I Blame The Scapegoats - Softcover

O'Farrell, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552771945 ISBN 13: 9780552771948

Publisher: Black Swan, 2004

Synopsis

A doctor in America has just invented a 'sperm sorting machine'. At least that's what he claimed when his receptionist burst into the office to find him doing something peculiar with the Hoover attachment. Apparently the system used for separating the male and female sperm is remarkably simple. A sample is placed in the petri dish with a microscopic pile of household items on a tiny staircase. All the sperm that go straight past without picking anything up are obviously boys.

John O'Farrell's first collection of columns GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT was a huge success prompting fulsome praise from such major public figures as the Queen Mother, Roy Jenkins and Cardinal Hume. Sadly, since their deaths, their glowing endorsements cannot be officially verified. So here instead is another collection of funny, satirical essays on a hundred and one 21st century subjects. Read how the government plans to introduce 'Santa loans' that will leave school children £10,000 in debt for all the presents that used to be free from Father Christmas. Learn how the EU is being expanded to include Narnia. And did you know that American war planes now have a little sticker on the back saying 'How's my bombing?' with an 0800 number to call if they blow up any Muslim country in a discourteous of aggressive manner . . .

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Review:

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Acclaim for THIS IS YOUR LIFE:

'Excellently done...O'Farrell gives an extra squirm to the traditional English comedy of embarrassment'

" (Sunday Times)

"'A splendid satire on our celebrity-hungry age'" (Daily Mail)

"'Very funny'" (The Times)

Book Description:

Guardian Columns: The Final Sequel (Part One)

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Swan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0552771945
• ISBN 13: 9780552771948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352