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Tue 16 Nov, 2004 11:07 am
I was just thinking about that new George Carlin book. I haven't read it, but it's called, "When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?".
I think that is the best title of a book EVER! I laugh everytime I think of it. What do you think?
"I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots" is a good title.
"In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)" is a good one, if hoary.
Kinky Friedman has good ones: "The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover", "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch".
For serious fiction, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" rocks.
"Running with Scissors"
"How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents"
"Lamb: The Gospel According to Jesus' Childhood Friend, Biff"
"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot"
I love titles, you'll have to excuse me....
How to talk to a liberal ( If you have to)
What? That's it? Only four responses? My friends told me, no, Kicky, don't start a thread about book titles, nobody cares about book titles, but did I listen? Noooo, I had to be the brash rebel and do it anyway. And now I'm reduced to tears at the paltry response...
<sobbing, sniffling>...
...thank you Soz, boomerang, and Irisdawn for your responses, at least you care about book titles!
<sniffle, sniffle>
Book titles lovem! Now stop sobbing you big baby, it isn't all about you, all of the time.
I'm sorry, Paula, but it hurts...it hurts so bad...
Ohhhh, is there something I can do?
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Edgar, thank you. Now I'm starting to feel a little better...You know I found out today that the reason George Carlin decided to call his book "When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?", was because it was offensive to all the major religions at once...what a ballbreaker.
"Steal this Book!", by Abbie Hoffmann.
"The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play", by Ben Watson (and I actually appear in the acknowledgements)
I have a book by Robert Penn Warren entitled Who Speaks For The Negro?
I'm not sure why, but I've always thought that was an interesting title.
Ya gotta give some of us time to get home from work.
George has been around forever, if he had an up coming show on t.v. I never missed it.
I still have those 7 bad words you can't say on t.v. tattooed in my memory, in the correct order.
Sh
Pi
F
C
CS
MF
and
T
Useless info in my head thanks to George.
Henry Miller had some great titles:
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus and Nexus
The Air-conditioned Nightmare
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Black Spring
Some other Miller titles:
Moloch
Crazy Cock
Under the Roofs of Paris
The Master and the Marguerita
You're rolling now, Edgar.
There are dozens of good ones - hundreds even.
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