Diagram prize candidates

[wellinghall]

"The Bookseller's annual Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year award has drawn a record number of submissions, prompting custodian and publishing bon viveur Horace Bent to create a 'Very Longlist' for the very first time."


100 Girls on Cheap Paper
A Tortilla is Like Life
Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology
Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
Bacon: A Love Story
Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 1741-1845
Bondage for Beginners
Briefs for the Reading Room
Budgeting for Infertility
Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
Curbside Consultation in Cornea and External Disease
Cute Yummy Time
Dental Management of Sleep Disorders
Father Christmas Needs a Wee
Fluffy Little Kitten in Fluffy's Brother
Food Digestion and Thermal Preference of Toad
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
How YOU Are Like Shampoo: For Job Seekers
I Stopped Sucking My Thumb…Why Can't You Stop Drinking?
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears
Is the Rectum a Grave?
Jokes by the Not So Famous Redneck
Map-based Comparative Genomics in Legumes
Mickey Mouse, Hitler and Nazi Germany
My Hare Line Meets the Brown Rabbit
Obama Guilty of Being President While Black
Peek-a-poo: What's in Your Diaper?
Planet Asthma: Art and Acitivty Book
Plough Music
Plug-in Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Bean Conference
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis
Soft Drink & Fruit Juice Problems Solved
Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing
The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The First Home-Built Aeroplanes
The Great Dog Bottom Swap
The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin
The Origin of Faeces
The Quotable Douchebag
The True History of Tea
The Wild World of Girly Men and Masculine Women - And Why Americans Suffer from So Many Other Idiotic Syndromes!
Venus Does Adonis While Apollo Shags a Tree
What Horses Do For Us
What Kind of Bean is this Chihuahua?


http://www.thebookseller.com/news/111542-record-number-of-submissions-for-the-2009-odd-title-prize.html
(I sometimes get a load of junk at the top of the page when I go to the link, then the real content further down)

Comments

[segh.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that's made my day.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome :-)

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Some real classics there. Did you see that Natalie Portman has signed up to play Lizzie in the movie of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies? I can't wait!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed!

[pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com]

Heh, one of those is my friend's book. Not telling you which one on an open filter, as it's a RL friend!

I don't quite get what's wrong with titles like Budgeting for Infertility, Bondage for Beginners and Map-Based Comparative Genomics in Legumes though, they just sound like specialist texts. I think the list's a bit too long.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The initial list had about ninety titles on!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots

The textbook spin-off of the Terminator franchise, I assume...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*nods* Presumably ...