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May/June 2006 | VOLUME 117, NO. 3

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Twisted Titles

Our Baby Boomer colors must be showing. Members of the younger generation may be stymied by those TTs that require knowledge of the music and television of the’50s,’60s, and’70s. Literary references also abound in this issue’s selections, especially in titles that have been reincarnated in various musical or film versions—James Jones, Sholom Aleichem, or Tom Wolfe, anyone? Take a saying, title of a book, play, movie, or whatever, and change only one letter, then add a snappy underline.

Delease Me
Tenant pleads with landlord to get out of rental contract.
Pam Effenbeck Clemenson ’63

Super Bawl
What the Super Bowl losers do.
Bob Morgan ’52

Hamas and the Papas
New group bombs.
Joe Traynor ’57

Con Quixote
Cervantes’ hero jailed.
Roland Bianchi ’52

Diddler on the Roof
Bush didn’t believe global warming would bring rising sea levels.
Wilma “Buff” Silveria ’49

Heaves of Grass
Finding Whitman hard to worship.
James Chapman ’82

Congealed weapons permit
Required for icicle fencing.
William Schemel

The Bear of Magical Thinking
Winning the Rose Bowl.
David Hammer ’66

Cal Tears
Tears of laughter, tears of joy, after Big Game trouncing of Cardinal.
Tom Lamoree

Beverly Sills Cop
Diva changes careers.
Dan Lee

Unfat for duty
Lose weight or you can’t enlist.
K. S. Hazeltine

Lower bank pain
Investments suffering from declining interest rate.
Gertrude Buehring ’72

Let them eat Jake
Donner party polled.
Joe Traynor ’57

Good Lousekeeping
Group of wives relate/share strategies in putting up with bad husbands.
Pam Effenbeck Clemensen ’63

The Right Snuff
It has to be Chuck Yaeger’s brand.
James Chapman ’82

From Hire to Eternity
Angel’s tenure.
Ron Bibo ’63

On First Looking into Chapman’s Gomer
Keats was in for a big “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!”
James Chapman ’82

GAMES SUBMISSIONS: Please e-mail your submission with “Word Nerd” or “Twisted Titles” in the subject line. You can also mail a hard copy to Games, California magazine, CAA, Alumni House, Berkeley, CA 94720-7520 or fax it to 510/642-6252.