The author of Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again, both winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, returns with a new collection guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you scratch your head at the absurdities of life in the early years of the new millennium. In slyly ironic, pointedly witty essays, Black takes aim at the vagaries of the English language, the moribund political correctness movement, and a host of rural and urban eccentrics. In fact, there's not much that Black won't write about, be it the banality of bumper stickers, the ingenuity of crows, or such everyday subjects as outhouses, hammocks and blue jeans. So sit down, settle back and loosen your belt to leave room for a belly laugh or three. Flash Black is witty, weird, one hundred percent Canadian and guaranteed to delight.
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"Arthur Black is outrageously funny, but . . . beneath that razor-sharp edge of brandished wit lies one very clever artist." -Saskatoon Star Phoenix --Review
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Arthur Black's growing collection of award-winning books include Pitch Black, Black Tie and Tales (Stoddart Publishing) and Black in the Saddle Again, all of which won him the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. He hosted CBC Radio One's Basic Black program from 1983 until 2002, while also using his comedic talents to host Life Television Network's Weird Homes and Weird Wheels. His recently released audio CD, Planet Salt Spring, features tales from his adopted home of Salt Spring Island, BC Canada.
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When it comes to sailing, sailing over the bounding main, I is not the b'y that built the boat, and I'se definitely not the b'y that sailed 'er. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Andy Bahr, Levi Strauss, Louise Rafkin, North American, Dick Assman, Heather Logan, Henry Franzoni, San Francisco, Duke Proctor, Lady Godiva, Outer Baldonia, Shizo Kanakuri, Thunder Bay, Brian Charania, Eddie the Eagle, Hugh Hefner, Mackenzie Delta, Reuben Pardo, Sam Goldwyn, Slaw Rebchuk, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl, They're Everywhere New!
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When it comes to sailing, sailing over the bounding main, I is not the b'y that built the boat, and I'se definitely not the b'y that sailed 'er. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Andy Bahr, Levi Strauss, Louise Rafkin, North American, Dick Assman, Heather Logan, Henry Franzoni, San Francisco, Duke Proctor, Lady Godiva, Outer Baldonia, Shizo Kanakuri, Thunder Bay, Brian Charania, Eddie the Eagle, Hugh Hefner, Mackenzie Delta, Reuben Pardo, Sam Goldwyn, Slaw Rebchuk, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl, They're Everywhere New!
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- Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: King Lear by William Shakespeare on page 64
- John Steinbeck (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by Warren G. French on page 21
- Our Kings and Queens: Victoria Hb (Our Kings & Queens) by Margaret Stephen on page 73
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 64
- Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer on page 103
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