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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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)