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"Suppose you arrange for Yo La Tengo and Ghostface Killah to appear together at a concert. Kind of odd, but you think it is a great idea."

fuckin' hipsters writing law texts...

I love Yo La Tengo but I agree, fuck hipsters and their hipping hip.

Textbook writers clawing at the walls of the hole their life has become.

there's a decision out there in the Fed Supplements somewhere from the 80s or early 90s--no doubt clerked by a clever intern somewhere in New England--in which all the section headings are quotes from Talking Heads songs. Deadheads are also notorious for embedding that kind of stuff.

If you had to write those, you'd do the same thing.

oh, i'd do worse than that. i'd name hypotheticals after 60's Formula 1 drivers, French Revolutionaries, and obscure hillbilly singers, and throw in random Surrealist, Situationist, and Brian Eno references just for lulz.

The AMA Style guide (American Medical Association) uses some fun hip-hop lyrics in the section on proper capitalization. They even fixed up the grammar a bit:

There is no party like a West Coast party because a West Coast party doesn't stop.

I stumbled on that one day at work, back when I was managing editor of a medical journal.

D.o.S. wrote:If you had to write those, you'd do the same thing.

just joking about the hipster thing, but you're right. i absolutely would.

dubkitty wrote:oh, i'd do worse than that. i'd name hypotheticals after 60's Formula 1 drivers, French Revolutionaries, and obscure hillbilly singers, and throw in random Surrealist, Situationist, and Brian Eno references just for lulz.

I like you.

A friend of mine had an article published in a hip-hop quarterly--their style guide was fantastic.