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Item Details
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HIPPO EATS DWARF
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| By: |
Alex Boese |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330512919 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330512916 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
9 February, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Unabridged |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Description: |
The world's greatest urban myths, fakes and hoaxes, from Bonsai kittens to human-flavoured tofu |
| Synopsis: |
The following news story apparently first appeared in the "Las Vegas Sun": 'A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act. More than 1,000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized the tragic mistake'. And yet, of course, Od never existed; which doesn't stop the story appearing every few years as a news item, set in fictional circuses from Manchester to Thailand and Sydney. "The Hippo Eats Dwarf" story is bizarre, almost certainly fake and masquerading as real, which describes a disturbing amount of what we hear and read about in magazines and on the web. Scientific investigator Alex Boese, who has for ten years run the web's biggest myth-busting website has collected together a wonderfully entertaining anthology of the best urban myths of recent years, from bonsai kittens reared in jars to keep them small to male lactation, and confirms or de-bunks them once and for all. So did Burger King really release a left-handed Whopper, with all of the condiments rotated through 180 degrees? Is dehydrated water available to buy online?Or are they just hippo-eats-dwarf urban myths? |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pan Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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