The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual

[Lord Draegon]

This comes from the book The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual by Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler
Disclaimerthis book was published in 1976

Most Unusual Dictionary: Lexicographers in Wales have been working on a dictionary of the wlesh tongue for over fifty years. As of 1970 they are up the letter H.

Most Unusual Play: Breath, by Samuel Beckett was first performed in April 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors and no dialouge.

Most Unusual Hi-jacking: It sounds almost too pat to be true, but police in Santa Fe, Argentina, arrested a man who bourded a city bus, drew a revolver, and demanded to be driven to Cuba.

Most Usual Biblica Essay: In 1663 a noted orientalist presented to the French Academya paper in which he concluded that Adam was 140 feet tall, Noah 50 feet tall, Abraham, 40 feet tall, and Moses, 25.

Wrst Eiting of a Film: A movie theater manager in Seoul, South Korea decided that the running time of The Sound of Music was too long. He shortened it by cutting out all the songs.

Worst Suicide: A forty-year-old man in Biella, Italy, set himself afire and then, experiencing a sudden change of heart, threw himself to the ground and rolled around on the grass in an attempt to extinguish the flames. On lookers gaped as he rolled off a cliff and fell to his death.

 

[Iggy]

A movie theater manager in Seoul, South Korea decided that the running time of The Sound of Music was too long. He shortened it by cutting out all the songs.

Sounds like a fine idea to me.

 

[ferenginar]

These are a few of my favourite edits

 

[Pointlessness]

Most Unusual Play: Breath, by Samuel Beckett was first performed in April 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors and no dialouge.

I have a feeling I saw that play before...

 

[Iggy]

These are a few of my favourite edits

Very drole.

 

[Ballazic]

Very funny guys.

 

[CivCube]

I love this book. I got it as a gift from my aunt a long time ago and read it cover to cover. There's some really great stuff in there.

 

[MjM]

I got this for Christmas Its one of my favorites

 

[h4ppy]

Most Unusual Play: Breath, by Samuel Beckett was first performed in April 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors and no dialouge

That is pretty intresting, except for the fact that that is not a play.