[READ: March 4, 2023] Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats
I enjoy a good book of lists. I have learned not to buy them, though–although they are usually good for a read-through. And this is one of those read-through books (in fact, Adam Sharp has a Twitter account where you can read these lists–if you still have a Twitter account). Actually I don’t know if he has a “new Twitter” account as I won’t check.
This book was released in Britain in 2020 as The Correct Order of Biscuits, which I think gets the point of the book across a little better than its new title.
The book starts off dubiously with a List of the worst lyrics ever conceived.
7. You look fresh like a salad, so smooth (BTS)
3. Life, oh life, oh life, oh life (Des’ree)
2. Like a tramp in the night, I was begging for you (Samantha Fox)
1. Santa’s on his sleigh but now he’s two metres away (Robbie W)
[I copied this from his Twitter page so I wouldn’t have to type it. The Twitter page had only five entries and was in a slightly different order, hence the jump from 7 to 3].
So why is this a dubious start. Because there are so many utterly crap lyrics that these barely scratch the surface. There’s just too many to choose from and I feel he has limited himself to pop songs.
It picks up with a list of how dogs go woof woof in different languages
8. Voff voff (Icelandic)
7. Lol lol (Tamil)
6. Bup bup (Catalan)
5. Ham ham (Albanian)
4. Woke Woke (Burmese)
3. Gong Gong (Malay)
2. Wang wang (Mandarin)
1. Bawf (Scots)
This is the kind of thing we want. Possibly verifiable and utterly useless. (more…)
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