h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Idea of this game is to create Lipograms from a well known phrase or saying. (thanks to IcyNorth for the concept, and to Artisan for the original ?Lipograms? game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F1716566?thread=603841) A Lipogram is a phrase/passage of text which misses one or more letters (see below for definition). An example: Make a Lipogram out of this phrase, omitting the letters S and Z The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the lazy dog Could return The rapid ginger carnivore leapt beyond the dilatory canine Now that's pretty extreme, there was no need to change MOST of the words, its just more of a challenge I could have used: The quick brown fox jumped over the dilatory dog. But that's less fun (imho). "lipogram \Lip"o*gram\ (l[i^]p"[-o]*gr[a^]m; 277), n. [Gr. lei`pein, lipei^n, to leave, omit + -gram.] A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, � 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. lipogram n : a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet Source: WordNet � 2.0, � 2003 Princeton University"

OK, first round:

Make a Lipogram out of:

To be or not to be, that is the question.

Omitting E.

Then post another phrase for us to consider....

"Is it or is it not, is my inquiry."

OK, try
"She sells sea shells on the sea shore", omitting the letters E and S.

Hmmm,it's more of a challenge than I thought at a first glance. How about something like:


To subsist or not subsist, that is an inquiry?


Once in a blue moon

Omitting o

Ha, Icy, you eat me to it. Yours looks even tougher

Beat me to it - darn keyboard

Ok, I'll give it a go then:

Hannah can bargain clam on a littoral


Once in a blue moon

Omitting o

Female hawking oceanic integumenta on the verge of the ocean

(you know indicating plural without using S is bloody difficult!)

haha!

OK...

Now try B'elana's:
Once in a blue moon

omitting O

Singularly during a blue sattelite


Ok, my phrase is;

A rolling stone gathers no moss

omitting "o" again

Singularly during a blue sattelite *event*
(There, that's more accurate...)


Ok, my phrase is;

A rolling stone gathers no moss

omitting "o" again

A tumbling pebble never gathers tiny, leafy-stemmed green plants.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

omitting a

One Cox's Pippin, ingested every twenty-four hours, removes the need to consult one's medic.

"It takes two to tango" without the letter T...

You need a couple for a Hispanic dance


A piece of cake

omitting e

A part of tart

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers", without the P

...

Hmm

someone with a name meaning rock who fingered a tubular instrument gathered a small amount of cured seasoning


(interestingly, or not, A definition for Pepper is: Any of several plants of the genus Piper...)

New Phrase:

We will fight them on the Beaches...


Omit I and H

We are about to experience a battle between us and our foes on sand-leaden land adjacent to a extremely large water- engorged area

Phew... That was a tough one


Ok, my one is

Why are their so many songs about rainbows?...

Omit S

How do you think we shall express the plurals omitting s ? ( And experIence has an I )

WHOOPS! OK, OK, how's "endure" then...

Well, that's the challenge!

(Good luck!)

Why do we have a large quantaty of intonated wording about colourful natural phenomena ?




A penny saved is a penny earned

omit n

A small Circular copper cash disc of the lowest possible value saved is a small circular copper cash disc of value the lowest possible value procured...

Hmmm

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast our nets in the sea"

Omit E