Just My Typo: From 'sinning with the choir' to 'the large hardon collider' by Drummond Moir (compiler)

Just My Typo: From 'sinning with the choir' to 'the large hardon collider' by Drummond Moir (compiler)
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Category: Humour
Reviewer: Sue Magee
Summary: Hilarious! Don't read it all at once or you look and sound as though you need medical assistance.
Buy? Yes	Borrow? Yes
Pages: 192	Date: October 2012
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 978-1444759976
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Warning: this book can seriously damage your reputation. Laughing in pubic will be the least of your worries. You will reach the stage where teas run down your face and you snort in politically incorrect fashion at the disfigured man who has always had a car on his face, or the one who could not find the cash to buy a house and had to burrow. You'll snigger at the charmless who become harmless but it will be up to you as to whether or not you agree that love is just a passing fanny. Personally I felt very sorry for the man who studied and became an unclear physicist.

It is, as you might guessed, a collection of typos, some of which made it into print and other which narrowly escaped. Those of us who've read the Guardian (or the Gruaniad as it was once known) will know that it seems to be accident prone in this area and the number of entries in the book supports this. Back in 2003 Sir Jack Hayward, chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers was reported as saying that his team was the worst in the First Division and would be the worst in the Premier League. This wasn't a Ratner moment: Sir Jack was referring to the teas.

You would expect that most of these typos would have been spotted, but then so should the sign at the (presumably very selective) school: PUPIL's ENTRANCE. Another sign - 'Absolutely No Parking. Offenders Will Be Prosecuted' - achieved the reverse of the desired effect when the full stop in the middle was omitted. These are local matters though: imagine the effect when we move onto the world stage. In 1924 a Birmingham newspaper announced that The Soviet Government Has Been Recognised By Great Britain As The Awful Government Of Russia but as recently as 2011 the BBC was keen that we should know that The Speaking Cock Turns 75 Years Old On Sunday, but the prize must go to Fox News for their Breaking News: Obama Bin Laden Dead.

Don't read it through in one sitting, tempting as it might be to see what's over the page. You do reach a stage where it's difficult for onlookers to establish if you're convulsed with laughter or in need of medical assistance. There's something for every taste and book which does read more than once. (Yes - I know - I was just as bad the second time.)

I'd like to thank the publishers for dropping a copy into the Bookbag.

If this appeals, you'll probably also enjoy Cliches: Avoid Them Like the Plague by Nigel Fountain.

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