I recently came across the following citation:
McEvily, B., & Tortoriello, M. (2011). Measuring trust in organisational research: Review and recommendations. Journal of Trust Research, 1, pp. 2363.
Would you trust Dr. McEvily’s recommendations about trust?
Does anybody have any more like this?
When I was in college, I worked in the library, and remember shelving Billye Ann Cheatum’s Golf. The spine featured only the two words CHEATUM and GOLF when the book was printed, but some wiseacre had inserted a preposition so that a patron would see CHEATUM AT GOLF.
When I was in college, a pair of students who felt strongly that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen wrote a letter to the editor of the town’s newspaper supporting that position. The letter wasn’t published, which made them very unhappy. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that it didn’t help their cause that their last names were “Boozer” and “Drinker”.
Now, those were their actual last names, but I suspect the editor thought it was a joke.