Research Catalog

Title

Sleeping dogs and other lies / Joe Bennett.

Author

Bennett, Joe, 1957-

Publication

Christchurch, N.Z. : Hazard Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

152 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Subject

• 1900-1999
• New Zealand wit and humor > 20th century
• Manners and customs
• New Zealand wit and humor
• New Zealand > Social life and customs > 20th century > Anecdotes
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Anecdotes.

Note

• Articles, previously published in the Christchurch Press and other newspapers.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Do it yourself -- The end of the road -- Spading the dog -- Englishness abroad -- The abominable batsman -- Finns and photos -- Principal principles -- Let the togas fall -- Death bvy accident insurance -- Tat -- Things -- Smile at the nice axe-murderer -- Hot Christmas -- Lying doggo -- Thank you, Mr Rodgers -- The man who ate death -- Call me Kissinger -- The other side of the fence -- All day long I'd deedle deedle dum -- The barber's pole is fallen -- Sing, baby, sing -- Back to the beach -- Dig it and dung it -- Underground heroes -- Go home -- Creep into thy narrow bed -- Ant -- Beat the beet -- So, where are they? -- Telephone technique -- Weird stuff -- Country music -- Hoonsville -- A Parisian pig -- Safety -- Presidential Shakespeare -- Dancing with destiny -- The manager's mother-in-law -- The devil's abroad -- Words on books -- Neerg fingers -- The good reverend -- Lies -- I believe -- Knickers -- A-gley -- Angels and warthogs -- Could do better -- Gloat-free zone -- From here to prostate -- Baking nuts -- Twenty yak -- Plane greetings -- At the sign of the stabbed dog -- A thumb in the air -- Wise fools -- Just visiting.

ISBN

• 1877161675
• 9781877161674

OCLC

52414908

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library