My parents used to have dozens of Readers' Digest Condensed Books - lining them up so that this sort of thing happened used to amuse me. It presumably also amused one of their editors, because there were a couple of volumes where the titles did this within the volume: I can jump puddles was paired with Go in and sink!, for instance; Where are the children? was answered with Among the elephants.
The other one that springs to mind is the cinema listings for the week Robert Maxwell died - the Oxford Cannon ad made it into Private Eye because of the titles, although the only title I can currently remember is What About Bob?. (The other 2 definitely fitted though, and I might be able to track down the cutting itself tomorrow if no one else remembers it.)
I really wish P-Eye would get their online act together, the mag'll die in a few years if ythey don't start getting online revenue. Ah well.
But yeah, I think a number of publishers will likely do that sort of thing; just because editors are human and if they get the chance, etc. It's just we don't always spot it.
An entertaining, if unusual idea. I scanned my shelves in the hope of any similar (accidental) groupings, but there weren't any - no surprise as my books are generally arranged by author or subject (well, in as far as I group them at all, that is).
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I haven't had any for ages; yes, they've announced why, but it's still bloody annoying.
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My parents used to have dozens of Readers' Digest Condensed Books - lining them up so that this sort of thing happened used to amuse me. It presumably also amused one of their editors, because there were a couple of volumes where the titles did this within the volume: I can jump puddles was paired with Go in and sink!, for instance; Where are the children? was answered with Among the elephants.
The other one that springs to mind is the cinema listings for the week Robert Maxwell died - the Oxford Cannon ad made it into Private Eye because of the titles, although the only title I can currently remember is What About Bob?. (The other 2 definitely fitted though, and I might be able to track down the cutting itself tomorrow if no one else remembers it.)
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But yeah, I think a number of publishers will likely do that sort of thing; just because editors are human and if they get the chance, etc. It's just we don't always spot it.
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What I said was... "John Cage!! <3"
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*has never read any Cage*
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