[3220] in Humor
[LIST] Best Merged Books...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ariel E Segall)
Sat May 27 17:22:57 2000
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:22:46 -0400
From: Ariel E Segall <ariels@MIT.EDU>
SOURCE: PackyHumor
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Best of Merged Books
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Second Runner-Up:
"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. (Erik Anderson, Tempe, Ariz.)
First Runner-Up:
"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. (Robin Parry, Arlington)
And the Winner
"Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities" - An '80s yuppie is denied books.
He does not object, or even notice. (Mike Long, Burke)
Honorable Mentions:
"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. (Sandra Hull,
Arlington)
"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. (Brendan Beary, Great
Mills)
"2001: A Space Iliad" - The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane
10-year war against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K bug.
(Joseph Romm, Washington)
"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. (David Laughton, Washington)
"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?
(Thad Humphries, Warrenton)
"Jane Eyre Jordan" - Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships
to lead the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship. (Dave Pickering,
Bowie)
"Looking for Mr. Godot" - A young woman waits for Mr. Right to
enter her life. She has a loooooong wait. (Jonathan Paul, Garrett
Park)
"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.
"Singing in the Black Rain"- A gang of vicious Japanese druglords
beat the shit 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.
"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
evolved 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 2 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.
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