Literary Acronyms: A Game

Cafe Society
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Here’s how it works. Provide a word whose letters may form an acronym which either describes or refers to a work of literature or film. Game players come up with words for which each letter stands, then provides the title of the work.

For example: **W H A L E **
White, Huge: Ahab’s Lifelong Enemy … Moby Dick

In this example, the word “whale” is the work’s central image. Words can be totally random, and offer game-players the opportunity to describe a surprising aspect of a work that might or might not be immediately apparent. Like …

T E E T H
They Enable Erstwhile Technician’s Horror … The Red Dragon

To get us started, here are a couple from me. Don’t forget to give the work you’re describing, and add a couple of your own.

  1. H O R S E S

  2. D R E A M

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Sorry, can’t think of a new one just now, but here is one solution to DREAM:

D R E A M - Does Really Enjoy A Murder… American Psycho

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Homicidal
Overwrought
Russian
Student
Experiences
Shame

Crime and punishment

K N I F E

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Oops, didn’t see the central theme part. :smack:

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Just to highjack wolfman’s acronym back to the central theme:

Killing
Nookie
In
Fastidious
England

Any Jack the Ripper book or movie. :wink:

One more movie:

H O R S E

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HORSE, eh? I suppose my word should be WHALES. :wink:

Anyway, Houyhnhnm Oversee Reasonably Swift Experience. Gulliver’s Travels.

New word: BELIEVE

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I don’t know if I get the game entirely, but I’ll try the ones from the OP anyway:

Hero Offers Redemption, Soothes Embittered Souls … The Horse Whisperer

Delusional Revelers Experience Altered Marriages … A Midsummer Night’s Dream

And I just saw Achenar’s post on preview:
Buccaneer’s Enemy Liberates Injuns, Eschews the Venerable & Elderly … Peter Pan & Wendy

And a new one:
J A I L B A I T

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Achernar’s answer is better than the one I thought of:

How
Odd
Rooney
Supports
Elizabeth

National Velvet

And on that note, I’m going to bed. I’ll see if I come up with something for the morning.

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JAILBAIT - JUST ANOTHER ILLEGITMATE LIASON BECAUSE ADULT INTRIQUES TEENAGER

LOLITA
Now you try:

S C A R L E T

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S C A R L E T –

She Committed Adultry, Regretfully Labeled Evil. Tragedy! The Scarlet Letter

And this is a B U M P… Because Unplaying Members Perplex (me) :smiley:

Next person try

W A T E R

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S he
C ared
A bout
R hett,
L ost
E verything,
T ara
T oo

Gone With the Wind

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I hope I understand the game rules.

Will
A
Terrible
Effort
Rate? = Waterworld

Volumes

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Cool game!

VOLUMES

Vile Old Lucifer: Unheralded Manuscript Editor/Scribe?
9th Gate

Try:

ATTIC

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Very cool game!

ATTIC

Adults Terrify Trembling Incarcerated Children - Flowers In the Attic

Anyone for…

SPACE?

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Okay I’ll try to redeem my self by following the directions this time.

Self-aware
Processor
Attempts
Crew
Extermination.

2001: a Space Odyssey

V A M P I R E

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Several
People
Avert
Catastrophe on
Earth

-or-

Soundtrack
Plays
Aerosmith’s
Crappiest
Effort

Armageddon

Since we’re on bad movies…

H U B B A R D (bonus points if you can make it L R O N H U B B A R D)

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Lots of
Random
Obnoxious
Neurotic
Hubris
Under
Bubble
Builds
A
Real
Dog = Silent Running

Automobile

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Venal Aryans Murdered; Preternatural Intruder Responsible. Eerie! … (and this might be a spoiler for those who haven’t read the book, so:)

The Keep by F. Paul Wilson

E V O L U T I O N

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Every Version Of Life Uses This, It’s Only Natural. - The Origin of Specis - Charles Darwin (I wish I had read this so I could post with confidence.)

C O S M O L O G Y

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It can’t be that this thread is too high-falutin’ for them, can it?