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Bears Can't Run Downhill: And 200 Other Dubious Pub Facts Explained |  | Author: Robert Anwood
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 151633
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0091912555
EAN: 9780091912550
ASIN: 0091912555
Publication Date: September 7, 2006
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Product Description
Explains 201 common claims and popular misconceptions. This work is intended for the quiz fanatic, the trivia buff, the show-off down the pub - or the wife or girlfriend who wants a way to get the upper hand.
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 Odd Facts. January 5, 2010
Veronica I. Bolan (Scotland)
This is a book of fascinating facts, which I briefly looked into, as I bought it for a friend who found it interesting and enjoyable.
Fun and a great present August 11, 2007
Patricia Bridge (Northumberland, UK)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this, as I found it a good mix of funny writing and proper factual stuff. Definitely recommend it as a good present book which is how I got it. There are a couple of other similar-soundnig books out there but of the ones I read this had the best mix. You couldn't accuse it of being derivative of the QI book as that came out either at the same time or possibly even a bit later!
 derivative July 9, 2007
C. Hatfield (Leafy Warwickshire)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This review would have been better if I hadn't also just read several other similar books including the superb QI book.
Nobody has ever mentioned any of these facts in the pubs I drink in.
 Debunked December 16, 2006
M. Chatterton
33 out of 53 found this review helpful
Picked this book on the advice of the other reviews and found it has been misrepresented. I didn't find the writing particuarly amusing and the 'research' smacks of typing the fact into google and reciting the results. In fact the majority of conclusions are unsubstantiated and left me feeling like only half the sorry had been told. There really are no real insights and by the time I was halfway through I felt like a list of the facts with a true/false next to them would have been just as entertaining.
Let me put it this way - Jade Goody could have written this book.
There's many an untrue word spoken in drink October 8, 2006
Erkki (Lancashire, UK)
80 out of 85 found this review helpful
From the title of this book, I was expecting it to be yet another of those predictable compilations that come out at this time of year, containing "amazing" facts or "hilarious" urban myths, most of which you've seen before because they've been recycled from the 1001 previous books on the same subject. But, as Mr Anwood explains in his introduction, his approach to gathering material was rather different to this.
In short, he noticed that, after a few beers, people tend to become self-appointed experts on any subject under the sun, and will confidently inform you that, for instance, rice is technically a type of fruit, that Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button, or that the Queen's phone number used to be 1; they usually follow this up by exclaiming "FACT!".
The author appears to have taken a notebook to the pub with him, diligently written these booze-fuelled "facts" down, and gone away and thoroughly researched them. Combined with his dry humour, this makes for a highly entertaining (and at times surprising) read. Definitely a good Christmas stocking-filler - but read it yourself before you hand it over, and certainly before you next go down the pub!
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