@Fnoonf (Fnoonf) posted a new topic, subject "The Doctoral Thesis Name Game". It read:

   Basically the band name game, only instead of bands you name doctoral theses.
    
    From Bizarro World.  
    Here, I'll start:
    
    **Contemplations From the Bowl: The Effects of Chronic Regurgitation on Philosophical and Socioeconomic Stability, And Pie**
    
    That would be an **e** , ladies and gents. Any takers?
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So @Broodha (Broodha) replied

    **Empire Strikes Backwards? The Dissassociation of (Post-)Colonial Narrativization from Transnational Discursivity in Star Wars Trilogy Reception Theory**
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To which @CRorex (CRorex) replied

    Yet unrecognizable benifits for bio-informatics with special regards to the application of acceptable variables.
    
    –I think we should add a new phase to the game where you have to explain what the thesis title means.  
    I like this game
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So @Nightsong (Nightsong) replied

    _eyes **CRorex** 's thesis title_
    
    _eyes the Bio-Info students wandering about_ What's scary, is that I think one of them would actually **do** that for their thesis if I suggested it to them. Hmmm. 
    
    How about: **Dialectic predeconstructivist theory, posttextual destructuralism and Marxism.**
    
    (If you are really stuck coming up with one, try here.
    
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    << Foo. >>
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After which, @CRorex (CRorex) added

    Nightsong: I should hope they aren't doing a thesis like the title I made up!
    
    My title basically says, “It's a lot easier when I throw out the data that doesn't fit.”
    
    Mechanical adjustments for optimal trajectory: muscular effeciency in aerial primate movement.
    
    “How monkeys swing from branches”
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So @Liberal (Liberal) replied

    **Heteronomous Categorical Propositions and Mediate Inferences — Insights into a Noumenal Metaphilosophy**
    
    (or, Unwanted Advice and Other Meddling)
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After which, @Soup_du_jour (Soup_du_jour) added

    **Young Guns - Paleo-Psychoanalyzing and Neo-Deconstructing the Convergence of Avant-Garde Gun Culture and Societal Norms of Marginalized Teens in the Near East**
    
    It explains itself! 
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@Treviathan (Treviathan) replied

    **"To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before": Reimagining the Neo-mperialistic Discourse of Modernist Science Fiction Using a Post-Steinemian Feminist Value System**
    
    I don't know, something about girls and Star Trek.
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After which, @Fretful_Porpentine (Fretful Porpentine) added

    Well, mine was going to be called **Why Everything Richard Helgerson Says Is Wrong, Except When He Annoys Me By Being Right** , except that I've just been invited to meet him, which means I have to come up with a new title by Wednesday of next week. Hmm…
    
    **His ‘n' Herstories: Reconfiguring Transgressive Gender and Class Discourses in Communitarian Histories of the 1590's**
    
    I haven't the foggiest idea what it means, mostly because I haven't the foggiest idea what my dissertation is about, but it has a nice ring to it.
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So @cadolphin (cadolphin) replied

    **Subcapitalist Theories: The conceptualist paradigm of narrative in the works of Eco**
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After which, @juji_mojo (juji_mojo) added

    Cranial Hyperadiposity…The Practice, Causation and Concurrent Ambulation in the Post-Dissertational Population.
    
    Or How and why Doctors and other PhDs become walking fat heads.
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After which, @The_Tim (The Tim) added

    **Occipital cortex processing of representations of anatomical shapes in experts and novices**
    
    (How the brain of a porn freak is different)
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To which @Omniscient (Omniscient) replied

    **Symptoms of Abnormally Passive, High Functioning, Verbally Adept Homo-Sapiens as Related to Aptitude of Achieving Coitus Amongst Typical Peer Groups**
    
    or
    
    Why nice guys can't get laid.
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Then @Omniscient (Omniscient) said

    One more thing, I think alot of you guys are forgetting that the OP expects the next entry to use the last letter of the previous entry as the first entry of the next.
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So @Omniscient (Omniscient) replied

    er, …first letter of the next.
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So @Fnoonf (Fnoonf) replied

    Yeah, I was kinda shooting for the game to be like that. But this is fine also. Plus, I kinda like **CRorex** 's rule. 
    
    **Ghost Dogs And Groundhogs: Time-Looped Narrativium Meets The Excrement Of The Ages**
    
    Or
    
    Why Groundhog Day rules the earth with a mighty fist and Ghost Dog blows goat cheese out my penile passage.
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After which, @CRorex (CRorex) added

    Seminal Works in Science and the Evolution of Scientist Training: a Mathmatical Study on How Time and Funding Allocation Contribute to Primary Literature
    
    “The funding I got to research this paper was all spent on beer, now I've got 2 days and no money to generate 2 months of research for this paper.”
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To which @CRorex (CRorex) replied

    Oh by the way: All of the thesis titles I'm using in this are different ways of looking at one paper I read during my junior year in college. A cookie for whoever finds the citation for that paper!
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After which, @mozchron (mozchron) added

    CRorex-
    
    Would it be (drumroll…):
    
    A DYNAMIC FORCE AND MOMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR BRACHIATION
    
    by Chang et al.  
    The Journal of Experimental Biology 200, 3013–3020 (1997)
    
    (I can't believe that I am wasting my time at work like this)
    
    MM
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So @mozchron (mozchron) replied

    Or possibly
    
    A POINT-MASS MODEL OF GIBBON LOCOMOTION
    
    by Bertram et al.
    
    The Journal of Experimental Biology 202, 2609–2617 (1999)
    
    MM
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