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5 People Who Died During Sex


Classification

Series Number: 574
Genre: Reference
Series:
Condition: New
Read: ✓
Shelf: 23
Goodreads: Yes

General

Subtitle: And 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists
Author: Shaw, Karl
Binding: Softback
Cover Price:
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Publishing

Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Copyright Year: 2007
Publication Year: 2007
ISBN#: 0-7679-2059-7
LCCN#: 2006048959
Pages: 304
Address: New York
Dewey Decimal: 001.9
LoC Classification: AG243 .S477 2007
ISSN#:

Comments

All in perfectly bad taste

Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.

Did you know…

…that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he inspired the expression “drunk as a pope”? (From “10 Historic Drunks”)

…that as a special honeymoon treat, Prince Charles read Princess Diana passages from the works of Carl Jung and Laurens van der Post? (From “History’s 10 Least Romantic Honeymoons”)

…that the best-dressed gentlemen in medieval England exposed their genitals below a short-fitting tunic? (From “History’s 10 Greatest Fashion Mistakes”)

…that Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia—fear of eggs? (From “10 Phobias of the Famous”)

…that King Louis XIV only took three baths in his lifetime, each of them under protest?
(From “10 Great Unwashed”)

…that in 1930, Sears customers became enraged when the catalog was first printed on glossy, non-absorbent paper?
(From “12 Magical Moments in Toilet Paper History”)