Product Description

Everyone needs something to blurt out during uncomfortable silences and ice-breaker moments. This fascinating handbook of hilarious, arcane and bizarre tidbits will make its bearer a hit in party conversations and trivia contests.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #294914 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

About the Author
Nicotext is a Swedish design group that harvests fresh ideas in humor, culture and entertainment from around the globe.

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YOUR EYES REMAIN THE SAME IN SIZE FROM THE DAY YOU ARE BORN TO THE DAY YOU DIE. YOUR NOSE AND EARS, HOWEVER, WILL NEVER STOP GROWING. - - - - - -THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, USA PROVIDES TWO THIRDS OF THE WORLD’S TOTAL PRODUCTION OF EGGPLANT. - - - - - - - ONCE UPON A TIME, DISNEY’S CARTOON CHARACTER, DONALD DUCK, WAS FORBIDDEN IN FINLAND BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WEAR PANTS. - - - - - - - IDLING BOAT ENGINES HAVE ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS REMINISCENT OF GREY WHALES SINGING. IN MEXICO, FISHERMAN HAVE PROBLEMS WITH WHALES RUBBING THEIR BACKS AGAINST THEIR FISHING VESSELS. - - - - - - - - IN THE POPULAR BOND FILM FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, AUTHOR IAN FLEMMING MADE A CAMEO APPEARANCE IN ONE OF THE SCENE AS A MAN TAKING A LEISURELY WALK.

Customer Reviews

Interesting !
The best one... in my opinion..
"All U.S. Presidents, from the start, have had blue eyes."
Every single one!
Now what is up with that? Very strange and it cannot just be called a coincidence.
I am interested in hearing others thoughts on this. If you think you have a good explanation add your comments to this review please.

This book is horrible
I decided to buy this book after seeing the cover. My mother taught me when I was younger not to do things like that, because sometimes you'll be wrong, but she was barely literate and didn't know who my father was, so I ignored her and this book arrived in the mail.

The first sign that something was wrong was the way the mailman was walking when he brought this enormous package up to my house. It says that it's 220 pages, but these fancy art designers fail to mention that they are incredibly thick pages, so the book itself weighs about thirty pounds. It isn't even a good centerpiece, either, because its existence means you're worried about ice breaking, and my friends got offended. They wanted to know why I didn't feel comfortable around them, speaking and interacting in the banal, juvenile ways I had been doing for years, but I was tired of so I bought this book which I thought I could read in the privacy of my room.

Anyway, the facts, as mentioned by a bunch of other reviewers are either way off or stupid. "'Birds of a Feather' do NOT actually flock together!", "It is against the law for a baby to occupy a uterus without a signed permit in Tallahassee, FL, after a mistake in the text of the cities [sic] laws!" This stuff isn't even readable, and sometimes it borders on dangerous. What is this supposed to be, "Carmel was invented in the middle ages as an experiment by Gypsies to start blood libel myths about themselves, after they saw how well it worked for the Jews!", or in their "Hand Myth" section (at least fifty of the super-thick pages are devoted specifically to "hand myths", which I thought was a joke at first, but it kept going and going and going) they told me that my little boy was more prone to psychosis because his ring finger is slightly shorter than his pointer finger, and that he was possibly retarded because his hand could stretch over his face.

Looking back, I would probably have preferred that this book been lost in the mail and I just got ripped off. Then I could be steamed at Amazon and these NICOTEXT goons, but now I'm angry and I've read this book. Talk about a double whammy. Which, by the way, the book says was originally an obscure term for bestiality in Middle Persian.

This book is excellent!!!
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