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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12174

    #31
    Off topic, sorry, but this recent advert is one of the best and wittiest I've seen for years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZFvzd48638

    My autobiography: He Came, He Saw, He Failed.
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • jayne lee wilson
      Banned
      • Jul 2011
      • 10711

      #32
      Lat's "A Cog in Something Turning" will send me to bed deep in thought...
      Ams' "Easily Pleased" has an elliptical, suggestive charm that opens doors to hedonistic anecdotes...

      But the cleverest, most "why did nobody think of that before" award must go to "My Ought to Be Ography"
      Congrats to Cloughie! (unless someone trumps it...)

      One notices how many titles express a wry acceptance of failure or unfulfilment, or at least an expression or a show of such...

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8745

        #33
        Hayfields, Coalfields and WC Fields.

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        • scottycelt

          #34
          "You've won it once. Now you'll have to go out there and win it again."

          and they've never won six home games on the trot ever since ...


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          • Panjandrum

            #35
            I'll throw in another working title for these post-modernist times:

            "Irony in his Soul".

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22076

              #36
              Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
              But the cleverest, most "why did nobody think of that before" award must go to "My Ought to Be Ography"
              Congrats to Cloughie! (unless someone trumps it...)

              One notices how many titles express a wry acceptance of failure or unfulfilment, or at least an expression or a show of such...
              Thank you Jayne at last I've achieved!

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              • Lateralthinking1

                #37
                I can't really take the full credit for mine. It was all Joni.

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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  #38
                  Mine would be

                  "Embrace the Chaos"

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                  • Panjandrum

                    #39
                    In homage to a favourite poet, a more literary title:

                    "Tearing Pleasures with Rough Strife"

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122

                      #40
                      Somewhere under a Rainbow?...

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12694

                        #41
                        Originally posted by Panjandrum View Post
                        In homage to a favourite poet, a more literary title:

                        "Tearing Pleasures with Rough Strife"
                        ... well, yes, Marvell is good. I still think Shakespeare has his merits too... [ #16 supra ]

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                        • LeMartinPecheur
                          Full Member
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 4717

                          #42
                          "Please, which way is Up?"
                          I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                          • amateur51

                            #43
                            Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
                            "Please, which way is Up?"

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37368

                              #44
                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              As I was pointing out to the woman next in the queue at the supermarket yesterday: "You have to stand on your head eating that salad cream".
                              Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 02-06-12, 16:02. Reason: next, not nest!

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12694

                                #45
                                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                                As I was pointing out to the woman nest in the queue at the supermarket yesterday: "You have to stand on your head eating that salad cream".
                                ... my pa recounted a war story - various fragile missiles which needed to be transported upside-down. The instructions accompanying the crates: "These missiles need to be transported upside-down. To avoid any confusion, the Bottom has been clearly labelled "Top"..."

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