diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute
index e0fb4abde..9ee423df2 100644
--- a/dat/tribute
+++ b/dat/tribute
@@ -2018,5 +2018,7 @@ THINK OF IT MORE AS BEING ... DIMESIONALLY DISADVANTAGED.
 %passage 4
 I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
 %e passage
+# Not a direct quote, but a reference to Thief of Time and the fact that the player is War
+HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO RONNIE LATELY?
 %e title
 %e section
diff --git a/src/sounds.c b/src/sounds.c
index e05fd2e04..bc93e75de 100644
--- a/src/sounds.c
+++ b/src/sounds.c
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ register struct monst *mtmp;
                and without quotation marks */
             char tmpbuf[BUFSZ];
             Sprintf(tmpbuf, "%s", verbl_msg);
-            pline(ucase(tmpbuf));
+            pline1(ucase(tmpbuf));
         } else {
             verbalize1(verbl_msg);
         }