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Black & White
I know what you're thinking: “He's given up on the whole
movie name/song title/TV show thing.” But, actually, the
“Black & White” you see above is from the song by the
1970s hit machine Three Dog Night. (Remember the song:
“The ink is black. The page is white. Together we learn to
read and write”? I can't believe with captivating lyrics like
that, these guys aren't still crankin' out the hits.) Anyway,
back in the CS4 intro for this chapter, I wrote that I had toyed
with the idea of using the song “Black Widow” by Mötley
Crüe, but I chose not to for a very legitimate (yet, secret
until now) reason: I couldn't figure out how to add those two
little dots above the letter “u” in Crüe, so I went with Elvis
Costello's “Black and White World” instead (it was an easy
choice, as it contains no crazy dots above any letters). I have
to admit, I am a bit embarrassed that I didn't know what
those little dots are called, so I did a Google search for this
phrase: “two little dots above the letter U.” It returned six
search results, including a Facebook group called (and I'm
not making this up): “It is a crime to write über without the
Umlaut.” At that moment I realized two things: (1) it's called
an umlaut, and (2) people get totally psychotic about things
like a missing umlaut. This is probably why, in the printed
version of my CS4 book, not only did my editor Kim add the
umlaut above the “u” for me, but she also added an umlaut
over the “o” in Mötley. You're thinking, “Wow, she's good!”
and she totally is, but I know her dirty little secret. She only
knew there was a problem there to fix because she's a huge
“big hair bands from the '80s” fan. If, instead, she had been a
fan of Sheena Easton or Garth Brooks back then, you know
and I know she would have changed it to read “Motley Crew,”
just like she referred to the song “Walk This Way” as being
performed by Arrow Smith. (Kidding, Kim. Just a joke. really!)
