Village Idiots?

Author: Tim Wade
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412026083
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Village Idiots? is a series of essays on cricket generally (and English village cricket and customs in particular) by an Australian who has played the game for over 30 years in Melbourne, Singapore and London. The vehicle for these observations is the author's adopted English Village cricket team in Henley-on-Thames, with whom he has played for three years and scaled the giddy heights of Vice Captaincy. It contains reflections on staples like Afternoon Tea, English Weather, English Pubs and Touring. It also explores more 'contentious' subjects like Declaration Cricket, Women Supporters, the LBW Law and Captaincy - all in a light hearted way. This book should appeal to lovers of English quaintness and quirkiness in general, and cricket in particular. It is a gentle mocking from one of the 'Old Enemy', who has penetrated (and become besotted with) middle England, and English village cricket, and bravely attempts an 'outside, in' look at modern England through the prism of one of its oldest traditions. 'I enjoyed the spirit hugely...It is quite charming' Jeremy Paxman 'A cracking read' Henley Standard 'A joy and a delight' Sir Roger Carrick (former British High Commissioner to Australia)

It Takes a Village Idiot

Author: Jim Mullen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743218795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor a Rocky Mountain News (Denver) Best Book of the Year Millions of people dream of abandoning the city routine for a simple country life. Jim Mullen was not one of them. He loved his Manhattan existence: parties, openings, movie screenings. He could walk to hundreds of restaurants, waste entire afternoons at the Film Forum, people-watch from his window. Then, one day, calamity. His wife quits smoking and buys a weekend house in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York -- in a tiny town diametrically opposed to Manhattan in every way. Slowly, however, the man who once boasted, "Life is just a cab away," begins to warm to the place -- manure and compost and strangers who wave and all -- and to embrace the kind of life that once gave him the shakes.

Global Village Idiot

Author: John O'Farrell
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555847056
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
In this collection of acid-tongued essays, “the U.K.’s answer to Dave Barry” skewers his American cousins (Publishers Weekly). Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars’ Awards and Britain’s finest satirist, John O’Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America’s right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, and the Big D himself. “Just when we thought the lawlessness in Iraq was over,” O’Farrell observes, “even more blatant incidents of looting have begun. With handkerchiefs masking their faces, two rioters roughly the height of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld kicked in the gates of the largest oilfield and grabbed the keys of the gasoline trucks. ‘Yee-haw! It’s all ours! Millions of barrels of the stuff,’ they laughed. ‘Yup!’ added the leader, ‘and this mask guarantees my anonymousinity!’ So after all these years there really is such a person as the Thief of Baghdad. Except strangely his accent sounded vaguely Texan.” A writer for the groundbreaking television show Spitting Image and contributor to the screenplay for the hit movie Chicken Run, O’Farrell meticulously researched his conclusions by spending five minutes on the Internet and then giving up. And while O’Farrell’s sharpest barbs and stingers have often been written to come out of the mouths of grotesque puppets and Claymation chickens, this time around he keeps the best lines for himself: “With the election of the 43rd President of the United States, the global village is complete,” O’Farrell writes. “It has its own global village idiot.”

Adventures of

Author: Zachary Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495322181
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Whenever The Village Idiot thinks that life couldn't get any better, BAM!, The Twilight Zone kicks him right in the belly. Find out how he and his banditry of heathen brothers snake their way through life's chaos. Set up in a series of non-fiction short stories, The Village Idiot, which ironically was the name of the commercial fishing boat he fished on in Alaska. The author adopted the name Village Idiots as a nickname for him and his heathen brothers. A book of "You-Can't-Make-This-Shit-up" stories, all based around the author and lead Village Idiot, Zachary S. Taylor. Each story is more bizarre than the next, making them a quick read, perfect for the man of the family, next-to-the-toilet-bowl reading material. Zeke has lived the gypsy lifestyle for more than 20 years. His travels have taken him from one end of the planet to the other, many, many times. A former United States Marine, Alaska Commercial Fisherman, Alaska Mountain Guide and Expedition Leader, Hard-Core Biker, Dog Trainer, Ladies Man, Adventurer and Storyteller, give him real life experiences to tell a good story. If you have ever run into him having a sociable at the local watering hole, you may have already heard some of these time tested master pieces. Now, before I blow too much smoke up my own ass, enjoy the day. Peace.

Idiot America

Author: Charles Pierce
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767926153
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.

Village Idiots

Author: David Abis
Publisher: Sweet Spot Publishing
ISBN: 9780990773917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Just a naive young medical student from Manhattan's Upper East Side, Benjamin Walker's cloistered world is thoroughly rocked by his very first patient on the psych ward. Angel McGovern, exotic dancer by trade, is a nymphomaniac genius with two and a half PhD's. An overwhelmed Ben is kidnapped by Angel and taken on a wild and crazy road trip to the tropics, accompanied by two other zany escaped inmates from the asylum. Makesh Guptah is a rocket scientist who believes aliens plan to destroy the Earth. Juan Martinez is a slow-witted giant who wouldn't hurt a fly, but is headed for the electric chair if found mentally competent. Will Juan beat the rap? Will Makesh save the planet? Will Angel ever scratch that itch? Will Ben make it home alive? VILLAGE IDIOTS, a sexy farce with heart, is kinky, crazy, and ultimately out of this world.

The Idiot

Author: Elif Batuman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014311106X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465

Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

More Village Idiot Reviews (a Laugh Out Loud Comedy Sequel)

Author: Pete Sortwell
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781490983219
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
It's been a year since their last outing. Brian, Ethel and Father Frederick are back with more village idiocy. Frederick has injured his nipples in a vicious moped accident whilst on his honeymoon and no longer feels like a man. He's taken up the drink again and is making people's lives a misery with his antics again. He can't work out why strange men keep following him while he's out drink-driving, though. Brian's concentrating on getting through married life while trying to find a hobby that doesn't hurt. His cousin Jeff (from The Office Idiot Reviews) has moved in for the summer and is on hand to help Brian with his assertiveness when he is bullied by the local biker, Jock. Ethel has discovered that it was Denny who made her shopping trolley explode last year and with Denny now an adult and living outside the safety of the children's home, it won't be long before she exacts the revenge she's been after. Meanwhile a battle for power is taking place at the manor house. Lord Monty, who ordered his title from the Internet, is in a battle of wills with his gamekeeper, Chopper. It's a never ending struggle which, time after time, leaves Monty either out of pocket, in pain or soaking wet. Written entirely in the form of product reviews, we guarantee you've never read a book quite like this before. (Unless you read the first one.) Hilarious and wholly original, More Village Idiot Reviews introduces the most bonkers set of countryside dwellers you've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

The Village Idiots

Author: Sara Alexi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549649783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
The Village Idiots 'Fools Gold' is the second book in a trilogy of novellas, continuing the comedic capers of two local villagers as they hunt for promised treasure on board their inherited, but now sunken yacht. Deciding the aging yacht was a burden, Takis plots a way to get their hands on the insurance money. But only as the yacht lies on the sea bed do the pair discover that not only was the policy void, but Captain George had hidden gold on board.However, seasoned pirates they are not, and the treasure they are looking for is hard to come by. Takis takes his scheming to new depths, and poor Spiros bears the brunt of all Takis' eccentric plans.But as we follow Spiros carrying out one bad instruction after another, we also start to glimpse the real man inside, the man Spiros didn't even know existed. As he takes to the sea to dive in search of riches, he discovers other qualities about himself and about the world around him, and it is dawning on him that he may not be so useless after all.When Spiros finally finds what he and Takis think they want, they are yet to discover that as always in Greece, things are never as they seem; and when it comes to inheritance, nothing is straightforward.Hilarious, heart-warming and filled with the Mediterranean sunshine, will the path taken by Spiros and Takis fill their futures with gold?

Seeing Systems

Author: Barry Oshry
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 9781881052999
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
This book is about seeing systems. It is about overcoming system blindness and seeing our part in the context of the whole, and the present in the context of the past. It is about seeing ourselves in relationship with others and creating satisfying and productive partnerships in these relationships. It will enable us to create systems with extraordinary capacities for surviving and developing. "Oshry weaves a remarkable explanation for the subtle, and largely unseen ways in which our structures influence our behaviour."Marvin Weisbord, author Productive Workplaces.