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Denys Parsons

Autor/a de The Best of Shrdlu

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Inclou aquests noms: Denys Parson, Parsons Denys

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Denys Parsons cranked out a few of these types of books; a mixture of newspaper errors and odd stories that are occasionally amusing. Within "Funny Convulsing and Funny Confusing" you will read newspaper excerpts like "Stockholm police are looking for a thief who took a small house from a Stockholm suburb" and "Russian medical student Sergei Kelnikov has claimed a world record - after kissing a pig non-stop for 23 min 14 sec" (I do hope the pig gave consent). If this is the sort thing you enjoy reading, then start tracking down a copy now.… (més)
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MiaCulpa | Apr 17, 2015 |
This is another in the series of amusing and/or head scratching extracts from newspapers around the world. Parsons seems to have made a good career out of finding printing errors or bizarre stories from publications around the world and with "Funny Amusing and Funny Amazing", he regales us with more.

Random dips into this slim volume reward us with eye-opening statements like "It is not considered polite to tear bits off your beard and put them in your soup", or the Portuguese translation for "Now we have arrived. Look at the crowd of porters waiting to seize our luggage".

While not up to the standards of his other works in this series, there are still enough amusing moments to make a read worthwhile.
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MiaCulpa | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 30, 2015 |
Parsons has released a number of collections of a mixture of editing mistakes and odd stories, and has based them around the character of Gobfrey Shrdlu, who he blames for the mistakes that appear in newspapers.

Some of the stories included are headscratchers, where one has trouble determining what exactly is funny about the entry, but others thankfully entertaining enough to keep you reading.

Some of my best stories include the woman who accepted a ride from a dark haired stranger and was robbed by a dwarf who jumped out of a box in the back seat, the porpoise found in the men's toilets at the Edinburgh railway station and the correction in the "Titusville Herald" that it was "Whistler's Mother" that was recently exhibited in the area, not "Hitler's Mother" as reported. As an on again/off again journalist, one can sympathise with the "Titusville Herald" editor, who wrote "There is nothing to be gained in trying to explain how the error occurred."

Also, I just found out that Parsons is the father of Alan Parsons of the Alan Parsons' Project fame. Small world.
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MiaCulpa | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Mar 19, 2015 |
Though I thought this was going to be a book about unfortunate typographical errors, it's more than that. These are excerpts from books, magazines, and even short stories where the author's intended meaning has somehow gone awry, whether due to misprint, mixed metaphors, unfortunate word choice, or subject matter. That last took me a while to get, because there are indeed a number of stories that appear to be exactly as printed, and are just so unusual as to be amusing. I will admit that I did not find the humor in all of them, and at times I was frankly puzzled before deciding to write it off to some unintentional double entendre that only makes sense if you're familiar with the most obscure British slang. All the same, it was good for the occasional giggle.… (més)
 
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melydia | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jul 27, 2012 |

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