-------- Original Message --------
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 06:48:06 -0700
From: Beverly Butler <bbutler@library.ca.gov>
Subject: Re: Fun serial titles -- Max Shenk

Two of our favorites are The Bull Guide (annual of Western Livestock
Journal) and Pest Control magazine.  I guess that says something about us!
Beverly Butler
California State Library

At 11:34 AM 9/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
 >-------- Original Message --------
 >Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:52:39 -0400
 >From: "Max Shenk" <MShenk@mc3.edu>
 >Subject: Re: Fun serial titles -- Rick Anderson
 >
 >
 >Can't think of one offhand, although I thought that THE CRISIS was
 >pretty funny the day that we received duplicate issues and I complained
 >to my assistant, "Man, if it's not one CRISIS around here, it's
 >another!"
 >
 >And we have yet to receive duplicate issues of SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN,
 >but I'm awaiting that day.
 >
 >Ma
 >
 >Max Shenk
 >Periodicals Assistant
 >Montgomery County Community College Library
 >Blue Bell, PA
 >
 >MCCC: Chosen by Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine as one of
 >the "Most Wired" Two Year Colleges in the U.S. in 2001
 >x
 >
 >-------- Original Message --------
 >From: "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>
 >Subject: Fun serial titles
 >Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:38:16 -0700
 >
 >
 >At the risk of starting up a frivolous and time-wasting thread, I
 >wonder if
 >we shouldn't consider instituting an award for Most Idiosyncratically
 >Charming Serial Title of All Time.  This thought occurred to me
 >recently
 >after I encountered my personal favorite: The Progressive
 >Fish-Culturist.
 >(Are there reactionary fish-culturists?)
 >
 >I'm sure someone out there has come across even better ones.  If so,
 >I'd
 >love to hear what they are.
 >
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