humor a la Letterman
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FROM: "Lisa Price" <[removed]@MtLaurel.Lib.NJ.US>
REC'D: 2/24/00, 8:39 AM
FROM: "Dennis Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/24/00, 10:43 AM
>A friend sent this to me, and I thought it worth sharing.
>Lisa Price
>Mount Laurel (NJ) Library
>All opinions are my own.
>Top 15 Shortest Books:
>
>
>15. MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS - by O. J. Simpson
>
>14. THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY - by Dennis Rodman
>
>13. THE WILD YEARS - by Al Gore
<snip>
Giving credit where due department compels me to note that this is from
the Top Five mailing list (homepage, with scores of previous lists, at)
<A HREF="http://www.topfive.com/">http://www.topfive.com/</A>
The owner of the list asks that if people forward the lists that they
include the credit/source info, but (inevitably) somewhere along the
way someone strips them off before resending, which is presumably
what happened here a few re-forwards ago.
Top Five was sort of "in the news" a couple years back when one of their
lists (on improbable re-titlings of American movies for the Chinese
market) was taken seriously as a news story, published as such in
the NEW YORK TIMES, and picked up by several other publications.
More details (and the list) for anyone interested can be found on
their website (under "Chinese Movie Title List"). I think my
favorite is the mythical retitling of BABE as THE HAPPY DUMPLING-TO-BE
WHO TALKS AND SOLVES AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "Lisa Price" <[removed]@MtLaurel.Lib.NJ.US>
REC'D: 2/24/00, 12:39 PM
Dennis Lien wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:50:35 -0500
> >From: Lisa Price <[removed]@MtLaurel.Lib.NJ.US>
> >Subject: humor a la Letterman
>
> >A friend sent this to me, and I thought it worth sharing.
> >Lisa Price
> >Mount Laurel (NJ) Library
> >All opinions are my own.
>
> >Top 15 Shortest Books:
> >
> >
> >15. MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS - by O. J. Simpson
> >
> >14. THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY - by Dennis Rodman
> >
> >13. THE WILD YEARS - by Al Gore
> <snip>
>
> Giving credit where due department compels me to note that this is from
> the Top Five mailing list (homepage, with scores of previous lists, at)
>
> <A HREF="http://www.topfive.com/">http://www.topfive.com/</A>
>
> The owner of the list asks that if people forward the lists that they
> include the credit/source info, but (inevitably) somewhere along the
> way someone strips them off before resending, which is presumably
> what happened here a few re-forwards ago.
>
> Top Five was sort of "in the news" a couple years back when one of their
> lists (on improbable re-titlings of American movies for the Chinese
> market) was taken seriously as a news story, published as such in
> the NEW YORK TIMES, and picked up by several other publications.
>
> More details (and the list) for anyone interested can be found on
> their website (under "Chinese Movie Title List"). I think my
> favorite is the mythical retitling of BABE as THE HAPPY DUMPLING-TO-BE
> WHO TALKS AND SOLVES AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS.
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 2/25/00, 12:47 AM
<< Dennis Lien wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:50:35 -0500
> >From: Lisa Price <[removed]@MtLaurel.Lib.NJ.US>
> >Subject: humor a la Letterman
>
> >A friend sent this to me, and I thought it worth sharing.
> >Lisa Price
> >Mount Laurel (NJ) Library
> >All opinions are my own.
>
> >Top 15 Shortest Books:
> >
> >
> >15. MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS - by O. J. Simpson
> >
> >14. THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY - by Dennis Rodman
> >
> >13. THE WILD YEARS - by Al Gore
> <snip>
>
> Giving credit where due department compels me to note that this is from
> the Top Five mailing list (homepage, with scores of previous lists, at)
>
> <A HREF="http://www.topfive.com/">http://www.topfive.com/</A>
>
> The owner of the list asks that if people forward the lists that they
> include the credit/source info, but (inevitably) somewhere along the
> way someone strips them off before resending, which is presumably
> what happened here a few re-forwards ago.
> >>
Thanks for providing the credit, for the above, which I have now passed on to
all of the people to which I sent the original list.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian
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