Phillip K dick had some weird titles. "the man whose teeth were all exactly alike" seals it for me.

Taejas wrote: "I've always been a fan of Chocolate Hollow Bunnies of the Apocalypse."

Brilliant!! Have you read it? How is it?

Colleen: The Oliver Sacks book is really interesting, if you are into neurology, etc. He's the doctor whose work inspired the film Awakenings.

I just went through the "Best Book Titles" list and these were my favorites:

Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Here's an odd title: "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Oliver Sacks

I've always been a fan of Chocolate Hollow Bunnies of the Apocalypse.

LOL

Jamie wrote: "I'ts not really an "odd" book title..but it is interesting and I love it.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City A Memoir"

LOL...I might have to look that one up!

I'ts not really an "odd" book title..but it is interesting and I love it.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City A Memoir

'Big Hair and Flying Cows' was one that caught my attention 3-4 yrs ago at the library. How could I NOT pick it up. I read it in one night and laughed out loud the entire time.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore takes the early prize, I think. (first performed in the 1600s!)

I always thought The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things was a hilarious title.

books of poetry are good for weird titles

Elegy On Toy Piano

Ants on the Melon a Collection of Poems

Doesn't every wife? :D
I guess that's why she wrote the book.
I find the title quite amusing!

Wow... sounds like a book I could use... Not that my marriage is bad or anything, I just have a... errr... violent streak temper...

Strangling Your Husband Is Not an Option A Practical Guide to Dramatically Improving Your Marriage - Merrilee Boyack

I think "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris is a pretty odd title. I mean, really, when you think about it.

Anything by Laurie Notaro pretty much, gems include:
"I thought you would be Prettier."
"Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death" (this one is the one that inspired me to pick up her books on the strength of the title alone)
"There is a (slight) chance I may be going to Hell."

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Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere

You know you can find some really really weird titles just by typing in random words or phrases into the add book/author thing. It's great fun.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Sign at a place I worked years ago:

Procrastination Day has been posponed."

lol! I love it!!!!

LOL I read it as Oldest too....

Sign at a place I worked years ago:

Procrastination Day has been posponed.

Not a funny title...but I bought a book on procrastination and thought "would I ever get around to reading it?"

:-)

Well, like I said, I read it "oldest" several times before I finally got it.

oooops. I guess they were right, I'm too old for this stuff.

F.D., you did just what I did reading this thread the first couple of times. But it's not oLdest - it's oDdest.

The oldest book title I have ever read, excluding some of the works of Shakespeare, is a first edition Call of the Wild by Jack London. I found it at a yard sale for .25 cents.

What to do if you're attacked?? Heehee! Awesome!

Here's a good one. And I actually own it!

A Field Guide To Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits- Carol Mack and Dinah Mack.

It takes itself so seriously, giving you detailed descriptions, the danger quotient of the creature and what to do in case you're attacked.

I used to work at a used bookstore. Two titles that I loved:

People I Have Shot. (A book by a photographer of famous people)

How to Shit in the Woods (a camping guide)

My favorite odd title of books I've read is How I Paid for College: a novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater. (and the book was hysterical to boot!)

Very useful to those women (we all have known them) who pick the wrong man for them over and over and over..... :D

That's a great one, Saranicole!

Brilliant... thanks.

A HA! I found the thread.

I was at Half Price Books today, and saw a book on display that made me laugh aloud.

How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist: And If He Is, Should You Break Up with Him?

Holy hilariousness, Batman! I opened the book, and it was a series of "How to tell if your boyfriend is..." scenarios, including if he is: a cult leader, an insufferable bore, OCD, a narcoleptic, a Trekkie, etc. It lists red flags for each of these scenarios, and then helps you decide whether or not to dump the guy... hahaha... Funny stuff!

OOOoohhh... Here's the website: http://www.antichristboyfriend.com/
If you refresh the site, it will show different "How to tell if your boyfriend" scenarios... :)

Susanna wrote: "My favorite expressions of my grandparents were "Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ" ... "

That's a new one on me!! Doy too, Sara... never heard that one.

"Hot spit" was my uncle's usual expression.

No, it's not... I posted this one in the "embarrassing dating stories" thread... I'll go find the link, but beware it's pretty graphic!!

The dating stories are graphic too, and funny as anything...Starting from message #31 on is the link to *that* book.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7752...

LOL!!! Surely there's a typo there!

"Natural Harvest - A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes." It's just so wrong!

Sara wrote: "I hate to suggest it, but you could always read the book yourself... or at least skim it... "

Living on the edge, are we?

It's slang, anyway. I was reading a book the other day and one of the characters said, "Doy!" I about died laughing... I used to say THAT when I was in 3rd grade.

But that's true--anything that gets the kids reading. I hate to suggest it, but you could always read the book yourself... or at least skim it...

I like "bitchin'" and "crap fire and save matches" which is really just an exclamation along the line sof wow. Of course most people would sub the crap with somethng else;)

My favorite expressions of my grandparents were "Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ" (grandfather) and "Like a dying cow in a thunderstorm" (grandmother).

My favorite expression goes back another generation. My mother would occasionally exclaim "hot damn!" meaning "that's really good!" and I use that too.

My mom's been using it for as long as I can remember, and probably much longer; possibly since the 50's. She occasionally uses the term "swell," too. Also "groovy."

But my favorite one of these has got to be "disreputable dungarees"!

Maybe its a generational thing. Since Susanna is near my daughter's ages, I must be near her mother's age. And we definitely said "marvy" 45+ years ago.

Were they written since the 70s? She's been using the term for at least that long!

Maybe she's secretly reading those books! LOL

My mother uses "marvy" all the time.

But they get the kids reading, right?

And marvy is a made up word? We used that word back when I was in high school . . .

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "So it's a vocabulary builder?"

*snorts* Is it a VOCABULARY builder??? Ummm... Not unless you count made up words... I mean, there are SOME British words that she uses (and a glossary in the back), but still... She makes a lot of stuff up. Nervous breakdown = "nervy b"; Marvelous = "marvy", Very = "v" (as in "I'm v. v. v. v. excited about such-and-such"). Silly things like that.

I don't know that I would recommend those books to kids in an alternative high school. The main character is the laziest girl of all time... never does her homework... is only concerned about boys and kissing... is REALLY REALLY immature.... They're HILARIOUS, but COMPLETELY mind-numbing.