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jacobsen
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Chitty Chitty bang ban
Car gets jail sentence for inappropriate behaviour in parking lot.
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Chitty Chitty bang ban
Car gets jail sentence for inappropriate behaviour in parking lot.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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The Moor's Last Sig. Salman Rushdie
The Islamic equivalent of the Ship closes after one of the hosts writes a controversial book
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SvitlanaV2
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Michael Drosnin, The Bible Cod . This study reveals the Bible's hidden piscine prophecies.
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Boadicea Trott
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Wilkie Collins' The Woman in Whit - a mysterious stranger, dressed completely inappropriately for Whitsun, makes a sudden appearance and causes liturgical chaos......
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SvitlanaV2
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Another 'book of the film': Happy Fee . The novel is about a scheming fat cat lawyer. Its title is an example of a 'transferred epithet', because clearly it's the lawyer who's happy, rather than his (hefty) fee....
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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White Teet
Zadie Smith explores the perception that Bangladeshi immigrants to London sucked the Mother Country dry.
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SvitlanaV2
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Originally posted by Charles Had a Splurge on:
White Teet
Zadie Smith explores the perception that Bangladeshi immigrants to London sucked the Mother Country dry.
Oh, for ages I've been trying to think of something to say about 'White Teet'! Well done for coming up with something relevant and not at all vulgar!
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Mein Kamp -- Adolph Hitler reminisces about summers spent in the woods.
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mousethief
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Chicken Soup with Ric
Cookbook from the restaurant owned by the lead singer of the Cars.
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jacobsen
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Chicken soup for the sou
How to live on a dollar a day in Paris.
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
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L'organist
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The Wave
Virginia Woolf talks about 20th century hair-fashions ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Moby-Dic -- Yes, you can teach a killer whale to speak Latin.
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mousethief
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The Great Good Thin
A fairy-tale princess bakes an exemplary cracker.
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The5thMary
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The Maltese Falco
Dashiel Hammett's suspense novel about a young woman, a young man, and a singer of dubious talents as they star in a bargain basement video of "Amadeus".
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The5thMary
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The Thin Ma
The husband and wife detectives, Nick and Nora Charles and their dog, Diet Shasta try to solve a mystery of what happened to a good friend's fat. She WAS fat after she gave birth to six children and then attended a party, drank a lot, woke up in a strange bed and found that she only weighed 98 pounds. Hilarity and madcap gaiety ensue.
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jacobsen
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The Church Explorer's Guid
How to be saved most economically in Lowland Scotland.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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L'organist
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can we stretch a point - seems too good to miss out on reading
Lord of the Lies
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jacobsen
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The Invisible Ma
Are you my mummy?
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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You had me at Hell Mhairi McFarlane
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A.Pilgrim
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And for a classical reference, taking a liberal definition of 'book'...
Oedipu
... the prequel, in which the central character explores the stage of Freudian psychosexual development prior to the Phallic Stage (which was covered in the better-known book), and demonstrates a clear lack of anal-retentiveness.
A.
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jacobsen
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Green, green my valley? No!
Richard Llewellyn laments the lack of restorative work in the coal dust desert which the valley of his youth became.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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SvitlanaV2
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Delia Smith's How to Coo . Discover your inner pigeon.
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mousethief
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The True Believe
Eric Hoffer explains why faithful spouses don't suspect their mates of infidelity.
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jacobsen
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Three men in a boa
Gay pride celebrates, albeit frugally, since they can't afford one each.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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L'organist
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The Six Wives of Henry VII
Antonia Fraser unearths startling new evidence which completely alters out views of the Tudor court and may have repercussions for the Crown today.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Three men in a boa
Gay pride celebrates, albeit frugally, since they can't afford one each.
I like this a lot. But, my first take on it goes something like this:
A constrictor with three big lumps drags himself from drug store to drug store, searching for Tums.
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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jacobsen
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The Gay Pride celebration also seems to be somewhat select.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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mousethief
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Treasure Is LAN
By spinning the gold into ethernet cables, Long John Silver is able to hide it in plain sight.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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The Goodbye Loo
A rather gory story of the little room of no return, where you end up spending rather more than a penny!
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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The Fal
Albert Camus messes about on a Cornish River and sheds his existential angst.
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Cara
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The Loo of Youth
Alec Waugh looks back nostalgically at the little rooms of his younger days...
(credit to EE )
Oh whoops, it's not the last letter of the whole title.
Sheesh. Oh well.....
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Pondering.
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Aravis
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Out of the Silent Plane
CS Lewis learns hang-gliding.
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Mudfrog
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The Hobbi The story of one man's spare-time interest in learning to spell.
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G.K. Chesterton
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L'organist
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Devices and Desire
PD James' most unexpected book, showing an alarming in-depth knowledge of the Anne Summers catalogue ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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mousethief
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The Hunchback of Notre Dam
Quasimodo falls to his death from the top of the French hydroelectric project.
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Frank Herbert's Dun
Adolescent aristo with a messiah complex is forced to leave his lush home world and live on a very unpleasant planet where everything is brown.
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roybart
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Les Miserable
Third and last novel in Victor Hugo's famed trilogy THE TRAVAILS OF LES. Sad conclusion to the tale of a young man, Les, who has devoted his life to the pursuit of sexual pleasure (Les In Lust)and great riches (Les and Mammon).
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mousethief
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The Sign of Fou
Sherlock Holmes goes crazy in French.
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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Precious Ban
Gollum has a harelip and so isn't considered worthy to possess the One Ring.
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mousethief
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The Pelican Brie
John Grisham's thriller about a new kind of cheese.
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roybart
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Julia
"He was an Emperor. He was an Apostate. He was ... a woman." The true, uncensored version of Gore Vidal's novel of ancient Rome.
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-- Roger Scruton
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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Fantastic Mr Fo
Roald Dahl's tribute to Dario Fo, the Italian Nobel Laureate.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factor
Charlie doesn't get to see where Willy Wonka's confectionary is made, but gets fobbed off with his representative. Poor Charlie.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour -- A French cardiologist discovers at last the cause of His Majesty's chronic chest discomfort.
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jacobsen
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Blue Heave
Rabbi Blue tells the story of his stomach upset...
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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Roger Hargreaves most controversial children's book
Mr. Bum
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jacobsen
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Little Miss No Is!
So young, and so disenchanted with life, the universe and everything.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
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mousethief
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Of Mice and Me
Cage cleaner in a medical research facility tells all.
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L'organist
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Diamonds are for Eve
Ian Fleming's admiration for attractive women reaches new heights.
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