Quote... Misquote (formerly Complete Quotes or Closed Quotes)
In this game the teams are given the beginning of a quotation from a famous person, and must complete it. The answer they come up with is always humorous, and usually a comment on the person quoted. For instance, Humph once introduced this round with the famous quote "I have in my hand a piece of paper...", finished with "Will someone pass another roll under the door please?" The game was later named "Quote... Misquote" as a parody of the genuine Radio 4 quotation game Quote... Unquote. Humph will sometimes say that points are deducted for correct answers.
A variation is for players to complete proverbs (e.g., Humph: "A fool and his money are ..."; Graeme: "...welcome at Lloyds" or Humph: "Rome wasn't built in ..."; Willie: "Norway".), local sayings, song lyrics, snatches of poetry, public notices (e.g., at airports or railway stations) or instructions (e.g., on domestic appliances or medicine bottles).
A later variation was for a recording of a famous personality to be played and stopped in mid sentence. Players then completed the sentence. For example, a recording of John Major: "I go whenever I can, which isn't as often as I would wish. But really I..."; Graeme: "...can thoroughly recommend Ex-Lax".
In one 2006 episode the game was retitled "Incomplete Sentences", and said to be "based on an idea by the Home Secretary".
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Famous quotes containing the words quote, complete, quotes and/or closed:
“Ah, yes, I wrote the “Purple Cow”—
I’m sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.”
—Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)
“As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values—especially the moral ones—coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Because you live, O Christ,
the spirit bird of hope is freed for flying,
our cages of despair no longer keep us closed and life-denying.
The stone has rolled away and death cannot imprison!
O sing this Easter Day, for Jesus Christ has risen!”
—Shirley Erena Murray (20th century)