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The title is an allusion to a popular children’s book[1]. I’m assuming that an automated algorithm pulled the “very;” hopefully the mods will consider restorin
by kd5bjo 6y ago
The title is an allusion to a popular children’s book[1]. I’m assuming that an automated algorithm pulled the “very;” hopefully the mods will consider restoring it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Horrible,_No_Good,_Very_Bad_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Ho...
- chrismorgan 6y agoHN automatically mangles titles in various ways I’m not fond of, dropping words that might or might not be significant, fiddling with capitalisation, &c., but the submitter can go back and edit the title back to what it was supposed to be, and the one time I’ve done that the system didn’t mangulate it again.
- dang 6y agoThat's by design, because the software is obviously imperfect. It does more good than harm, though, so we keep it.
- Stratoscope 6y agoThat was the book that made me want to move to Australia! Or Timbuktu.
- friseurtermin 6y agoWell, did you end up moving to Australia?
- SamuelAdams 6y agoThere's also a film based on the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Horrible,_No_Good,_Very_Bad_Day_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Ho...
- cslawson 6y agoIt was better than expected, IMO.
- dang 6y agoOk, we've re-veried the title above.