H, n! Th vwls r gn! (Oh, no! The vowels are gone!)

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Renodox · #1 Post by **Renodox** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:40 pm

This is a game that I thought up last night. To see just how importaint vowels are, try to write up a guote without them and see if people can figure out what they are. For example this is what the last two sentences would look like:

Ths s gm tht thght p lst nght. T s jst hw mprtnt vwls r try t wrt p gt wtht thm nd s f ppl cn fgr t wht thy r.

I'll start this one with one of my favorite movie quotes:

Rmmbr m dd? Whn klld yr brthr! tlkd jst lk th---s!

Steffi Evenstar · #2 Post by **Steffi Evenstar** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:13 pm

Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked just like this!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit ... great movie. Although I really don't understand why my parents let me watch it as a kid.

Interesting game ...

ll w hv t dcd s wht t d wth th tm tht s gvn t s

Kurdt · #3 Post by **Kurdt** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:41 pm

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

Don't know where that's from, but a nice quote anyway.

"f ll th sls hv mt n my clnng, hrs ws th mst...*snff* th mst...*sb* SCFF RSSTNT!"

Spikey · #4 Post by **Spikey** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:45 pm

^ (That quote from Steffi is from LoTR I think)

Parhelion · #5 Post by **Parhelion** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:38 pm

"Of all the soles I have met in my cleaning, hers was the most...*sniff* the most...*sob* SCUFF RESISTANT!"

from . . . one of the Space Quest games, right?

How about this one, from one of my favorite movies:

"T crsh yr nms, s thm drvn bfr y, nd t hr th lmnttn f th wmn"

Steffi Evenstar · #6 Post by **Steffi Evenstar** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:48 pm

yup ... Fellowship of the Ring, to be precise

Senor Matt · #7 Post by **Senor Matt** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:03 am

Parhelion wrote:"Of all the soles I have met in my cleaning, hers was the most...*sniff* the most...*sob* SCUFF RESISTANT!"

from . . . one of the Space Quest games, right?

How about this one, from one of my favorite movies:

"T crsh yr nms, s thm drvn bfr y, nd t hr th lmnttn f th wmn"

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!!

Isn't that the goal of every programmer?

Fthrs b gd t yr dghtrs, dghtrs wll lv lk y d. Grls bcm lvrs, nd trn nto mthrs, s mthrs b gd t yr dghtrs t.

It's the chorus of a song that is popular in the U.S. right now.

#8 Post by **navynuke04** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:12 am

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will live like you do. Girls become lovers, and turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters too.

Ummm....

Wht ws t whn * lkd t y
Wht pwr hs chnd m thrgh nd thrgh
nd bnds my hrt wth lnks s tght
* cnnt lv wtht th sght f y.

(* denotes that the entire word was made up of vowels.)

AsianMusicGuy · #9 Post by **AsianMusicGuy** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:19 am

Hey you sound like me.
LOL!!

Keenermart · #10 Post by **Keenermart** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:01 am

"What was it when I looked at you
What power has chained me through and through
And binds my heart with links so tight
I cannot live without the sight of you."

Not the slightest clue what that could possibly be from...

"f tht plc bynd th hvns, nn f ths wrld's pts hs yt sng wrthly, nr shll ny vr d s."

fluxmaster · #11 Post by **fluxmaster** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:50 pm

Of that place beyond the heavens, none of the world's poets has yet sung worthily, nor shall any ever do so.

I don't know who wrote that.

Try this one:

Ln, ln, ll ll ln,
Ln n * wd wd s,
Nd nt * snt tk pt n
M sl n gn.

Keenermart · #12 Post by **Keenermart** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:46 pm

fluxmaster wrote:Of that place beyond the heavens, none of this world's poets has yet sung worthily, nor shall any ever do so.

I don't know who wrote that.

Socrates speaking in Plato's Phaedrus.

Alias · #13 Post by **Alias** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:59 pm

Is it me or is this thread randomness.

Vipt · #14 Post by **Vipt** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:39 pm

Alone, alone, all all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea,
And *not* a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

A line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A very cool poem, for those who are into that sort of stuff.

BTW, I put asterisks around the word 'not' because I remember from the only version I've ever read of it (which I believe was original), the word there was 'never', i.e. And never a saint took pity on/ My soul in agony.

Anyway, here's another:

Hr th sldgs wth th blls--
Slvr blls!
Wht * wrld f mrrmnt thr mld frtlls!
Hw th tnkl, tnkl, tnkl,
N the c r f nght!
Whl the strs tht vrsprnkl
Ll th hvns, sm t twnkl
Wth * crstlln dlght;
Kpng tm, tm, tm,
N * srt f Rnc rhm,
T th tntnnbltn tht s mscll wlls
Frm th blls, blls, blls, blls,
Blls, blls, blls--
Frm th jnglng nd th tnklng f th blls.

This will be almost impossible to get if you have no idea of its origin. However, there's at least one word that everyone should get!

#15 Post by **navynuke04** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:38 pm

Keenermart wrote:Not the slightest clue what that could possibly be from...

You call yourself an adventure game fan???

It's the poem that Alex gives Cassima in KQ6.

Uhanimar · #16 Post by **Uhanimar** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:47 pm

navynuke04 wrote:
Keenermart wrote:Not the slightest clue what that could possibly be from...
You call yourself an adventure game fan???

It's the poem that Alex gives Cassima in KQ6.

I'm the biggest adventure game fan in the world (almost) and i didn't know what that was ether.

AsianMusicGuy · #17 Post by **AsianMusicGuy** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:04 pm

ha even i know that

Gav · #18 Post by **Gav** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:39 am

I thought it must have been from the song in KQ2VGA+

Blackthorne519 · #19 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:44 am

"nythng t stpd t b spkn s sng......." - Vltr

Bt

Steffi Evenstar · #20 Post by **Steffi Evenstar** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:00 am

Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung - Voltaire

Md p my mnd, gnn mk * nw strt, gng t Clfrn wth n chn', n my hrt .........

Blackthorne519 · #21 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:11 am

Steffi Evenstar wrote:Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung - Voltaire

Md p my mnd, gnn mk * nw strt, gng t Clfrn wth n chn', n my hrt .........

Made up my mind, gonna make a new start, going to California with an aching, in my heart....... - Goin To California, Led Zepplin - IV

Bt

fluxmaster · #22 Post by **fluxmaster** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:46 am

Vipt wrote:BTW, I put asterisks around the word 'not' because I remember from the only version I've ever read of it (which I believe was original), the word there was 'never', i.e. And never a saint took pity on/ My soul in agony.

You may be right; I quoted it from memory.

Vipt · #23 Post by **Vipt** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:54 pm

LED ZEPPELIN!!!

haha, sorry! couldn't resist...

Keenermart · #24 Post by **Keenermart** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:44 am

navynuke04 wrote:
Keenermart wrote:Not the slightest clue what that could possibly be from...
You call yourself an adventure game fan???

It's the poem that Alex gives Cassima in KQ6.

Alas, the only King's Quest games I've played are the first original and the two remakes here... been meaning to invest in the KQ Anthology for quite some time, just never got around to it.

Daffi · #25 Post by **Daffi** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:59 pm

try these:
1. * hv rddn n yr crt, drvr,
wvd my nd rms t vllgs gng by,
lrnng th lst brght rts, srvvr
whr yr flms stll bt my thgh
nd my rbs crck whr yr whls wnd.
* wmn lk tht s nt shmd t d.
* hv bn hr knd.

2. f mn's frst dsbdnc nd th frt
f tht frbddn tr whs mrtl stt
brght dth nt th wrld nd ll r w,
wth lss f edn, tll n grtr mn
rstr s nd rgn th blssfl st

i have a vague feeling you'll find the second one easier...