Weird Book/Magazine Titles
Posted by David Wright on 19 June 2008 - 7:47pm.
When I was young, I used to think I was a bit of an oddball, subscribing to Railway Modeller for many years. This does however seem tame compared to the world of strange magazine and book titles which are out there. Here's just one, welcome to the world of the strange. Picture evidence most welcome. Best entries will receive a gold star and a free copy of "Ferrets Are Us".
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I used to get ...
Bulk Handling Monthly
..although I never quite knew why
i used to buy
Feng Shui Monthly but could never find the right place to put the back issues. I'll get my coat...
Weird
No shame with those, the weirder the more wonderful.
now see, david, my comment
was meant as a joke...obviously i need to work on my delivery...
Tired
Nothing wrong with your delivery, it's been a long week.
I subscribed to...
Safe and Strongbox Quarterly but somehow I just couldn't get into it.
A classic
NSFW but it's the remarkable "A Hand In The Bush", a title that tells you all you need to know about the content...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1890159026/
At one glorious time, page views counted towards the chart on Amazon so this became an instant chart-topper, as documented in The Grauniad - http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/feb/18/1
Or indeed
Amazon is a goldmine
Diagram Prize
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize is a rich source of wonderful titles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookseller/Diagram_Prize_for_Oddest_Title_o...
Personal favourites from this list are 'Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers' and 'How to Avoid Huge Ships'. The utter uselesslessness of these titles would compel me to have a flick through in the unlikely event that I spotted hem when out shopping for the latest misery memoirs.
Fans of 'Bombproof Your Horse' will take a measure of delight in it's 2004 triumph.
Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes
I'm all for, personally. Waste not want not.
You wouldn't want to dig up
the bloke in the bowler though.
Piercing Monthly
I got mysteriously & anonymously subscribed to this magazine back in the early 90's.
It got delivered to me at work much to the amusement of my colleagues.
I received three of them and then it sadly stopped. Must have been a Word like introductory offer.
Made my eyes water looking through it.
Memory Magazine
from the Alzheimers Society. I'm sure I've got it somewhere.....
1001 Ways with Contact Adhesive
I couldn't put it down.
Storage Solutions Quarterly
I never realised there was so much in it.
Oops
Wrong thread. As you were.
Menai Straits Bridge News
It's non-stop suspense.