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- From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
- Subject: The AFU Book List
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- > There's a book named "Why Clocks Run Clockwise and other Imponderables"
- > by David Feldman.
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- BOOKS?!?! Did you mention BOOKS, son!?! Why didn't ya say so sooner!
-
- I haven't published this in quite some time.
-
- Terry "Books R Us" Wood
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- Here's the OFFICIAL AFU BOOK LIST -- Suggested Reading for when your
- news feed is down.
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- If you can't find anything of interest on this list, you should probably
- be reading alt.sex or rec.arts.cooking.
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- If you know of a "good book" that isn't on this list, send it to me and
- maybe (just maybe) it will end up on this list :-) (You know how PICKY
- I am). Seriously, I'm always on the look out for books to read, so send
- 'em in.
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- RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE A.F.U COLLECTION:
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- Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the
- Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which it Gave Rise
- by A.W. Brian Simpson, published by the University of Chicago Press, 1984.
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- This book is a great source of information about cannibalism in the
- Victorian age and covers not only the case of the Mignonette, but also
- the Alferd Packer trial and various other celebrated cases of "you are
- what you eat." Although Mr. Simpson has a lot of fun with his subject,
- this book is obviously well researched and includes a nice bibliography.
- An excellent reference when debunking cannibalism ULs.
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- The Vanishing Hitchhiker Jan Harold Brunvand
- The Choking Doberman Jan Harold Brunvand
- The Mexican Pet Jan Harold Brunvand
- Curses! Broiled Again! Jan Harold Brunvand
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- If you haven't read these, you can't be appointed an honorary TERRY.
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- The Straight Dope Cecil Adams
- More of the Straight Dope Cecil Adams
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- "The Official Handbook of Practical Jokes", - Peter Vanderlinden
- publ Signet, $3.50, ISBN 0-451-15873-3
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- "The Second Official Handbook of Practical Jokes" - Peter Vanderlinden
- publ Signet, $3.50, ISBN 0-451-16924-7 illustrated (Lord help us)
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- Both books rated "It's the least he deserves" by 4 out of 5 AFU readers.
-
- Note: These 2 books SHOULD BE PURCHASED (don't wimp out and go to the
- public library and GET THEM FOR FREE) as Peter needs the money.
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- Rumor! Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
- More Rumor! Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
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- Big Secrets William Poundstone
- Bigger Secrets William Poundstone
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- The Dictionary of Misinformation Tom Burnam
- More Misinformation Tom Burnam
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- Books by David Feldman:
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- Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? Who put the butter in butterfly?
- Why do dogs have wet noses? How to win at just about everything
- When Do Fish Sleep? Imponderables
- Do Penguines have knees?
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- These are short subject books -- a couple of paragraphs are
- devoted to each subject. Some like that format -- some don't.
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- Books by David Michael Feldman:
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- "Birth control in Jewish law"
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- This book deals with marital relations and contraception. What
- does it have to do with AFU? Your guess is a good as mine, but
- it came up in the computer search for "David Feldman". It could
- have been him, so it must be true. Or something like that.
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- The Day that lightning chased the housewife and other mysteries of science
- edited by Julia Leigh and David Savold
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- The "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" series (3 volumes) - Bathroom Reader
- Institute, Inc.
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- Piled Higher and Deeper: The Folklore of Campus Life Simon J. Bronner
- Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1990.
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- Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results
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- Eccentric Lives and Pecular Notions (??? It was put out in 1990 by Bantam)
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- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Martin Gardner 1952/1957
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- The Devouring Fungus (Tales of the Computer Age) - Karla Jennings
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- Bare-Faced Messiah - Russel Miller
- (It's about L. Ron Hubbard NOT Grizzly Adams)
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- The Journal of the Institute for Hacks TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT -
- Brian M Leibowitz
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- Mrs. Byrnes' Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Obsolete Words - ???
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- Dictionary of Historical Slang - Eric Partridge
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- High School - David Owen
- David pretends to be a High School Student at the age of 27.
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- Anomalies and Curiosities Of Medicine - Gould, George M. 1848-1922.
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- Monkey On A Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas - John Hubner
- and Lindsey Gruson. With a title like this, you'll get no sleep at night.
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- Our Marvelous Native Tougue: The Live and Times of the English Language -
- Robert Clairborne (Author of The Birth of Writing). Probably some college
- student somewhere is suffering with the book as a text and here I am
- recommending it as "lite" reading.
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- You Know What They Say - Alfie Kohn.
- Not quite an urban legend book, but should appeal to the same crowd.
- Recommended for skeptics in general.
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- Any current almanac, for those "factual" ULs
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- MAYBE RECOMMENDED:
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- Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things"
- (Terrys say "it seems okay, but it's kind of boring")
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- Any issue of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS (although issues with JFK or UFOs on
- them are usually better than ones with farmers and 25 Ft grasshoppers)
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- NOT RECOMMENDED:
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- Book Of Answers - New York Public Library Research Service.
-
- TERRYs don't like it. It's boring, but it also says that the capital
- of Turkey is Istanbul. JUST about everybody knows it's Ankara.
- Anyway, a dumb mistake. (So there). TERRYs can be downright cruel.
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- Myself and the following READERS of A.F.U are to blame for this list:
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- "twcaps@dante.lbl.GOV" 30-MAY-1991
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- "Peter.Vanderlinden@Eng.Sun.COM" 30-MAY-1991
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- "AXM22@PSUVM.PSU.EDU" 30-MAY-1991
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- "wichers@husc.harvard.EDU" 31-MAY-1991
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- "bls@robin.svl.cdc.COM" 31-MAY-1991
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- "jsl@unix.cis.pitt.edu" 3-JUN-1991
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- "daniel@psych.toronto.edu" 3-JUN-1991
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- "cook@rpi.EDU" 4-JUN-1991
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- "cmdglv@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.EDU" 22-JUL-1991
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