This morning a happy coincidence set me on a train of thought that kept my little mind amused for a good ten minutes.
On the BBC website I noticed a section where Ranulph Fiennes was giving tips on staying warm in the cold. Given our greatest living twit seemingly returns from every ridiculous stuntspedition with shorter fingers than he started out with, this struck me as singularly inappropriate.
Then for reasons of my own I was checking out Ed Reardon's Week, that very wonderful radio sitcom, and within seconds had tears of laughter streaming as I read that one of his coffee table books was Nigel Mansell's Love Poetry. If you know Mr Mansell and don't smile when you see that, check your pulse.
I was thus led to think about books that would be as wrong as the above, or Sir R(s) advising on avoiding frostbite. These were a few of the resulting titles:
Prescott on Rhetoric
Gordon Brown's Big Book of Team-building
Jeremy Clarkson's History of the Family Car
A Life of Struggle, by David Cameron
Ed Miliband's Guide to the World of Work
David Miliband: Time to Make a Stand
Kerry Katona's Relationship Guide
Building Consensus, by Michael Gove (with a foreword by Margaret Thatcher)
An Introduction to Socialism, by Tony Blair
Paul Gascoigne's Ten Tips on Career Change
If anyone is reading this (one wonders) and has their own suggestions for similar titles (non-libelous please) feel free to communicate them.
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