Do you think our management or patrons would accept "I'll do that work
whenever"? <be sure to apply the appropriate inflection on whenever> :-) :-)

It is Friday the 13th after all, we need humor to counteract any unlucky
vibes.

Susan

--On Friday, January 13, 2006 12:39 PM -0600 "Lin, Selina S"
<selina-lin@UIOWA.EDU> wrote:

> Can't resist chiming in on this. I had one recently that has a stated
> frequency followed by "now published whenever". I'd loved to include
> that in 310.
>
> Selina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Wayne Jones
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:51 AM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] The fine art of counting
>
> My favourite is one from years ago that I would have liked to have
> included in the bibliographic record, as the publisher sincerely
> intended it as the serial's frequency. It was a religious publication of
> some kind that was to be issued "As God allows."
>
> Wayne
>
> At 08:07 AM 2006-01-13, you wrote:
>> A little serials humor for a Friday:
>>
>> ALCTS gives out awards each year for the "worst serial title change".
> As far as I know, there's no similar award for numbering, but I see a
> lot of numbering problems each year that are pretty amusing (in
> retrospect).
>>
>> The one on my desk right now is The American Enterprise (ISSN
> 1047-3572). Here's what it said on its masthead in 2005:
>>
>> Jan./Feb. through July/Aug. issues: "Published eight times per year"
>> Sept.: "published monthly"
>> Oct./Dec.: "published ten times per year"
>>
>> How many issues did it actually publish in 2005? Seven.
>>
>> Anyone have other good recent examples?
>>
>> :-) Bob Persing
>
>
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