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05-14-2012, 06:07 AM
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Double Booking
After the runaway success of "Tailgaters", I thought you might like to know of this week's diversion in the Washington Post.
Style Invitational Week 971: Double booking — put two books under one cover.
Come up with a double book with a humorous connection; the first title must be an actual book, while the other may be your own fictitious title or a second real book. Feel free to add a short description if that enhances the humor. (Closing date: May 21)
Here are the examples they give:
Front cover: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Back cover: The Very Full Robin
Front: The Hobbit
Back: The Bobbitt, a shorter tale
Actually, I think it's more amusing to use two real titles. Here are a few that I've come up with ... but I'm sure you can do better.
The old man and the sea/The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (... both of them spinning a line)
Bleak House/Cold Comfort Farm (... after them, the Hilton doesn’t seem so bad)
Little Women/Great Expectations (... great things come in small packages)
Summoned by Bells/Ring for Jeeves (... now we know for whom the bell tolls)
Venus on the half-shell/A farewell to arms (... she was fine with Botticelli - she never should have gone to Milos)
Anna Karenina/Trainspotting (... so that’s why the Moscow train was late ...)
Moll Flanders/’Tis pity she’s a whore
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 05-14-2012 at 06:34 AM.
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05-14-2012, 05:16 PM
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Flush/Goodbye to All That
Flush/All's Well That Ends Well
Flush/The House at Pooh Corner
Sorry. Feeling rather lavatorial today
Flush/The Turd Man
Sorry. Sorry
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05-15-2012, 03:22 AM
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Number 3 made me laugh, John. (Perhaps you should have placed it second?)
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05-15-2012, 04:57 AM
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Journey Without Maps/Why Are We In Vietnam?
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05-15-2012, 08:50 AM
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The Mill on the Floss/White Teeth
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05-15-2012, 08:56 AM
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I love that last one (floss/teeth), Brian.
FRONT: Eat Yourself Beautiful: The Ultimate Guide To Health And Beauty From Within
BACK: Eat Yourself, Beautiful: The Ultimate Guide To Using Commas
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05-15-2012, 09:37 AM
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Basil, you gave me my second good laugh of the day.
Neat, Roger.
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05-15-2012, 10:25 AM
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FRONT: Watership Down
BACK: Rabbit, Run
FRONT: Origin of the Species
BACK: Planet of the Apes
FRONT: Jude the Obscure
BACK: The Invisible Man
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05-15-2012, 10:39 AM
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A Tale of Two Cities
Down and Out In London and Paris
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05-15-2012, 10:40 AM
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Moby Dick
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
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