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Posted on entry "Advertecture," or perhaps "architizing." ::: April 10, 2005, 11:37 AM:
Here's some flatiron building trivia:

The building appears on the frontispiece of the book "Is Sex Necessary?" by James Thurber. A Thurberesque quip on the caption (which I can't find right now) made this non sequitur funny.
Posted on entry Did I miss the memo? ::: February 10, 2005, 04:54 PM:
Reminds me of an old limerick:

A connosseur dining at Crewe
complained of a mouse in his stew.
Said the waiter, don't shout
and wave it about
or the rest will be wanting one too.

Furthermore, I have heard of some magazines referring to their team of writers as a "stable" or a "bullpen"

Would that make them a Human Racehorses department?
Posted on entry A spectre is haunting the DNC. ::: August 04, 2004, 07:06 PM:
To some extent, I would expect the two parties to become alike because they are trying to win the same votes. Sort of a competition-in-an-efficient-market principle. So why is the Democrats the only one that's becoming alike?
Posted on entry Why don't we get together, and call ourselves an institute. ::: May 26, 2004, 11:02 AM:
We could call it the Ship's Barber Institute for Ideas That Are Not Studied By Any Institute
Posted on entry Why don't we get together, and call ourselves an institute. ::: May 26, 2004, 11:01 AM:
We could call it the Ship's Barber Institute for Ideas That Are Not Studied By Any Institute
Posted on entry Open thread 6. ::: April 03, 2004, 02:03 PM:
I enjoyed "The Man Who Melted Jack Dann" and other title-author re-parsing humor elswhere on this site.

In fact the bug was somewhat infectious, so I submit a few of my own:

Rollo May Love and Will

Fear of Flying Erica Jong

Surfacing Margaret Atwood

Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand

Dying Inside Robert Silverberg

The Last Days of Publishing a Novel by Tom Engelhardt

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

Eight Men Out Eliot Asinof

Name All The Animals Alison Smith

The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac

Love's Labors Lost William Shakespeare

(I had already noticed "Rollo May Love and Will" before seeing your site. Great minds think alike)
Posted on entry Walking on glass. ::: March 01, 2004, 12:25 PM:
AOL CD's are the information-age equivalent of pollen. More gets made than actually gets used and eventually we become allergic to it.
Posted on entry Hold it right there. ::: October 28, 2003, 04:07 PM:
Learn Electoral Engineering at Home!

(Headline from fake ad for a correspondence course in National Lampoon a few years back)
Posted on entry Science fiction subculture politics alert. ::: September 17, 2003, 02:53 PM:
My dad took me to trade shows when I was a kid. There was the West Coast Computer Faire, where as editor of a magazine he was an exhibitor, there were one or two others where he was there as independent software developer or author.
The way I remember them was that I learned a lot and had a wonderful time, but I might have been kind of a hassle for some people in the sense that they weren't ready to have me around.

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