Best Diagram Award Book Title

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Option	Votes
1992 How to Avoid Huge Ships	5
2003 The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories	4
1986 Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality	3
2005 People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It	2
2002 Living with Crazy Buttocks	2
1978 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice	1
2001 Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service	1
2007 If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs	1
1985 Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your	0
1999 Weeds in a Changing World	0
2000 High Performance Stiffened Structures	0
1982 Population and Other Problems: Family Planning, Housing 1,000 million, Labour Employment	0
1981 Last Chance at Love - Terminal Romances	0
1980 The Joy of Chickens	0
2004 Bombproof Your Horse	0
1979 The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution	0
2006 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification	0
1998 Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw	0
1997 The Joy of Sex, the Pocket Edition	0
1988 Versailles: The View From Sweden	0
1989 How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art	0
1990 Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual	0
1984 The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today	0
1993 American Bottom Archaeology	0
1983 The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling	0
1995 Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes	0
1996 Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers	0
1994 Highlights in the History of Concrete	0

― chuzzuck eddizy (libcrypt), Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

this is a difficult choice

― marlon brando baby tiger (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

2002 Living with Crazy Buttocks

― 2 5 (Z S), Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

Highlights in the History of the Concrete actually seems like it could be a good read!

― 2 5 (Z S), Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

"How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art"

Bought this for my dad (as humorous birthday present).

― ledge, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

(it's actually pretty decent!)

― ledge, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

Living with Crazy Buttocks will surely get a lot of votes, so I'll go for the underdog, The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today. I'm liking the implication of great significance.

― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

I think my fave is Bombproof Yr Horse.

― chuzzuck eddizy (libcrypt), Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

It was a close call between How to Avoid Huge Ships and The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling; I went with the former.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 11 January 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

Weeds in a Changing World is good, too.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 11 January 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers was also tempting.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 11 January 2009 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

Many of these are academic or small-niche hobby books, and when you suss out what they are talking about (e.g. nude mice) they lose some of their flair. Not so with Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality. It is flamboyant not matter which end of the stick you pick up.

― Aimless, Sunday, 11 January 2009 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

Closure in Your Relationship is pretty good.

― Birth Control to Ginger Tom (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 January 2009 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

Wow! I didn't even know this award existed! Thanx for the poll, libcrypt!

That the sex titles are on here is juvenile. But I'm obsessed with godforsaken, excruciatingly dull cities (Naperville), films (just last night I fell in love with Marguerite Duras' India Song), and books, e.g., The People's Almanac published a list of the "Most Unusual Books Ever Published." My fave is:

MANUALE DI CONVERSIAZONE: ITALIANO - GROENLANDESE by Ciro Sozio & Mario Fantin, 1962.
One of the least used dictionaries in the world, it translates Italian into Greenland Eskimo language.

I NEED this book! And I want to meet the people who actually USED it!

Anyhoo, on this list, I'm going with Versailles: The View From Sweden cuz there's even a boooooooooring NYT article to go with it. In fact, it's so Durassien that the first paragraph is repeated twice (sorta).

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 11 January 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

Oh and btw, these would make great b-day/xmas/whatever gifts for those difficult people to buy for.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 11 January 2009 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories

― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 11 January 2009 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

There are a few lists of also-rans on our internets for finding, which are as funny if not moreso than the winners.

― chuzzuck eddizy (libcrypt), Monday, 12 January 2009 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 31 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Just ordered a used copy of Stray Shopping Carts. Thanks thread!

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 31 January 2009 01:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 1 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

hey what happened to my Book of Marmalade vote.

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 1 February 2009 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

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