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General Category => General Board => Cogitative Corner => Topic started by: Marty on May 31, 2011, 03:59:56 AM
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Inspired by recently watching Star Wars and by having far too much spare time, I thought I'd try and get a game going where people rewrite famous quotes - from movies, books, songs, etc - as if they were being spoken by Yoda.
Because of the difficulty in reading Yoda-speak, I think these quotes should be famous quotes, rather than the more obscure quotes found in the other Quotes games. Other than that, the rules are the same: someone posts, first correct answer writes the new quote. Examples would be:
No. Your father, I am. (No. I am your father. Star Wars: Episode V)
A truth universally acknowledged it is, that a single man, possessing a good fortune, in want of a wife, he is. Yesss. (It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune is in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice)
The real life, is this? Or a fantasy? Hmm. (Bohemian Rhapsody. Queen)
So, first quote:
The best of times, it was. The worst of times, it was also.
EDIT: So, just to make things clear, the answer would be where the original quote is from.
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It was the best of times, it was also the worst of times.
Is that right?
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Yes, but where's it from? Edited OP to make that clear.
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Charles dickens, tale of two cities?
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Correct!
You're up!
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Dont get this one wrong:
Compare thee, shall I, to a summers day?
Does that qualify as "Yoda" talk?
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I can't believe that, I know the quote and everything but not where it is from! Ngh! Some sonnet or other. The third line is "rough winds doth shake the darling buds of May...". Sigh.
I'd have put it "Compare theee to a Summer's day, Should I?", but that's pretty much the idea.
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The darling buds of May?
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Ah oui, I think that's right. Shakespeares 18th sonit
Your up :D
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I will let three60 take the quote since he knew the verse and I only guessed it because the darling buds of may rang a bell.
You're up three60 xD
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To kill a mosquito with a cannon, overdoing it, that is.
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Ok I had no idea so I googled it, yet all I got was that
It was a saying from Confucius? Lol is that it?
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Yes, that's right. Confucius' works, basically - so a book.
P.S. Google if you must, but if you do let someone else answer, please.
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Yes, that's right. Confucius' works, basically - so a book.
P.S. Google if you must, but if you do let someone else answer, please.
I think you mean:
If Google it you must, let someone else answer, you should.
And yes, please don't both Google and post the answer. I say three60 goes again.
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Pfft, I want ben to go again.
Oh well.
"About your difficulties in maths, worry not. Far greater, mine still are."
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I absolutely know this one.
Just not gonna say it cause I don't really want to go! xD
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Gotcha with the Googling :)
So it must be
"Worry not about your difficulties in Maths. Mine are still far greater"?
But I have no idea where it's from lol :P
*Pass*
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Hehe, Zakpak, but I think you might end up having to go.
I've paraphrased it very slightly, because in "yoda-speak" the words used tend to have to be slightly different for it to make sense.
as to the actual quote... I just wish I'd said it first. :winkgrin:
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Why did I have to be the one with this quote on a poster at school?
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Why did I have to be the one with this quote on a poster at school?
Come on, stop teasing and post!
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Albert Einstein? IDK what its from though
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It is Albert Einstein, you are up Zakpak! :toot:
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*as he just reads this thread*
:doh:
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Man-made, our problems are. Solved by man, they can be.
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No idea. Hint?
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Middle name started with an F.
Never said it had to be big hint. ^^!
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Our problems are man-made, and they can be solved by man - JFK.
Right?
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Right! Your turn!
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To be, or to be not. The question, that is.
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To be or not to be. That is the question.
Hamlet, by shakey.
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Correct! Now, how does the rest of the soliloquy go?
You're up ben...and don't bother with the rest
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I did the poem this came from a couple of days ago at school and I'm writing an essay on it ATM lol so it might be too hard. Idk :)
"The Dead we are. Days short ago, lived we, Dawn felt, saw sunset glow."
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In Flanders Fields? we are doing poetry in english (or at least were) and John Mcrea was a guy my teacher recomended to read good poetry so ya :toot:
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Yaaaaar in Flanders field!
Your up Joel!
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Great ship can be sunk by small leak :interesting:
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No clue. Hint?
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came from some one who was active in early american development and politics
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All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity."
well heres another one i guess the first one was too hard ;D
p.s. it was ben franklin
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Surely that should be:
Sunk by a small leak a great ship can be
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Dangit Joel, I was gonna answer that....