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First Speaker

(4,858 posts) Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:59 PM Sep 2019

Near-miss titles...

...a few examples:

...Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslett star in "Lusitania"...

...The Hound of the Woosters…

...The African-American of the Narcissus...

...James Joyce's "Achilles"...

...Moby-Richard...

Add your own...

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Near-miss titles... (Original Post) First Speaker Sep 2019 OP

I am the Manatee - Goo goo gojoob. Marie Marie Sep 2019 #1

The Effect of Manta Rays on Man-In-The-Moon-Marigolds. NNadir Sep 2019 #9

"Of Lice and Men." Harker Sep 2019 #2

"The Call Of The Mild" rurallib Sep 2019 #3

And one of my favorite films... Harker Sep 2019 #4

A Tale of Two Communities matt819 Sep 2019 #5

As a side issue... Harker Sep 2019 #10

The Man Who Came to Lunch... Phentex Sep 2019 #6

MOVIE titles? yuiyoshida Sep 2019 #7

Gingerbread house five. NNadir Sep 2019 #8

"The Maltese Chickadee" Harker Sep 2019 #11

"The Nude and the Dead" by Mailer. Harker Sep 2019 #12

"The Velveteen Ocelot"... Harker Sep 2019 #13

The Rise and Fall of the Budapestian Empire. NNadir Sep 2019 #14

Lord of the cockroaches? akraven Sep 2019 #15

"Relocated with the Wind" OilemFirchen Sep 2019 #16

The disco-zombie mashup "Saturday Night Of The Living Dead Fever." Aristus Sep 2019 #17

You can tell by the way Harker Sep 2019 #18

"Bye Bye to Arms"... Harker Sep 2019 #19

Weathering Heights. NNadir Sep 2019 #20

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

1. I am the Manatee - Goo goo gojoob.

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 04:05 PM

Sep 2019

NNadir

(33,477 posts)

9. The Effect of Manta Rays on Man-In-The-Moon-Marigolds.

Reply to Marie Marie (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 07:28 PM

Sep 2019

Harker

(13,988 posts)

2. "Of Lice and Men."

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 04:35 PM

Sep 2019

And Steinbeck's other near miss, "The Cantaloupe of Wrath."

rurallib

(62,387 posts)

3. "The Call Of The Mild"

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 04:36 PM

Sep 2019

Harker

(13,988 posts)

4. And one of my favorite films...

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 04:38 PM

Sep 2019

"The Six Samurai... and that One."

matt819

(10,749 posts)

5. A Tale of Two Communities

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 05:37 PM

Sep 2019

East Side Story

Grapes of Anger

Travels with Vince

Harker

(13,988 posts)

10. As a side issue...

Reply to matt819 (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 07:33 PM

Sep 2019

I knew a man named Marvin Paris long ago. He told me that when he was a boy studying Dickens in school, the girl seated next to him was named London.

Phentex

(16,330 posts)

6. The Man Who Came to Lunch...

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 05:43 PM

Sep 2019

Star Disputes (parts one through...)

yuiyoshida

(41,818 posts)

7. MOVIE titles?

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 05:56 PM

Sep 2019

Return of the Uncle Jed....

The Empire strikes a Chord

Raiders of the Lost Jurassic Park

Star Trek: The Motion Capture

SHIN, THIGH AND ANKLE GODZILLA

Godzilla: King of the Big Guys...

Alita Battle Angle...