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Anyone want to play a fun literary game?

Asked by janbb (63218points) November 13th, 2020

Someone started this is one of my Facebook groups. You take the first line of a famous novel and add “Four Seasons Total Landscaping” to it somewhere.

Example: “Happy families are all alike, unhappy families use Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”

We’re having fun with it over there so let’s try it here.

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chyna's avatar

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”

canidmajor's avatar

With a little judicious punctuation: “Call me, Ishmael, at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”

Good one, Little Penguin!

Jeruba's avatar

“Last night I dreamt I went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping again.”

janbb's avatar

“Christmas won’t be Christmas without Four Seasons Total Landscaping,” said Jo.

filmfann's avatar

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

janbb's avatar

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

ragingloli's avatar

Again you show yourselves, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Revealed, as you once were, to clouded vision.

Brian1946's avatar

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind, ever since I got a job shoveling Giuliani’s bullshit at Four Seasons Total Landscaping!

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York, shoveling Giuliani’s bullshit at Four Seasons Total Landscaping!!!

Who would have guessed that both FS Fitzgerald and Sylvia Plath had the same crappy job!

kritiper's avatar

Buck did not read the newspapers or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself but for every tide-water dog, strong on muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to Four Season’s Total Landscaping.

doyendroll's avatar

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons total landscaping of the year.

In the beginning god made four seasons total landscaping.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the four seasons total landscaping.

Is this four seasons total landscaping which I see before me,

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me in the parking lot of four seasons total landscaping.

kritiper's avatar

Four Seasons Total Landscaping was dead, to begin with.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

Dr. Livesley, Squire Trelawny, and the rest of these gentlemen, having asked me to write down the particulars of Four Seasons Total Landscaping…

filmfann's avatar

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

JLeslie's avatar

I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

In a village Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind…

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that Four Seasons Total Landscaping kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth

Jeruba's avatar

“My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. I received a telegram from Four Seasons Total Landscaping”

dxs's avatar

From the four corners of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping, ....tall men from tall rocky slopes came…

His name was Atticus Cody. He was sixty-seven years old and a cattleman without cattle, the owner of Four Seasons Total Landscaping and four hundred forty acres of high plains and sandhills in Antelope County, Colorado.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed as soon as he entered Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.

stanleybmanly's avatar

All men of whatsoever quality they may be, who have done anything of excellence, or which may properly resemble excellence, ought, if they are persons of truth and honesty, to describe Four Seasons Total Landscaping with their own hand.

Dutchess_III's avatar

It was a dark and stormy night at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. (Someone got a boat ton of free advertising!)

rebbel's avatar

“I’ll tell you one thing it means, dummkopf. We’ve seen something terrible together at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. It won’t go away, and we have to help each other. And that means we’ll have to love each other even harder.”
Of course. Why didn’t I think of this? Why didn’t I think like this? We needed love.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

You may talk of gin and beer
When you’re stationed way out here
An’ you’re sent to penny fights an’ Aldershot it
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work for water
An’ you’ll lick the boots of ‘I’m that’s got it now in Four Seasons Total Landscaping sunny clime where I used to spend my time, as a servant of Her Majesty the Queen…

Kardamom's avatar

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and The Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Trailer for sale or rent at Four Seasons Total Landscaping..

I’m having a bit of a time. The small engine repair shop I bought, and managed for 5 of the most stressful years of my life, we called “All Seasons Mower and Saw.”
Best little mower house in Kansas!

jca2's avatar

Quoth the raven, Nevermore Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

filmfann's avatar

Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

ragingloli's avatar

The wealth of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.

canidmajor's avatar

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a visit to Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

Once upon a midnight dreary, whilst I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Four Seasons Total Landscaping…

filmfann's avatar

Adapting this thread to include the opening line of a film:

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

OK if we’re doing doing movie lines now, here’s one from my favorite character , Captain Louis Renault, from my favorite film, Casablanca: I have no politics, I blow with the wind. For the present, the wind prevails from Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

The Red Death had long devastated Four Seasons Total Landscaping. ( And Vincent Price ain’t ever around when you need him.)

Nomore_lockout's avatar

Cloudy in the south and looked like rain, round the bend came a passenger train. North bound train on a Four Seasons Total Landscaping track, he was all right leaving but he wont be back.

kritiper's avatar

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Four Seasons Total Landscaping
I cremated Sam McGee.

kritiper's avatar

It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood two to four, with but one inning left to play.
So, when Clooney died at second, and Burrows did the same,
A pallor wreathed the features of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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