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Roobarb and Custard… Lycra… Space Hoppers… Kermit and Miss Piggy… Ziggy Stardust… platform Boots... Worzel Gummidge… The Wombles… The Generation Game… flares… Jaws… Abba… Bagpuss… Roller Skating… Glam Rockers Did you ride a chopper to school, buy your dad Old Spice for Christmas or believe that Jim could really fix it? If this sounds like you then hang up your disco ball, rake out the old Atari 2600...
Losing weight isn't rocket science: eat less and move more, and it will happen. The link between sex and slimming is also simple: a good hard rogering will burn calories.
But do you know how much weight you'll burn up, which positions offer the greatest slimming opportunities, or where to find a fellow slimmer willing to work with you? Now you can find out. Stuffed with brilliant shagging tips and...
So you've found yourself young, free and single again. This is a guide to getting your own back. From hoaxes to hit-and-run, these humorous ideas should inspire you to wreak havoc on the one so stupid as to think they could live without you, and to get the revenge you deserve.
The real use for the photocopier, pulling a stylish sickie, and avoiding Norman the techie: we've all been there. This book is a damning indictment of the world of work and a lifesaver in the office jungle!
Here is a compendium of also-rans and never-made-its. We're talking Betamax, the Sinclair C5, puffball skirts, sporks, the Millennium Dome... and countless other products that never quite cut it.
Ever wondered how many rude words existed to describe the unmentionable? Tarnish your tongue with this colloquial collection of obscenities and filthy four-letter words. Even the foulest potty-mouth will be inspired by the vulgar vocabulary amongst these profane pronouncements, gathered from the crudest crevices of the English language.
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"Well-bred people arrive as nearly at the appointed dinner hour as they can. It is a very vulgar assumption of importance purposely to arrive half an hour behind time; besides the folly of allowing eight or 10 hungry people such a tempting opportunity of discussing your foibles."
It may be 150 years since this essential etiquette bible was first published, but within its pages is timeless advice...
Have moles always lived in holes?
Why are blondes so stupid?
How much radiation can a pickled onion withstand?
The world is full of really important questions. You will find none of them in this book. What you will find is plenty of nonsense, lots of lies and just enough truth to make you double check the ‘facts’ with a reliable source.
Following the huge success of the New Scientist books Does...
