If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

(The Bookseller)   And the award for the oddest book title of the year goes to... "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais"   (thebookseller.com) divider line 56
    More: Strange  
•       •       •

3416 clicks; posted to Main » on 27 Mar 2009 at 1:21 PM   |  Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook   more»



56 Comments   (+0 »)
   

Archived thread

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all
 
2009-03-27 05:00:52 AM
sure beats, "It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News"

/oblig
//I keed
 
2009-03-27 05:10:02 AM
Perhaps Fark needs to hit back and create an even odder book.
 
2009-03-27 09:33:07 AM
"It's a bit runny."
 
2009-03-27 09:43:29 AM
It's about time, 2004-2009 World Outlook For The 20 Milligram Goblet Of Sorcerer's Firey Crème Fraîche really kept me hanging.
 
2009-03-27 09:46:27 AM
What a cheesy book...
 
2009-03-27 09:59:37 AM
I think John Cleese wrote that title.
 
2009-03-27 10:18:46 AM
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais

libraryautomation.com

/ aime du fromage vilain
 
2009-03-27 01:23:43 PM
Damn. That's what I was going to name MY book.

Back to the drawing table.
 
2009-03-27 01:29:41 PM
The boat sinks at the end.
 
2009-03-27 01:29:47 PM
ne2d:
"It's a bit runny."

"I like it runny."
 
2009-03-27 01:30:20 PM
I don't get it.
 
2009-03-27 01:31:57 PM
What happened? What happened? He spoke French!!
 
2009-03-27 01:33:26 PM
Aren't stories like this written so Pocketninja can comment on them? Where are you buddy?
 
2009-03-27 01:34:02 PM
Mmm...fresh cheese
 
2009-03-27 01:35:21 PM
Seen this before, like two maybe three months ago. Guy wrote a program to take in data sets and 'write' a book detailing what the information means, averages, changes from year to year, etc. He has like 40,000 'publishing' credits due to it, even though he only ever actually prints a copy of the 'book' if someone orders it.
 
2009-03-27 01:37:16 PM
A disappointing result really considering none of the choices could measure up to last year's winner.

/it really was the most brillant title ever created
 
2009-03-27 01:37:22 PM
PumpUpDaFark: What happened? What happened? He spoke French!!

Wow!

/omelette de fromage
//i've gotta get a pair of cat handcuffs, and i gotta get 'em fast!
 
2009-03-27 01:41:52 PM
www3.allaroundphilly.com

Not impressed, and for the record it really was a dark and stormy night.


/hot like a batch of fresh Fromage Frais
 
2009-03-27 01:43:59 PM
 
2009-03-27 01:45:05 PM
Introduction to Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Criminology: How Girl get Pragnent and Babby is Formed, and Why to Do Way with Instain Mother
 
2009-03-27 01:46:12 PM
read that as:

And the award for the oldest book title of the year goes to... "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais"

which of course would have been such a weird coincidence that the books title has THIS years number in it.
 
2009-03-27 01:49:15 PM
images.starpulse.com
OMELETTE DU FROMAGE!!!!

/chaud
 
2009-03-27 01:50:01 PM
I figured it might be amusing to send as a gift, but it's Seven hundred and ninety five dollars.

If everyone who was going to buy this book, bought 8 bills worth of 60 milligram containers of Fromage Frais. It's outlook wouldn't be all that bad over the next few years.
 
2009-03-27 01:50:39 PM
It's better than "For Whom The Bell Tolls". Really.
 
2009-03-27 01:52:08 PM
There is a book in our office entitled "Blood and Other Body Fluids" which makes me chuckle every time I see it.
 
2009-03-27 01:55:18 PM
Qui a Coupé le Fromage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGqxb3vLL1A
 
2009-03-27 01:56:15 PM
I think "Living With Crazy Buttocks" should have won.
 
2009-03-27 01:58:10 PM
This book contains far more useful information:

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

Yep.. A 600 page book of random numbers.
 
2009-03-27 02:00:15 PM
FTFA...

Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring

That's weird? That's a book I could probably use in my job.

As for Fromage Frais... WTF ?


/designs products that handle corrosive fluids
//must not be many of us out there
 
2009-03-27 02:01:24 PM
Strip and Knit would have won if it were a pop up book
 
2009-03-27 02:02:05 PM
buried_alive: It's better than "For Whom The Bell Tolls". Really.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
 
2009-03-27 02:03:35 PM
safeinsane: Best. Book. Title. EVAR.

No, that belongs to Everybody Poops.
 
2009-03-27 02:05:22 PM
Lucius_Apuleius: This book contains far more useful information:

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

Yep.. A 600 page book of random numbers.


i've never understood the need for a table of random numbers, if they are ordered/classified sequentially (00001, 00002) kind of defeats the purpose.

lucky numbers: 2, 8, 19, 23, 31, 37
 
2009-03-27 02:06:03 PM
CORN!!
 
2009-03-27 02:07:46 PM
I like Philip M Parker. Her also wrote
The 2007-2012 Outlook for Public Building Stacking Chairs Excluding Bar, Bowling Center, Cafeteria, Library, Restaurant, and School Stacking Chairs in India

I'm pretty sure it has been on Fark before, but definitely check out the linked review if you haven't seen it before. It's fantastic.
 
2009-03-27 02:07:58 PM
LowbrowDeluxe: Seen this before, like two maybe three months ago. Guy wrote a program to take in data sets and 'write' a book detailing what the information means, averages, changes from year to year, etc. He has like 40,000 'publishing' credits due to it, even though he only ever actually prints a copy of the 'book' if someone orders it.

Actually, he has "Written" over 200,000 books.
 
2009-03-27 02:21:22 PM
English, motherfarker, do you speak it?
 
2009-03-27 02:24:27 PM
I'm writing a novel. Working title: "Corn I Have Loved"
 
2009-03-27 02:33:47 PM
safeinsane: Best. Book. Title. EVAR (new window).

FTFW EVAR innndeed ... gd thats funny

one of the reviews ....
I feel so much better.
Definitely not malarkey!!
All my gray skies have turned brown!


Holy Crap
 
2009-03-27 02:33:56 PM
Damn, I thought all I had to worry about was a blancmange or two.
 
2009-03-27 02:42:35 PM
pope183: safeinsane: Best. Book. Title. EVAR (new window).

FTFW EVAR innndeed ... gd thats funny

one of the reviews ....
I feel so much better.
Definitely not malarkey!!
All my gray skies have turned brown!

Holy Crap


another review ...

A lovely treatise on the power of positive-sphincking.

PS Added bonus; if all goes well, I'll be able to use my anus as a pencil sharpener....
.

/lmao
 
2009-03-27 02:55:31 PM
I had no idea that they're packaging diaries in cheese now. Man, I guess I'm just out of touch.
 
2009-03-27 02:59:25 PM
olapbill: safeinsane: Best. Book. Title. EVAR.

No, that belongs to Everybody Poops.


This book is a runner up then. Why anyone would pay $250 for a 'used' copy of this book is beyond me.
The Romance of Proctology (new window)
 
2009-03-27 02:59:40 PM
I used to go to this thrift store that sold all the books you could fit into a grocery bag for one dollar, and I'd pick up some obscure stuff just for the hell of it. I remember getting "Political Systems of Highland Burma" and "The Year in Dentistry 1939". Those titles seem like "War and Peace" compared to the cheese forcast book.
 
2009-03-27 03:06:49 PM
Meh, I get weirder stuff every month or so in the mini-newsletter from the Annals of Improbable Research, the same people who bring you the annual Ig Nobel awards.
 
2009-03-27 03:08:25 PM
"Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying"
 
2009-03-27 03:11:40 PM
Ah, here's this month's improbable research:

"The Effect of Arm Crossing on Persistence and Performance," Ron Friedman and Andrew J. Elliot, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 449-61.

The authors, at the University of Rochester, report:

"Experiment 1 found that inducing participants to cross their
arms led to greater persistence on an unsolvable anagram.
Experiment 2 revealed that arm crossing led to better performance
on solvable anagrams, and that this effect was mediated by
greater persistence."


Also,

PSEUDOSEIZURES ASSOCIATED WITH DOLL PHOBIA
"Pseudoseizures Associated With Doll Phobia," S.P. Chand, and
K.A. Khalili, International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine,
vol. 30, no. 1, 2000, pp. 93-96.
 
2009-03-27 03:17:32 PM
theo3000:

I used to go to this thrift store that sold all the books you could fit into a grocery bag for one dollar, and I'd pick up some obscure stuff just for the hell of it. I remember getting "Political Systems of Highland Burma" and "The Year in Dentistry 1939". Those titles seem like "War and Peace" compared to the cheese forcast book.

I do much the same thing, I have a copy of "Tooth Carving Manual" by that method. It's basically a book on how to carve individual false teeth for orthodontists full of nicely drawn renderings of teeth.

I kept it in the bathroom right next to the toothbrushes. It creeped some people out. Mission accomplished.
 
2009-03-27 03:33:16 PM
Interested...

upload.wikimedia.org
 
2009-03-27 03:37:47 PM
ecx.images-amazon.com
Yup. It's wood.
 
Displayed 50 of 56 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all



This thread is closed to new comments.

Continue Farking
Submit a Link »






Report