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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]]==Trivia==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Pain1780724047|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersA Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=4.5|genre=Popular SciencePets|summary=The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...ItI struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn's also filled with exploding trousers, selft interesting or important -experimentationand probably both, I was expecting a coachmanmassive tome. But ''s leg that becomes a museum piece A Dictionary of Interesting and gas-powered radios. Important Dogs'' is actually ''Farmer Buckleya rich compendium of the world's Exploding Trousersmost significant and beloved dogs''and it' regales us s certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discoveryPeter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max. Part popular science book, part trivia They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each article is a treat to read, either as a fun-sized nugget, or when reading from cover to coverand every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter GillDon Behrend|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose the number 42 as the answer to life, the universe and everythingCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ... In a charming trivia book, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story of the book and the author and another 250 to find occurrences of 42 in the worlds of sport, crime, science and a wide range of other fields.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Winn|title=I Never Knew That About the River ThamesOther Interesting Questions
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|summary=Here are the remains of the building that could Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said to have sired two important British royal dynasties''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. Here is the place of ill-repute, where FIN'Rule Britannia' was premiered, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the world?! Because I did. Here too is the largest lion in the world. To where am I referring? Well the answer is either the Thames valley, or this very bookAnd you will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>1789016770
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareLloyd_1423|title=Why Can't Elephants Jump?|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Well? Why can't elephants jump? And while you're pondering that, think about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? What's the hole for in a ballpoint pen? How long a line could you draw with a single pencil? For answers to all these questions, and so many more1, then do yourself a favour and pick up the latest collection from the New Scientist's [http://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column]. Mick O'Hare was also kind enough 423 QI Facts to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick O'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBowl You Over|author=Phil Cousineau|title=Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird John Lloyd, James Harkin and Wonderful WordsAnne Miller|rating=3.5
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|summary=I formed a newYou may think me lazy, close friendship recently, and one of the first things I subtly dropped into things was the fact that I might use a different dictionary to other people. Probably but there was is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a subconscious thought forming that it would be better to make it known, in case I trod book such as this – you know you will have very little bearing on any toesits sales, said anything that didn't go down quite as well as I had planned. But thatand what's nothing compared to what Phil Cousineau has done more you hardly even need describe it – just dip in here, and there for he has written his own dictionarya few quotes, and got it published in a very nice, glossy, browsable sit back and relax knowing your job is done. ''Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28. Treadmills were once the harshest formof punishment after the death penalty. Alright, itNaked mole-rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.''s nothing like a complete dictionary, but everything is here in his own personal style - 250 main words, definitions, derivations and examples And the whole of usepage 52. OhThere, job done – and some modern-ish artworks as wellthe creators of this book certainly have done their job to perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1573444006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John AndrewsBrightside_101|title=The Economist Book 101 Things to Take the Stress Out of IsmsChristmas|author=Robin Snow
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|summary=I'm assuming all readers For many years one of this bookmy guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the beginning of December but, unfortunately, C seems to be coming earlier each year and this reviewthere are even shops where it never ceases to be imminent, which ramps up the stress levels considerably. So, will know a book which promises 101 things to take the meanings stress out of the words racism, atheism and CommunismC seemed like a good idea. But how What’s it about Orphism? Nestorianism? Vorticism? Or Tips like putting the exact difference between egoism, egotism, and egocentrism? I'll confess to ignorance sprouts on all of that second trio of words before reading this book, but was fascinated to find out what they were. (Orphism is boil in November or joining a religion originating in 6th or 7th century BC Greece based on which avoids the poems of Orpheus, who returned from Hades. I'll leave you to find out the definitions of the other two yourself!) Similarly, I was aware of all three of that final trilogycelebration altogether? Well, but am not sure I even knew there '''was''' a difference, let alone that I'd have come close to being able to actually define them all as this volume doesquite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682983</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susie DentBrightside_Worry|title=How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney 101 Things to Geordie, a National Companion|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Meeting a grammersow in a netty is more common than you might think - I'd put my revits on it. Having a neb around these pages I can find many different ways do instead of saying worrying about the above, as well - or should that be boco ways. But before this review comes out as complete cag-mag, I'd better say this book is just as you'd expect - an amenable, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom and slang, in A-Z dictionary form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewworld|author=Derrick Niederman|title=Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that definitely does what it says on the tin. Our author has the capacity to grab each number between one and two hundred, and wring it for all its worth - all the special status it might have in our culture (more easy with seven than, say, 187), all the special properties it might possess (perfect, triangular, prime), and as many other things mathematicians and so on would find of interest. Luckily there is enough here to make the book well worth a browse for us who would not deem themselves number buffs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071563710X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=AQA 63336|title=More Brilliant AnswersFelicity Brightside
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|summary=If youI don've got a question you can text those nice people at AQA 63336 and they'll do their best to provide you with a prompt and accurate answer. Over the last five years theyt think that I've answered some twenty million questions and each autumn they publish a book with ever been quite so worried about the best and most interesting state of the year's answers. There's some fun to be had in this year's book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary world as I have been of Foreign Words late - and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home I speak as someone who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Family|summary=Take various other apocalyptic moments. It almost certainly comes down to a look at lack of confidence in the cover design of this bookpeople who are supposedly in charge, and you'd whether it be mistaken for thinking this was from a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in political point of view or of our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homesstewardship of this planet we call home. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for referencewhat can be done about it? We've tried voting, arguing and a browser for demonstrating. Now we're down to pulling up the trivia buff seconddrawbridge and doing our best to think about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel VreemanLloyd 1342|title=Don't Swallow Your Gum1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Anne Miller
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|genre=LifestyleTrivia|summary='''BANG'''I love the way the QI elves play games with us with [[:Category:John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin|these books]]. That's not to say it's a game of pulling the wool over our eyes, for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the sources, so every page is replicated with the due links you need to search for proof of their statements. No, the sound game is Six Degrees of copious urban myths being shot downSeparation. And they'''BANG'''re so good at it, they can do most things in three. That's So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, you can get from how to make the sound of the old wives slamming the door, as their tales get revealed as baseless. an Orc army for '''CLICK'Lord of the Rings''films to record-breaking nipple hair. That's From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, is only three steps – and the noise lots of illpath carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand-informed websites make as they get closed downup, Ronald Reagan, in two more. All noises come due to this brilliant bookIt's only two jumps between Donald Trump and Charles Darwin, disconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin ScroggieLloyd_1411|title=Eye Spy: Uncovering the Secrets of the World Around 1,411 QI Facts To Knock YouSideways|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Signs are everywhereHandsome is as handsome does. I wasnAnd you know what else benefits from being curt and succinct, alongside old housewives't really saws like that one of those who ? Trivia. I always thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signs, positioned at the exit end of a QI books such as this one-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessaryto be handsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, or indeed as blatantly visiblefour (on rare occasion, which is where this pictorial guide three) statements to countless coded messagesthe page, signifiers and other similar factoids comes ina very nice little cubical hardback. Now they're being represented in paperback, but you know what? They're still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Lloyd_1339|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and 80s James Harkin
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|summary=Once youA spermologer ''ve done all the hard work (written is a book, found a publisher, decided on a design for the cover and all those things), one collector of the remaining difficulties must be deciding who you should dedicate the tome to. Assuming ittrivia's no Oscar speech, and you can't thank the world and his dog, you have to narrow it down somewhat and select . Just that special person whose name wins pride of place on the first page. Do sentence tells you then go with something cryptic and intriguing, or apparently banal and blatantly obvious? I'm sure most readers dona lot – we't even look at the dedications re once more in most books, but if you did, would you understand the significance realm of them? Would something saying ''To my wife'' make you look twicethe curt, or would that seem like a reasonably common way succinct approach to dedicate a book? In the world''Once Agains information and oddities. It says more, To Zelda'' you can discover however – beyond the stories you don't know behind weirdness of the stories you may well, as word is the author delves into obvious necessity for the detail behind ''Fifty Great Dedications''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=How To Make A Tornado|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year, another must-read book from word to exist – without people that could be called collectors of trivia you would not need the New Scientist. We've been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|polar bears]], [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|hamsters]]term. Now it's time to turn our attention to how to make a tornadoAnd rest assured, and all the other crazy experiments there are currently few people that scientists have done over stand as better spermologers than the yearschief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike AhernMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need From Skedaddle to note Selfie: Words of the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGeneration|author=Vivian Cook |title=It's All in a WordAllan Metcalf
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|summary=AhI have to go a roundabout way to introduce this book, the English languageso bear with me. That sine qua non, It stems partly from dictionaries and the prima facie lingua franca etymology of the world. Prima inter pares when it comes to taking influence and words language we use, but more so if anything from other tonguesa different couple of books, and responding in kind, to the chagrin their ideas of the Frenchgenerations. We The authors of those posited the idea that all use itthose archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in this day between and age we can update an internet dictionary overnight to absorb all the neologismssince – have their own cyclical pattern, like "iPhone"; we can put and the entire output history of an author into a computer humanity has been and it will count every word use up so we can find a fingerprint be formed by the interplay of a writer's stylejust four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. ItI don's a never-endingt really hold much store by that, fluid, changing entityand I certainly didn't know we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for better or worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680069</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tadg Farrington|title=The Average Life of the Average Person|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Back in school, we would often bemoan the idea of one? 'average', saying that like being Somebody must have put out an order'normal', if there were such a thing, who would even want to be it? There could be nothing worse, we thought, than being averageas someone here says of something else. Except...there is But in the same way as generations get defined by definition collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a whole lot worse than 'average' – the exact same amount that is better than averageclue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in fact. And that was the problemeach decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086235</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin LauranceHalliday_Cathedrals|title=Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World's Most Curious Birthday PresentsCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday
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|summary=Is there anything more suited to What makes a trivia book, yet so much thought overcathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is a village of 2, 000 people and serious, than the birthday present? It might be something completely throw-awaywasn't always a city, but mean always had a lot to the receivercathedral, as did Chelmsford. It might have cost 's not the giver an awful amount seat of moneya bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and be disregarded by the person expected to accept ithasn't had a bishop since 1690. And It's not a minster – that's something completely different, and if you think can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the givings other month, you're a better man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and takings we can understand abbeys, so it's only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with the rich definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and famous those it does have are sheer triviaby-passable, just think about the number for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of sociologists major importance, fine trivia and historians who would jump at the chance to explore, say, Hitler's given giftsgreatly worthy of our attention. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847246168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AQA 63336Bramley_Shakespeare|title=Brilliant AnswersThe Shakespeare Trail|author=Zoe Bramley
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|summary=Do you need an answer to a question? Have you got your mobile handy? Right – text that question to 63336It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the Home of Any Question Answeredman heralded as the greatest writer in the English language, and for £1 youEngland'll have the answer within minutess national poet, died. It might seem like magic but it's actually the result of Shakespeare has made a lot of people being profound mark on hand to research your problem our culture and give you heritage, yet many aspects of his life remain in the solutionshadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Over Here, Zoe Bramley takes the years 1.7 million people have asked over fifteen million questions and as reader on a special treat at the end journey through hundreds of each year AQA lets us have places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a look at some surprise to most. Filled with intriguing tidbits of information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, and the most interesting questions and answers places that they've seen in the course of the yearshe talks about, this is no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682169</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey TurnerHalliday_London|title=The Book of Big ExcusesLondon (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday|rating=34.5
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|summary=AhWhat makes a city? Is it the materials, we've all made excuses at one time or another. We've all done things we shouldn't have donesuch as the very London Stone itself, of mythological repute, that has moved around several times, then when caught out given and now forms part of a reason for it. Perhaps weWH Smith've even given excuses as stylish as Zambian tennis player Lighton Ndefwayls branch? (This has nothing, who said of his opponentcourse, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to walk.) Is it the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: "[HeWhitechapel by John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]] is , the bakers (or whoever set fire to the entire city from Pudding Lane) and the candlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from the Underground, whose one-time boss got a stupid man and medal from Stalin for his success, to the London Bridge itself, that in its own wanderlust means it's highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a hopeless player. He city, London certainly has a huge nose lot going for it as regards weird and is cross-eyed. Girls hate him. He beat me because my jockstrap was too tight and because when he serves he fartswonderful, and that made me lose my concentrationthe trivial yet fascinating. And, luckily for which I am famous throughout Zambia." Tracey Tuner us, so has collated some of the best excuses ever given into a handy collectionthis book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970553</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeHolland_Railways|title=Will Work for Nuts|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces a most daunting challenge. Girding his loins in anticipation of achieving his goal, he leaps into action, hell-bent only on success, never fearing the inherent danger. With death-defying stunts and leaps aplenty, he needs to use any vehicles he finds in his path, untold balancing skills, nerve-racking whippy plastic stick things, and an awful lot more. Finally his lithe, muscular frame lands near his target, Railways (Amazing and he sits back and eats his nuts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewExtraordinary Facts)|author= Niall Edworthy and Petra Cramsie|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's HandbookJulian Holland|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=With a publication date in early November, the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for this book. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't a self-help book, but a compendium of enlightening snippets. Off the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving it. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books for a surreptitious and delightful half-hour's browse before choosing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Danziger|title=The Thingummy|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Oh look, a trivia book. I don't think even I realised quite how many were published in the run up to every Christmas, but there are a lot. There is probably a name for the phenomenon. There is a name for that bit between your nose and your lips – below your nasal septum comes the philtrum. There's a correct scientific name for the tummy-grumbling noises we make when things leave our stomach for lower down. Heck, there's even a scientific name for those circular grooves on top of a Frisbee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561456X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Scroggie|title=Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos|rating=43
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|summary=Signs are everywhere. I wasn't really one How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until York (George VI)? They reopened the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signsRomney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, positioned at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. What's the exit end of worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a one-way street but facing London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the illegal way invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgium. After so many miles and so much drama, it's no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which This book is where this pictorial guide designed to countless coded messages, signifiers be an ideal source of quick articles and other similar factoids comes fun mini-essays for use inthe smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340976489</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angus Cargill (Editor)Donald_Words|title=Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book Words of Music Lists a Feather|author=Graeme Donald
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|summary=AhWords of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and the music listbook certainly delivers.It pairs seemingly unrelated words, digs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of course, provides rich pickings indeed for a book of this type and it is fascinating to see the hidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words.Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. balm For example, the link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' is easy to pop obsessives (see Nick Hornbygrasp: the word ''grotesque''s derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''High Fidelitygrottoes''). Other connections are just extraordinary, makeweight of copylike the so-crazy-you-couldn't-make-it-starved magazine editors, up link between ''furnace'' and staple of self-indulgent writers (see ''31 Songsfornicate'', also by Nick Hornby). The contributors These two words date back to this volume fall mainly into Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the latter categorycity's abandoned baking domes. No fewer And some connections are more than thirty five a little tenuous, seemingly just a collection of them supply their musical top tenswords banded together, ranging from as is the case with the ''insult'' and ''salmon'' pairing. One of my personal favourites: the fanatical Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to the frivoloussummon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao'', via a word the frankly frighteningmore well-heeled among us use instead of ''goodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam JordisonBinney_English|title=Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You DieThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney
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|summary=Without sounding like a braggart, I have done some pleasant things live in life. I've caught the first bus up to Machu Picchu, countryside and shared spend as much time as the sunrise with only weather will allow exploring it, so the llamaschance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. IWe've eaten strange things while on a full fortnight tour of Icelandmet Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. But closer to home, were I to have It's a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or York; I've never seen hardback and beautifully presented but its the film ET, which for a man of my age is something size of book that you slip into a claim to famepocket or handbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100553</amazonuk> Would it be rather superficial?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian CroftonLloyd_1234|title=History Without the Boring Bits1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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|summary=Now, I'm 'No US President has ever died in May.'' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named John.'' ''Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and good smells with their left.'' ''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to the gallon.'' ''The first person to admit I am not a wine buffoccupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweep's scrotum'. '' I know a lot more now than I did before my current relationship''The song 'Yes, but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smellWe Have No Bananas' was written by Leon Trotsky's nephew. '' Added ''In the 18th Century, King George I declared all pigeon droppings to that a blunt sense be the property of taste and Ithe Crown''m left saying . I know what hardly think I like when I drink it, and that's itneed to say any more. Review over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stevyn ColganBerenson_How|title=Joined-up Thinking: How to Connect Everything to Everything ElseSpeak Emoji|author=Fred Benenson
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|summary=I am in this book. And so therefore Emojis are you. So why donfun, and there't I like it quite as s so much as I should? To be more honest, neither to them than the smileys of us are in this book, although we could well days gone by ;) They can be. It is a trivia collection based on attesting the feeling language unto themselves, though, and I've found that everything is linked to everything and everyone else, if only you know how. Thus some members of the chapters introduce us to item A, which is linked to item Bahem, which relates to Colder generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book, whose story is incomplete without Dthen, and so on and lo and behold, before you know it yousounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with this 'language're back at A, having had no idea where we were going.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230712207</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Robert VanderplankLloyd_3rd|title=Uglier Than A Monkey's ArmpitQI: The Third Book of General Ignorance|rating=3.5|genreauthor=Trivia|summary=Now I've always been one for delivering a nice meaty insult. And if you think otherwise then you're just a #####ing ******** of a !!!!!!!!!!, with a &%&%&% for a $$$$$$. But I've been brought up with the usual British malaise when it comes to learning foreign languagesJohn Lloyd, and so beyond knowing that ''Leche!'' is a bit meaty in SpanishJohn Mitchinson, I could not help to cuss James Harkin and swear like whatever other languages might have for trooper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464485</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Hodgkinson |title=The Book of Idle PleasuresAndrew Hunter Murray
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