Research Catalog

Title

So help me dog / Joe Bennett.

Author

Bennett, Joe, 1957-

Publication

Christchurch, N.Z. : Hazard Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

126 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

A third collection of columns from Joe Bennett, an old-fashioned wit who shines a sharp light on the absurdity of life.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Humor

Note

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- She smuggled a tortoise -- A prayer to Mrs Shaughnessy -- Ahoy -- Aubergine therapy -- Bedside lovers -- Gone goat -- Cheers for booze -- Rite rite -- Eating with experts -- I believe in pigs -- In the bad lands -- Pea neat -- Love for lunch -- Of chopping and sticking -- Small stuff -- The stars above -- Hot Toddy -- A good old story -- Yurt and yak -- Emotion in aspic -- Seduced -- Moving bad things -- Messing -- The right side and the rest -- The sell-by chef -- Qualified nonsense -- Of doers and doodlers -- Fat fight -- Einstein's bus -- Prizing advice -- The Fatuous Greetings Company -- Snakehitch -- On noticing the shags -- Poker man -- The long slide to paradise -- Sprung -- This is terribly emotional -- Too many eggs -- Horace and I -- Room -- A woman on men -- Bronzino, the berat and the bird -- Standing for nothing.

ISBN

1877270024 (pbk.) :

OCLC

49258947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library