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Featuring a vast and extraordinary collection of crackpots, visionaries, despots, prophets, performers, royals, politicians, inventors, philosophers, writers, artists and just plain eccentrics and their phobias, compulsions, odd beliefs and plain weird habits, including weird laws. By the same author as the Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists! In Alaska it's illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the purposes of taking a photo!In Vermont women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth!In California it's illegal to set a mousetrap without first obtaining a hunting permit!In Minnesota a person may not cross the state line with a duck on their head!Elvis Presley was convinced that he could turn on the Gracelands sprinkler system with his thoughts!Florence Nightingale kept a miniature pet owl in her pocket!Salvador Dali ate vast quantities of Camembert before going to bed so that his dreams would be more vivid
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Compendiums of eccentricity are often top-heavy lurid-to-loony tales of the rich and nutty, but not Shaw's diverse and democratic addition to the ever-popular study of odd behavior. Shaw doesn't even include Bavaria's King Ludwig, of fantastic castle fame, and others "because they were . . . certifiably insane." His book "is not about madmen," he says, but "eccentrics," defined as those "unaware of how out of step . . . their behaviour is." Thus Shaw omits Salvador Dali, among other intentional eccentrics. Fortunately, he is left with enough oddballs to fill 400-plus pages. Consider the potentate who, inspired by "America's exciting new means of executing criminals," purchased an electric chair, though his country lacked electrical service. And England's King George I, who, upon first meeting a prospective daughter-in-law, lifted her skirts to verify her virginity. Besides daft royals, Shaw devotes chapters to "Religious Eccentrics," "Political Eccentrics," "Eccentric Builders," and 12 more kinds of wacko. Shaw's eminently browsable book has a little something for everyone, except those who simply cannot appreciate the bizarre. Mike Tribby
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- PublisherRobinson Publishing
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 184119073X
- ISBN 13 9781841190730
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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