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 The Meaning of Life

By Philip Bradbury

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273 deliciously fascinating pages of little known facts, curiosities, humour and challenging opinions. This is the world's first dictionary that pays little heed to strict facts and delves into our history, our psyches and our funny bones.

Many of the words we use have their meaning lost in antuquity and Philip has dug them out to be aired, like our laundry (dirty or clean), to be pondered on, chewed over and, sometimes rejected.

You'll be laughing, crying and totally confused - whatever you get out of it, it's the perfect book for the busy executive, the harrassed home-maker, with micro breaks and little time for seriousness. Try it. You'll be pleased you did ... you'll be amazed you did!

The Meaning of Life - random excerpts ...

Aaaaa - The slightly aghast word I uttered at the thought of writing a dictionary. [See Mmmmm and Zzzzz]
Abbreviation - A long word that means a short word.
Abomination - In Jewish literature (and the bible) it originally meant the intention of nationalists to become god-emperors in Rome (Revelation 17:4, 5, 21:27). It has now become to mean extreme aversion or an object of detestation.
Bollocks - The Elizabethan English nickname for a priest was a bollock. Because priests tended to have very long and boring sermons, talking about very little in particular, anyone else talking “a load of rubbish” was said to be talking bollocks. For some reason, many people nowadays think that bollocks means testicles, which it doesn’t.
Borborigmy - An internal fart - the audible bubbling in your stomach. No great relevance but just such a juicy word! [See Fart]
Bostrophedon - To write from left to right and then right to left, in alternate lines. This is from the Greek adverb which means ‘as the ox turns in ploughing’. You’ll probably never need to know this word but it is such a succulent word to say, I just couldn’t leave it out!
Corgalophialism - Like sychndieblocf, this word has yet to attract a meaning but as it’s such a mouth-watering, flowing word to savour, we just couldn’t leave it out.

The Meaning of Larf

By Philip Bradbury

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125 luscious pages of amusement for anyone who likes a laugh and some thoughtfulness. Gathered from hundreds of unsolicited emails over eons of monitor-staring pleasure, these tid-bits of nonsense, sense and otherwise gritty, pithy and rather silly jottings of so many scribes, most called Anony Mouse, cannot go unheralded.

For anyone with microseconds and micro-breaks, this is the perfect book to pick up, put down and read in between. Perfect for people in doctors' waiting rooms (to hit coughing patients with), coffee tables (under a broken leg) and for the car to amuse when stuck in traffic.

Try it, you'll like it ... no, you'll love it and wonder why you hadn't bought it before as it will make you the perfect party-joker and you'll never be lonely any more.

The Meaning of Larf - random excerpts ...

Altzheimers Test
... read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!
1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fart cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down.

Aviation Rules
From the Aust Aviation Magazine, June 2000:
1.Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
2.If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
3.Flying isn’t dangerous. Crashing is what’s dangerous.
4.It’s always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
5.The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.
6.The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.
7.When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky ...

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