# Change one letter in a title to make a better title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844 "2006-07-24T17:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/41 "2006-07-25T16:11:56Z")
_The Rink_ - a movie about a professional ice-hockey player who plays hockey and dies seven days later? _Bambo_ - how Bambi really kicked hunter a\*\* after they shot his mother! _Shred_ - how some ugly snow-boarder saves a gorgeous girl and then kicks butt! umm … nope … that’s it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/42 "2006-07-25T17:11:44Z")
Star Warts Riders Of The Lost Ark Raiders Of The Lost Art ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/43 "2006-07-25T17:42:39Z")
A beautiful hind. Little mouse on the Prairie. Munch. Funding Neverland. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/44 "2006-07-25T20:36:29Z")
When the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles for a while, some papers called them the **Raiders Of The Lost Park.** **The "Gry"ing Game** **Secondhand Loons** **Superma** cooks dinner faster than a speeding pullet. **Grain Man** A farmer savant goes to Vegas. Hijinks ensue. **Gorky’s** A teen sex comedy in Russia. **Fellowship Of The Bing** Cherry growers band together with a stranger called Arrowshirt. **Laws** A 21-foot great white attorney wreaks havoc. **That Darned Hat** A live-action feature length version of the Kerwood Derby story. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/45 "2006-07-25T20:48:41Z")
Umpire Records Jars Sizeways Aver After Ever Alter (okay I know you said mulptle posts for multiple entries but feh) Altered Stakes Altered Slates I’ll be back ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/46 "2006-07-25T20:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] (okay I know you said mulptle posts for multiple entries but feh) I’ll be back [/QUOTE] I didn’t mean you should make multiple posts. Just that changing more than one letter (add, drop or change) would probably get confusing, especially on less popular titles. That’s not to say some multi-letter changes couldn’t really make some great new titles. But I’ve had to scratch my head several times already over what the original title must have been. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/47 "2006-07-25T21:29:39Z")
That Touch Of Mint What Touch Of Mink That Couch Of Mink (I wanna change more than one word now) That Couch Of Mine ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/48 "2006-07-25T21:48:13Z")
Since other people have already showed the way to the gutter The Semen Samurai ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/49 "2006-07-25T22:05:34Z")
The Lust of the Mohicans ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/50 "2006-07-25T22:16:23Z")
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Liver Brainspotting The Transpurter Yobimbo To Kill a Cockingbird Pullitt Dope Floats Angela’s Asses The Sexican Coon World The Man in the Gray Flannel Shit The Bongest Day I Shit on Your Grave ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/51 "2006-07-25T22:24:52Z")
Turders in the Rue Morgue ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/52 "2006-07-26T00:28:58Z")
**To Kilt A Mockingbird** A Southern lawyer explains to his young daughter that it’s not nice to try and put kilts on songbirds. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/53 "2006-07-26T00:30:53Z")
**The Marrying Ban** - President Bush commissions a film against Gay unions ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/54 "2006-07-26T18:56:57Z")
Inside a man Apocalypse Snow Lice in Wonderland ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/55 "2006-07-26T22:39:09Z")
The Dogfather - a young puppy enlists the help of his feline friend and searches across the entire country for his missing dad in this heartwarming Disney film. Gook Will Hunting - Matt Damon plays an American fighting with the Viet Cong. Sawing Private Ryan - Anthony Hopkins is back in yet another followup to The Silence Of The Lambs. The Mole - Keira Knightley reacts to the unwelcome appearance of a new facial blemish. Malt Rats - A brilliant exposé on rat infestations in breweries, and the health risks they present. Sac II - Crazy psychopath once again runs around attacking male genitalia. The Thomas Frown Affair - An entire city tries different tricks to make six-year-old Thomas smile. Ex-Men - A story of transsexuals who try to fit in with society at large. 28 Gays Later - our hero comes to terms with the fact that he’s straight after all. We Were Foldiers - Housewives get sick of doing laundry and go on strike. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/56 "2006-07-26T23:13:01Z")
During the late 70’s, post “Jaws”-any-underwater-creature-can-be-a-movie-monster-craze, I actually saw where someone had modified a movie marquee to this: Testacles (originally about a terrorizing octopus) I still laugh at the memory ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/57 "2006-07-27T12:19:26Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Liver [/QUOTE] Served with fava beans and a nice Chianti ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844/58 "2006-07-27T14:50:18Z")
Petty in Pink: Molly Ringwald finally gets back at James Spader after all these years. Same Kind of Wonderful: the cast reunites and nothing changes 21 Gams: The 11th Rockette is an amputee. Bright Lights Bug City: you’ll be drawn to it as a moth to the flame [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-one-letter-in-a-title-to-make-a-better-title/365844.md?page=2)