And now, in the "I do this for a living" dept.
In the process of a discussion of the possible effects of nonletter characters on metadata quality, I was pointed to a page on the company wiki entitled "Silly Titles Hall of Flame". I thought I should share some of the more amusing ones with everybody.
Absinthe Literary Review
Amber Waves
American Breeders' Magazine
American magazine of wonders and marvellous chronicle, intended as a record of accounts of the most extraordinary productions, events, and occurrences, in providence, nature, and art, that have been witnessed at any time in Europe and America
American Monthly Knickerbocker
Appliance tech talk! (wouldn't be as funny without the exclamation point)
ASR: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (I thought we were an autonomous collective)
Bad Subjects
Beauties of the Evangelical Magazine
Building Women (Why don't people understand my intentions...)
Chain Store Age
Chicken nuggets, breaking news in poultry research
Creative Loafing
Dialogue on Diarrhoea
Disease-a-Month
Dismal Scientist
Emergency Librarian (Coming this fall on NBC)
G string : the newsletter of the UK Human Genome Mapping Project
Gee-zuz mag
Gut
High ass : dance art performance
Intimate female tatoos (i don't know if the cataloger or the publisher spelled this wrong. let's hope it's not the tattoo artists)
Journal of human lactation
Journal of Manly Arts
Journal of Pain (Colocated with the Journal of Manly Arts for a reason, no doubt)
Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials (Mmmm... Sandwiches)
Liquid food international (cause there's nothing like liquid food to bring the international community together)
Mime Journal (Strangely enough, I have nothing to say about this one)
Newsletter (League Against Obnoxious T.V. Commercials (U.S.))
NUKEM special report :the nuclear power plant capacity of the western world (terrible!!)
Nursing made incredibly easy!
Occasional reverberator
Potato Research
Spudman : voice of the potato industry
Stud managers' handbook
Sum News [publication of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs]
The sissy times : a journal of petticoat punishment, corset discipline, male submission & female superiority.
Tomart's action figure digest
Urology & you
Vaccination? The Choice is Yours! (Totally legit. Has a MARC record and everything.)
What's cropping up in agronomy
XXX fruit
Absinthe Literary Review
Amber Waves
American Breeders' Magazine
American magazine of wonders and marvellous chronicle, intended as a record of accounts of the most extraordinary productions, events, and occurrences, in providence, nature, and art, that have been witnessed at any time in Europe and America
American Monthly Knickerbocker
Appliance tech talk! (wouldn't be as funny without the exclamation point)
ASR: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (I thought we were an autonomous collective)
Bad Subjects
Beauties of the Evangelical Magazine
Building Women (Why don't people understand my intentions...)
Chain Store Age
Chicken nuggets, breaking news in poultry research
Creative Loafing
Dialogue on Diarrhoea
Disease-a-Month
Dismal Scientist
Emergency Librarian (Coming this fall on NBC)
G string : the newsletter of the UK Human Genome Mapping Project
Gee-zuz mag
Gut
High ass : dance art performance
Intimate female tatoos (i don't know if the cataloger or the publisher spelled this wrong. let's hope it's not the tattoo artists)
Journal of human lactation
Journal of Manly Arts
Journal of Pain (Colocated with the Journal of Manly Arts for a reason, no doubt)
Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials (Mmmm... Sandwiches)
Liquid food international (cause there's nothing like liquid food to bring the international community together)
Mime Journal (Strangely enough, I have nothing to say about this one)
Newsletter (League Against Obnoxious T.V. Commercials (U.S.))
NUKEM special report :the nuclear power plant capacity of the western world (terrible!!)
Nursing made incredibly easy!
Occasional reverberator
Potato Research
Spudman : voice of the potato industry
Stud managers' handbook
Sum News [publication of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs]
The sissy times : a journal of petticoat punishment, corset discipline, male submission & female superiority.
Tomart's action figure digest
Urology & you
Vaccination? The Choice is Yours! (Totally legit. Has a MARC record and everything.)
What's cropping up in agronomy
XXX fruit