[WikiEN-l] listcruft

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:26:10 +0100, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
>  
>
>>Where's the evidence that any
>>meaningful number of people is actually looking for a list of songs
>>about some randomly selected subject?
>>    
>>
>Case in point: "List of songs about masturbation".  I put it to you
>that however much paper Britannica had at its disposal, such a list
>would never make the cut.
>
So the old notion of "No sex please, we're British," lives on in Britannica.

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