A little serials humor for a Friday:

ALCTS gives out awards each year for the “worst serial title change”. As
far as I know, there’s no similar award for numbering, but I see a lot
of numbering problems each year that are pretty amusing (in retrospect).

The one on my desk right now is The American Enterprise (ISSN
1047-3572). Here’s what it said on its masthead in 2005:

Jan./Feb. through July/Aug. issues: “Published eight times per year”
Sept.: “published monthly”
Oct./Dec.: “published ten times per year”

How many issues did it actually publish in 2005? Seven.

Anyone have other good recent examples?

:-) Bob Persing