Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:44:21 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How Odd . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Michael Walsh wrote:

>>From the UK, the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title, some nominees:
>
>>From the publisher that brough the world: Psoriasis at Your Fingertips
> and Acne at Your Fingertips, a new addition: Sexual Health at . . .,
> ahem, yes.  Moving right along . . . .
>
> Detecting Foreign Bodies in Food
> Bombproof Your Horse
> The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox
> Ethereal Packet Sniffing
> Applications of High Tech Squids
> The Woodworker's Joint Book
>
> I just report 'em, I don't explain 'em.
>
> mjw

Spooky.  Three of them actually make sense.

For those who care, "Ethereal" is a computer program for packet sniffing
(yes, that's a real technical term) and a SQUID is a "superconducting
quantum interference device".  Woodworkers make a lot of joints; the
phrasing is just interesting (like "at your fingertips").

It's fun, of course, to speculate on how (and why) one would bombproof a
horse.  I suspect that it would make the horse nervous.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."