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17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Jul. 1st, 2013 at 1:00 PM

...Something amusing for your Monday :)
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/49207/17-overly-optimistic-book-titles

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debriswoman

Jul. 1st, 2013 09:45 pm (UTC)

Excelkent volumes:-p

med_cat

Jul. 1st, 2013 10:05 pm (UTC)

Are they not though? Some of them I'd love to take a look at, might try to track them down some time...The one about how to make a Strad violin, for instance, or the one abt how to predict the future...:P

The one by James Gordon Gilkey ("How to master your life") should actually be good though, I'd read an excerpt from an article of his before--don't know if you'd seen it?

debriswoman

Jul. 1st, 2013 10:09 pm (UTC)

Yes, I loved the very specific title of the violin one...not just any old violin to make:-)

And the uranium...:-p

med_cat

Jul. 1st, 2013 10:12 pm (UTC)

I know! And I liked how the titles were set out, the progression, and the comments, I'm sure you saw ;)

debriswoman

Jul. 2nd, 2013 04:31 am (UTC)

:-)

petrusplancius.livejournal.com

Jul. 2nd, 2013 02:47 pm (UTC)

'You can train your cat': that'll be the day! (And I have learnt a new euphemism,'eliminate'.)

med_cat

Jul. 2nd, 2013 02:48 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I think the way circus performers train a cat is, they figure out what a cat likes to do and then encourage it ;)

Ah yes, that particular euphemism is actually used fairly often as a medical term...

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