Why Girls Can't Throw - Hardcover

Symons, Mitchel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593054040 ISBN 13: 9780593054048

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2005

Synopsis

"Why Girls Can't Throw" provides the answers to the everyday mysteries which keep you up at night...It addresses questions such as: is it morally wrong to record a CD you buy for a friend's birthday before you give it to them? Why do smokers often tap their cigarettes before smoking them? Is it possible to knock yourself out using just your own fist? What's the kindest way to tell a friend that they have halitosis? Does vegans' shit smell less than non-vegetarians' shit? Why don't women have beards? If your eye came out of its socket but remained attached, could you turn it around and look at your own face? Do two wrongs make a right? Is it dangerous to suppress a fart? If you were supple enough to give yourself a blow job, would that make you gay? What would happen to the passengers if someone opened the emergency exit of an aeroplane while it was in the air? Why do I need a cigarette before i can have a crap? Moral dilemmas, scientific mysteries, weird phenomena - all are put under the microscope here and given the Mitch Symons treatment. Entertaining, fascinating and hilarious, "Why Girls Can't Throw" is a book for lads, ladettes, and anyone who's ever wondered why the word 'bastard' is only ever used as a term of abuse to men...

About this title

About the Author

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.

From the Back Cover

MITCH KNOWS MORE TOTALLY USELESS THINGS ABOUT USELESS SUBJECTS THAN ANYBODY ON EARTH CHRIS TARRANT

WHAT S THE KINDEST WAY TO TELL A FRIEND THAT THEY HAVE HALITOSIS?

WHAT HAPPENS TO A COW IF YOU DON T MILK IT?

IF YOUR EYE CAME OUT OF ITS SOCKET BUT REMAINED ATTACHED, COULD YOU TURN IT AROUND AND LOOK AT YOUR OWN FACE?

DO TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT?

From the Inside Flap

Why Girls Can t Throw provides the answers to the everyday mysteries that keep you up at night . . .

Questions such as:

IS IT MORALLY WRONG TO RECORD A CD YOU BUY FOR A FRIEND S BIRTHDAY BEFORE YOU GIVE IT TO THEM?

IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOCK YOURSELF OUT USING JUST YOUR OWN FIST?

WHAT IS THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING?

WHY DON T WOMEN HAVE BEARDS?

IS IT DANGEROUS TO SUPPRESS A FART?

DO TV DETECTOR VANS REALLY WORK?

WHAT IS THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK?

WHO SENT THE FIRST EMAIL?

Moral dilemmas, scientific mysteries and weird
phenomena - all are put under the microscope
here and given the Mitchell Symons treatment. Entertaining, fascinating and hilarious, Why Girls Can t Throw is a book for lads, ladettes and anyone who s ever wondered why the word
bastard is only ever used as a term of abuse
to men . . .

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593054040
• ISBN 13: 9780593054048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192