Real books with weird titles
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@Luhmann said in Real books with weird titles:
prick
Well, you know, I heard some people prefer darker meat so coloring that part kinda made sense...
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@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
coloring that part kinda made sense
That doesn't help you with size issues dude ...
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@Luhmann I was kinda counting on optical illusions and work my way down from there...
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@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
optical illusions
shouldn't you use bright colors then?
and a stripped pattern!
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@Luhmann said in Real books with weird titles:
@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
optical illusions
shouldn't you use bright colors then?
and a stripped pattern!
That might work! I could also work it into a pickup line about being a real zebra in the bed!
...
wait...
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@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
being a real zebra in the bed
They will be soooo impressed!
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@xaade said in Real books with weird titles:
For as much flak as that movie got.... it has some awesome moments
Yeah. They CANCELLED THE APOCALYPSE!!! And it was glorious.
And silly in many places.
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@MZH said in Real books with weird titles:
@flabdablet said in Real books with weird titles:
It think this one frightens me the most, or at least its readers do:
Wow. They even got an ISBN with no collisions.
Impressive to completely fake a product like that.
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@masonwheeler said in Real books with weird titles:
@xaade said in Real books with weird titles:
For as much flak as that movie got.... it has some awesome moments
Yeah. They CANCELLED THE APOCALYPSE!!! And it was glorious.
And silly in many places.
If they made 10 sequels, and all they contained was flashbacks to fights strung together by two old people on a couch saying "remember when", I'd buy that.
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@xaade said in Real books with weird titles:
If they made 10 sequels, and all they contained was flashbacks to fights strung together by two old people on a couch saying "remember when", I'd buy that.
Only if they get Ellen McLain to reprise her role. :P
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@masonwheeler said in Real books with weird titles:
@xaade said in Real books with weird titles:
If they made 10 sequels, and all they contained was flashbacks to fights strung together by two old people on a couch saying "remember when", I'd buy that.
Only if they get Ellen McLain to reprise her role. :P
Skyforge has a robot that directs you to missions and gives you objectives in the mission, and it definitely takes after GLADoS.
"The ground is electrocuted" "You might not want to fall, unless you like dying."
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Real books with weird titles:
It's the "second edition" that cracks me up.
Why? Second edition basically just means that they made some revisions and re-released the book.
Now, if it was "Part Two" or "Volume Two", that would be funny.
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@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
@Luhmann said in Real books with weird titles:
@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
optical illusions
shouldn't you use bright colors then?
and a stripped pattern!
That might work! I could also work it into a pickup line about being a real zebra in the bed!
...
wait...
I won't cleaning that up!
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@masonwheeler said in Real books with weird titles:
glorious
@masonwheeler said in Real books with weird titles:
And silly
I fail to see the difference.
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@abarker said in Real books with weird titles:
Why? Second edition basically just means that they made some revisions and re-released the book.
Now, if it was "Part Two" or "Volume Two", that would be funny.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Collisions With Huge Ships, But Were Afraid To Ask
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@masonwheeler Bah. Everything I need to know about avoiding huge ships, I learned in kindergarten.
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@masonwheeler said in Real books with weird titles:
@abarker said in Real books with weird titles:
Why? Second edition basically just means that they made some revisions and re-released the book.
Now, if it was "Part Two" or "Volume Two", that would be funny.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Collisions With Huge Ships, But Were Afraid To Ask
Avoiding Ships for Dummies
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@loopback0 Speaking of which
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@loopback0 said in Real books with weird titles:
@masonwheeler said in Real books with weird titles:
@abarker said in Real books with weird titles:
Why? Second edition basically just means that they made some revisions and re-released the book.
Now, if it was "Part Two" or "Volume Two", that would be funny.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Collisions With Huge Ships, But Were Afraid To Ask
Avoiding Ships for Dummies
Shipping for dumm...
No, actually, just go to any fanfic site for that.
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@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
No, actually, just go to any fanfic site for that.
And that's why I make it a personal policy to NEVER ship other people's characters, only my own.
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@hungrier said in Real books with weird titles:
@loopback0 Speaking of which
It's probably one page that says "vote Brexit".
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@xaade That would have taken some psychic level clairvoyance to predict when the book was published.
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@hungrier said in Real books with weird titles:
@xaade That would have taken some psychic level clairvoyance to predict when the book was published.
No more than a Russian Trump conspiracy...
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@Tsaukpaetra That movie was awesome and I can't wait for the sequel, but that ship-sword thing really took me out of it.
I mean, I can accept intergalactic mutant monsters. I can accept that nuclear powered battering rams are the best way to kill them. But I can't accept that the tanker wouldn't just fold in half if you tried to swing it like a sword. Maybe an engineer knows better, but it just doesn't seem feasible.
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Nuclear powered mecha being invulnerable to EMP because they're not electronic?
Anyone thinking for a second that a wall will stop a kaiju?
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@Captain said in Real books with weird titles:
@Tsaukpaetra That movie was awesome and I can't wait for the sequel, but that ship-sword thing really took me out of it.
I mean, I can accept intergalactic mutant monsters. I can accept that nuclear powered battering rams are the best way to kill them. But I can't accept that the tanker wouldn't just fold in half if you tried to swing it like a sword. Maybe an engineer knows better, but it just doesn't seem feasible.
The actual sword was far more problematic, IMO:
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@xaade the title on that Amazon listing is misspelled... or, it's not the correct title, even if the dictionary would say it's spelled correctly. The book cover clearly says, "THE COMPLETE IDOIT'S GUIDE".
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@anotherusername said in Real books with weird titles:
The book cover clearly says, "THE COMPLETE IDOIT'S GUIDE".
It also says "for dumies," not "for dummies," presumably because both "The Complete Idiot's Guide to ..." and "... for Dummies" are trademarks.
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@anotherusername said in Real books with weird titles:
@xaade the title on that Amazon listing is misspelled... or, it's not the correct title, even if the dictionary would say it's spelled correctly. The book cover clearly says, "THE COMPLETE IDOIT'S GUIDE".
This matters. Back in 2008, I was able to pick up a book called Going Rouge that exposed a lot of the things wrong with Sarah Palin as a politician (deeper, policy-based stuff than just talking like a dimwit). The Palin people were furious at the plagiarism of Palin's own book Going Rogue and demanded it be banned so her dyslexic fans couldn't be misled.
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@HardwareGeek said in Real books with weird titles:
It also says "for dumies," not "for dummies," presumably because both "The Complete Idiot's Guide to ..." and "... for Dummies" are trademarks.
Bart Simpson: Hey! I found a shortcut through your hedge maze.
Groundskeeper Willy: Why you little...
[thinking]
Groundskeeper Willy: No, no, go easy on the wee one. His father's going to go crazy and chop 'em all into haggis!
Bart Simpson: What's haggis?
Groundskeeper Willy: [gasps] Boy... you read my thoughts! You've got the Shinning.
Bart Simpson: You mean "Shining".
Groundskeeper Willy: [sotto voce] Shh! You wanna to get sued?
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@xaade said in Real books with weird titles:
@hungrier said in Real books with weird titles:
@loopback0 Speaking of which
It's probably one page that says "vote Brexit".
The authors' names (Dolt and Dullard) remind me of a car dealership near me:
Clearly belongs in the Unfortunate Names thread but I can't be arsed to jeff it over there.
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@Boner said in Real books with weird titles:
Cross post from https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/21911/the-weird-or-confusing-thread
I'm gonna say that's a good candidate for the Bad Ideas thread, too.
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I assume this topic is responsible for Amazon emailing me to recommend this book:
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@loopback0 is it OK to spoon Nazis?
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@Jaloopa said in Real books with weird titles:
@loopback0 is it OK to spoon Nazis?
As long as the spoon is applied to the brain.
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@xaade I think "Honest Trailers" summed it up perfectly ... The most dumb awesome dumb movie or made or the dumbest awesome movie ever made.
Honest Trailers - Pacific Rim – 04:02
— Screen Junkies
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@hungrier Excuse me, that's mislabeled. Clearly it's "The Complete Idoit's Guide for Dumies".
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@Jaloopa said in Real books with weird titles:
@loopback0 is it OK to spoon Nazis?
If it's not then I'm in a lot of trouble...
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@Jaloopa Are the Spoons Jewish Silver?
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@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
@Luhmann said in Real books with weird titles:
@Onyx said in Real books with weird titles:
radioactive stew
Where is the nearest HEV charger station?
No idea man, the map's been on the fritz for weeks now.
When I find out which idiot outsourced our IT to Aperture I swear I'm tossing them into the Xen portal.
Ok, if Black Mesa is Microsoft and Aperture is Apple, who's Google in this situation?
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@ben_lubar We'll find out the third in HL3
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@LB_ said in Real books with weird titles:
@ben_lubar We'll find out the third in HL3
Is the free software foundation the antlions?
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@ben_lubar said in Real books with weird titles:
who's Google in this situation?
Either the Combine or G-Man, I guess.
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@Zecc said in Real books with weird titles:
@ben_lubar said in Real books with weird titles:
who's Google in this situation?
Either the Combine or G-Man, I guess.
So that's why he's called 'G-man'!
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