Why Fish Fart and Other Useless (Or Gross) Information About the World |  | Author: Francesca Gould
Publisher: Tarcher
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Sales Rank: 28476
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1585427578
Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
EAN: 9781585427574
ASIN: 1585427578
Publication Date: September 3, 2009
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller* Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About Your Body: the be-all and end-all compendium of odd, quirky, and otherwise nauseating information.
H ere is another thoroughly distasteful yet utterly compelling book from the author of the New York Times (extended list) bestseller Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About Your Body. In Why Fish Fart and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About the World, Francesca Gould sifts through the world's most unpleasant creatures, diseases, physical deformities, culinary delicacies, ritual practices, and hideous torture tactics to uncover every horrifying and stomach-turning fact under the sun. This book is full of questions you never thought to ask-and perhaps will wish you'd never had answered-including:
-What exactly is maggot cheese?
-How did anal hair help to lead to the conviction of the Great
-Train Robbers?
-What is the job of a "fart catcher"?
How exactly do "crabs" cause such intense itching around one's private parts?
-The real story behind why the toilet is often referred to as "the john."
-Why you might want to steer clear of some coffees. (Hint: If poo isn't exactly your idea of appetizing . . .)
Why Fish Fart and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About the World is sure to delight any and all hard-core fans of the obscure, esoteric, and-last but not least-grotesque.
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This Book is Tasteless! And Impossible to Put Down... September 9, 2009
Christy Pinheiro EA ABA (www.ChristyPinheiro.com, http://selfpublishingreview.blogspot.com)
Do you want to read about anal hair? Of course not!!!
The only problem is... secretly... you DO! I thought this book was as interesting and funny as it was gross. A better gift for a man, but oh well, my husband has a sense of humor. Remember those old Encyclopedia Brown stories you read when you were a kid? Well, this is the adult version. A perfect book for any fact junkie who likes to be the center of attention at parties.
Really, though... the book is really funny. If for any other reason, buy this book so you can find out what kind of coffee is made with an added sprinkle of poo. Seriously. Yes, I'm serious. Poo. Now you HAVE to buy it.
Recommended: with a laugh
Christy Pinheiro, The Self-Publishing Maven
Author of *The Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing for Profit*
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