Product Description

Conversations from the buses, boardrooms and bars of Britain Think you've heard it all before? Think again with this hilarious collection of conversations from around Britain, overheard at tourist hotspots, in queues, at work and on public transport. Packed full of verbal wit and gags it is guaranteed to get people talking and remember the stupid things that they have overheard. Microcosm A tired looking mother stands hands on hips in the play park watching her two young children tumble in the dirt. MOTHER: (shouting) Jordan! Syria! Play nice! Casanova on the 137 A young Casanova is chattin' on his mobile, while sitting on a bus. CASANOVA: I am so glad you called sweet. Yeaaaahh. Girl I ain't sitting on no bus. I'm here, driving, yeah? Yeah, well you soon see it girl. You gonna come out with me tonight? Cooool. I'm sooo glad you called yeah? I was thinking 'bout you!let's meet up!where? Okay I'll take you there!Yeah I'll take you there girl. I won't bring my wheels if we'ze going there. Thas alright. Thas alright!I'll be there. What's your name girl..? I know what your name is girl, I want you to spell it. Donna, Dana! D-a-n-a yeah? I knew that. I am sooo glad you called yeah?I was thinking 'bout you. A hilarious record of what people really do say. Watch out-you never know who might be listening!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105807 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Mark is a freelance writer, and editor and has worked on a number of print publications and web/TV tie-in projects including, In Search of Shakespeare, Celebrity Big Brother 7 and Restoration. He was also a contributor to the Emmy Award winning TV comedy series Smack the Pony. Jacqui Saunders has previously worked as a hand model, a muralist, an illustrator and a set and party stylist. She is currently a lecturer in art and design and writes for an interior design publication. Jacqui and Mark are married and live together with their two children in Bedfordshire.

Customer Reviews

Very disappointing
This should be just my kind of book. I was very intrigued by the premise and thought that it would indeed be a 'hilarious collection of conversations...packed full of verbal wit and gags'. However, it turned out to be a tedious collection of mind-numbingly boring conversations. (I actually heard 3 funnier conversations on a recent train journey from London to Newcastle the other day and I wasn't researching for a book on the topic.) It was only my principle of always reading a book to the bitter end that kept me going, having to plough through rubbish like the following:

ALANA: Miss. Is Van Gogh spelt G.O.T.H as in goth?
MRS GREEN: No Alana. It's spelt G.O.G.H not like goth as in Gothic.
ALANA: (sniffy): And what's wrong with goths?
MRS GREEN: Absolutely nothing. In fact, my husband used to be one.
TIM: Your husband? What, Mr Watts?
MRS GREEN: Nooo, Tim. Mr Watts is married to Mrs Watts. Mr Watts is simply my department head. We work together. We are not married. Contrary to popular opinion, not all teachers are married to each other.
TIM: Do you mean Mrs Watts the Italian teacher?
MRS GREEN: (sighing) I think we'd better stop this conversation now.

Don't waste your money on this book.

Sounds too good to be true
As the old adage goes, if something seems too good to be true, it usually is. That applies to this book. The thing is, I just didn't believe any of the transcripts. They seemed so, well, scripted. So contrived. I also wondered how many of these could have been overheard since, for example, some were between only two people in a private setting, e.g. between a doctor and a patient in a consulting room. So is the author the doctor or the patient? And could they have disclosed this? Next point: hardly any of the conversations are funny. Nice cover, poor product.

Boring
Not really very funny at all. Some of it is a bit, "So what?"

Waste of time and money.