Product Description

"211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do" is the essential life-skills handbook for bright boys of every age, featuring all the subjects they don't teach you at school or Scouts. If you reached adulthood without learning the exact rules of conkers, or how to take off your pants without removing your trousers, or how to put a ship into a bottle, this is the book for you. Divided into handy sections, this fascinating volume contains easy-to-follow tutorials and priceless tips on: how to Be A Real Man - including how to mow the perfect lawn and how to fight a bull - with elegance; Weird Science and Sideshow Physics - spoon-bending, teach yourself mindreading, and how to lie on a bed of nails; Bracing Outdoor Activities - cowboy ropecraft, how to punt without looking a fool, how to head a ball, and how to make a boomerang come back; Militant Cookery - how to make your own pickled eggs, how to spit-roast and dress a suckling pig, how to make a proper pork pie; Parlour diversions - shadow puppets, easy tunes for the glass harmonica, and how to make a pinhole camera. It also feaures tips on: The Human Body - how to make your hair stand on end, how to dissect a man, sumo wrestling for the beginner; Those Useful Subjects Not Taught at School - how to interrogate an uncooperative suspect, how to win money in a casino, and how to blag your way in philosophy, science, art, and psychology; Gags, cons and practical jokes - classic old and boggling new tricks, juggling, and unusual party pieces for the classroom, pub and restaurant table, plus much, much more. This volume won't improve your morals or make you smell nice, but it will entertain and inform. So if you've always wanted to know how to tear a phone book in half, how to identify airline insignia, or the essential moves of Morris Dancing, this is the book you've been waiting for.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2453 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
The son of a sex therapist and a sometime Dominican friar, Tom spent his early manhood in a desultory study of Fine Art and Philosophy at a cloistered university. He began his professional career with a number of false starts as a teacher, set designer, doublebass player, speechwriter, printer, toyshop manager, lyricist, wine waiter, City consultant, puppet maker, typographer, magazine editor, bandleader, portrait painter, radio reporter, cartoonist, and ghost writer for Cardinal Hume, before leaving the rat-race to spend more time with his slippers. Tom has written two acclaimed song books for children and his original ditty 'Pigs on Holiday' has been performed live, with actions, by Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein. He is a practising magician and member of the Magic Circle and in his spare time enjoys murdering Bach on the guitar.

Customer Reviews

Not Very Bright!
The first page I opened up was "How to get by in Welsh", which teaches how to Stereotype and Slag off a country and its people. It's not a message I want to give as a present, so the 2 I bought are on Ebay if anyone's interested - though I wouldn't reccomend it!

Good little tricks
This book is a good read for all us men still young at heart. It will give you some good information on many things such as easy tricks to impress the other half and the younger members of the family. It gives some useless information as well such as how to get by in a few different languages put the phrases are not really useful unless you want a fight. This book even has cooking instructions as well. It shows you how to blag your way through life,
Before I bought this book I had read a review on this site that said it was better than `The Dangerous Book For Boys'. Well I don not agree, I think it compliments it. This book is worth buying as part of a collection of books for boys (men).

Be a Man Again!
This book is awesome!

It has 160 chapters with more than 200 tricks that can be done with anything available at your disposal.

It talks about creating a Compass by just using your Digital Watch. Unbelievable isn't it?
It talks about how to find size of a women bra.
It talks about how to find the best queue to stand in. It need not be the shortest queue. It depends on Age, Number of People, Items in bag, etc.
It talks about weird stuffs, like how to walk on coal, how to fire your fart, etc.

I give it 5 stars because it is yet another survivor series book.
Its a must have copy if you dont have one in the same series.