That Book: ...of Perfectly Useless Information

by Mitchell Symons

Book Overview

Did you know that . . . John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game? Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row? The shortest war in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060731494
• ISBN13: 9780060731496
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Gee; I didn't know that!

This little tome does an excellent job of what it proposes to be. There is no way to tell exactly how many little facts that you will find in this gem of "useless" information;but there has got to be a thousand or more.. Facts are facts,and information is information;but who is to say what is "useful" and what is "useless"? There is absolutely no crireria as to what should be included or excluded in a book like this. I guess, the one point that is important ,is that it is a factual bit of informtion. It is a great book for someone who has little or no attention span,someone who loves trivia,someone who likes to throw in a comment when someone else is doing all the talking and thinks they know it all. Absolutely nobody can know everything in the book and it is highly unlikely that anyone would know even 1% of what is contained between its covers. A check of the Book Stats showed that the book has a Fog Index of 15.2. That is a surprisingly high Index for a book that is so simple to read and understand. I would have guessed it was 4 or 5. A great little book to leave around for anyone from the age of 7 to 107 to kill a little time. It can be picked up,opened at any page and start reading. Here's just a sampling of the kind of stuff you'll find here; "Pricilla Presley became a mother again after becoming a grandmother." "111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321" "Hijinks is the only word with three dotted letters in arow." "Rod Stewart was a gravedigger before becoming famous." "Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight." "Marilyn Monroe overcame a stammer." "Tony Curtis served in the U.S. Navy in the Paciic,where he witnessed the Japanese surrender." "President George Bush was the U.S. Navy's youngest- ever fighter pilot. He flew fifty-eight missions and was once shot down and rescued.He won 5 medals." "Milke Love,Pancho Villa and Zsa Zsa Gabor each married 9 times outdoing Elizabeth Taylor (twice to the sameman),Mickey Rooney,Alan Jay Lerner and Artie Shaw;who each married 8 times." "The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump;but is the only animal other than humans that can stand on its head. "The most shoplifted book in the U.S. ...The Bible." So, there you go, bet 'ya didn't know that;and the book is filled with just such earth shattering info.

interesting...

i thougth this book was pretty good, alot of things in it that i didn't know about before, some parts of the book like world wars and star track didn't catch my attention, but just about everything else did.

Wonderful!

I just bought this book - THIS BOOK! - and I can't put it down! It's so good and I'm learning things I never thought I needed to know - like Famous People Who Lived In Their Cars!!! I'm going to give it to everyone I know!