Saturday, March 10, 2007
Bomb-Proof your horse
Might there be some useful tips for spin-doctors in this handbook on how to train your horse not to panic when there are loud explosions? And would there be a market amongst FOCUS editors for an UK version of ‘The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a guide to Field Identification”?
Both of these are genuine book titles. The Bookseller Magazine runs an annual competition for the Oddest Book Title of the Year and the current shortlist (including the shopping carts one) are up for the vote…
The 1989 winner was ‘How to Shit in the Woods; an Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art’ … which surely has some political resonances also…
Hat tip to The Metafilter for the information on this…
Both of these are genuine book titles. The Bookseller Magazine runs an annual competition for the Oddest Book Title of the Year and the current shortlist (including the shopping carts one) are up for the vote…
The 1989 winner was ‘How to Shit in the Woods; an Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art’ … which surely has some political resonances also…
I think I can live without seeking out "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality (1986) but perhaps I do need to watch out for 'Highlights in the History of Concrete' (1994) just to see if they have left out my Great-Grandfather, who introduced Reinforced Concrete into British engineering practice...
Hat tip to The Metafilter for the information on this…
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