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Raise Your Glasses: The Best and Wittiest Anecdotes and After-dinner Stories from the Famous - Softcover
This collection features a dazzling variety of anecdotes, one-liners, mini-sagas and plain good yarns to delight every kind of palate when post-prandial repartee is the order of the day.
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Collections of after-dinner anecdotes are one of those categories of book for which seem to have no real reason for existing. However, since Raise Your Glasses is published for the benefit of the Children's Cancer Ward at Bart's Hospital, London, and has been reprinted six times since 1988, it is obviously an entirely useful and delightful volume. In this sequel to My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Phyllis Shindler has collected jokes and anecdotes from the great and the good, the famous and (in some cases) the now-dead. A number are in doubtful taste (nothing wrong with that) and a few are either baffling or just plain not funny (stepforward, Wendy Craig and Katie Boyle), but there are some good lines here. Sickert to a departing friend: "Come again when you can't stay so long." The Victorian judge on the three categories of evidence-givers: "The liar, the damned liar and the first-rate witness." The Indonesian cruise steward sniping at a colleague: "You eat like a passenger." And so on. If there is anybody out there reading this who still makes after-dinner speeches that require the surgical insertion of jokes, this is the book for them. --Robin Davidson
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- PublisherPiatkus Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0861887700
- ISBN 13 9780861887705
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Ellis Nadler (illustrator). Reprint. Cover has light shelf wear, "X" mark on page 66, otherwise without flaw. 5.5 X 8.5" 128 pages. Foreword by The Hon. Angus Ogilvy. In Raise Your Glasses, her second collection of after-dinner anecdotes, Phyllis Shindler has brought together a dazzling variety of one-liners, mini-sagas and plain good yarns to delight every palate. Seller Inventory # 63889
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