The Second Overnight Editor Easter Egg Hunt
CLUES ADDED
Yes folks, it's that time of year again; my annual (well, two years in a row) Easter Egg hunt.
Wikipedia describes an Easter Egg as "an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game."
Below are some of my posts written over the last year that contain hidden themes, references or messages. I promise I have not added these eggs retrospectively - they were there all along.
What? You mean you thought you'd understood the first time round? Oh dear me no. Can't have that.
See how many you can uncover before you look at other people's guesses, in the comments. You may find it useful to take a look at last year's hunt and the answers.
On with the Eggs!
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OVER-EASY
1. Oh! Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me (for Isabelle)
The title of this post refers to...?
2. Rental Man
The beginning of this post is a nod to which book?
3. Back to school with a gun
what's the in-joke here?
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MEDIUM GRADE
6. Back to school with a gun (reprise)
How many poets can you find?
5. Kitchen sink Karma
References to... what?
Clue: Religion
6. The one with the sheep
References to...?
Clue: Famous book by a European author
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HARD BOILED
7. Reading Material
A double-yoker?
Clue: Two eggs - one literary, one linguistic
8. Going one-way on Earlham Street
Find the eggs...
Clue: names of 12 (but it could have been any other number) unusual things hidden.
9. There's a time machine Kingly Street
Meet me at St Pancras
Finding Biros on Prince Consort Road
Going one-way on Earlham Street
Connected how?
Clue: Each of these four posts uses a similar device. How are these related?
Answers next week. Maybe some clues before then. I might even tell you *why* I put them in.
Rental Man in Las Vegas, surely. The best of gonzo journalism.
Posted by: TSP | 25 March 2008 at 22:09
And the sheep make me think of Garcia Marquez and dowries mailed in parts to daughers.
Posted by: TSP | 25 March 2008 at 22:16
Oh, and that typo in the last sentence was all mine.
Posted by: TSP | 25 March 2008 at 22:23
I could guess only the star classification and the Fear and Loathing ones. okay, maybe the poets one too. and now I can't wait for the other readers who know you better to comment!
Posted by: Aishwarya | 26 March 2008 at 04:50
shit...no fucking pressure then...!!!!
Posted by: pocketpunk | 26 March 2008 at 11:07
Omelette. Or scrambled brains. Or both.
Posted by: Ariel | 26 March 2008 at 18:42
TSP - Correct with the Gonzo, But not Garcia Marquez... try a different magic realist.
Aishwarya - Correct with the stellar classification!
pocketpunk - Just do your best. Which better be good.
Ariel - You may to break a few eggs, yes.
Posted by: oe | 27 March 2008 at 23:47
right erm...
1 Morgan-Keenan spectral classification..
2 Fear & Loathing
3 Something to do with Polish word order - Subject Verb Object
more later
Posted by: pocketpunk | 29 March 2008 at 08:22
hello.....I posted my answers.
But no.9 has me stuck.
Posted by: isabelle | 29 March 2008 at 12:02
(Grasps at straws) Rushdie, and Midnight Children ?
Posted by: TSP | 29 March 2008 at 18:27
PP - 1. Yes... 2. Yes... 3. Yes, almost there, still some of that egg left.
isabelle - See my response in your comments. You are the red queen with seven eggs.
TSP - No...
Clues Monday.
Posted by: oh-ee | 29 March 2008 at 18:42
I couldn't help having a cheating look at Isabelle's (I'd have gotten three at most)... still can't figure out five. Nine strikes me as foreshadowing, but then, you always do that (quite well, too). Wait. It's not Macguffins (the term for which I learned from you) again, is it? Am I close? What fun.
Posted by: Ani | 01 April 2008 at 17:38