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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
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Subject: The AFU Book List
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> There's a book named "Why Clocks Run Clockwise and other Imponderables"
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> by David Feldman.
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BOOKS?!?! Did you mention BOOKS, son!?! Why didn't ya say so sooner!
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I haven't published this in quite some time.
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Terry "Books R Us" Wood
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Here's the OFFICIAL AFU BOOK LIST -- Suggested Reading for when your
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news feed is down.
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If you can't find anything of interest on this list, you should probably
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be reading alt.sex or rec.arts.cooking.
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If you know of a "good book" that isn't on this list, send it to me and
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maybe (just maybe) it will end up on this list :-) (You know how PICKY
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I am). Seriously, I'm always on the look out for books to read, so send
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'em in.
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE A.F.U COLLECTION:
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Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the
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Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which it Gave Rise
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by A.W. Brian Simpson, published by the University of Chicago Press, 1984.
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This book is a great source of information about cannibalism in the
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Victorian age and covers not only the case of the Mignonette, but also
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the Alferd Packer trial and various other celebrated cases of "you are
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what you eat." Although Mr. Simpson has a lot of fun with his subject,
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this book is obviously well researched and includes a nice bibliography.
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An excellent reference when debunking cannibalism ULs.
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker Jan Harold Brunvand
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The Choking Doberman Jan Harold Brunvand
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The Mexican Pet Jan Harold Brunvand
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Curses! Broiled Again! Jan Harold Brunvand
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If you haven't read these, you can't be appointed an honorary TERRY.
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The Straight Dope Cecil Adams
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More of the Straight Dope Cecil Adams
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"The Official Handbook of Practical Jokes", - Peter Vanderlinden
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publ Signet, $3.50, ISBN 0-451-15873-3
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"The Second Official Handbook of Practical Jokes" - Peter Vanderlinden
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publ Signet, $3.50, ISBN 0-451-16924-7 illustrated (Lord help us)
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Both books rated "It's the least he deserves" by 4 out of 5 AFU readers.
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Note: These 2 books SHOULD BE PURCHASED (don't wimp out and go to the
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public library and GET THEM FOR FREE) as Peter needs the money.
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Rumor! Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
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More Rumor! Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
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Big Secrets William Poundstone
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Bigger Secrets William Poundstone
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The Dictionary of Misinformation Tom Burnam
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More Misinformation Tom Burnam
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Books by David Feldman:
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Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? Who put the butter in butterfly?
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Why do dogs have wet noses? How to win at just about everything
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When Do Fish Sleep? Imponderables
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Do Penguines have knees?
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These are short subject books -- a couple of paragraphs are
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devoted to each subject. Some like that format -- some don't.
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Books by David Michael Feldman:
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"Birth control in Jewish law"
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This book deals with marital relations and contraception. What
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does it have to do with AFU? Your guess is a good as mine, but
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it came up in the computer search for "David Feldman". It could
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have been him, so it must be true. Or something like that.
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The Day that lightning chased the housewife and other mysteries of science
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edited by Julia Leigh and David Savold
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The "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" series (3 volumes) - Bathroom Reader
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Institute, Inc.
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Piled Higher and Deeper: The Folklore of Campus Life Simon J. Bronner
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Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1990.
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Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results
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Eccentric Lives and Pecular Notions (??? It was put out in 1990 by Bantam)
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Martin Gardner 1952/1957
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The Devouring Fungus (Tales of the Computer Age) - Karla Jennings
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Bare-Faced Messiah - Russel Miller
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(It's about L. Ron Hubbard NOT Grizzly Adams)
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The Journal of the Institute for Hacks TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT -
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Brian M Leibowitz
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Mrs. Byrnes' Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Obsolete Words - ???
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Dictionary of Historical Slang - Eric Partridge
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High School - David Owen
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David pretends to be a High School Student at the age of 27.
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Anomalies and Curiosities Of Medicine - Gould, George M. 1848-1922.
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Monkey On A Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas - John Hubner
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and Lindsey Gruson. With a title like this, you'll get no sleep at night.
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Our Marvelous Native Tougue: The Live and Times of the English Language -
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Robert Clairborne (Author of The Birth of Writing). Probably some college
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student somewhere is suffering with the book as a text and here I am
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recommending it as "lite" reading.
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You Know What They Say - Alfie Kohn.
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Not quite an urban legend book, but should appeal to the same crowd.
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Recommended for skeptics in general.
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Any current almanac, for those "factual" ULs
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MAYBE RECOMMENDED:
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Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things"
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(Terrys say "it seems okay, but it's kind of boring")
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Any issue of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS (although issues with JFK or UFOs on
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them are usually better than ones with farmers and 25 Ft grasshoppers)
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NOT RECOMMENDED:
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Book Of Answers - New York Public Library Research Service.
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TERRYs don't like it. It's boring, but it also says that the capital
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of Turkey is Istanbul. JUST about everybody knows it's Ankara.
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Anyway, a dumb mistake. (So there). TERRYs can be downright cruel.
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Myself and the following READERS of A.F.U are to blame for this list:
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"twcaps@dante.lbl.GOV" 30-MAY-1991
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"Peter.Vanderlinden@Eng.Sun.COM" 30-MAY-1991
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"AXM22@PSUVM.PSU.EDU" 30-MAY-1991
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"wichers@husc.harvard.EDU" 31-MAY-1991
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"bls@robin.svl.cdc.COM" 31-MAY-1991
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"jsl@unix.cis.pitt.edu" 3-JUN-1991
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"daniel@psych.toronto.edu" 3-JUN-1991
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"cook@rpi.EDU" 4-JUN-1991
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"cmdglv@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.EDU" 22-JUL-1991
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