Product Description

When the outraged headline cries "Cycle Lane Not Even as Long as Small Cycle" you know something's not quite right. Welcome to Framley. Like a whimsical, silly step-child of the League of Gentlemen and TV Come Home this brilliant spoof of a local newspaper quickly became a favourite when it appeared online last year. The book of the website of the newspaper, this is set to be a classic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54053 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
How to crack a safe, escape from Alcatraz, get the girl and live the action hero's life. This handbook comes from the creators of The Worst Case Scenario Handbook. The book of the internet phenomenon www.framley.co.uk - a spoof of a local newspaper which quickly became a favourite when it appeared online last year.

Customer Reviews

blimey this is funny
it's not just mr hollyhock. it's vince, the dodgy dealer, and the 'turn your memories into crisps' company, and the teletubby immigrants, and framley zabadak, and 'lesbians demand footbridge,' and the annual race against time, and the school orchestra being so loud the trumpeter's ears bleed, and the kitten in a bottle stall at the fete...

this is a skyscraper of towering nonsense, and endangeringly good.

If you don't find this funny...
I was introduced to the online version of the Framley Examiner a few months ago and I was hooked immediately. The humour might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it has had me giggling ever since. It is a superb skit on the parochial nature of local newspapers - although if you were to read my parents' parish magazine you might be gulled into thinking the Framley Examiner isn't a spoof at all!

Look out especially for the classified ads from Mr Hollyhock - a work of genius...

I strongly suggest you buy it (and read it, obviously).

A level of genius rarely seen
Framley is a place you know you might have driven through - and been slightly relieved not to have stopped. Genteel yet subsersive, decent yet demented, the cluster of villages combed by the Framley Examiner throws up some superb character observations and brilliantly written journalise by the frustrated tabloid wannabe cub reporters that grace the pages. Although the newer pages are not quite as sharp as earlier releases (Please let's not go near the old Punch cliche!) the whole concept behind the Framley Examiner insults everyone who lives in small market towns and villages, along with a pointed two-fingers at local news, and yet hurts no-one in the process. Think of League of Gentleman, think of Viz at its very best and you are getting close to this book, but you will still be surprised at just how good cutting-edge humour is at the moment. It's a delicious schoolboy prank the likes of which is rarely experienced. Buy it, read slowwwwwly, and prepare to giggle like the teenager you really are.