Although schools started class weeks ago, this recent bout of fall weather has only now got me thinking about back-to-school time. “Don’t you love New York in the fall?” Tom Hanks says in the movie You’ve Got Mail, “It makes me want to buy school supplies.” I can relate. But besides a freshly sharpened bouquet of pencils, back-to-school season reminds me of coming home from the first day of school with a stack of text books. Complements of Workman’s latest release, The Stupidest Things Ever Said: Book of All-Time Stupidest Top 10 Lists, here are a few books that likely won’t show up on your fall syllabus:
The Top 10 Stupidest Actual Book Titles
1. A Toddler’s Guide to the Rubber Industry
2. Constipation and Our Civilization
3. Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
4. The Secret of Sphincters
5. A Pictorial Book of Tongue Coating
6. Life and Laughter ’midst the Cannibals
7. Be Bold with Bananas
8. Hand-Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
9. Collecting Fungi on Stamps
10. A Study of Hospital Waiting Lists in Cardiff, 1953 – 1954.
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