Bred Any Good Rooks Lately? (Intrepid Linguistic Library) (Mass Market Paperback)

~ James Charlton (Author)

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Product Description

A collection of stories that end with a malaproped quotation or popular phrase features the writing of Roy Blount, Jr., John D. MacDonald, Peter Schickele, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, Anna Quindlen, Tony Hillerman, and Peter Straub. Reprint.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Laurel (February 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440214580
• ISBN-13: 978-0440214588
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,807,662 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Bantastic Fook, July 31, 2001

By	Henry Raddick (London UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I love spoonerisms and puns and this book has a ton of them. My favourite example in the book is the one where Anne Widdecombe made her speech to the Tory faithful on the evils of European monetary integration. She meant to say "I don't want a European to snatch my pound" but she ended up saying pound my snatch, which made for an image I tried in vain to supress in my imagination. All in all an excellent light read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very bunny fook, October 20, 2002

By	magellan (Santa Clara, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

Many people don't know the spoonerism was eponymously named after the famous professor Spooner, who was especially prone to these when he got excited. One time when he went to church, back in the days when they still had assigned pews, he found a woman occupying his seat, and said to her: "Mardon me padam, you are occupuing the wrong pie, may I sew you to another sheat?"

Overall, a very good book on this and other funny verbal conlabfulations. Oops, I mean confabulations.

4.0 out of 5 stars A funny little anthology, June 6, 2005

By	Ellis Godard (Moorpark, CA United States) - See all my reviews

To give more examples than the other the other reviewers already have might spoil the fun. But what they don't mention is that this is a collection, with stories and tales by Stephen King, Annie Dillard, Isaac Asimov, Mark Harris, John Haldeman, Lawrence Block, Willard Espy, Mark Strand, and a few dozen others. Puns, spoonerisms, and the like aren't quite my thing. But if they're up your alley, you'll love this collection - a poot on each hage! Uh... hoot on each page. ;)