How to Win at Russian Roulette And Other Fiendish Logic Problems Thomas Byrne; Tom Cassidy Oneworld 2010 Paperback
These 33 mind-boggling conundrums are combined with hilarious storylines involving such events as intergalactic Speed Croquet, escape from a Mexican rThese 33 mind-boggling conundrums are combined with hilarious storylines involving such events as intergalactic Speed Croquet, escape from a Mexican raging inferno and the 'electric toilet virgin death lottery'. As well as full answers the book contains a series of four increasingly more helpful hints for each problem, to guide you gently in the right direction....more
A Steroid Hit the Earth A Celebration of Misprints, Typos and Other Howlers Martin Toseland Portico 2009 Paperback
A single wrong letter ('The troops then fired rubber pullets' - Liverpool Echo), total confusion ('Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workerA single wrong letter ('The troops then fired rubber pullets' - Liverpool Echo), total confusion ('Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day' - Reuters) or happy accident ('A depression will mope across Southern England' - Grauniad weather), misprints are unintentional delights to Toseland. Instead of firing off complaints to the editor, he invites us to learn to love the noble misprint and the glorious ambiguity ('Juvenile court to try shooting defendant')....more
Although famous as 'The Gadget King', William Heath Robinson produced humorous drawings and illustrations on many more themes than the peculiar contraAlthough famous as 'The Gadget King', William Heath Robinson produced humorous drawings and illustrations on many more themes than the peculiar contraption. This collection of drawings (ca 1912-1931) from publications such as The Sketch and The Bystander, brings together some of his favourite subjects - golf, motoring, winter sports, holidays and courting, with some British virtues thrown in - all brilliantly observed, however surreal the scenario - and he never could resist a gadget opportunity. Edited, with an introduction by Geoffrey Beare....more
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Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations Third Edition Ned Sherrin (Edited by) Oxford University Press 2008 Paperback
In an effort to reverse the amoindering of our language, the polyhistor Dr Johnson has emulated his lexicographical namesake in tracking down obscure In an effort to reverse the amoindering of our language, the polyhistor Dr Johnson has emulated his lexicographical namesake in tracking down obscure and forgotten words and providing them with his own idiosyncratic definitions. So if you need a word for 'once every nine years' (enneatic) or 'a person who believes all news' (gobemouche), this is the book to consult. ...more
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Cox's Fragmenta An Historical Miscellany Simon Murphy (Edited by) History Press 2010 Hardback
In the British Library lurks a 94-volume collection of newspaper clippings compiled over a period of 60 years by Francis Cox (1752-1834) and covering In the British Library lurks a 94-volume collection of newspaper clippings compiled over a period of 60 years by Francis Cox (1752-1834) and covering a vast array of subjects (eg. 'Extraordinary Sagacity of Rats', 'An Account of a Maccaroni' [sic], 'Bathing Trusses', 'The National Debt'). Simon Murphy has selected the strangest and most amusing of these articles to create an intriguing historical miscellany. ...more
My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me') Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English Caroline Taggart; JA Wines Michael O'Mara 2008 Hardback
Bearing in mind always that 'one person's unbreakable rule is another person's insufferable pedantry', Caroline Taggart and JA Wines's bestselling guiBearing in mind always that 'one person's unbreakable rule is another person's insufferable pedantry', Caroline Taggart and JA Wines's bestselling guide renders grammar painless, even entertaining. Here, the bitter pills of restrictive and non-defining clauses are sugared with amusing examples, quotations from great writers, grammatical jokes and choice morsels of information in 'Smart Alec' and 'Swot' boxes. ...more
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