BS: Humorous Book Titles

Subject: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 07:32 PM

I did a search for this one, but I couldn't find a thread for it.
Humorous Book Titles and author names; (if they were actually written).

40 Yards to the Latrine by Willy Makeit and Betty Wont
50 years in the saddle by Major Asburn

Are there any other ones?

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Genie
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 07:46 PM

I think we have lots of them in previous threads.

E.g.,
"Mt St. Helens, 1980" by Hugh G. Ruption
"How To Get A Date For Saturday Night" by A. Horace Goodenough

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 07:59 PM

"Cat in my Bed" by Claude Balls (no relation to Ed)

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 08:21 PM

"Fine Dining Out"........Connie Lingus
"Bums Out Back"......Anna Lingus
"An Unauthorized Biography of Linda Lovelace".......Phil Addio
"The Negro in Mississippi".....Dwight Mannsberden
"Prison Tales"......Ben Dover
"My Life As A Porn Star".......Red Ruffensor
"Growing Up on the Farm".......Jack Mahogov
"The Viagra Handbook"........Hugh G. Reckshun
"Children, Come Unto Me"...........Clark Barr
"Winter Warmth"...............Ray D. Ader


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:14 PM

Under the Bleachers, by Seymour Butts.
The Long Yellow River, by Won Hung Lo.

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: HuwG
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 11:29 PM

"Rain Forest Ecology" - Teresa Green
"The Police Procedure Handbook" - Laura Norder
"An Easy Way to Riches" - Robin Banks

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 11:34 PM

"The Yellow River" by I. P. Daily

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:52 AM

"Rusty Bedsprings" by I.P. Knightly
"Over the Cliff" by Hugo Furst

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Genie
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 03:02 AM

"Dentistry Made Easy" by Phil McCafferty
"Preventing Unwanted Litters" by Kat Spayer
"Personnel Management" by Hiram N. Firam

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:34 AM

"Russian Rugby Tales" by I. Kiktabolokov

"Puddles under the Bed" by R. Jerry Leakes.

"The Gay Gordons" by Ben Doon and Philip McCaverty

"Tragedy on the Cliffs" by Eileen Dover.

"The Haunted House" by Hugo First.

"Proctology" by R. Sole

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: jonm
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 10:45 AM

"The Nail in the Bannister" by R. Stornoway

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:20 PM

"Adolescent Humor" by S. Marmy Tittering

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 01:21 PM

"Le Blame Culture" by Jack Hughs

"Tight Uniforms" by Seymour Nurse

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 03:30 PM

My favorite book title, although it is one I have never actually found, is a book being read by Lenny Bruce on the cover of one of his Fantasy Records LP albums.

"Pigs Ate My Roses"

I love the title. Implied are a myriad of deep possibilities within and between those few words.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 04:54 PM

"The power of Prayer" by Neil Down and Askya Godfrit.
"Fairy tales" by Alison Wanda Land.
"Suspense" by Cliff Hanger.
"How to win a Battle" by Ewen Douzami.
"The lengths we go to" by Ellen Diwater.
"New to the Army" by Rory Croute.


Oh and how about.. "Antique Flatware" by George Ian Silver

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:55 PM

What about this profound one.... coined by my unfathomable brain?

"Stuck in Reverse" by Maj Ciffart.

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: bubblyrat
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:27 PM

"Training Budgerigars" by Hugh Zapretti-Boyden

"Modern Anaesthesia" by O.P. Yates

      "The Police Crowd -Control Manual " by William Hoover-Long

       "Muscle Developement" by Anna Bollixter-Royd

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: topical tom
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:43 PM

"Ruptured" by Wan Hung Lo.

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: bubblyrat
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:43 PM

I forgot !!---
          "Modern Carpet Trends " by Walter Wall

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: topical tom
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:50 PM

From the ridiculous to the sublime!(LOL):

"If Life is a Bowl of Cherries What am I Doing in the Pits?" Erma Bombeck

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:54 PM

How to Write a Best Seller by Paige Turner

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 05:34 PM

There's a whole book of these lurking in the shelves somewhere... I'll have to dig it out and look.

Got it... it's called 'Bizarre Books' by Russell Ash and Brian Lake, and it's actually a collection of real book titles (some pictured) that were really published and make no sense whatsoever.


'A Toddler's Guide to the Rubber Industry'. pub 1947.

'Fifty new Creative Poodle Grooming Styles' - pub 1981

'Organizing Deviance' by Joel Best and David F Luckenbill, pub 1982

to name but three.


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: GUEST,Humorous book titles
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 03:26 AM

"Brown Spots on the Wall," by the Chinese author: Hoo Flung Poo
"Red River Valley," by The Kotex Kid
"Blue Balls," by Jock Tootite

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: GUEST,Allen in Oz
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:43 AM

" Over the Hill" by Willie Comeback

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Jack Campin
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 06:45 AM

The one I remember from that "Bizarre Books" list was a civil engineering monograph, "The Resistance of Piles to Penetration".

Subject: RE: BS: Humorous Book Titles
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 10:27 AM

Tiger's Revenge by Claude Balls