Product Description

Do you look back on your school days, and remember magical times, powerful and enduring friendships, and secret adventures? Well, snap out of it. You're deluding yourself. Based on the popular website playgroundlaw.com The Law of the Playground is a dictionary of the insults, games, torture, legendary anecdotes and pure creative insanity that we all - as pre-moral children -inflicted on each other. Whilst the emphasis is always on humour, the book acknowledges that children can be bastards, and begrudgingly accepts that it's, actually, very amusing. Written with dark nostalgia, and more wit and substance than average, everyone can find something they will identify with in The Law of the Playground. A timely antidote to the rose-tinted view of childhood offered by FriendsReunited.co.uk and SchoolDisco.com.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40218 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
'Great fun', Lads Magazine

ICE magazine, December 2004
"If you were a cruel kid you'll love this. Glorious, puerile insults in abundance."

From the Publisher
Because they weren't all your Friends and you don't want to be Reunited with them anyway-

Customer Reviews

Astounding
I'm sure the author himself would be the first to admit that the intended scope of this book is ambitious to say the least, but the brilliance with which he nails the salient points to the page is breathtaking. The subtle nuances of budding social interaction are trailed along the printed page like so many pearl necklaces, inviting the reader to explore the development of language at a most important stage in human growth. The astounding level of research, cross references and supporting evidence mean that although this book is easily understood by the lay man, the author has not betrayed his academic roots. I fully expect this book to be on many a reading list come September. Jonathon Blyth, academic, adventurer, guru. To this list we now must add author.

Memories come flooding back
Not only does Log-chan's book document our juvenile vocabulary from days past, it shows nicknames, pranks and rhymes that you may not have heard yourself. There's so much in it I had completely forgotten about, and shows how silly and hilarious/sick kids can be.

I've been passing this round the office and has proven most popular. You gotta have a copy, then you'll learn about things like lunchbox hierarchy and what a spooner is. You'll be asked questions on this later, so pay attention!

A thumping good read!
Was your childhood a happy one? Did you gaily skip amongst the flowers and butterflies, safe in the knowledge that the world was a kind and wonderous place? Well I didn't. And nor did you, you lying get. Instead, you were a nasty little piece of work who enjoyed nothing better than to laugh at other peoples' misfortunes and inadequacies. Well, finally, there's a book for you to read on the toilet; and this is it. This book is for anyone who made a teacher cry, were proud of attitudes which they now find indefensible, or joined a baying crowd of derision that resulted in the unfortunate victim mysteriously never returning after the holidays. Oh, and it's really, REALLY funny.

Update: This book contains NO entries by that braying yokel Justin Lee Collins; nothing by the 'skull with a rubber johnny stretched over it' that is Christian O'Connell; nothing by that woman who is presumably a stand-up, but who you WOULD. It has stories that have been included because they are FUNNY. Not because they happened to someone who is...er...*laughs*...famous.