I just got Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events on DVD, and I have a serious problem:
Where do I file it? Does it go under L, or S? (Or A?)
I’d put it under S. The “Lemony Snicket’s” part doesn’t count as far as I’m concerned, and the article generally isn’t considered when filing.
Agree. You wouldn’t file “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” under W, would you?
…would you?!
I arrange my DVDs by subject matter rather than by alphabet. So when it is released here, it will fit snugly between my Roald Dahl movies and my Harry Potter movies.
Heh. I work in the music/video department of a big box retail store, and we actually had some involved discussions about this.
No, I wouldn’t, but then William Shakespeare isn’t a fictional character in the works, it’s the author’s real name. Lemony Snicket, for those of you not up on the later volumes in the story, is actually just the narrator, not the author. The author’s real name is Daniel Handler. Cite.
True, but then the books aren’t called Lemony Snicket’s anything; it was just adopted (rather stupidly, IMO) for the movie.
I would file it under “D,” for DVD. But then again, I come from the Heimlich Hospital school of filing things.
Seriously, since Mr. Snicket is a fictional character and actually appears in the film, I would file it under “L.”
We watched it last night here at the Mahaloth house hold and my wife and I had the same discussion. I said “L” since we call it “Lemony Snicket” and she said “S” for obvious reasons.
We used “S”.
You could file it under “P” for “pile of unsorted stuff”. That’s one of my favorite disorganizational methods.