# Fake books I wouldn't mind reading **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203 "2003-04-30T18:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/61 "2003-05-02T14:11:26Z")
What about **A Hundred and One Ways To Start A Fight** by an Irish gentleman whose name eludes me. Then there’s my old favorite **The Adventures of Captain Gladys Stout Pamplet and Her Intrepid Spaniel Steg Amonst The Giant Pigmies of Beckles, Volume Eight** **The Expurgated Version of Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds** ; the one without the gannut. Or robins or nuthatches. **Stickwick Staples** by Marles Pickens with four M’s and a silent Q From a completely different sketch, maybe **Gay Boys In Bondage** Apologies to those more fanatical than I for the shoddy interpretation ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/62 "2003-05-02T16:20:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ich Bin’s \* > **What about A Hundred and One Ways To Start A Fight by an Irish gentleman whose name eludes me.** There’s a _real_ book called _One hundred and One Sucker Punches_. I don’t recall the author’s ethnicity. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/63 "2003-05-02T17:13:57Z")
[Family Guy] “You’re a Naughty, Naughty Boy, and That’s Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You” It would certainly make an interesting read… [/Family Guy] [Simpsons] “Chicken Soup for the Loser” It inspired Bill Buckner to open a chain of Laundromats! [/Simpsons] ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/64 "2003-05-02T18:07:02Z")
ANSLEM by Jake Sisko. Apparently a classic in the 25th Century Federation. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/65 "2003-05-02T18:31:46Z")
The children’s classic, “Horton Hires a Ho” ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/66 "2003-05-02T18:42:20Z")
In one Spider Robinson novel he mentions Heinlein’s final book about Lazarus Long’s grandfather, the title of which escapes me now. Something like _Living with Golden Wings_. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/67 "2003-05-02T23:42:54Z")
_The Book of Ultimate Truths_, from the Robert Rankin book of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/68 "2003-05-02T23:46:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperNova \* > \*\*[Simpsons] > > “Chicken Soup for the Loser” > > It inspired Bill Buckner to open a chain of Laundromats! > > [/Simpsons] \*\* Moby Dick for Dummies: “Call me Ishmael, Dummy.” ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/69 "2003-05-03T00:58:14Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Ich Bin’s \* > \*\* > … > **The Expurgated Version of Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds** ; the one without the gannut. Or robins or nuthatches…_\* They wet their nests, you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203.md?page=3)