The will work for both excluding the and the from displaying in the Google results.
By adding <meta NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”> or <meta NAME=”googlebot” CONTENT=”NOODP”> you can tell Google not to use the ODP title and description in the results.
Recently there has been some concern at various forums about the use of (DMOZ.org) web page descriptions by some search engines as the default description used in the search engine result page listings. Simply put, if your web page is listed in ODP, the search engine may choose to use the description of that listing in its results, since they were approved by a human and are most likely accurate.
The problem is that many people have ODP listings that are outdated, and therefore do not match up nicely with the new page content. ODP is notoriously slow in responding to requests by webmasters to modify listings, so the idea came about to create a new snippet of code that would direct search engine spiders to not use the ODP description when indexing a page.