Odd Book Titles: Fish Who Answer the Telephone

I enjoy odd book titles so was delighted to find a huge list in the catalogue-book, Fish Who Answer the Telephone, and Other Bizarre Books, by Russell Ash and Brian Lake. I have previously listed some weird titles, and here are my favourites from this book:

• Pamela Pounce: A tale of tempestuous petticoats
• What to Say when You Talk to Yourself
• Laundry Lists with Detachable Counter-checks in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, including Vocabularies and Necessary Phrases with Phonetic Spelling
• What is a Cow?: And other questions that might occur to you when walking the Thames Path
• The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry
• The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico
• The Zen of Bowel Movements: A spiritual approach to constipation
• A Pictorial Book of Tongue Coating
• Eleven Years a Drunkard, or, The Life of Thomas Doner, Having Lost Both Arms Through Intemperance, He Wrote This Book with His Teeth as a Warning to Others
• How to Be Happy Though Married
• Jogging—The Dance of Death
• Collect Fungi on Stamps
• Knitted Historical Figures
• The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives
• How to Avoid Huge Ships
• The History and Romance of Elastic Webbing Since the Dawn of Time
• Warfare in the Enemy’s Rear
• Hand Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
• Taking Life Imprisonment Seriously
• The Sunny Side of Bereavement
• Lights! Catalogue of Worldwide Matchbox Labels with the Word ‘Light’ in the Title
• Handbook for the Limbless

The authors also have a list of odd authors’ names. Again, my favourites:

• Istvan Apathy
• Hippolyte Blot
• Melt Brink
• Robert Baby Buntin Dicebat
• Semen Frug
• Solon Toothaker Kimball
• Joy Muchmore Lacey
• Mildred Moody Nutter
• Polycarpe Poncelet
• Sue Mee
• Ismo Porn
• Nit Tongospit
• Urban Grosskipper von Wipper
• Yury Yuriiovich Yurk