Thursday, November 5, 2015

What was the name of that book?

In 1998, my brother Bob sent me the following.  I have not been able to find it on the internet, so I do not know its origins.

These are reportedly actual ways book store customers have asked for books ...

Waterford Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)

Satanic Nurses or Satin Verses (Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie)

Moby Dick in comic book form

Salad at a Bad Restaurant (Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers)

The Le Mans method of childbirth (It creates a vivid mental image.)

Midnights in Havana or Moonlight in Savannah's Garden (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)

The Phallic Mosaic (Parsifal Mosaic)

Too Short to Live by Mickey Rooney (Life Is Too Short)

The Pelican's Briefs

Lez Miserableballs (Les Miserables)

Falcon and the Wand of God by Morrison (Falconer and the Eye of God by Morson)

Youth in Asia (The real request was for 'euthanasia'.)

Striving on Chorus (Thriving on Chaos)

Else Moon by William Prarie (Pririe Earth by William Least Heat Moon)

Lux Radio by Les Miserables (a recording of the Lux Radio Theater version of Les Miserables)

I Left My Heart at Broken Arm (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)

Knock Me Down by Yates (Knock 'Em Dead by Martin Yate)

Tequila Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Taco Bell Canon (Pachelbel's Canon)

Women Who Dance with Wolves (Women Who Run with the Wolves + Dances with Wolves ... ?)

"That book about all those dead cowboys by Dana Kubler Ross."  (Westerns by Dana Fuller Ross)

Diuretics (Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard)

The Philistine Prophecy (The Celestine Prophecy)

Mice are Gay by Ekaterina Godeeva (My Sergei) -- at least it's phonetically correct

4 comments:

  1. Nothing I like better than a Tequila Mockingbird with my Taco Bell Canons. Of course, afterward I need a Diuretic. (Although the actual title is Dianetics, not Diabetics. Two, two, two mistakes in one!)

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  2. Stupid auto-correct. Now it's right.

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  3. There was a boy on TV who said that the Twix bars had sewing needles, but not the Sneakers. I'm pretty sure that he was from a Hispanic family.

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  4. There was a boy on TV who said that the Twix bars had sewing needles, but not the Sneakers. I'm pretty sure that he was from a Hispanic family.

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