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   John W Kennedy to Leszek Karlik   
   Re: worst story title   
   15 Apr 15 13:34:59   
   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2015-04-15 08:58:23 +0000, Leszek Karlik said:   
      
   > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 02:06:40 +0200, William Vetter    
   wrote:   
   >   
   >> What's the worst you can come up with?   
   >   
   > "Mein Kampf"   
      
   Not the title's fault. "My Stuggle" is not a particularly unusual name   
   for books.   
      
   The problem is that there are so many ways a title can go wrong. Asimov   
   confesses to two: "The Weapon Too Dreadful To Use" and "I, Robot".   
      
   As mere improvisations, consider the bucolic romance, "Bear Bottom", or   
   the Regency, "The Lovely Beauty".   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "Though a Rothschild you may be   
   In your own capacity,   
       As a Company you've come to utter sorrow--   
   But the Liquidators say,   
   'Never mind--you needn't pay,'   
       So you start another company to-morrow!"   
     -- Sir William S. Gilbert.  "Utopia Limited"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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