- - - - INTERSECTING MICROCOSM By David Jaggard To solve this week's Brain Exploder, you need to imagine yourself in a parallel universe where everything is the opposite of our world. In this universe, redheads make up 98 percent of the population, the British drive on the right, Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, women find me attractive, etc. In this universe they have all the same movies and popular songs that we do, only their titles are the word-for-word opposites of the ones we know. For example, in this parallel universe, rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis bottomed the charts in 1957 with "Fractional Bitta Stirrin' Comin' Off." (If you're wondering about that third word, think of the way James Bond, in this parallel universe, would prefer his martinis.) With this principle in mind, your job is to decrypt the following list of titles into their original form. For our purposes here the words "the," "and," "by," and "of" will be considered to have no opposites. I have tried to pick songs and movies that are well known to the general population, with some recent hits as well as some classics. Send your answers to carltondoby@hotmail.com by noon on March 19. The winner of a McSweeney's book will be chosen at random from the correct responses. 1. Your Slight, Skinny Latin Divorce
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