-detailed drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear that he is always in the woods.
“Catch-22 in the Rye” – Holden learns that if you’re insane, you’ll probably flunk out of prep school, but if you’re flunking out of prep school, you’re probably not insane.
“2001: A Space Iliad” – The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10-year war against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K bug.
“Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi” – Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling’s theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia.
“The Maltese Faulkner” – Is the black bird a tortured symbol of Sam’s struggles with race and family? Does it signify his decay of soul along with the soul of the Old South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts to understand? Or is it worth a cool mil?
“Jane Eyre Jordan” – Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship.
“Looking for Mr. Godot” – A young woman waits for Mr. Right to enter her life. She has a long wait.
“The Scarlet Pimpernel Letter” – An 18th-century English nobleman leads a double life, freeing comely young adulteresses from the prisons of post-Revolution France.
“Lorna Dune” – An English farmer, Paul Atreides, falls for the daughter of a notorious rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a career as a giant worm jockey in order to impress her.
“The Remains of the Day of the Jackal” – A formal English butler puts his loyalty to his employer above all else, until he is persuaded to join a plot to assassinate Charles deGaulle.
“The Invisible Man of La Mancha” – Don Quixote discovers a mysterious elixir which renders him invisible. He proceeds to go on a mad rampage of corruption and terror, attacking innocent people in the streets and all the while singing “To Fight the Invisible Man!” until he is finally stopped by a windmill.
“Of Three Blind Mice and Men” – Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off by a psychopathic farmer’s wife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life?
“Planet of the Grapes of Wrath” – Astronaut lands on mysterious planet, only to discover that it is his very own home planet of Earth, which has been taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously developed rudimentary technology and regained the ability to speak after exposure to nuclear radiation.
“Paradise Lost in Space” – Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and two annoying children.
“The Exorstentialist” – Camus’ psychological thriller about a priest who casts out a demon by convincing it that there’s really no purpose to what it’s doing.
“Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities” – An ’80s yuppie is denied books. He does not object, or even notice.
“Singing in the Black Rain” – A gang of vicious Japanese druglords beat the sh*t out of Gene Kelly.
“Fiddlemarch” – Emotionally dessicated medievalist Dr. Casaubon is transformed when everyone in the town reveals that they are Jewish and start to dance and sing a lot.
“A Time To Kill A Mockingbird” – The Alabama KKK, outraged at Atticus Finch for defending a black man in an Alabama rape trial, get revenge by abducting and molesting Scout. Jake Brigance and his lovely law student assistant Ellen Roark arrive from Mississippi to take over defending the case for the distraught Finch, and later defend sharpshooter Finch for taking revenge on the KKK members.
“Nicholas and Alexandra Nickleby” – Having narrowly escaped a Bolshevik firing squad, the former czar and czarina join a troupe of actors only to find that playing the Palace isn’t as grand as living in it.
“Tarzan of the Grapes” – The beleaguered Okies of the dust bowl are savedby a strong and brave savage who swings from grapevine to grapevine.
“Curious Georgefather” – The monkey finally sticks his nose where it don’t belong.
“The Hunchback Also Rises” – Hideously deformed fellow is cloistered in bell tower by despicable clergymen. And that’s the good news.
“The Silence of the Hams” – In this endearing update of the Seuss classic, young Sam-I-Am presses unconventional foodstuffs on his friend, Hannibal, who turns the tables.
“Portnoy’s Choice” – A man is forced to choose between his right and left hand.
Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Have a great Monday people, and whatever you do,
don’t forget to LAUGH IT UP! Peace I am outta here, Eucman!
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Apparently the recession ended last June. So for those of you that are still
broke and without a job, it’s all in your head.” -Jay Leno
“A man wearing an Obama mask robbed a bank. Either that or Obama has
an exciting new plan to reduce the deficit.” -Conan O’Brien
“Instead of sending in a written resume, a man in California recently got a job
because of a YouTube video he made. As opposed to most people, who lose their
job because of a YouTube video they made.” -Jimmy Fallon
G U A R A N T E D T O M A K E Y O U L A F F….
Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid bowlers. However, all league records
were unfortunately lost, so we’ll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
Friday’s Movie Trivia of the day!‘How much movie trivia can you answer?
What movie is this quote from??? “I’m your number one fan.”
Answer: Misery! Paul Sheldon wakes up hearing former nurse Annie Wilkes continuously saying this after he realizes that she has saved him from dying of hypothermia after crashing during a snowstorm. At first, Annie seems like an angel, but it doesn’t take long for Paul to realize that dying in the accident wouldn’t have been the worst thing… Did you know? Kathy Bates won an Oscar for her portrayal of Annie Wilkes in “Misery,” based on Stephen King’s best-seller.
Monday’s Movie Trivia of the day!‘How much movie trivia can you answer?
What movie is this quote from??? “Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”
Friday’s Quizzler is……….
Every single human, plant and animal has had one at some point on Earth Many things can cause you to lose it, but many things can be done to preserve it, it can be very painful and hard, but very enjoyable at the same time, sometimes other people take them, and sometimes people take their own, but many people try to improve theirs. What am I?
ANSWER: A Life!
Monday’s Quizzlers is……….
Enter words into the following word chain such that each pair of words in the chain forms a compound word. No word can appear in the chain more than one time. Each “?” represents a missing word. Example: girl ? ? shape = girl friend ship shape = girlfriend friendship shipshape.
waist ? tail ? ? side ? ? fall ? ? down ? ? spring ? ? ? hole
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