New Friend
Jun. 14th, 2010 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloOh look, someone has just friended me on LJ. How nice!
Gosh, this person must be popular; he has 774 other friends.
Hold on a minute- only 35 of his other friends have friended him back.
And that's because he's not a person at all, but a vanity publishing outfit.
A vanity publishing outfit whose copywriter writes English as if it were a second language and thinks "voila" is spelled "viola".
And whose publishing triumphs include a "passionate novel" about Arabian horses called Tails Carried High.
Gosh, this person must be popular; he has 774 other friends.
Hold on a minute- only 35 of his other friends have friended him back.
And that's because he's not a person at all, but a vanity publishing outfit.
A vanity publishing outfit whose copywriter writes English as if it were a second language and thinks "voila" is spelled "viola".
And whose publishing triumphs include a "passionate novel" about Arabian horses called Tails Carried High.
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Date: 2010-06-14 01:01 pm (UTC)Cartoonist Walt Kelly created a character named Viola Voila who starred in a special episode lampooning hard-boiled detective novels. Among other things, she threatened suicide because everybody spelled her name wrong. *g*
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