Wilt On High by SHARPE T

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Category: Humour

Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shado w of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt's talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place- in the middle. ...Show more

Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe

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Category: Humour

Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter -with hilarious and catastrophic results. ...Show more

Sandy's Selection and Back at Our Selection

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Category: Humour

Pick of Punch

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Category: Humour

Pick of Punch by Alan Coren

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Category: Humour

Should I Flush My Goldfish Down the Loo? by Joe Joseph

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Category: Humour

I returned home to discover that one of my goldfish was very unwell. I extracted it from the bowl, to prevent it infecting the rest, and put it into isolation in a water-filled jar, hoping that it might recover. But when my partner came home, he just wanted to flush the poorly goldfish down the lavatory . Having discovered that our views on the sanctity of life are so far apart, should I leave him? " When visiting tourist sites, I like to wander around, taking it all in. But my enjoyment is constantly interrupted by people taking photographs. Am I duty bound to keep watching them closely, so that I avoid walking in front of them during a snapshot, or should I let them do it at their own risk?" When I was buying a camera, the salesman demonstrated my chosen model and totted up the extras, which included an extended warranty. We had to have this, he said, because just before it expired we could stomp on the camera and claim another: manufacturers know that customers do this and factor it into the price. Should we have reported him to the manager? Or the manufacturer?"I ordered several cases of wine from the supermarket and they delivered one too many. Can I drink it without guilt?" ...Show more

Grantcheter Grind by Tom Sharpe

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Category: Humour

The World According to Twitter: Crowd-sourced Wit and Wisdom from David Pogue (and His 350,000 Followers) by David Pogue

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Category: Humour

David Pogue's new book has been created with content gathered on Twitter.com. The World According To Twitter is a hilarious and occasionally poignant collection of the everyday genius of the online masses, curated by the author's hugely popular Circuits column in the New York Times. The book is great bi g, wonderful social networking experiment in which hundreds of thousands of people have joined their voices to create a delightful, moving, laugh-out-loud record of shared human experience. Along with his daily posts about technology, the author has been posing clever, thought-provoking questions to the 'Twittersphere'. The responses he receives - in tweets of 140 characters or less - are frequently brilliant. The Twitter questions range from the earnest and curious to the downright ingenious. The answers are frequently brilliant. A recent call to invent an ancient Chinese proverb yielded hundreds of hilarious responses in a matter of minutes. Examples include 'a swarm of houseflies will never make money', 'the man who quotes himself does credit to neither: and "the pit is always smaller than the plum'. ...Show more

The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll

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Category: Humour

The second book in the Agnes Browne trilogy, the basis for the BAFTA-award winning TV series Mrs Brown's Boys. Continuing the hilarious saga of the ups and downs, minor scrapes and major run-ins of the seven children of Agnes Browne, The Mammy of the bestselling novel of the same name. Full of joy, humo ur, pathos and the raw vernacular of the Dublin streets. Agnes Browne and her seven 'chisellers' take on the world ... and win! It's three years since Redser's death and Agnes Browne soldiers on, being mother, father and referee to her fighting family of seven. Helped out financially by her eldest, and hormonally by the amorous Pierre, Agnes copes with family tragedy, success and the move from the Jarro to the 'wilds of the country' -- suburban Finglas. And when the family's dreams are threatened by an unscrupulous gangster he learns a costly lesson -- don't mess with the children of Agnes Browne! With a new introduction by the author, Brendan O'Carroll. ...Show more

ANCESTRAL VICES by TOM SHARPE

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Category: Humour

The proud but obscure Petrefact family have survived by keeping their heads down, but when Ronald is elevated to the peerage he engages Prof Yapp to write the family history. Yapp's dogged quest for the truth is not popular with the Petrefacts.

Playing Poker with the SAS: A Comedy Tour of Iraq and Afghanistan by Tom Gleeson

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Category: Humour

Over Christmas and New Year 2006–07 I went to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and some other countries I cannot name, to entertain the Australian troops. It was not because I wanted to aid the war effort. It was not because I wanted to support the diggers. It was just because I wanted t o have a bit of a look. This entertaining and eye-opening book is comedian Tom Gleeson’s account of what he saw when he went to entertain Australian troops in the Middle East. Showing that he’s willing to do anything to get a laugh – even get shot – Tom does all kinds of stuff he would never usually be allowed to do: fire machine guns, drive tanks in a drag race, hang out in the Green Zone in Baghdad, and play poker with the SAS. It’s a trip that changes his life. ...Show more

Driven to Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson

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Category: Humour

Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable disasters ÃÃ&Acir c;ƒÃ‚‚ƒÃ‚¢Ã¢Â‚¬Â¦). Or he would, if there weren't so many things competing for his attention first. So much to get off his chest. The world according to Clarkson is a perplexing place, filled with thorny subjects like: * The prospect of having Terry Wogan as president * Why you'll never see a woman driving a Lexus * The unforeseen consequences of inadequate birth control * Why everyone should spend a weekend with a digger Fearless, independent, surprising and laugh-out-loud funny, Driven to Distraction is full-throttle Clarkson at his best; a unique look at the joys, absurdities and frustrations of modern life. With wheels. Buckle up, get comfortable, and hold on tight. There's no one who writes about cars like Jeremy . . . ...Show more