Tales from an Irish Barber Shop
Subtitle: Short Back and Sides
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780717151905; 9780717149414
Subjects: Barbershops; Humor; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; General
Description: There is something about barber shop conversations that sets them apart from the usual small talk. These exchanges are enjoyed on both sides of the chair. Here is a range of stories from funny to eye opening.
Notes: 'Just a Minute': The sixty-second quiz.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Barber-shop conversations; Aurora borealis on tour; The Passion of the Christ; UFO; History in the making (the good old days); The Irish cricket team; Noah's ark; Turn down that racket!; Obama; On Bush; A Taoiseach's salary; Après match; Arctic diversion; Clever entrepreneurs; Trolley dollies; The jingle post; Recycling tip for junk mail!; Not so loud; Alopecia; Culture shock; Jet lag; Che Shay; Atten?; Yoko; Financial crisis; At the races; More financial crisis remarks; Fake tan; Bank policy; Exam weather; Courtmacsherry; The sweetest revenge; Iraqi weather.; title: You don't know what a recession is!How to catch a cold; Frustrated tourist; Male chauvinist; The mysterious case of the missing gnome; Next, please; Bail-out; Karma man; Television licence crackdown; Travellers (redefined); M50 mystery solved; Diverted funds; If I found a cure for baldness; Compulsive gambler; Murphy's Law; Thinking big; First Indian manned space flight; Waiter, there's a ring in my soup; Trim his eyebrows; Brendan Behan's cat trick; Tinfoil highlights; Oestrogen in the water!; There's always one; Microwave-seal test; Sacred cheese; Jaws; Cobblers; Bob Monkhouse; 'Wonderwall'; title: Out of shapeSnow everywhere!; A black eye from Fianna Fáil; Hopeless case; Showjumping, Tallafornia style; Just looking!; Real estate; The way we were; B & Q; Yasmina and Kate; More Yasmina and Kate; A great weekend; The joy of repetition; Baltimore, Co. Cork-what a place!; The Western burqa; Aslan; Unibrow; New aftershave for Travellers; Due decorum; Downloading music; A smoking gun; Witty banner; Goodbye, Greens; Frost/Nixon, Cowen/Lenihan; Off your trolley; Whacko; Haughey's PR; Johnny Depp's sunglasses; Girls do it better; BOD; Summer job; Periwinkle-smugglers.; title: Bad things happen in threes . . .Antiques; Bank shares; Rock gods play golf!; Classified ads; The living dead; On women; Recession greetings; Born in the wrong country; More recession greetings; Double standards; Space race; The great mobile-phone conspiracy; Surf's up!; Interrogation; Ireland's diaspora, interesting fact; Bodyboards; Great party the other night . . .; Steak football; Galway Races; The Irish crown jewels; The dog knows; Brendan Behan; Pensioners; Lunsters; Bono's table; Strange shower; Down and out-of the country!; Michael Collins; Credit card minimum-payment bill.; title: U2 360 Croke ParkSwine flu; Phil Lynott; The Aviva Stadium; The banks again . . .; You won't believe me if I tell you; Irish traffic lights; The demon barber!; The Malahide railway bridge collapse; Directions in Ireland . . .; Witty Dublin place-names; Strange fashion . . .; Can't wait for tomorrow!; L'Oréal economics; Euro-style; The writing's on the wall; A creamy pint of black; An expert at partitions?; Dry hair; Jekyll-and-Hyde weather; Even your tractor isn't safe!; Far and Away; A new style; Time machine; Dino's Bar and Grill; The spud; The wit of George Bernard Shaw.