From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   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.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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