'There are photographs and merry japes galore, for this is essentially a family book, and one which we confidently expect will stand on every shelf between 'Pears Encyclopaedia' and 'Mrs Beeton' – Barry Humphries. A collection of 'Bizarrerie to address the jaded palate': 'Handy Household Hints for the Mutilation of the Mona Lisa', 'Labiomancy: the Language of the Lips', 'On Recovering from Idiocy', 'Artificial Noses', 'The Mathematics of Sewers', 'Potato Poisoning', 'Flogging with a Frying-pan', and idiosyncratic erotica. Illustrated throughout.
