Childrens Books
Part 7
Shorter list. Incipient memory loss and a precocity in reading meant that I leapfrogged the teen aimed stuff-

Theodor Seuss Geisel
Aka Dr Seuss
Seems to have not got a mention yet. If you don't like Seuss I suspect you may have no soul or are you a particularly stupid robot? Still occasionally read them now and don't feel it's wasted time.

Raymond Briggs- Fungus the Bogeyman and particularly loved the plop up book. Quite dark but still holds up.

Norman Hunters Professor Branestawm books already have mention but I second the recommendation.

Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle_Any of the Molesworth books although better to start at the beginning with Down With Skool. Funny, beautifully illustrated and trans-generational. A lot of quite adult references slipped in.

And, cutting short, a specific reading of A.A Milne although Pooh deserves a place anyhow.
Winnie the Pooh as read by Willie Rushton on Jackanory. One of the rare times YouTube fails utterly. There was a VHS release so it postdates the wiping plague. Come on someone up it
(unclestinky, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 19:46, 9 replies)

you're a bit of a ponce really, aren't you?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:15, closed)

Not for me to judge
It may be so. It's one of those words which has more than one meaning. If you mean do I hang about cadging smokes then not so much. If you mean smart arsed, swallowed a dictionary, irritating wanker then yes.

I would contend however that another interpretation would be intellectual and add that your comments merely confirm the long-standing English distrust of cleverness. Had to put up with it for years as clearly not smart enough to hide it.

Probably win the "man most likely to be found eaten by rats by the council" award.
(unclestinky, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:43, closed)

Cleverness and
its evil cohorts, education, improvement and aspiration rank highly among the great list of vile and unspeakable beasts and should be put into a sack and tossed into the canal.

Luck is with us though because we have The Anti-intellectual and the Inverse Snob to help us back into the mire.

The Khmer Rouge knew how to deal with the clever, they killed them where they found them and rightly so, the bespectacled fuckers.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 22:42, closed)

You're wrong.
Breeding is more important than intelligence. Meritocracy leads to communism.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 23:39, closed)

Breeding is more fun than intelligence.
Meritocracy, well mebbe. What have the talented ever done for us?
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 4:26, closed)

If you think that the English distrust clever,
try Americans.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 3:21, closed)

i'm not distrusting cleverness.
i'm merely pointing out that i find you to be an unbearable ponce. mostly for the metaphysical poets but, y'know. all of it, really.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 12:53, closed)

I said nothing about the metaphysical poets in general
That's known as jumping to conclusions. John Donne yes, most of the rest meh. Bits and pieces but largely indifferent.

What's poncey about what books you like and why? I just like a lot.
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:08, closed)

Willie Rushton reading Pooh,
is both marvellous and awful. We have long since lost the tapes, but hearing an old episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is more entertaining, so they're not really missed.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:31, closed)