How do I know?

[garote]

How do I know I married the right girl for me?
Easy. I just need to look at her list of birthday gift book requests:

• The Triple Helix : Gene, Organism, and Environment
• How the Mind Works
• Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
• Interpretation of Cultures
• The Anthropology of Food and Body; Gender, Meaning and Power
• Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively
• Space in Language and Cognition : Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
• More Than Human : Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement
• Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought
• Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
• Back-of-the-Envelope Physics
• The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
• Living with the Genie : Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery

and also:

• High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants
• American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century : How It Flourished and What It Cost
• Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods
• Nutritional Epidemiology
• Natural Eating: Nutritional Anthropology - Eating in Harmony with our Genetic Progamming
• Dinner at the New Gene Cafe : How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
• Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food

and of course:

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Note how all but four have colons in the titles.

Comments

[sherrila.livejournal.com]

i stick my tongue out at you. then i kiss your nose. then i remove eats, shoots, & leaves from the list because i already bought and read it. grin.

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

Phaedra's book purchases make her look smart and cultured - lots of science, books about epidemiology and paleontology...mine make me look like a computer junkie and gambling addict with a penchant for logic puzzles...

[garote]

Sounds good to me!

[graue.livejournal.com]

I'm going to write a book called "Supposedly Clever, But in Reality Overly Long and Stupid: Why Books with Colons in their Titles are Pretentious Bullshit." Actually, forget it, that title already says it all.

Seriously, I think when referring to such books we should strip the part after the colon, since it's really just a tagline.

[garote]

ROFL: I Am Rolling On The Floor Laughing (How A Geek Finds Things Funny)