...plus Balderdashia pt. 1
Here are the actual first lines of yesterday's novels. In the spirit of full disclosure, I have discovered that sometimes my siblings chose the second or third line of the book.
Anything
For You:
5)
Regan
sat in the plush waiting room of the city’s larest and most prestigious law
firm, trying to conceal her nervous jitters.
Capital Crimes
(My Sister’s Keeper, Berkeley)
5)
The
Women’s Association of Northern California, Conquistadores Chapter Number 16,
was housed in a sumptuous turn-of-the-century, Beaux-Arts-touched-by-Gothis
castle topped by crenellations and turrets and constructed of massive blocks of
mauve-grey Deer Isle granite from a long-dead quarry in Maine.
Ahab’s Wife, or
The Stargazer
2)
Captain
Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.
Vapors
6)
Peter
Jameson hadn’t heard a sound since 7pm.
And now for last night's game of Balderdash! In happy family news we were joined in Balderdashia this year by our ten-year-old grand-niece and sometimes her little sister who, oddly, has remained mostly mute this vacation.
Tweezlick
1)
A corn-based food supplement for cattle
2)
Perfectly-spaced, as in a properly mortared row
of bricks
3)
To use dirty tweezers
4)
The regional language of the farthest western
borough in Belfast, Northern Ireland
5)
The residual in the still after making moonshine
6)
A tool used for making rope
7)
A monogram in which initials are embedded in
each other
8)
The space between a South African antelope’s
cloven hoof
May 7, 1980
1)
Bright pink and orange were voted the most
popular colors in America
2)
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) was formed
by Mrs. Phyllis Gray
3)
Ethanol is introduced as a fuel in the US
4)
China’s population tops one billion
5)
On this date the National Geographic Spelling
Bee was first held
6)
The much-anticipated wedding of Prince Charles
and Lady Diana Spencer
7)
Home Box Office (HBO) becomes the first cable
channel to air recent movie releases without commercial interruptions
8) Breznev becomes the leader of the USSR
8) Breznev becomes the leader of the USSR
LAPMS
1)
Lace and Piecework Maker’s Society
2)
Louisiana Photo-Mapping Society
3)
Lower Ashtabula Pothole Mending Society
4)
Latin American Paper Money Society
5)
Los Angeles Plant Mowing Society
6)
Louisiana Apple Pie Making Society
7)
Light Afflicted Post Meridian Society
8)
Lit Amber Paper Monkey Smores
9)
Louisiana Association of Philanthropic Mothers
and Sons
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