Jokes
The double format inspired contests for ironic or satirical combinations of titles that might appear, as in "No Blade of Grass"/"The Sheep Look Up"
"If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double", an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.’"
— Charles McGrath, New York Times, May 6, 2007
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Famous quotes containing the word jokes:
“A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Don’t make jokes about food.”
—David Lean (1908–1991)
“He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertainty—which extends to Wilde himself—as to whether they really mean anything.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)