A very self-indulgent entry

[deprimido]

Does anybody remember, or did anybody ever read, 'There's An Awful Lot Of Weirdos In Our Neighbourhood' by Colin McNaughton? Just dug it up, it's a book of silly verse for children, described as 'gloriously vulgar' and 'hilariously grotesque', and was one of my favourites when I was, er, about five years old. Actually, that's a point, what age do

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[lauranat]

I remember it!

I suddenly have an urge to go upstairs and borrow it, I'm sure we have a copy of this masterpiece.

[misscaz]

i remember it too!!!
one of my teachers loved it, and usd to read from it every day.

[deprimido]

I knew it was a popular book but I'm amazed people remember it! :)

Next question: anyone remember that book, probably called something like 'Which would you rather..?', where you were given two options, two situations/scenarios, and had to pick which you'd rather be subjected to if you had to experience one or the other (e.g. would you rather spend the night in a haunted house or jump bare-legged into a patch of stinging nettles?)?

[deprimido]

Oh yes, you lucky thing, you, in a library.. I do hope you have a copy, would be nice if children were still reading this.

'You'd better beware, if you come round here,
To watch your step, to steer well clear
Of my front gate, it's a dangerous place
Because you might come face to face
With my new pet who's big and mean,
The ugliest brute you've ever seen.

Crooks and robbers don't come near,
They creep right past, they shake with fear.
They'd rather spend a year in gaol
Then risk one tickle from his fingernail.
Claws like razors, teeth like knives,
They'd better get lost, better run for their lives.

So if you're broke or out of work,
Get pushed around and called a jerk,
And if you're sad or if you're blue,
Take my advice, this is what you do:
Go down to the monster store
And get yourself a dinosaur.

Beat that drum, bang that gong,
Six metres high by sixteen long,
Come on all join in the chorus:
My new pet's a Tyrannosaurus!'

[jame0]

maybe I'm too old..... :-(

Looking at Amazon, if it was published in 1989 I'd probably have been too old to see it by then, maybe?

[deprimido]

On the back of my copy it says 'the book of the year for 7 to 10-year-olds' :)

[jame0]

Oh.

Err

I don't remember it.. At primary school I was one of four people to be put up into the class above a year ahead of the rest of the year though, maybe I was deemed too good for it ;)

[deprimido]

cheek :P

[deprimido]

I said sorry :( and, well he is thirteen, about time he got drunk..

Cat came back after a little bit, after smacking head and running outside, with a bird, still staggering a bit, and, oh, the jokes that could be made..

[deprimido]

Didn't let him keep it - I poked him with a spatula (no, really) till he let go of the bird and it was able to fly away. Then he went and sulked under the table.