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Diagram Award
There is a prize given every year for the most strange and unusual name in the book regardless of its content. The award is called "The diagram» (Diagram Award) and is awarded every year by the British edition of «The Bookseller». The award - a bottle of champagne. The award is presented since 1978. The winner is determined by voting on the website edition.
So, this year, the most strange name, the recognized "get lost shopping carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to the identification in the field" by Julian Montague («The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification» by Julian Montague), which received 1866 votes out of nearly more than 5,500 cast.
In second place "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan" Sharon Clottey («Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan», authored by Sharon Clott) with 1365 votes.
Well, and the third with 685 votes in the book titled "It is better that never was: finding the existence of damage" David Benatara («Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence» by David Benatar).
Other nominees this year without the authors:
* "Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: Afterlife nineteenth century postmodern culture» (Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture);
* "People are Salmonella on the planet Porno» (Salmonella Men on the Planet Porno);
* "Traffic jams in the Roman Empire» (Traffic Congestion in the Roman Empire);
* "How Green Were the Nazis» (How Green Were The Nazis);
* "The Protocols of the eighteenth international symposium on algae» (Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium);
* "Delicious ice cream D. Dee Mask: D. Di masks from Coventry known company for the production of ice cream with interesting and varied fleet of vans for conveying ice cream» (D. Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans).
As I said, the award has been awarded since 1978 when it won a book entitled "Minutes of the Second International Workshop on Nude» (Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice).
Some of the other winners in different years:
* "How to shit in the woods: an environmentally healthy approach to the lost art» (How To Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art) (1989);
* "Weeds in a Changing World» (Weeds in a Changing World) (1999);
* "Life is a crazy buttocks» (Living with Crazy Buttocks) (2002);
* "The Big Book of Lesbian horse stories» (The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories) (2003);
* "People who do not know they are dead: How They Attach Themselves to unsuspecting witnesses and what to do» (People Who Do not Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About it) (2006).
So, this year, the most strange name, the recognized "get lost shopping carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to the identification in the field" by Julian Montague («The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification» by Julian Montague), which received 1866 votes out of nearly more than 5,500 cast.
In second place "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan" Sharon Clottey («Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan», authored by Sharon Clott) with 1365 votes.
Well, and the third with 685 votes in the book titled "It is better that never was: finding the existence of damage" David Benatara («Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence» by David Benatar).
Other nominees this year without the authors:
* "Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: Afterlife nineteenth century postmodern culture» (Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture);
* "People are Salmonella on the planet Porno» (Salmonella Men on the Planet Porno);
* "Traffic jams in the Roman Empire» (Traffic Congestion in the Roman Empire);
* "How Green Were the Nazis» (How Green Were The Nazis);
* "The Protocols of the eighteenth international symposium on algae» (Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium);
* "Delicious ice cream D. Dee Mask: D. Di masks from Coventry known company for the production of ice cream with interesting and varied fleet of vans for conveying ice cream» (D. Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans).
As I said, the award has been awarded since 1978 when it won a book entitled "Minutes of the Second International Workshop on Nude» (Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice).
Some of the other winners in different years:
* "How to shit in the woods: an environmentally healthy approach to the lost art» (How To Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art) (1989);
* "Weeds in a Changing World» (Weeds in a Changing World) (1999);
* "Life is a crazy buttocks» (Living with Crazy Buttocks) (2002);
* "The Big Book of Lesbian horse stories» (The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories) (2003);
* "People who do not know they are dead: How They Attach Themselves to unsuspecting witnesses and what to do» (People Who Do not Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About it) (2006).
