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Tardy perennial
Late bloomer.
Gene Smith '34
Crave New World
Rallying cry on the "Mayflower."
Richard Gard, Ph.D. '58
Dorkers
Bill Gates's pants.
Christopher Schoch
The Ikeman Cometh
Eisenhower assumes the Presidency.
Kip Cady '52
Dean Wither
Famous name vanishes from back cover ad.
John Burnside '63
Marquis de Sale
Shop 'til it hurts.
Joe Traynor '57
Never Say Sever Again
Bobbit’s plea to current girlfriend.
H. Claude Rudd '64
Bar, humbug!
Scrooge's wife's comment on his claim of having gone out with the boys.
Anne Becker '65
A passing fanny
Admired at Ipanema.
Kip Cady '52
Leader of the tree world
Stanford mascot over-reaches.
Joe Traynor '57
Flee Speech Movement
Students transfer out of Cal in 1965.
Jerome Fishkin '65
Kentucky Freed Chicken
The Colonel goes vegetarian.
Randy Stephenson '85
.mom
Your mother is virtually here.
Jerome Fishkin '65
The road to hell is paved with good inventions
Luddite credo.
Doug Raymond '67
Grid school
Where football players cram so they can remain eligible.
K.S. Hazeltine
Vice squid
Will search and destroy anything fishy.
Anne Becker '65
HNO
Insurance industry’s answer to plea for medical assistance.
H. Claude Rudd '64
Gene with the wind
Expresses flatulence.
Anne Becker '65
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Lassie’s suggestion to young pups.
Gene Smith '34
A Judy of your peers
TV judge holds court in the streets.
John Dannenberg
Lord of the Flues
Santa Claus.
Paul Allen '34
Our dove is here to stay
Clipped its wings.
Gerald Shephard '60
I Shod the Sheriff
Ad for Wyatt Earp’s bootmaker.
Richard Hill '70, Boalt '79
Watson and Trick
Nobel laureate makes colleague disappear.
Joe Traynor '57
What’s up, Doe?
Bambi's pick-up line.
Sandra Hollimon '83
I talk the line
A politico's politician.
Kip Cady '52
Densa
Society for the intellectually challenged.
Tom Rogers '71
Altered Stares
Politically correct girl-watching.
David Trager
Little Sisters of the Moor
Othello's younger siblings.
Gene Smith '34
OB/GYM
Where new moms get back in shape.
Kip Cady '52
Weapons of lass destruction
Broken promises.
Joe Traynor '57
Erin Crockovich
The industry’s perception of her story.
Randy Stephenson '85
24/6
The Big Guy rests.
Joe Traynor '57
Of Rice and Men
Cookbook for Asian guys.
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The Unbearable Tightness of Being
Time for Slimfast.
 | We had a plaintive call from a reader after the November issue came out without “Twisted Titles.” She said, “I understood why it wasn’t included, but please understand that a little laughter is just what we need right now.” And so we’re back at it. In the latest batch, there were a few September 11 references, some to well-known titles (“Grave New World”), some just twisted (“Bentagon”). But most of you were doing what you’ve always done. As Anidelle Tomlinson Flint put it: “Title twister Gene Smith ’34 might consider me, a member of the Class of ’51, to have the ‘young blood’ that Dafna Hopenstand ’00 hopes to infuse in the column. In any case, I hope none of us ever gets too old or cynical or dejected to laugh at the clever offerings of twisters, whatever their age!” Well said. Send your clever offerings, changing one letter only of a title (of a book, movie, play, saying) and adding a snappy underline, to “Twisted Titles,” California Monthly, Alumni House, Berkeley 94720. |
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