Fun Meme on Alex Beecroft's LJ

[erastes]

She says:

I was reading a thread on Making Light this morning which was, as usual, intimidatingly erudite and much too clever for me, in which people were translating poems into LOL! and Txt! speak.  But I was too embarrassed to try it myself among so many works of genius.   So I thought I'd try it here instead.  See if you can guess the book of which this is a summary: And this is hers (which I can't get....)

This is mine: (which is EASY)

Women: I can has man plz?

Drkly handsum: ICK. Peasants!!
Clvr wman: DO NOT WANT.

Fool: Oh Hai. Lady CdeB was kind enough to give me a bukkit. Marry me?
Clvr wman: DO NOT WANT.
Dsperte wman: WANT!!!

Drkly handsum: WANT!
Clvr wman: DO NOT WANT

Tart: *iz tart* *lopes*
Drkly handsum: *saves day*
Clvr wman: WANT!

Comments

[angrboda]

I'm thinking Austen. Is that even close? The Fool sort of reminded me of the male relative in Sense and Sensibility. I can't remember his name but he ended up marrying the Elizabeth Bennet's friend (Charlotte?).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ooo so close!

[angrboda]

Not Sense & Sensibility? Oh wait, the Bennett sisters aren't in that one, are they? I got the titles mixed up. Pride & Prejudice? (In my defence they're very similarly constructed titles!I)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

hee hee! yes, well done!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Pride and Prejudice! Yeah, that was easy.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

LOL! Pride and Prejudice, definitely :) (Mine is an obscure book already, even without further obfustication.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'v not hweasRsd of it.

xcuk

i ASpillwesd qwinwe on thwe kweyboasRsd.

i think itAS brokwen.

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

LOL! I maded u a cookie but it asploded.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Your favourite book is my favourite book - hurrah for Jane! (Oh, and Lizzy.)

I think Alex's is by or about dead Russians. Rasputin, p'raps?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

The oppression and the nihilistic despair makes something Russian a good bet - but wrong, alas :) It's science fiction, if that helps?

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. A bit outside my ken, then. I've officially stopped guessing now. :D

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

The Left Hand of Darkness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness
well worth trying if you fancy something about genderless societies and/or taking a sledge across a glacier ;)

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Ursula K. LeGuin! I have read that! Mind you, only once, at at least 20 years ago, so hardly wonderful that I didn't recognize it.

[fiona-glass.livejournal.com]

Gawd, that's clever. I think my head just exploded. :P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Shucks

:)

[volterra.livejournal.com]

Without looking --- Pride & Prejudice?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well done!

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

This is adorable, it took me half an hour. Duh. CdeB. I'm not fluent in lolcat speak. My fifteen-year-old would have had it at hello.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

thANk you!

[tharain.livejournal.com]

FABULOUS!!!

I LOVE IT!

=-D

P&P, of course.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You must do one!

Commenting without reading other comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

It's Pride and Prejudice, of course. Whee! Do you know, on that thread I LOLcatted Dorothy Parker's "Resume?"

Re: Commenting without reading other comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well done!

Give me the link to the thread!

Re: Commenting without reading other comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009050.html

and this is my little attempt:

Razors has ouch
Drowndedkitty is all wet
Acids has mess
I had a drug and I eated it: oh noes, belly ache!

No can has gun
Noose is made of lose
Gas has a flavor: DO NOT WANT!
I aten't dead yet!

Re: Commenting without reading other comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oh brilliant!!

Re: Commenting without reading other comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

The other ones are far, far better than mine. The one that started it -- a riff on "Timor Mortis Conturbat Me" -- had me sputtering at my desk!

[veronicaarch.livejournal.com]

LOL - I had no idea but I enjoyed it.