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April 16, 2006, 11:54
<Asa Lovejoy>
Fake eponymous books
City on the Rise by Jack London

A Cold Day in Bethlehem by David Frost

Ways Across Insurance by Lloyd Bridges

Dollars From Oysters by Pearl Buck

Plain Talk about Money by Frank Buck

My Hapless Friend, Coyote by Noah Wylie

Who's got some more?
April 16, 2006, 17:40
haberdasher
"Raise You A Buck" by Hart Crane

"Guide to Six-Million-Dollar Aircraft" by Jane Austen

"The Coffee's Not Ready For Harvesting" - opera by Giuseppe Verdi

"Shorter Skirts Made Easy: a Sincere and Simple Style" by Ernest Hemingway
April 16, 2006, 18:06
jerry thomas
"The Great Diarrhea Scare," by Willie Makeit (Illustrated by Betty Wont)

"The Wildcat's Revenge," by Claud Bawls

"The Spot On The Sheet," by Mr. Completely
April 16, 2006, 18:06
<Asa Lovejoy>
Oooohhhh, Hab, you almost scored a double with Jane Austin! Had there been a Jane Auster... Auster was the name of the British-built Taylorcraft aeroplanes. Ah, but I'm getting long-winded.
April 17, 2006, 02:52
pearce
"Bush takes on Iran" by Daniel Defoe
"New subterranean energy source" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Dictionary of Old Wine and Ale" by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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April 18, 2006, 13:09
haberdasher
quote:
"Guide to Six-Million-Dollar Aircraft" by Jane Austen


quote:
Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
Oooohhhh, Hab, you almost scored a double with Jane Austin! Had there been a Jane Auster... Auster was the name of the British-built Taylorcraft aeroplanes. Ah, but I'm getting long-winded.


Gotta take what you're given. (For those without kids in the 1980s, or if it wasn't broadcast in your territory, or you were simply too mature to bother watching such stuff - "Steve Austin," played by Lee Majors, was "The Six-Million-Dollar Man" in the TV series of that name. Badly hurt in a plane crash, he had an eye and an arm and both legs replaced by "bionic" prostheses of more-than-human capacity.)
April 18, 2006, 14:18
<Asa Lovejoy>
Ahh, you DID do a double, but I didn't get it! Duuhhhh...

Here in Portland the police chief has stepped down pending an investigation of abuse of power, and a woman officer is now acting chief. Portland is sometimes called "The Rose City" because of its many rose gardens. Soooo, the acting chief's assessment of the situation is entitled, "An Assessment of the scope of improper use of official power in Portland, Oregon," by Rosie Sizer.
April 18, 2006, 14:55
haberdasher
Actually, all four are doubles, if you look closely. Well, maybe if you look loosely, with wobbly spelling, or translation, or both...(One's actually a triple.)