Alive and kicking
By: Joe Bennett
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781869506728
Subjects: New Zealand wit and humor; Anecdotes; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "Alive: aboveground, animate, animated, breathing, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, capable of life, chipper, conscious, endowed with life, enjoying health, enlivened, eupeptic, existent, fine, fit, fit and fine, full of beans, healthful, healthy, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the flesh, in the pink, inspirited, instinct with life, live, living, long-lived, quick, tenacious of life, very much alive, viable, vital, vivified, zoetic. Kicking: sticking the boot in. Still alive after 11 years and 11 collections of columns, Joe Bennett sticks the boot into Beckhamania, golf umbrellas, beer ads, Hillary Clinton, all sorts of bureaucrats, and a fatso from the Middle East who flies halfway round the world to shoot our deer. But he writes loving stuff, too, about fish and postcards and Pavarotti and butter and dead dogs. From his fastness in Lyttelton, New Zealand's best-loved columnist once again dissects the weird, wide and sometimes less than wonderful world with peerless wit and concision."--BOOK COVER.
Table of contents: title: We got it; title: What the head said; title: Here are some questions; title: Fanks; title: Among fish; title: Jumper; title: Bin there, done that; title: Ed; title: Champs; title: Cardiosanguiniensis cunctatus optatus; title: How kind are you?; title: Alarmed; title: The price of petrol; title: Confess that brolly; title: Good stuff; title: The blades of prophecy; title: Sheikh Yawallet; title: Six in the morning; title: For your reading entertainment; title: Now listen up, America; title: I took the costly wine; title: Seldomly; title: Manila; title: Tell me, Sir Jim; title: We; title: Here's to fat Pavo; title: Yes; title: Crossing the corporate ice ravine; title: Bloody Sunday; title: Baz; title: Signs; title: This is the life; title: The plank revisited; title: Eating posh; title: The mendacity medal; title: Impure thoughts; title: Going Joe's side; title: Security; title: Packing; title: Keeping it real; title: The bastard my lawyer; title: Between seven and ten; title: Warty; title: Safety officers; title: Drink with doc.