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Peter Burgess

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7598000/7598964.stm

Radio 4 has made my day. What a brilliant list!

Which is your favourite? Mine is

People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It

I know a few people like that. 

 

mak

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #2

Lifelackington?  :tease:

 

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Peter Burgess

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #3

I don't THINK he's attached himself to ME?!  :ras:

 

Slug

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #4

I'm more worried about Avoiding Huge Ships, Bedford is, after all on the River Great Ouse, which is navigable to the sea, , well, as far as the town bridge anyway.

The last time we had Ships come all the way up from the sea, they were full of Bloody Vikings, Burning and a Pillaging and generally improving the Town

 

anfieldman

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #5

Pete,

That's a gem of a link!
I liked ''Living With Crazy Buttocks (Kaz Cooke - Penguin)''

What planet are these people on?

 

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ChrisB

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #6

Good link - but worryingly, I actually own and have read one of these books, and could see myself reading another two.

1989 (being a sea kayaker and wild camping on small islands), 1994 and 2000 (being a structural engineer)

Chris

 

AndyF

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• Sep 5, 2008

• #7

One of the early ones in this genre was "Pecked to death by ducks" by Tim Cahill

 

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mikem

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• Jul 4, 2017

• #8

Although it was oddly named on purpose & included a chapter on Lechuguilla...

Mike

 

royfellows

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• Jul 4, 2017

• #9

"The Changing Texture of Drying Paint"

Think about it

 

Dave Tyson

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• Jul 4, 2017

• #10

There is a fuller list on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookseller/Diagram_Prize_for_Oddest_Title_of_the_Year

I particularly like the winner in 2009:

"Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes"

Sounds an excellent present for my needlework mad partner 

Dave