Richard Hawley

The Diagram Prize is awarded annually for the oddest book title of the year. A poll is currently underway to find the oddest title of the last thirty years. You can read more about it and vote here:

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/64680-bookseller-launches-diagram-of-diagrams.html

The contenders are:

1978: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
1979: The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution
1980: The Joy of Chickens
1981: Last Chance at Love: Terminal Romances
1982: Population and Other Problems
1983: The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
1984: The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today
1985: Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts
1986: Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
1988: Versailles: The View From Sweden
1989: How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
1990: Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual
1992: How to Avoid Huge Ships
1993: American Bottom Archaeology
1994: Highlights in the History of Concrete
1995: Reusing Old Graves
1996: Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
1997: The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition
1998: Development in Dairy Cow Breeding and Management: and New Opportunities to Widen the Uses of Straw
1999: Weeds in a Changing World
2000: High Performance Stiffened Structures
2001: Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service
2002: Living With Crazy Buttocks
2003: The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
2004: Bombproof Your Horse
2005: People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It
2006: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
2007: If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs

I was going to say that last one is a classic - but they all are!!!!

I got them 2, just for the picture's

They didn't include ''Teach Yourself...Alcoholism''

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The heartbeat doesn't change, only the faces surrounding it.

Gary I'm worried ... you have a thing for lesbian horses?? ... I didn't know ponies did such things?

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The way your face could light the bitter dark of every street
In every town I'll ever go

I own this one!
"1984: The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today"

And I flipped through the Shit in The Woods book at the little bookshop at a park.

~ K

1989 How to shit in the woods..................a must for my elderly mother

Chris Evans interviewed the author of this book this evening. She's American.

I like the strapline on the book cover.



It seems the hobby is catching on...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-538108/Hair-dog-The-animal-lovers-turned-dead-pets-coats-woolly-jumpers.html

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Jean Oeufs Nouveaux pretentious? I think not.

I'm slightly ashamed to say that my cranky mother has been incorporating the hair from her manky old dogs into her knitting for years.
She knitted a sweater for me..and I dumped it straight into the wheelie bin........................

... beeshette and after all her trouble! I understand it's big in Latvia, you can buy them off the market in Riga ... they're supposed to me incredibly warm.

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The way your face could light the bitter dark of every street
In every town I'll ever go

Just thinking about it makes me feel ill....I mean, the dog who provided the hair was decrepit,tired,smelly and suffered from cysts......................I think my dad was right when he said "Your mother is mad..........................