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| January/February 2006 | VOLUME
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Where else would an inherent knowledge of American brands, celebrities, and contemporary politics
be necessary, but for the peculiar punning that is Twisted Titles? Try your hand at fashioning one of these pithy
cultural, social, and political asides by changing only one letter of a book, play, movie, saying, or whatever, and add a
snappy underline.
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Petriot Act
Bill before Congress enables Feds to question talking parrots.
Ellen Schneider '65
Best laid plans of
Rice and men
Foreign policy for the next three years.
Robert Ting Huang '59
Oil for fool program
Saddam gaming the United Nations.
Robert Ting Huang '59
Mice Krispies
Goodies for your cat.
Randy Stephenson '85
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Beauty and the Feast
Nigella Lawson's next cookbook.
Mark Lum '83
Subterranean Homesick Clues
Pump handle missing, "Twisted Titles" missing from recent Cal Monthly.
Dave Ruby '69
Britney Swears
So much for the girl-next-door image.
Mac Brachman '76
When Bush comes to shove
Unfortunately, he was too late to save New Orleans.
Tom Rogers '71
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Polar energy
What Santa's reindeer use for fuel.
Tom Lamoree
Anvil
For that pounding headache.
Terry Zaccone '61
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Gordon Gerwig '75 submitted this new twist: "Anyone for pangrams? Here's one I wrote for NPR's
Weekend Edition: G. W. Bush quickly fixed prize jam on TV." The classic pangram known by most, however, is:
The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. Keep in mind that sentences must use every word in the alphabet at least
once; the best constructions tend to avoid repeat letters. Also, we have received many noteworthy anagram submissions
that fell short of the California place or name requirement. We'd like to share some of those with you, so here is a revised
set of rules: pick a word, scramble the letters (leaving none out and adding none), reassemble the letters into a heretofore
hidden meaning (added punctuation is permissible), and include the parenthetical just as you do in Twisted
Titles.
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Los Gatos
Gloats so:
Ah, well, it's justified.
Alan Meyer '49
Special election results
O, let's eclipse Arnie's cult:
Governator gets votinated.
Thomas Raffill '87
Richard Milhous Nixon
Hash milord? Cox in ruin!
Gordon Gerwig '75
Robert Birgeneau
Be rerouting, Bear:
New chief orders new direction for Cal.
Neal Cavanaugh '60, Ed.D. '76
Sather Gate
The tear gas:
Oh, how we remember Sproul Plaza in the '60s!
Eric Wallace '62
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Stanford University
Entry is for avid nuts:
You're crazy to take Stanford over Cal.
David Hammer '66
The Campanile
Nah, time place:
Is it true that Sather Tower has no useful function?
Bob Zuparko '75, Ph.D. '95
Berkeley, California
Ye frail linebacker:
Not what the Golden Bears need!
Ron Matejcek '54
Los Angeles Dodgers
Losses gladden Gore:
Al's a Giants fan.
Ron Matejcek '54
Dormitory
Dirty room.
Jack Bybee, J.D. '62
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GAMES SUBMISSIONS: Please e-mail
your submission with "Word Nerd" or "Twisted Title" 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.
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