# Inapposite authors

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inapposite-authors/640252>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 7, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inapposite-authors/640252 "2012-11-07T18:18:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inapposite-authors/640252/1 "2012-11-07T18:18:26Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inapposite-authors/640252/2 "2012-11-08T21:34:55Z")

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When I was in college, I worked in the library, and remember shelving [Billye Ann Cheatum’s _Golf_](http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Golf-Billye-Ann-Cheatum-1975-Paperback-/2930614). 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.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inapposite-authors/640252/3 "2012-11-09T16:12:37Z")

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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.