Douglas Adams, John Lloyd: The Meaning Of Liff

[Puddleglum]

One of the funniest and bizarrest books ever. Basically a dictionary of place names given obscure meanings for things that have no word in every day language. If you don't laugh at some of them you have no soul!

 

[Ronny]

Those are pretty funny, I will have to read through them all now

 

[lies]

I don't think that link's entirely legal.

The Meaning of Liff (or The Deeper Meaning of Liff) is a fun book though.

 

[Stewart]

If you don't laugh at some of them you have no soul!

A guy in work had this in recently and was literally pissing himself at the descriptions, often reading them aloud so that we all got the "benefit" of them. I must have no soul as I didn't find it to be particularly funny.

 

[ruby]

stewart weres your sense of humour go? but each to there own eh

 

[Stewart]

I have a sense of humour. I just didn't find the randomness of it to be very funny. Now, if they had used the place names and tried to fit an explanation around that based on the sound and rhythm of the place names then it would have been funny. As it is, it's just a list of random place names with a completely unrelated description beside it.

Fair enough that I sniggered at a few descriptions having experience of the situations described therein but the place names didn't fit so it wasn't, in my opinion, funny.

I find it hard to find comedy in writing unless, of course, I'm reading quotes by Groucho Marx or there's some serious wordplay being performed.

 

[ruby]

fair enough mate!