If you thought I could pass on this, you don't know me that well,
A self-help guide called If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs has been voted the oddest book title of the year.
The book beat off competition from I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen to win The Bookseller magazine's prize.
Cheese Problems Solved took third place in a poll which attracted 8,500 votes.
Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said of the winner: "So effective is the title that you don't even need to read the book itself."
| SELECTION OF PAST WINNERS The Joy of Chickens American Bottom Archaeology Versailles: The View From Sweden Re-using Old Graves Highlights in the History of Concrete The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification |
He added that it "makes redundant an entire genre of self-help tomes".
The manual, whose author is named Big Boom, is described as a "self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women".
Bookseller's contest began in 1978, and the roll-call of previous winners includes High Performance Stiffened Structures, Living with Crazy Buttocks and How To Avoid Huge Ships.
I stumbled across this one today when I was looking at the BBC news site for the latest Mugabe article. I'm thinking the title sums it up nicely lol
ReplyDeleteI need to find a copy of the Stray Shopping Cards of Eastern North America. I live a mile from the grocery store but recently found two shopping carts from there in the woods behind my house. Damn teenagers!!!
ReplyDeleteI actually saw that title and couldn't help but laugh. It has gotten so bad around here that many of the stores have put in a magnetic type barrier, where after you get so far away from the store the cart refuses to roll.
ReplyDeleteWe have a bargain grocery store here called "Aldi's". I'm sure you've got one too, Matt, i know they are all over. They have a quarter deposit on the carts. They are chained together outside of the store, and yo uhave to put a dollar in a slot to get it unchained. I keep waiting for other places to do that.
ReplyDeleteFor now they aren't charging for cart use, but usually the perimeter they set up at some stores (Giant Eagle and Target to name two that have adopted this) is around the parking lot, so that once you get the cart to the edge of the lot, if you try to go past it, one or two of the wheels on the cart will lock up, keeping you from pushing the cart any further.
ReplyDeleteI miss shopping in your neck of the woods Matt. But when I was there which wasnt that long ago there wasnt magnetic anything. How funny. They should just eliminate the problem and put up an electric field of sorts that if you go past it the cart shocks you! that would probably take care of it entirely!
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