Sunday, November 23, 2008

Self-Help Book Titles

Self-help books seem to have titles that follow a certain sort of template. One of these templates looks something like this: "Everything I Know About [ABC] I Learned From [QRS]" — where [ABC] is the topic which you might need help with and [QRS] is the source of the prognosticator's wisdom.

Just the other day I was pondering the sort of self-help books I might write using this template; titles like Everything I Know About Weasels I Learned From XYZ, or Everything I Know About Self-Destructive Actions I Learned From XYZ. Fortunately for humanity, I decided that writing such books wouldn't really help anybody.

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Blogger * the mad monk of melk * said...

how's about "everything i know about driving, i learned from osama bin laden."

Monday, November 24, 2008 4:00:00 pm  

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