http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 20:35:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-24408 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:31:56 +0000 arrghgarry 24408@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Bible . </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23259 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:18:06 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23259@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>unfortunately he would probably like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23258 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:11:15 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23258@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have you considered reciting some Vogon poetry to the pen-pusher behind this idea? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23254 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:06:54 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23254@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Talking of Vogons today I found that online electronic applications cannot be forwarded to me, I have to go over to Registry, where they print them out. 5 milliseconds to get it into the University, 9 days to get it to me.</p> <p>It goes something like this - Form A must be signed before the student can be admitted to the course, but must be accompanied by a completed and signed form B, agreed by the Dean. Form B can only be completed when accompanied by a signed off form C. Form C can only be completed when a signed and authorised form A is present.</p> <p>My brain is about to explode. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23252 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:02:10 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23252@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Look what you've made me do!<br /> I've felt compelled to go and rummage in the attic to dig out HHGTTG, and the other four parts of the trilogy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22713 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:58:22 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 22713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ben Elton's "Stark" made me cry with laughter on a beach (someone having his nose bitten off I seem to recall) although his predictions of oceanic "Total Toxic Overload" are coming uncannily, and frighteningly, true. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22707 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:49:23 +0000 Doctor Moptop 22707@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oxbridge - you have the soul of a meringue! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22668 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:35:02 +0000 Oxbridge 22668@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Get your coat, Rick, you've pulled. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22629 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:30:07 +0000 rickwestwell 22629@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672"! There's a real page-turner. I can't remember the author either - lovely bloke, good-looking chap, I recall. Wasn't he on Countdown, or something?</p> <p>Dr M - If I was only allowed one book for the rest of my life, I think I could cope as long as it was Saki.<br /> Ah... (Reaching for bookcase...) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22626 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:22:01 +0000 Doctor Moptop 22626@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Garrison Keiller's Radio Romance was taken from me in hospital as I was 'disturbing the other patients'. Hmmm.</p> <p>I had Saki in bed last night. Doesn't matter how many times I read Esmé, it never fails to amuse. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22625 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:18:42 +0000 Scroat 22625@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How could we forget "Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672"? </p> <p>Such a catchy title.</p> <p>Can't remember who wrote it though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22618 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:13 +0000 Oxbridge 22618@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What was that one "Sense and Sensibility in Post-Cromwell Leicestershire 1640-1912" or something like that? That was a real knee-slapper, that was. [/quote]</p> <p>How soon they forget....</p> <p>Most 'humourous' writing ends up not being that funny IMHO, though then again I rarely read novels. That said, I just re-read Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, which is by far his best and blackly hilarious at times. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22609 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:58:29 +0000 Chip Paper 22609@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hello all, haven't been around for ages but...</p> <p>Jeni, yes World According to Garp has GOT to be the most weird and memorable book I've ever read. Wonderful. </p> <p>Also recently read, Adolph Hitler - My part in his downfall (at long last). I thought it might be a tad dated but it was hilarious - anti-social bedtime reading... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21895 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:17:00 +0000 riesler 21895@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Christopher Brookmyre, Marshall Karp and Jasper Fforde are always amusing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21814 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:55:06 +0000 thackaray 21814@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I find Terry Pratchett novels' brilliant and I always laugh out loud at any travel guide books produced by Jetlag Travel Guides Ltd.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jetlagtravel.com/molvania/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jetlagtravel.com/molvania/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21616 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:43:54 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 21616@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"The Colour of Memory" by Geoff Dyer - I know just how he feels. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21592 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:41:36 +0000 rikkor 21592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What was that one "Sense and Sensibility in Post-Cromwell Leicestershire 1640-1912" or something like that? That was a real knee-slapper, that was. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21325 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:27:26 +0000 The All New Jeni B 21325@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Any of 'The Broons' or 'Oor Wullie' annuals ever.<br /> Especially the more recent ones where they make a valiant, but wholly unsuccessful, attempt at modernising the storylines. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21322 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:22:05 +0000 Svendo 21322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ive just read Frankie Boyles "My Shit Life So Far" while sitting in hospital waiting rooms for the last couple of days waiting to see if I have a DVT and there were several points where I actually LOL'd and made a Pfft! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21319 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:19:04 +0000 The All New Jeni B 21319@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"The World According To Garp", by John Irving.<br /> Brilliant, poignant, and lol too.<br /> The Robin Williams movie version was passable, but missed out so many important parts of the book. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21317 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:16:05 +0000 theumpire 21317@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spike M., yes ("He was a tall, handsome, cross-eyed man with eczema" - Puckoon); and Tom Sharpe too.</p> <p>Surprised nobody mentioned Catch 22 and Portnoy's Complaint.</p> <p>Must go, got to find out about Giles Smith. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21310 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:52:47 +0000 edward hack 21310@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Giles Smith has written TWO of the funniest books of all time.<br /> OK - so I haven't read all the books ever written, ever<br /> But both<br /> Lost in Music<br /> &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;<br /> Midnight in the Garden of Evil Kenievel<br /> are masterpieces of the comedy genre<br /> page 134 of MITGOEK has the best one liner ever written<br /> OK - so I haven't read all the one liners ever written, but..... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-16334 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:13:51 +0000 PluckyMunky 16334@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Tibetan Book of the Dead has it's funny moments but not all that many 'laugh out loud' passages. Ditto: Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Hard to chose between them, really. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-16317 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:06:47 +0000 Jimmy 16317@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I found this on some internet site, someone called 'Anna' trying to describe the HHGTTG film to others:</p> <p>"This movie is based off of a book that you will find in most white people’s bookcase. They love it because it has that sort of smart humor that will actually make them laugh. That’s right. You will see them laughing out loud while reading a book, if it’s this one, usually once every four pages." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-16202 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:14:06 +0000 Svendo 16202@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have to admit that I think it's the Spike Milligan books that have had the Ex-Mrs Svendo angriest because of a laugh while reading in bed causing her to wake.<br /> Rich Hall has written a few good books (one might have been under his Otis Lee Crenshaw monicker).<br /> Pratchett make me chuckle but not LOL.<br /> HHGTTG is an obvious choice although I think Ive read/heard/seen it that many times that I know the funny bits before they happen and so don't get the pleasure of the LOL moment. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-16127 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:04:56 +0000 Scroat 16127@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>1066 And All That.</p> <p>And Now All This. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724#post-16125 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:47:55 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 16125@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>At last, someone else who has read "A Smoking Dot in the Distance". I was drawn to it by the Glenn Baxter illustration on the cover.Unfortunately, I found it only mildly amusing. Perhaps I'll try it again.<br /> On the subject of books that I hoped would be hilarious, but weren't, I mention Your Monkey's Shmuck by Simon Louvish. According to one of the reviews 'Mr Louvish has enough combustible talent to earn the comparisons with Heller, Vonnegut and Swift that have come his way. The apposite adjective in the long run will likely be "louvish".'<br /> Wrong! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724#post-16113 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:57:56 +0000 PluckyMunky 16113@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Voltaire's Candide can still make me chuckle. Especially the woman, with one buttock, riding a horse. It must be the first example of the old comedy line: 'How do you ride a horse when you only have one buttock?'. 'With great difficulty'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724#post-16112 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:57:32 +0000 andhrimnir 16112@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ivor Gould's Smoking Dot on the Horizon.<br /> All of Tom Sharpe but particularly The Throwback - laughing now just thinking about it! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724#post-16102 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:04:19 +0000 Des Custard 16102@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Tom Sharpe Wilt books. Fine mix of clever funny and violent slapstick funny. </p>