What's in a name?

So I am messing around with the title for my dissertation. It is for posterity right? I was on the phone pontificating with a friend of mine that has a MASTERS DEGREE. This is not a chimney sweep I found off the street...nor is it a third grader. This is my friend who has a M.S. behind her name...it might be a M.B.A but really why split hairs?

She says...and I quote, "Dear Dear IPG (she really talks this way...kind of annoying) do you have any idea how academic you sound?" I did that instant replay movie thing in my head. Where I rewound and listened to what I had said...and I didn't think I sounded academic at all. Here is the gist of what I said, "I am going to take the propensity to trust construct, and match it with self efficacy, but I am also interested in the applicability of media richness to this topic." Normal everyday jargon right?

Anyway...that conversation made me think. Let's have some word fun! Yeah! Dissertation title word fun. Here is how it works something shocking or fun or NOW then a colon then the boring obscure thing that the paper is really about!

• Oh my gosh! Porn on the web: Internet usage surveys compared to actual router data logs
• A funny thing happened on the way to the assassination: the urban sociological impacts of the murder of Abraham Lincoln
• That's what she said: a rhetorical analysis of politics, problems and contradictions in modern society
• Who Died and Made You President?: A Study of Vice-president Inaugural speeches

There is no way on earth to make my topic more sexy. It just isn't going to happen.
I do have a colon though.

Note the time on this post...if you are wondering have I been to bed yet...the answer is NOPE!