From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How Odd . . .
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:07:24 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Smith" <sgs at aginc.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How Odd . . .

> 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.

I think it would make me nervous, too.

--Ted White