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“…yelling something about cookies and dignity.”
I love it when I come across a series of words in a book that make me smile, or laugh, or start thinking about things way off from the topic of the book. Another example is a line in Dean Koontz’s novel Brother Odd: “… my brain is someone else’s TV, and they won’t stop channel surfing.”
It’s time to put your *blending skills to the test: I challenge you to name the book the “cookies and dignity” quote came from. While you’re at it, come up with your own sentence or short paragraph where “cookies and dignity” is the central theme. I’ll put all of the entries to a vote and send the winner a prize. The first person to name the book will also get a prize. Use the web, call your friends, ask your kids. Take advantage of all that technology you’ve been letting go to waste!
Ah…I bet you won’t enter until you know what you’ll win…. fine….:
First person to name the full title of the book, author, and chapter will get a cool fridge magnet.
Winner of the writing challenge will get this lovely journal, featuring a beautiful image of the west Texas sun on a rural road, complete with wind mill.
And if you answer the quote challenge before noon (US Central time, -6:00 GMT) on Friday, January 19, 2007, you also get your choice of either a men’s or women’s tee, PLUS your magnet.
Rules (yes I know, rules suck, but you gotta heed ‘em)
- Answers must be posted as comments to this article
- You must use a valid email address or I won’t know how to contact you when you win
- Obscene, racist, or just plain rude comments will be disqualified. Keep it PG, guys.
- The time stamp on the comment will the final ruling as to who answers first.
- Friends and family of the author will be disqualified (like I’d know!)
- The author may enter, but can’t win :)
- And, no this is NOT some obscure book you’ll never see…the author has 9 books to his/her credit, and your public library probably has most, if not all, of them. Hint: It is genre fiction.
And now, just to tease you, are the prizes in all their glory….
You’re just mean. I recognize it and I swear I’ve read it but I can’t for the life of me remember it. Knowing you it’s either from Pratchett or Adams, tho :-)
First hint: It’s NOT Prachett OR Adams …. She writes in a completely different genre… ;)
[…] Challenge Update While I have received exactly 42 emails concerning the Cookies and Dignity Challenge, no one has guessed the source, nor have they entered the writing contest. So…was the quote too obscure? Too short? Did it not strike anyone as funny? I found the phrase hilarious. Cookies and dignity just don’t seem to go together, and I thought we’d get some very interesting uses of the two. But I guess not. OK. I learned a little from this, and the next challenge will be different. In the the meantime, here’s another hint: (The first hint can be found in the comments to the original challenge) […]