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Date: | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:15:13 -0500 |
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>How about "The Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos" ?
How about this oddity recently forwarded to me . . .
Lisa
The British book-trade magazine, the Bookseller, has for more than 20 years run
a competition to find the oddest book title of the year. This year's awards have
just been announced.
> The winner was the comparatively staid "Weeds in a Changing World." The
> runners-up were "Guide To Eskimo Rolling" and "Procrastination and Task
> Avoidance: Theory, Research and Treatment." Other shortlisted titles were
> "Good Practice with Violence," "Lakeside Car Parks," "Toothpick Culture
> and Icecream Stick Art," "Women and Wasteland Development," and "Betel
> Chewing Equipment of East New Guinea." The superb "Male Genitalia of
> Butterflies of the Balkan Peninsula" had been the favourite but the judges
> seem to have suspected the title had been made peculiar on purpose, a
> trick outlawed by the rules.
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> In the past the competition has thrown up much engaging stuff. Previous
> winners include: "Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers,"
> "Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding and Management: New Opportunities to
> Widen the Uses of Straw," "How to Avoid Huge Ships," "Oral Sadism and the
> Vegetarian Personality," "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop
> on Nude Mice," and "The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition."
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