Re: Fun serial titles -- Laura Davis
Stephen Clark 19 Sep 2002 16:19 UTC
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:08:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laura Davis <ldavis@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Fun serial titles -- 3 messages
How about BJOG? That's the latest title for the British Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Sounds like a small desk from Ikea.
--Laura Davis
University of Washington
Health Sciences Resources
ldavis@u.washington.edu
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> From: "Koveleskie, Judith" <kovelesk@setonhill.edu>
> Subject: Funny Serials Titles
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:05:54 -0400
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> While we are on the subject of medical titles, how about JAMA?
Sounds like
> something that pre-pubescent girls would wear at an overnight party.
>
> Judith A. Koveleskie
> Periodicals Librarian
> Seton Hill University
> Reeves Memorial Library
> Greensburg, PA 15601
> 724-838-7828
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> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:25:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Nancy Burns <nburns@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Fun serials titles
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> In addition to titles that are amusing in themselves, there
can be
> curious juxtapositions of titles -- as when "Flying safety" and
> "Icarus"(an astronomy journal) happened into my office at the same time.
>
> Nancy Burns
> Cataloging Unit IV (Serials)
> Princeton University Library
> nburns@princeton.edu
>
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> From: "Feustel, Carol (FEUSTECS)" <FEUSTECS@UCMAIL.UC.EDU>
> Subject: RE: Fun serials titles -- 3 messages
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:00:32 -0400
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>
> Peter named my all-time favorite: Disease-a-Month. We have a really
> sick but funny sales line we put with it; Join the Disease-a-Month Club!
> Your first month you get measles, second you receive chicken pox, the
> third you receive the disease of your choice! Two-for-one special
> expires at the end of the month. Family plans available. Call
> "YOU'REOUTOFYOURMIND" for more information.
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> Then there's Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
> An innocent, respectable title EXCEPT most of our staff misreads the
> title with a simple reading error. They read Journal of Health
Care for
> the Poor and UNDESERVING Whiplash is a common problem when working with
> this journal.:)
>
> Carol, the Journal Goddess
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