# What would you call your autobiography? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713 "2005-10-04T08:39:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/41 "2005-10-05T10:39:00Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > I didn’t think they had comprehensives when you were a lad. Bet you’re a grammar school boy! Fry and I are very much the same age, and thus went to prep and public schools at much the same time. My school even used to play his school at cricket. So, when I read of all the kissing and smooching, and holding and fondling, and being lined up behind the bike sheds and vaselined prior to entry, I was left reflecting on how incredibly dull my schools had been. The best I could manage was being invited up into the girls’ dormitory in the girls’ house by a girl who’s name I still remember after all these years and given a big snog. Could have been expelled if we’d been caught. You’re marginally my senior, as is Fry; not by so much as I’d have fagged for either of you. And a comprehensive it was, tho’ the posher end of a two-site school and one that had been a grammar until not too long before (the erstwhile _City of Bath Boys’ School_). Next to no girls though. We had a minute intake into the sixth form by the time I got there. It was generally considered _infra dig._ to make a beeline for the three or four girls there were in the entire school, though. I believe it’s fully co-ed these days, not that I’ve been back for a look in the better part of thirty years. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/42 "2005-10-05T10:46:59Z")
_Garbage You’ve Just Paid About $30 For_, by me. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/43 "2005-10-05T11:58:00Z")
_My Life In A Nutshell_ by Shirley Ujest. _Cassaroles for the Dead_ is an awesome title. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/44 "2005-10-05T12:34:21Z")
Shades Of Grey by PapSett (An old song by the Monkees) subtitled “A lifetime of Fighting Depression” ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/45 "2005-10-05T13:53:50Z")
Where the hell did that come from? by Madd Maxx ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/46 "2005-10-05T14:50:20Z")
_Twelve Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirty Seven Pages of Pointless Rambling_ by **NE Texan** The Early Years, Volume 1 ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/47 "2005-10-05T14:51:12Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > _Casseroles for the Dead_ (from a comment of my mothers- “Mr. Kirby from the Presbyterian Church died in a wreck last night so I’m taking him a casserole.” Another vote for this one. It’s funny and memorable, the sort of thing that makes you want to buy it, read it, then give copies of it as gifts. I want to read this book right now. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/48 "2005-10-05T18:40:24Z")
_Toothpick or French Fry: Choose Your Weapon_ or _Trips to Wal-Mart with Igor_. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/49 "2005-10-05T18:59:49Z")
“Nobody gets out of here alive.” By Satchmo Unfortunately, already taken. ☹ Plus I really like “Casseroles for the Dead”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/50 "2005-10-05T19:12:48Z")
One other thought _If You’re So Smart, Why Don’t_ You _Write a Book?: A Memoir Written to Spite My Mother_ ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/51 "2005-10-05T19:58:01Z")
Based on my RL name, _Quite Contrary_ (_grumbles about people who think they’re SO clever_ :rolleyes: ) Based on my pen name, _(i’m the cute one)_ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/52 "2005-10-06T01:09:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’m currently working on a book that’s a collection of autobiographical essays and short stories set between 1972 and 1986 (with flashbacks from the 19th century to the present as relayed by old relatives). The working title is just _Spinning in the Sunlight & other recollections_ but I’m hoping for something pithier. Things I’ve considered: > > _It’s a Southern Thing (Not Really, but that’s What We Tell Ourselves)_ > > _Casseroles for the Dead_ (from a comment of my mothers- “Mr. Kirby from the Presbyterian Church died in a wreck last night so I’m taking him a casserole.” > > _The Eunuch’s Grandson: Memoirs of a Stick Collector_ > > _The Absolute Definitive Secret History of Weokahatchee, AL, as Told to the Author the People Who Vaguely Remembered It_ > > _Other Families Just Don’t Do This_ (the suggestion of a Doper in [the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=326481&highlight=weokahatchee) that contains very very rough drafts of a couple of the sections I’m using) > > So far nothing has really leaped out and said “Pick me! Pick me!”, but hopefully it’ll come. For the cover I’d like four lynched Best-of-the-West figures in a cardboard box (from, of course, one of the stories). My god, they’re all brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713/53 "2005-10-06T02:17:55Z")
The Bible Some people accuse me of having delusions of grandeur, but they are mere mortals :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-your-autobiography/324713.md?page=2)