Great Opening Lines

[Bridie]

songs/poems/stories/chat up lines.


Travelling on a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail head full of zombie.

[Fireman]

Chat up line in Newcastle - "You don't sweat much for a fat lass!"

[fiain]

nice one. I'd almost forgotten all about Men at Work.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

[Celyn]

"It was the day my grandmother exploded". Opening line of "The Crow Road" by Iain Banks.

[Bridie]

"I'm not in love but I'm open to persuation" Joan Armatrading

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

"When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magni- ficence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."


Chat up lines
"Get your coat... you'll do"

"That's a nice top. Did you get it from Marks and Spencers?"

[Josef]

Songs are cheating, really.

This one (which, as it happens, although I'm usually a 'who gives a shit about lyrics' man, happens to be my very favourite song) is virtually all 'first line'.

[John]

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.

[Bridie]

Songs are cheating, really. ......

I wondered what you meant by that and then I listened to the song

[hungryjoe]

I woke up this morning.

Might have been used in the occasional Blues song.

[Dave]

I read the news today old boy....

[Josef]

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

[Bridie]

"Really don't mind if you sit this one out"

[PaulK]

Call me Ishmael.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

and for songs, Richard Thompson.............

I feel for you, you little horror
Safe at your mother's breast
No lucky break for you around the corner
'Cause your father is a bully
And he thinks that you're a pest
And your sister she's no better than a whore.

Life seems so rosy in the cradle,
But I'll be a friend I'll tell you what's in store
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow.
There's nothing to grow up for anymore

[stranger]

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed

Stephen King, The Gunslinger

I was hooked from the first line, took him 20 years from when I started to finish the series but it was worth it.

[Doorstop]

"It was a bright, cold day in April .. and the clocks were striking thirteen"