Book and Film Titles with One Letter Changed
RockyRoger
Shipmate
In these nasty bleak cold days with horrid news bombarding us from all sides, I for one need a light hearted diversion. Thus this proposed thread. I was going to add, no rudeness, please, but shipmates will know I'm rather fond of rudery. To start the ball rolling, how 'bout:
'Far from the Madding crow'
'Schindler's Lisp'
'The Wild Lunch'
'A Suitable Bog'
'Cold Comfort Fart'
My own favourite, Thomas Hardy's only erotic lighthearted sex comedy, 'Toss off the D'urbervilles' doesn't (quite) fit the rules, but what the hell.
More, please!
*Rules of the game: Change, add or leave out one letter of a film or book title in order to create a possibly light-hearted new version of the same.
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[Hostly Add-On, 4 February 2026, 13.49 GMT]
Note: OP and thread title edited for clarity: a) Thread title adapted from 'Book and FilmTitles with one letter Changed'; b) implicit rules explicitly stated*, as per Circus Guidelines: [...] If you are starting a game, please spell out the rules in the opening post. [...] - Thank you.
Wesley J, Circus Host
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'Far from the Madding crow'
'Schindler's Lisp'
'The Wild Lunch'
'A Suitable Bog'
'Cold Comfort Fart'
My own favourite, Thomas Hardy's only erotic lighthearted sex comedy, 'Toss off the D'urbervilles' doesn't (quite) fit the rules, but what the hell.
More, please!
*Rules of the game: Change, add or leave out one letter of a film or book title in order to create a possibly light-hearted new version of the same.
* * * * *
[Hostly Add-On, 4 February 2026, 13.49 GMT]
Note: OP and thread title edited for clarity: a) Thread title adapted from 'Book and FilmTitles with one letter Changed'; b) implicit rules explicitly stated*, as per Circus Guidelines: [...] If you are starting a game, please spell out the rules in the opening post. [...] - Thank you.
Wesley J, Circus Host
[/Hostly Add-On]
Comments
2001: A Spade Odyssey
To Pill A Mockingbird
A Brief History of Tim
Mulder, She Wrote
The Bell Jam
The Wolf Of Mall Street
Mowing Pictures
Leak House - a tale of journalism and modern politics.
A different kind of Beatles story.
Doublethink, Admin
I'd like to claim this as original, but in fact it was the title of a review in the Church Times of a book about how attitudes to women through the ages are revealed by the language used to describe parts of their bodies. But so clever, I had to give it an airing here!
Thankfully I read that before I took a mouthful of tea!!
I'm sure that will tickle @RockyRoger 's funnybone, because it certainly did mine!
Surely that's a tale of profits from local council parking apps? (Don't know if the RingGo app is annoying people outwith the UK as well as within it...)
A tale of the world's biggest pothead.
1066 And All Chat
Far from the Madding Crow
Hora! Hora! Hora!
A woman's uphill struggle to win a pageant.
Indiana Jones and the Lash Crusade
(I’d love to claim this as my own but it’s from the radio comedy Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore).
The Umpire Strikes Back.
Oliver Twit.
VAR & Peace
Portnoy’s Compliant.
Wealthy landowner causes outrage and division when he leaves his entire estate to his ‘beloved daughter’, a woman completely unknown to any member of his family.
Mein Kamp
- diary of a happy holiday in Bavaria
Splendid!
The Gins of Navarone.
- Hardy's well-known fine food guide to Wessex
The Buns of Navarone
Or a study of its inhabitants' digestive systems:
The Guts of Navarone
The appetizer course arrives in the nick of time.
This one is only available from.... specialist stores.
Even more sadomasochism.
Shaving Private Ryan ..... etc .... oh dear!