Download or read book Gordon is a Moron written by Vernon Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat written by Alex Games and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat takes a humorous tour through the fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often surprising history of the English language and its etymology. Author, humorist and word-sleuth Alex Games uncovers the trends, innovations and scandals that have shaped the meanings of our most popular words and expressions, from Chaucer to Internet jargon and Ancient Greek to American slang. Who was the original Jack the Lad, Gordon Bennett or Bloody Mary? Where do dodgy geezers and hooligans come from? What are skeldering, dithering and sabre-rattling? This amusing but rigorously researched account of English words and their origins combines the findings of the major BBC TV series and the nationwide Wordhunt, and is an entertaining treasure trove for English-language lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Balderdash Piffle One Sandwich Short of a Dog s Dinner written by Alex Games and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner is a thrilling ride through the provocative, bewildering and often downright bizarre world of language and etymology. From the brash jargon of celebrity magazines to the delicacies and feints of the euphemism, author and word-sleuth Alex Games has uncovered the remarkable stories that lie behind some of our best-loved words and expressions. By grouping words into distinct themes - such as put downs and insults, the vocab of fashionistas and the lingo of dodgy dealings - Balderdash & Piffle looks at the English language in a fresh and revealing light. Who was the original Jack the Lad? What is the tragic story behind the expression Sweet F.A.? Balderdash & Piffle will show you where thugs come from, why 'barmy' once had more to do with your beer than your brain, and how a little bit of 'hanky-panky' could literally work magic. From the 'Cloud-cuckoo-land' of Aristophanes to the town of Balaclava, this is a funny but rigorously researched account of English words and their origins. Drawing together sources as diverse as William Shakespeare, David Cameron and the Burnham-on-Sea Gazette, Alex Games recalls the trends, innovations and scandals that have produced some of our most familiar but least explored words and phrases. Accompanying a brand new series of the hit BBC television programme Balderdash & Piffle - and containing all the results of the 'Wordhunt' from the first series -this entertaining book is a treasure trove for English-language lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Am I Alone In Thinking written by Iain Hollingshead and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of the 'brilliant Telegraph Letters page', as Ian Hislop recently lauded it, will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of the 95 per cent of the paper's huge postbag which never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters inevitably arrive too late for the 24/7 news cycle, or don't quite fit with the rest of the day's selection. Others are just a little too whimsical, or indeed too risque, to publish in a serious newspaper. And more than a few are completely and utterly (and wonderfully) mad, such as the missives you'll find within these pages from someone who signs himself merely as "M", and believes himself to be the head of MI6. Now, the Telegraph gives the authors of these unpublished letters the stage at last. Baffled, furious, defiant, mischievous, they inveigh and speculate on every subject under the sun, from the rubbish on television these days to the venality of our MPs, from Kate Winslet's decolletage to this country's unhealthy obsession with marmalade. All those Telegraph readers who wondered if anyone else had noticed that the lunatics had finally taken over the asylum and sat down to write to their favourite newspaper to test the waters - they need howl into the void no longer. They are not alone.
Download or read book Depraved written by Paul Weightman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am a serial killer. You don't know me. You may know of my work, my accomplishments, my deeds and my triumphs. You will not, however, know of my mistakes, my near misses or what made and inspired me to be the person I am today.'... 'Emily Amelia Thibodeau' has a typical southern states name, but not an ordinary life. She's a woman who takes a great amount of care and derives a great amount pleasure from her work. She is a vicious sadistic serial killer. She kills for the love of the kill.' Emily and her twin brother were born in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. A medium size town with a population of around 54,650. Her parents were God fearing people and those who knew the Thibodeau family, had no idea that were living with a MONSTER!
Download or read book ON THE RECORDs written by Graham Sharpe and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2024-12-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Sharpe's vinyl love affair began in the 1960s and since then he has amassed over 3000 LPs and spent countless hours visiting record shops worldwide along with record fairs, car boot sales, online and real-life auctions. After leaving his job at William Hill, his retirement dream was to visit every surviving second-hand record shop across the world. Vinyl Countdown followed his journey to over a hundred shops across the globe and the adventures he accrued along the way, from Amsterdam and Angus, to Bedfordshire and Budapest, Tennessee and Wellington. Now, ON THE RECORDs: Notes from the Vinyl Revival explores the impact of recent global events on the record industry and considers the reasons why vinyl remains a beloved &– and booming &– format. Far from being yesterday's fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not only baby-boomers, but all ages. Every record a collector acquires comes with a story of its own, and the recent Covid-19 lockdowns prompted many vinylholics, including Sharpe, to look more closely at their reasons for collecting, take stock of existing collections and rediscover old favourites. ON THE RECORDs: Notes from the Vinyl Revival includes interviews and contributions from voices across the record industry &– shop owners, record company insiders, online/postal sellers, auction organisers, market traders of vinyl, amateur collectors &– who share their stories with candour, warmth and humour. A mesmerising blend of memoir, travel, music and social history that will appeal to anyone who vividly recalls the first LP they bought and any music fan who derives pleasure from the capacity that records have for transporting you back in time.
Download or read book Everything Is Going to Be K O written by Kaiya Stone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and heartfelt illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties. In Everything is Going to be K.O., Kaiya Stone writes about her experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school, to being diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia at university, and performing her own one-woman stand up show inspired by her journey. Always funny and unfailingly honest, Kaiya not only outlines the frustrations of having SpLDs, but also the ways in which they have fuelled her creativity. She calls for neurodiversity to be celebrated so that instead of questioning how we are 'supposed' to think, we instead take pride in our cognitive differences. Everything is Going to be K.O. is for anyone who knows, or has wondered, what it is like to live with learning difficulties today.
Download or read book New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Now That s What I Call Tuneful Tales written by Lulu.com and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a handful of students, their favourite songs and some crazy ideas, what do you get? Mixed stories of humour, love, the bizarre and the twisted. All named after popular hit singles by acts from all walks of life. Just like us. Songs like Crazy Frog in da House, Vogue, If I Were a Boy and The Theme From Shaft, are all given a new lease of life within these pages.
Download or read book Addicted to Murder written by Barry McCauley and published by Barry McCauley. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am a serial killer. You don't know me. You may know of my work, my accomplishments, my deeds and my triumphs. You will not, however, know of my mistakes, my near misses or what made and inspired me to be the person I am today.' Gary Robinson has an ordinary name, but not an ordinary life. He's a man who takes a great amount of care, and derives a great amount pleasure from his work. He is a mass murderer, a monster. He kills for the pleasure of it. This is his story, written as only he can tell it. It is not for the faint-hearted.
Download or read book No I m Not A Pilot written by Philip James and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Air Force is one of the most technologically advanced armed forces in the world, with a reputation for fighting well above its size and weight. To most people the first thought they have about the RAF is about pilots and aircrew – quite right too. But for every one of the pilots to take off and deliver a mission successfully there will be a team on the ground making that happen, actually around twenty people for each pilot (which makes the aircrew a vital, but relatively small percentage of the entire force). The daring exploits of our aviators are deservedly well documented, but what about the hundreds of people on the ground that never fly in combat missions and yet enable every single mission to actually happen? This book is a very personal and sometimes emotional journey giving an insight into life in the RAF from the late 1970s to the end of the century, for just one of the support trades – Trade Group No 1: the aircraft armourer. After all, as the founder of the RAF – Lord Trenchard is reputed to have said “without armament, there is no Air Force”. What the armourers say (tongue firmly in cheek) is that without armament, the RAF would be a glorified flying club!
Download or read book Gordon is a moron written by Vernon Coleman and published by Chilton Designs Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Download or read book Red Light and Bell written by Richard Cobourne and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Light and Bell The second in the showbiz thriller trilogy Daisy DeVilliers, celebrity PR, and Danny Owen, former investigative reporter, sit hand-in-hand in the VIP seats enjoying the much-anticipated return of global pop-megastar Martha.
Download or read book Leg It written by Alan Parkinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood in the eighties was fun for Peter Wood but nothing lasts forever. Running away seemed like his only option; as did his return fifteen years later. Will his old friends forgive him for going? Will his enemies forgive him for coming back? Will Pete win back the life he thought he had lost or will he Leg It? A classic tale of friendship, revenge, gangsters, and rubber pants.
Download or read book Whirligig written by Magnus Macintyre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bold new voice in British comic fiction, a hilarious story of a middle-aged man who drops everything to move to the wilds of Scotland--discovering both a strange breed of capitalism and the redemptive power of nature. Claypole is not "a large man." He is a fat man. A fat man with thin limbs, like an egg with tentacles. And life is not going well. He's alone, idle, and on the brink of a medical crisis when a childhood acquaintance makes him an offer he can't understand, can't talk about, but ultimately can't refuse. A week later, he finds himself in rural Scotland, plunged into an eccentric community at war over a wind farm. Claypole is supposed to be a backer, but he has no idea what side he's on, even though it may earn him a lot of money. All he wants is to look like a hero in front of the woman with the bright blue eyes who brought him here. To do so he must run the gauntlet of a family with many dark secrets, some dangerous hippies and their hallucinogenic potions, and the wilderness itself with all its threats and dangers. Whirligig is a raucous, joyous, often poignant comedy about the redemptive power of the countryside. Written with wit and an intuitive sense of pace and focus, it's a timeless classic about how--or how not--to turn your life around.
Download or read book Out of Bounds written by Val McDermid and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic evidence leads to places a Scottish cop never expected in “a thriller as steely and superlative as its heroine” (O, The Oprah Magazine). When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it’s as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Inspector Karen Pirie finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And again, she finds that nothing is as it seems. From a Diamond Dagger Award-winning author, Out of Bounds is a riveting cold case novel starring detective Karen Pirie, who’s been described by the Associated Press as “a formidable character worthy of her own series.” “I would like to see a great deal more of DCI Pirie.” —Irish Times
Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
