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Strip and Knit In Style Was In Fourth Place

Xurando — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:27:51 -0800

The winner of this years Diagram Prize for the oddest book title is "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais." Runners up were "Curbside Colon Consultation," and my favorite Baboon Metaphysics.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:38:54 -0800

5.0 out of 5 stars make rooooom for this mooooving work, March 27, 2009 By pTs (ny, usa) - See all my reviews What do you get when you couple fromage frais with 60 milligram containers? A page-turner, that's what. If you are planning on buying, selling, drinking, or thinking about dairy products, and you are obsessed with minute details, then pick up this handy and informative guide.
Only $795.00? What am I waiting for?

By: tapeguy

tapeguy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:48:09 -0800

Previously in Philip M Parker related FPPs.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:48:30 -0800

I'm guessing the Icon Group (publisher of the Fromage Frais shipping container book) is some incarnation of the super-prolific Phillip M. Parker.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:48:59 -0800

damn you tapeguy :)

By: Dr. Send

Dr. Send — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:57:59 -0800

These World Outlook books are written about a variety of weird niche items. A quick browse of my college library catalog comes up with World Outlooks for high alloy steel castings, cheese substitutes and imitations, parts and attachments for bakery furnaces and ovens, analog color televisions, home permanents and relaxers for hair, activated pulverized carbons, activated sewage sludge, processed tankage & other natural fertilizer materials of organic origin, aerospace type hydraulic fluid power valves, assembled and ready to assemble tubular non-upholstered aluminum household benches, chairs and chaise longues, broadwoven fabrics made from manmande combinations of spun and filament yarns, folding paperboard boxes for cosmetics and medicinal products, gummed products, helical, spur and herringbone fine-pitch loose gears with diametrical pitch of 20 or more, horizontal earth boring machines and accessories, instant custard desert mixes, interior and exterior flush solid composition-core hardwood-faced doors and doors with glazed sections, lard in containers of 3 pounds or less made in slaughtering plants, and so on. To be fair, I don't think technical reports like these should be included in literary awards, because they're not really "books."

By: Dr. Send

Dr. Send — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:59:12 -0800

Heh.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:04:52 -0800

To be fair, I don't think technical reports like these should be included in literary awards, because they're not really "books." posted by Dr. Send at 11:57 AM on March 27 No kidding. These are basically market research reports. And if you are in the 60mg container business, you'll gladly pay $800 for it. I've seen market research reports that cost $20,000.

By: geos

geos — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:08:59 -0800

but what if I want to know how the Fromage Frais view the world? I was expecting mordant philosophizing in a cloud of cigarette smoke, I hope i can get my $800 back.

By: bitteroldman

bitteroldman — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:00:56 -0800

And if you are in the 60mg container business, you'll gladly pay $800 for it I don't know who would be in the 60 mg container business - that's pretty darn small!

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:05:19 -0800

Wasn't there a FPP years back about someone who had an automated system to write "books" like this? You just put in the subject and it spit out a book. Anyway, yes, this isn't a book. And anyone who reads it probably has a subscription service with the publisher and isn't paying a one-off $800 fee. Gartner reports run at least that much, but we never paid for them individually where I've worked - we had a subscription to certain categories and got all the reports therewithin. And if I was making 60mL containers of fromage frais, man, this would be my favourite book EVAR.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:02:10 -0800

Wasn't there a FPP years back about someone who had an automated system to write "books" like this? Phillip M. Parker is a massive, massive asshole. Why Amazon allows him to peddle his rip-off books is beyond me - particularly the medical books, which are sold for a great price to desperate sick people. The last time he came up I dropped a note to him and the head of his department pointing out that what he's doing is deeply unethical. No answer of course, but I think it's time for another message to them. Won't you join me?

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:02:34 -0800

(er, the first line in my response was supposed to be quoted. sorry!)

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:19:59 -0800

Philip Parker! Yeah, that was the guy. What's swesome about the cheese book in the OP is that if you read the Amazon description, it explicitly states its numbers aren't based in measured fact but on a calculated "latent demand". It's basically all made up.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:20:29 -0800

Or, I could have read what tapeguy posted. sheesh.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:48:29 -0800

It's good, but it's no How to Avoid Huge Ships.