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Author Alan Stafford has secured himself a place in literary history for his triumph in the 38th Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year with his masterwork Too Naked for the Nazis. Stafford was up against stiff competition for the crown, placed annually on the laureate's head by The Bookseller, following a public vote …

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  1. Chris Miller

    Reading from Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus.

    Is it by any chance a guide to the chief town of Berkshire?

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    2. theModge
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      Re: Reading from Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus.

      A place equally famous for it's Hunt.

      Not a lot of people know that's rhyming slang. Berkshire Hunt. Berk.....

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      1. DryBones
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        Re: Reading from Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus.

        Is it a tripe hunt?

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  2. hplasm
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    A Cultural History of the Anus

    Sequel to the poplular work 'Prehistoric Anuses.'

    A forerunner to Hansard.

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    1. Chemical Bob
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      Re: A Cultural History of the Anus

      I hope this book is nothing like "An Anal History of Culture". That book was full of of shit!

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      1. Fungus Bob
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        Re: A Cultural History of the Anus

        Well, the author was anyway....

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    As much as the reviews, the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" section of the Amazon page for "How to Avoid Huge Ships" repays exploration. Mr. Haines will be pleased to know that one of the less strange and random items that it includes is the Playmobil Security Checkpoint.

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    1. Cynic_999
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      As a result of a previous suggestion I looked up "How to Avoid Huge Ships" on Amazon, and the search term also came up with "Images You Should Not Masturbate To" ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Images-You-Should-Not-Masturbate/dp/0399536493/ ), which I am sure will make a far better birthday present for a teenage relative ...

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  4. lansalot

    Never read "A cultural history of the Anus", but I did glance a "A passage of time". I presume it's a similar story.

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  5. Alexander J. Martin

    A self portrait of Lester for the image, eh?

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    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge
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      That's me trying to establish my intellectual credentials when running for Russian president. Should have been on horseback, really.

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      1. Mark 85
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        Indeed and you should have been holding your pet tiger while riding the horse.

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        1. Rich 11
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          Indeed and you should have been holding your pet tiger while riding the horse.

          Can we please not stoop to such vile idioms? I'm sure Lester doesn't deserve this degree of mockery.

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          1. Stoneshop
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            Indeed

            Can we please not stoop to such vile idioms? I'm sure Lester doesn't deserve this degree of mockery.

            He should be holding his pet horse while riding his tiger.

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  6. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
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    Lovely!

    Brightened up a dull Friday afternoon as we approach beer o'clock. The book titles mentioned do remind me of some classic papers found in Annals of Improbable Research, such as:

    Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

    The Influence of Peanut Butter on the Earth's Rotation

    or my own humble offering

    A Quantum-mechanical Interpretation of Homeopathy

    A preprint of the latter can be found here

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Lovely!

      You might want to steer that Homeo one in the direction of a certain John Benneth (on twitter as @JBennethJournal ) he'd lap it up. I think he's genuine, or a very good false flag.

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    2. frank ly
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      Thank you Michael. Re: Lovely!

      "Quality control should therefore only be carried out by unconscious personnel."

      I used to work in a place which seemed to follow that principle.

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    3. swampdog
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      Re: Lovely!

      "Feline Reactions to Bearded Men"

      oo, lovely. I don't understand it.

      "The Influence of Peanut Butter on the Earth's Rotation"

      .. I'll go with the OP.

      I didn't look at the letter. My mother warned me about that kind of thing.

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    4. John Presland
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      Re: Lovely!

      A brilliant contribution to discussion of the efficacy of homeopathy. Deserving of publication in journals other than El Learned Reg.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Soviet Bus Stops

    I have seen some pictures from this, and it is actually quite amusing. Think brutalist architecture meets Soviet space program. It is like a Soviet equivalent of those awful giant plastic advertising statues you see in the less civilised parts of the US.

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    1. Geoffrey W
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      Re: Soviet Bus Stops

      You inspired me to go look and you're right; some of those artifacts are just awesome, and future archaeologist confounding for sure. Beats all those signs on a stick that we have. Or would have if we had buses. I suspect most of these originate in the grand old days of the USSR. As for your USA reference; Plastic/Concrete; sums up the two cultures somehow.

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    2. Rich 11
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      Re: Soviet Bus Stops

      Less?

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    3. Sandtitz Silver badge
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      Re: Soviet Bus Stops

      There are plenty of soviet era bus stops in the Baltics. Some look like they doubled for air raid / fallout shelters for 100 people or more. Too bad they're in bad shape, with the paint gone long time ago and the concrete slowly eroding.

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    4. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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      Re: Soviet Bus Stops

      Even stranger: war memorials in former Youguslavia

      http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/bizarre-kriegsdenkmaeler-a-947218.html

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  8. Cynic_999

    Your bookshelf should also include

    "Surfing on Horseback"

    "Teach Yourself Series: Brain Surgery"

    "Trans-Siberia by Hunchback"

    "The Great Western Aeroplane Canal"

    I printed these and several other titles as book covers and placed them on random books in the library.

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    1. Pompous Git Silver badge
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      Re: Your bookshelf should also include

      Might as well include "Baby's Revenge" by Nora Titoff for old times' sake then.

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  9. Jock in a Frock

    How about 'The Perfect Brazilian' by Anita Bush?

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  10. Francis Boyle Silver badge

    Well I'm off

    to work on my manuscript of 'Tintin and the Lesbian Separatist Collective Mystery'. Tens if not hundreds of sales await.

    On second thoughts I'll let someone else do it. I'd rather have the plonk.

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  11. cd / && rm -rf *
    Facepalm

    Opportunity missed.

    "with his masterwork Too Naked for the Nazis"

    Golden opportunity to use meisterwerk missed there.

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  12. Individual #6/42

    Alan Coring

    Been done before http://www.deutschlanduberelvis.com/blog/2011/11/let-me-explain.html

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  13. ShrNfr

    Well, the author of "behind" is: Jonathan A. Allan is Canada Research Chair in Queer Theory and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University.

    Why am I not surprised?

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