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World’s Worst Jokes by Tony Husband
Tony Husband is well known to Idler readers as the creator of the Neville cartoon and compiler of the celebrity jokes page. Tony also contributes to Private Eye where he does the Yobs strip. Now he has collected together all the worst jokes he could find. And the result is very funny.
The Idler joins forces with the men from QI for a celebration of curiosity and an attack on boredom, with plenty of William Morris
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A sumptuous compendium of one hundred pleasures, each lovingly described and illustrated.
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The US version of How To Be Free: "A work of crafty scholarship and
radical intent" - Michael Agger, Slate
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"Packed with wit, anecdotes and ideas ..." Word Magazine
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Take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.
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"Very funny...should be at the top of Tony Blair's reading
list." The Times
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Recommended to anyone interested in either angling or doing nothing.
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"Read this eye-opening and amusingly written book" Daily Mail
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The Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The intention of the magazine is to return dignity to the art of loafing, to make idling into something to aspire towards rather than reject. As well as providing a radical and thought-provoking read, the Idler is also very funny. MORE …
"The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live." Damien Hirst: Idler 10
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