Perhaps some of you have seen in the news recently that The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification was named the Oddest Title this year. Take a look at past winners.
My favorites:
2004 - Bombproof Your Horse
2002 - Living with Crazy Buttocks
1996 - Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers
1992 - How to Avoid Huge Ships
1989 - How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art (searching for this in the library catalog, I discovered that someone had constructed a subject heading for "Defecation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc."
1988 - Versailles: The View from Sweden
1984 - The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today
1980 - The Joy of Chickens
1984 - The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution
(searching for this, I found the subject heading "Prostitution -- United States -- Vocational guidance." What's worse is that we have it in the undergraduate library).
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do you have "how to avoid huge ships" in your undergraduate library?
that has to be an allegory for something...
No, we don't. It appears to actually be a book by the captain of a huge ship giving advice to small boats about how to get out of the way:
http://tinyurl.com/yvacd9
BTW, do you think I should write a sequel for short people?
"How to Avoid Tall Women"
lol... how to get out of my way so i dont feel guilty about killing you.
You two are mean.
so what *is* the role of Marmalade in the world today?
Michaela, if you don't update your blog soon I am going to die.
Hold your horses until after Tuesday, Tinkerbell.
Waah! Michaela!!! Please update. PLLLEEEAASSEEE!!!!! :-(
I think Kaela is trying to set a new record for comments on one post.
Do
you
think
she'll
notice
if
the
comments
are
not
substantive?
There.
Now, come on, Michaela! Be a sport. :-)
;-)
Briann, you are too fabulous.
Michaela, you are without excuse. if you can take time to email us about puking during finals week at PHC then surely you can take time to compose a brief blog post. get to work!!!!
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