Weird Titles

From The New York Times, March 31, 2008 edition:

The votes are in, and a British trade magazine has announced the winner of the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of 2007: “If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.” The apparently pseudonymous author, Big Boom, calls his work “a self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women.” Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller magazine, said: “The winner, ‘If You Want Closure,’ makes redundant an entire genre of self-help tomes. So effective is the title that you don’t even need to read the book itself.” In the balloting by the public, Big Boom’s book triumphed over “I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen” and, in third place, “Cheese Problems Solved.” The Diagram Prize has been offered since 1978, when the winner was “Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.”

Hey does anyone else remember this old TNT show?


Or this?


I miss those good old days. Here in Chicago, a local TV personality hosts a similar-themed, though slightly less awesome, show on Saturday nights in which he presents a glorious old horror film interrupted with short comedy skits, songs, and the like:


Here, he introduces a very special guest to the show. He's billed as 'Son of Svengoolie' since he's the second host of the show, and for a long time after he took over, he refused to call himself just Svengoolie, out of respect for his predecessor. After some time, though, the previous host told him to cut it out, since he was too old to be billed as anyone's son anymore.



p.s. A special gift for OldMan: