Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Web Site research

From: the things I researched from other web sites comes this one:

Things to consider . . .
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
Why isn't 11 pronounced onety-one?
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?
Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?
Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?
And finally . . . What's in a name?
That's the question being posed to readers of the trade publication The Bookseller. Those readers are being invited to vote for the annual Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year. Nominees were proposed by publishers, booksellers and librarians.
The nominees are:
~ Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
~ How Green Were the Nazis?
~ D. Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry -- An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans
~ The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
~ Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium
~ Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Last year's winner was People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It by Gary Leon Hill. The competition has been running since 1978, when the winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice

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