From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   J.Pascal used his keyboard to write :   
   > On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 9:02:02 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
   >> After serious thinking Bill Swears wrote :   
   >>> On 4/22/2015 8:53 PM, Kay Shapero wrote:   
   >>>> In article , wswears@gci.net says...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> On 4/14/2015 11:28 PM, Kay Shapero wrote:   
   >>>>>> In article , mdhangton@gmail.com says...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> What's the worst you can come up with?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "Book".. though come to think of it there's one of those out there,   
   >>>>>> though the title isn't in English, and it seems to be quite popular. :)   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> Putnam's Puerile Petunias Proliferated Pointlessly.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Hmm... maybe The Dullest Story Ever Told?   
   >>>>   
   >>> Putnam being the PhD who realized that the zombie plague was inescapable,   
   >>> and   
   >>   
   >> Why does character need a doctorate to know to run from zombies?   
   >>   
   >>> organized a small group of contagion free and hardy survivors to move into   
   >>> orbit. After many years of strife to get the orbital arcology in working   
   >>> order, and the sociology of the disparate population functioning   
   >>> peacefully,  he finally had time to look down, and realized that his home   
   >>> was inhabited by  zombies, who puttered by habit through something like   
   >>> normal domesticity,  completely ignoring the Petunias blooming in riot,   
   >>> having outgrown the beds  his wife had planted those years before. Quite   
   >>> poignant, in a zombie laden,  heavy handed way.   
   >>>   
   >> I'm not quite sure how you mean this synopsis to be taken.   
   >>   
   >> Let me ask another question.  Consider the title   
   >>   
   >> _Hip-Hop Bitches of Gor_   
   >>   
   >> This suggests the body of the manuscript will be puerile shit.  (I made   
   >> it up.)  Is it a bad title?   
   >>   
   >> Here is another one:   
   >>   
   >> _A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, by Frederick Douglas_   
   >>   
   >> This book is one of the few autobiographies worth reading, but is it a   
   >> crappy title?   
   >   
   > If either title accurately describe the book, they're good titles.   
   >   
   > If the Hip Hop Gor thing has nothing to do with Gor or Hip Hop, maybe it's   
   > about a knitting club in Kansas... then it's a bad title.   
   >   
   I'm presuming you know what John Norman's Gor series was.  Let us say   
   both titles are for books about slavery.   
      
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