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by Dr. Ced Riley


COLONIC TITLES:  This may sound like a very private medical condition, but it's time we talked.

In the fruitful decades of our existence in Underbelly, Texas, the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired has watched with alarm how colonic titles have spread like dysentery through academia, thanks to the bacillus academius bacterium.  Now general publishing has become infected.

Over in Los Libidos, Bedspring Tech's Professor Pompous Fatuous Failem, for instance, is afraid his publications won't look scholarly without a colon in the title.  He would name Darwin's magnum opus Species: The Origin.

If he were naming other famous works, we'd have Gatsby: The Great One;  Roland: The Song;  Huckleberry Finn: The Adventures;  Hamlet: A Tragedy and Errors: A Comedy.

Compared to Prof. Failem's writings, I suppose these would be examples of high colonic titles.

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