THE TITLE ENDING WITH THE (# 74,969)

What is it with The? Why does it need to stand at the front of so many queues? When did it ever stand at the back like every other word? The The had the right idea when they stripped it of its self importance and 2-way pronunciation and poured post punk ballads down its classist throat. Well, Matt Johnson, I’m with you. So much so, here’s an open source template for anyone out there to go ‘own’ as their definite article. Just replace (title) with a band, song, hotel, film, book, brand, street, country, religion, bodily part of your choice.

April 20, 2009
Filed Under Writing on writing 

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4 Responses to “THE TITLE ENDING WITH THE (# 74,969)”

  1. Matt Cooper on April 20th, 2009 12:52 pm

    Religion might be improved by following A Jesus, rather than The Jesus.

    It might speed the process up a bit.

  2. Pete on April 20th, 2009 12:56 pm

    Yep. We are starting thy slowest cult of all time.
    x

  3. Matt Cooper on April 20th, 2009 1:22 pm

    “Then a Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do …”

  4. How I Was Able to Lose Thirty Póunds in Only a Month on May 6th, 2009 4:09 pm

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