The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners

Man Walks Into A Bar

Packed with some of the funniest jokes around, this is the biggest and best joke book there is

Billing itself as "the ultimate collection of jokes and one-liners" pretty much sums up this 550-page book

Stephen Arnott is the author of Now Wash Your Hands! a cultural history of the toilet, The Languid Goat is Always Thin, a collection of the world's strangest proverbs, and Eating Your Auntie is Wrong, a collection of the world's strangest customs. Born in Jamaica, he currently lives in Peterborough with his partner and daughter. Mike Haskins is a comedy writer for TV and radio. His writing credits include everything from Smith and Jones and Smack the Pony to Freddie Starr and Russ Abbot. He is the author of Drugs: A User's Guide and lives with his wife and daughter in Norwich. They both enjoy nothing more than a good joke.

Man Walks Into A Bar is a one-stop shop for anyone who likes to hear and tell jokes. The jokes are ordered thematically - wives, husbands, doctors, lawyers, the French, the Germans, jokes about nuns, jokes about monkeys, the lot. There are also regular panels which group jokes by type too - Essex girls, changing a lightbulb etc. Our material will turn you into the toast of your local pub or make you loathed in your own home - remember, it is all in the telling. From the sublimely erudite to stuff Frank Carson would turn down (the book has a 'world's worst jokes' section), this book can service you with every joke you'll ever need. 
 
What do you call an eskimo chav? 
Innuinnit 
 
What did the zen student say at the hamburger stand? 
Make me one with everything 
 
What's Irish and lives in the garden? 
Paddy O'Furniture

The World's Strangest Customs

Eating Your Auntie Is Wrong

Hilarious and astounding customs from every culture and age

Stephen Arnott is the author of Now Wash Your Hands! a cultural history of the toilet, and The Languid Goat is Always Thin, a collection of the world's strangest proverbs and Sex: A User's Guide. Born in Jamaica, he currently lives in South London with his partner and daughter.

Crossing continents and centuries Stephen Arnott brings us invaluable information about all kinds of bizarre regional customs - from sexual practices to the received wisdom on cannibalism - that could save you from embarrassing local faux pas while travelling. 
 
Did you know that amongst the Tartars, relations of the bride and bridegroom would traditionally divide into two groups and fight each other until some had suffered bleeding wounds? It was thought that causing blood to flow in this way would ensure the couple had strong sons; or that in Hungary, a cure for infertility was to beat a barren woman with a stick? The stick having previously been used to separate mating dogs; or that amongst some Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales that men who had any contact with their mothers-in-law would suffer terrible hard luck? The threat was so great that married men even avoided looking in their mother-in-law's general direction.

Stephen Arnott

Everything you always wanted to know about the more curious aspects of sex but were afraid to ask: the history of sex; sex and religion; sex and the law; sexual customs around the world; the biology of sex; the physiology of sex, anatomical curiosities; Gay and lesbian sex; sex and the animal kingdom; the great sex manuals; sex in literature, film and art; sex aids and toys; aphrodisiacs; masturbation; pornography; famous sexual athletes (and famous flops); the language of sex; kinks and fetishes; perversions; urban myths, tales of outrageous behaviour and a catalogue of bizarre facts and figures. Did you know---One of the lesser-known fetishes is Axillism ? the erotic attraction of armpits.--In the Lebanon it is legal for a man to have sex with any female animal, but if he has sex with a male animal it is punishable by death.--Cleopatra is said to have owned one of the world's first vibrators. Cleopatra's toy didn't run on batteries, it was insect powered - a small, hollow implement full of buzzing bees.--Arab fishermen used to have sex with any 'dugong' (sea-cow) they accidentally drowned in their nets. This practice was meant to stop the dead animal's relatives seeking revenge and drowning the fisherman.

Stephen Arnott

Praise for Sex: A User's Guide

a mind-bogglingly good read

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