Why Girls Can't Throw - Hardcover

Symons, Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593054040 ISBN 13: 9780593054048

Verlag: Bantam Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Scientific answers to the everyday mysteries of life!

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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.

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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 . . .

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593054040
• ISBN 13: 9780593054048
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar