Re: Books (Nov 08 - Oct 09)
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:50 pm
Just wrapped up on the book The Crap Old Days by Wayne Williams.
Its a hilarious book that pokes fun of all the things from the 60s to the 80s we remember so fondly of. The author is very cynical and sarcastically funny.
Here's a short para from "The Six Million Dollar Man"
The success of TSMDM led to stakes of merchandising and an inevitable spin off. After a skydiving accident, Jaime Sommers (Steve Austin's gf) received 2 new legs, a new arm and a new ear to become Bionic Woman. Give that she was quite flat chested it's surprising that the people rebuildng her didn't take the opportunity to bolster her frame with some bionic breast implants. They'd have looked superb bouncing in slow-mo when she went running. And after the series ended she could have nabbed a led role in Baywatch.
Available from NLB
Its a hilarious book that pokes fun of all the things from the 60s to the 80s we remember so fondly of. The author is very cynical and sarcastically funny.
Here's a short para from "The Six Million Dollar Man"
The success of TSMDM led to stakes of merchandising and an inevitable spin off. After a skydiving accident, Jaime Sommers (Steve Austin's gf) received 2 new legs, a new arm and a new ear to become Bionic Woman. Give that she was quite flat chested it's surprising that the people rebuildng her didn't take the opportunity to bolster her frame with some bionic breast implants. They'd have looked superb bouncing in slow-mo when she went running. And after the series ended she could have nabbed a led role in Baywatch.
Available from NLB
The Crap Old Days
by Wayne Williams Darren Allan
Outline
Do you have fond memories of Knight Rider, Etch-a-Sketch or Raleigh Choppers? You wouldn't be alone. Books, broadcasters and newspapers have fed us a constant diet of why the good old days were so fabulous. They've made a warm, thick treacle of the past which we've bathed in for too long. This book finally pulls the plug on all that. "The Crap Old Days" is a savagely funny recollection of how things really were: Tiny Tears was a washout, the Flying Pickets fouled the airwaves and Subbuteo was just flicking daft!
Contents
Books, broadcasters and newspapers have fed us with a diet of why the good old days were so great, but The Crap Old Days remembers things as they really were: Tiny Tears was a washout, Rambo was rubbish and Weebles may not have wobbled, but they fell down when it came to doing anything interesting or useful! The Crap Old Days de-bunks the myth of how great everything used to be - apparently.; Contents include:; 3D Movies; 3-2-1; Action Man; Atari VCS; Big Glasses; British Beer; Bros; Brut; Cabbage Patch Kids; CB Radio; Charley Says...; Raleigh Chopper; The Clangers; Dirty Dancing; Dr Seuss; Eldorado; Etch-a-sketch; Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Going For Gold; Green Shield Stamps; Raleigh Grifter; He-Man; Impulse; Ketchips; Kia-Ora; Knight Rider; The Krankies; Legwarmers; Magic 8 Ball; Metal Mickey; Mittens on a String; Monkey; Naked Lady Pens; Nena; Operation; Panini Stickers; Red Phone Boxes; Reliant Robin; Rod Hull and Emu; Roland Rat; Rubik's Cube; Scalextric; Shoulder Pads; Sinclair C5; Slinky; Smurfs; Snoods; Sodastream; Space Dust; Space Hopper; Spot the Ball; Stock, Aitken & Waterman; Stylophone; Subbuteo; ThunderCats; Trivial Pursuit; UB40; Vesta Curries; Wash & Go; Weebles; White socks; Why Don't You?; The Word; Yahtzee; ZX81; and more!