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The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of The Chaser founders and author of the hilarious STRAYAN DICTIONARY and STRAYA

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A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing. From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not every idea is a winner—just ask 'Friday' singer Rebecca Black. This wonderfully eclectic yet uniformly awful... Read More
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The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of The Chaser founders and author of the hilarious STRAYAN DICTIONARY and STRAYA

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A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing.

From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not every idea is a winner—just ask 'Friday' singer Rebecca Black.

This wonderfully eclectic yet uniformly awful compendium traverses millennia of dreadful concepts, from homeopathy to hacky sacks, from Esperanto to Elmo and from athleisure to the Apple Vision Pro, demonstrating that alongside the magnificent march of human progress are many examples of failure, farce, and outright fraud—many of which are far more hilarious than intended.

The Dictionary of Terrible Ideas reminds us that no matter how high we may soar, humans are as unreliable as a Bluetooth connection, as irritating as a self-checkout machine, and as prone to making poor decisions as Kanye West—all of which feature inside the turducken of terribleness that is this book.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780733343605

Publisher: ABC Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 October 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: ABC Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 370g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Dom Knight is one of the founders of The Chaser, and as a writer on most of their projects he was definitely responsible for all of the jokes you liked and none of the bad ones. In recent years he's also presented serious programs on ABC Radio and a silly one on Triple M. His books include The Strayan Dictionary, Strayapedia, Trumpedia and The 2020 Dictionary.

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