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Topic Options #209293 - 01/28/13 01:28 PM How to..... LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5281 Loc: Land of the Flat Water Titles of actual publications collected by the librarians at Bowdoin College: How to Abandon Ship (1942) How to Abduct a Highland Lord (2007) How to Attract the Wombat (1949) How to Avoid Intercourse With Your Unfriendly Car Mechanic (1977) How to Be an Ocean Scientist in Your Own Home (1988) How to Become Extinct (1941) How to Boil Water (1976) How to Break Out of Prison (2003) How to Bribe a Judge (2002) How to Buy an Elephant (1977) How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth (1986) How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World (1979) How to Embalm Your Mother-in-Law (1993) How to Get a Gorilla Out of Your Bathtub (2006) How to Hold a Crocodile (1981) How to Label a Goat (2006) How to Ride a Tiger (1983) How to Run a Bassoon Factory (1934) How to Tell a Blackbird From a Sausage (2007) How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist (2007) How to Travel With a Salmon (1994) How to Trick or Treat in Outer Space (2004) How to Wreck a Building (1982) The librarians have kept a list of amusing names and titles since 1971; Eric v.d. Luft published a selection in 2008 as The Inscribed List: Or Why Librarians Are Crazy. “We librarians don’t go deliberately looking for these little nuggets of delight,” he writes. “We don’t have to. They just appear.” This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2013 at 2:38 pm. It is filed under Literature. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep---- Top #209294 - 01/28/13 05:22 PM Re: How to..... [Re: LukeJavan8] Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont Why would you need to label a goat? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #209295 - 01/28/13 05:50 PM Re: How to..... [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu] zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh Why would you need to label a goat? Not the compleat title: How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations That Are Strangling Britain. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing. Top #209298 - 01/28/13 06:29 PM Re: How to..... [Re: LukeJavan8] Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont Ah! thanks. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8423 Members 16 Forums 13686 Topics 209751 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members teepee, smoothcriminal86, janbra, junebug, Stephen A 8423 Registered Users Who's Online 1 registered (tsuwm), 34 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 jenny jenny 66 wofahulicodoc 53 endymion6 45 Rhubarb Commando 35 BranShea 35 Buffalo Shrdlu 19 zmjezhd 16 Jackie 16 Faldage 14 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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