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The Tall Tales (Just Imagine) book contains many interesting facts. We share about 50% of our DNA with a banana. In 1377 35% of men in the UK were called John, and over half the men were called either John or William. Isaac Newton invented the cat flap. The 1900 Olympics included live pigeon shooting and long jump for horses. The tin opener was not invented until about 40 years after the tin can. The Chinese had bookshops in every city over a thousand years ago.
Facts however can help inspire our imagination.
Having read Tall Tales (Just Imagine) it is unlikely you will ever be quite the same again. You will no longer take things for granted in quite the way you did before. Not only will the topics covered in this book come to mind in certain everyday situations, but you will find yourself occasionally triggered into making up your own Tall Tales. In so doing you will become a little less gullible to the many very strange ideas that so many people seem to hold to be true. But hopefully you will also be a little more open to ideas that don’t quite fit in.
The following is a contents list for Tall Tales (Just Imagine)
Preface
100 Tales
- The Siberian Ice-Duck
- Dinosaur Moles
- The Dodo at the Bottom of the Garden
- The Genius Tortoise
- Not so Black and White
- The Umbrella Monkey
- Slothful Migrations
- Stonehenge Soup
- Not such a Natural Endeavour
- Noah’s Coracle
- A Catastrophic Swallow
- Stairway to Heaven
- Cloud Play
- Stoned Dinosaurs
- T-Robin
- Humankind, a chance evolving
- Shared DNA
- The Age of the Guinea Pig
- Cavia Sapiens
- A Mammoth Best Friend
- Sheep with big teeth
- Partying Neanderthals
- It’s All in the Name
- Universal Jewelry
- Time Speeding Up
- E = approximately mc2
- Two Nibbles make a Byte
- It’s all Greek
- Achilles Bum
- In the Myths of Time
- Practicing Civilization
- The Great Balloon Migrations
- Buddha that!
- String Communications
- Bloody Vandals!
- Aethelred was Ready
- Home Sick Vikings
- The Dark Ages
- Anglo-Saxon French
- The Toll Puddle Martyrs
- The Pilgrimage Exchange Rate
- John, John, and John
- Leonardo de Vinci’s Nuclear Reactor
- The Final Snack
- Nostradamus predicted the Wigan FA Cup Win
- Oh, Shit!
- Newton’s Mint
- The Motivation behind the invention of the Telescope
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Henry VIII and his 24 wives
- Period Wars
- Discriminaming in the modern world
- Book Titles, which were often initially much longer than they later became
- Trimmed Paintings
- Owning France
- A Hip Relay and Eeling the Seine
- It started as a Joke …
- A Pitcher paints a thousand words
- The Road to Nowhere
- Some Common Fallacies
- Why Buses Come in Threes
- Swiss Army Fork
- Single White Old Ladies (SWOLs)
- The Thinker and Other Thoughts
- Living Forever
- Nurture vs. Nature: sorted.
- Musical Babies
- Accidental Inventions
- Matched Pairs
- A Flagging Union
- Use it Again Sam
- Dowsing for Thoughts
- The Fickle Finger of Chance
- Eternal Road Works
- Around the World in …
- Not smel’tin’ here no more
- It wasn’t me!
- Is she singing yet?
- Very, Very, Very Big Telescopes
- Common Ground Tennis
- The 13th sign of the Zodiac
- The End of Science
- Less than Artificial Intelligence
- A Camel and the Eye of a Needle
- Elitist Sport
- Animal Spies
- Strawberry Fields turn out not to be Forever
- Why our weight keeps going up and down
- The First Written Word – Rhubarb
- Maybe not so noble
- Mix-Up of Biblical Proportions
- The Name of God
- Johnny Chocko
- The Big D Dog
- Striking off Saint George
- Cheesy Tales
- In order To Save the Mocking Bird
- You Have to be Jesting!
- Still Joking!
- Not to be sniffed at!
Short Tales