Update: I am arbitrarily calling a halt to this game. Thanks, all, for playing! I really enjoyed the behind-the-scenes self-torture certain friends bestowed upon themselves — I admire their tolerance for pain, especially with a simple search engine antidote a few clicks away.
Violet wins the most correct guesses (four!) — I now affix an imaginary tiara to her lovely head. All is revealed below.
Rules, such as they were:
- Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
- Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
- Post them on your blog for everyone to guess in the comments.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- GUESSERS: NO Googling/using IMDB search functions. I mean, you can cheat if you want, but all that would do is make you win. Do you really want to win?
- One movie guess per human allowed in the comments, but email me with additional guesses, if you like. I shall award someone something if their guessing ability is superhuman. So far, Violet herself has privately submitted four correct answers! Yipes!
Ready? OK! Guess the movies!
- I haven’t lived. I’ve died a few times.
Answer: Harold and Maude. Well done, Master Plotnick. - Tension is the worst thing for a complexion.
Answer: Hairspray (1988). Classicrose even named the character (Velma Von Tussle.) Hooray! - Well, come on in and worry with us. I’ll make you some pork.
Answer: Hairspray (2007). Hilda = genius! - I can’t believe it. You make someone a bridesmaid and they shit all over you.
Answer: Sixteen Candles. Nice work, Violet! - I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Answer: There Will be Blood. You’re a sharpie, Darling Andrew! - Get in the back of the van!
Answer: Withnail & I. The line is spoken by a fed-up police officer in the finest moments of cameo over-acting ever recorded. I offered myself as bride to anyone who could answer this. Alas, single still. - There you are: crows-veldt!
Answer: Arsenic and Old Lace. Violet got this one too (as well as Dick, Grey Gardens, and Sixteen Candles.) Bow down to the movie lovin’ glamourpuss! - We have a very important school report on turquoise jewelry due in two days, and we can’t find any books on it, and the President’s having us followed. It’s too much pressure.
Answer: Dick. I can count on you, Lisa L! - You can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape.
Answer: Grey Gardens. Yay Tristy! Mention of this movie set off some conversations amongst friends about our fears about become eccentric shutins ourselves. I suggest we all band together and live as one when the times comes. We’ll save a lot of money on aluminum foil — for the windows, of course. - Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!
Answer: Gone with the Wind. Excellent, dwiff (play along with dwiff, too!)
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28 responses to “quite-hard meme game revealed”
I think I know a couple, but I will go with the easy one for me: Number 4: Sixteen Candles.
10) Gone With The Wind
Yes! Email me with your other guesses, for a chance at the Grand Prize!
This meme is a hot potato! It’s the fifth time today I’ve seen someone post it. (Different movie quotes, of course.) 🙂
You’re pleading on Ms. Violets comments wrenched my heart and I had to come by and visit. I truly suck at meme’s like these, so I have no answers for you. I just wanted to say “howdy”!
Aw, thank you LJ! You’re sweet. And I’m pathetic. And I too suck at these.
That is my favorite line from Sixteen Candles!
Come by my blog next week and I’ll have this meme done for myself.
Okay, I don’t know what movie #3 is from, but I can’t wait to find out what it is because anyone who worries and eats pork is okay in my book!
BTW, I want to say it’s from Elizabethtown because that sound so much like something Paula Deen would say.
OOh, nice guess, TitanKT, but no. Think more recent of a movie.
Can we just have an audio meme and guess the soundtracks to porn films?
Becky, I think #5 is from There Will Be Blood. No?
1. Harold and Maude
Yes! to Andrew and DP!
8 is from Dick, no?
xoL
Oui!
Oh, the pork one is going to BUG me all day. Like Trichinosis.
#3 “Well, come on in and worry with us. I’ll make you some pork.”
Read it with a Baltimore accent…
Edna/John Travolta says it in the most recent “Hairspray”. I don’t remember if it was in the John Waters’ version.
Nice meme…I’m gonna use it!
Nice, Hilda. Keep going, everyone! Everything left except 9 is a comedy. #6 is a line no one has even guessed at (priv. or publicly).. my FAVE line. Whomever guesses this, I will be their bride. That’s not a hint.
Well #2 is from Hairspray again.
Velma Von Tussle to be more specific
Great job. I adored *both* versions of Hairspray. Obviously.
greetings b. okay, this looks fun. the only one i knew for sure was of course 16 candles. how about Little Miss Sunshine for #6? #9 is on the tip of my crispy brain…
bzzz! i’m sorry, toni honey: your maiden comment voyage is incorrect, though an excellent guess. Hint: #6 is an english film, #7 is from the 1940s, and #9 is a doc.
Have no chance in guessing this without the subtitles 😉 Fun game though, and some excellent tips for movies for me to rent.
#9 is “Grey Gardens”! Little Edie describing her powerful knack for making fashion out of the rags and feathers in their crazy crazy house.
I love grey gardens so much! I knew that one right away, but too late…
I love it when little edie (sp?) is talking about her camouflage outfit and how she has to come up with them… I used to call my ex-partner Big Edie when I found him unemployed and sitting in the bed on the laptop for another day, he didn’t appreciate it…
I think I like that movie because I’m scared a little of ending up like litttle edie, what about you?
Totally, skinny. In fact, earlier a friend and I both agreed that “eccentric shutins” might be our future selves. I envision my eccentric future to be rife with aluminum-foiled windows and evil government transmission blocking helmets.