March 30, 2008

If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs is the book title that has beaten off competition from to win The Bookseller magazine's prize for oddest title, a competition which began in 1978, and the roll-call of previous winners includes Lick My Greasy Chicken, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Barnacle, and of course the classic Quidnunc Kid's Guide to Sensible Arguments.
posted by Hank Mabuse 16 years ago
  • I'm distraught. In what world is "Cooking with Pooh" not the clear winner?
  • You couldn't make this stuff up! Well, you could... - 13 Ways to Avoid Numerology - Time Travel - A Retrospective - Six Ways to Count to Seven - More Poems about Mud - Seven Types of Ambiguity - The Joy of Coffins I must confess one of these is a real book. But I meant Empson (1930) not Perlman (2003)
  • How to Cook Humans. How to Cook For Humans. How to Cook Forty Humans. How to Cook For Forty Humans.
  • *cough cough*
  • If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs You mean, this is not obvious? Wow.
  • Quidnunc Kid's Guide Maybe the "g" should be big, but not the "q" and certainly not the "k", you reprobate Chicken Plucker.
  • I reported on the announcement of the shortlist for a rival site, and although I expected "Start With Your Legs" to be a likely winner (it had the extra of an author 'named' Big Boom), I was rooting for either "I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen", "How to Write a How to Write Book", or "Cheese Problems Solved". And my real favorite didn't make the finals: "Tiles of the Unexpected: A Study of Six Miles of Geometric Tile Patterns on the London Underground", with "Squid Recruitment Dynamics" a close second (also available as a Free PDF) I wish I could make stuff up this good.
  • If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs is the book title that has beaten off competition I see what you did there.