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And another thing--: the world according to Clarkson

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by Jeremy Clarkson


  In fact, I’m so cheerful I would like to wish even the world’s most lunatic environmentalists a happy Christmas. I’d extend season’s greetings also to the Health and Safety Executive, cyclists, the woman who’s trying to write a biography about me, American politicians, Piers Morgan and even people who put the stickers on the lenses of spectacles in shops.

  Not lawyers, though. You lot sit over the land like a pall of smoke, bringing doom and gloom to even the brightest, sunniest day. You lot can go fooey.

  Sunday 18 December 2005

  Table of Contents

  Book Jacket

  I’m a nobody, my jet-set credit card tells me so

  Oops: how I dropped the US air force right in it

  Sorry, Hans, brassy Brits rule the beaches now

  Learn to kill a chicken, or you’ll get no supper

  To win a war, first you need a location scout

  Fear of fat can seriously damage your health

  Scotch – stop skiing and return to your sheds

  My son thinks I’m gay, and it can only get worse

  Sorry, but the public apology is a Big Lie

  Calling your kid Noah or Coke – how wet is that?

  Put Piers on a plinth, he deserves immortality

  Hurricane Hank pulls a fast one on the scramjet

  Health and safety and the death of television

  Getting totally wrecked at sea isn’t a crime

  We used to work to live, then we gave up living

  You’re all on probation, this is the British nation

  Comrade Clipboard won’t let me crash the car

  Noises off can turn a man into a murderer

  The lusty lads have left me feeling exposed

  Mobile phones that do everything – except work

  We really have to draw a line under tattoos

  Life itself is offensive, so stop complaining

  Put the panic button down now and walk away quietly

  Yes, it used to be grim up north – now it’s grimmer

  Stars staying alive is really killing rock’n’roll

  Hoon’s thinned red line is facing the wrong way

  Whee, there’s a golden apple in my family tree

  Blame your airport wait on dim Darren and Julie

  Proper writing is like so overr8ed, innit kids

  I have now discovered the highest form of life: wasps

  The doctors are out to get me

  Let’s brand our man’s army

  Go to school, see the world

  Space virgins need chutes

  Call that a list of best films?

  Two fingers to the pension

  This is how the world ends…

  Fight terror and look good, too

  The Cheshire charity rip-off

  Now I’m an artificial hipster

  Bullies were the making of me

  100 things not to do before you die

  Let’s break all Tony’s laws

  Sharks, you’re dead meat

  The ghost of wife’s present

  Who’s afraid of the nice wolf?

  Bowling for the beautiful people

  Wild weather warnings

  Jumbo, a brilliant white elephant

  Jackboots rule the countryside

  Found: a cure for binge drinking

  Custard, my wife’s worst swearword

  Go ahead, lad, be a gay astronaut

  Sticking one on the gum summit

  It’s freezing, so go get your sun cream

  Good riddance to green rubbish

  Bury me with my anecdotes on

  A screen queen ate my pork pie

  Save me from my mobile phone

  Ecologists can kill a landscape

  What we need is a parliament of 12

  Why won’t shops sell me anything?

  Fun: the true sign of a good school

  Nuts and dolts of an eco-boycott

  Small BBC strike, not many stirred

  Twin your town to save Africa

  Rock is dead, long live rock’n’roll

  You are about to be devoured

  Death by 1,000 autographs

  Oops, £25,000 went overboard

  Annoying: I like David Beckham

  My burning hate for patio heaters

  Multicultural? I just don’t see it

  Children really don’t want toys

  The Catch 22 of taking exercise

  A shady person’s holiday guide

  It’s a very fishy world, angling

  The message in a litter lout’s bottle

  Great no-shows of our time

  I’ve been seduced by Beardy Airways

  We are a nation in rude health

  Four eyes aren’t better than two

  Naughty nights in heartbreak hotel

  When the fame game goes funny

  Cornered by the green lynch mob

  What happened? I’m not grumpy

 

 

 


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