eBook - ePub
The Book of Thunks
is not going fishing a hobby and other possibly impossible questions to stretch your brain and annoy your friends
- 330 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Book of Thunks
is not going fishing a hobby and other possibly impossible questions to stretch your brain and annoy your friends
About this book
A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. A thunk will shake up your templates, rattle your thought routines, and make you think about things differently! The ideal gift for possibly the most impossible person to buy for!
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Information
THE
THUNKS
Philosophy is the thinking science hasn’t got to yet…
1. Is there such a thing as ‘The French’?
2. If feeding a terrorist makes you a terrorist, does making them a cup of tea have the same effect?
3. IS NOT GOING FISHING A HOBBY?
4. If o degrees is a temperature, is o centimetres a height?
5. Can you love someone too much?
6. DOES A CLOUD DISPLACE SKY?
7. Can you turn a sound upside down?
8. If the cure for cancer meant constructing a huge factory in Antarctica, should we do it anyway?
9. IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR OWN LIES, ARE THEY LIES?
10. Does opening a window change the size of a room?
11. Is a broken-down car parked?
12. IF YOU WERE BORN ON AN AEROPLANE IN GERMAN AIRSPACE ARE YOU GERMAN?
13. Are you more of a success if you have had five top 40 hit records but no number ones compared to a one-hit wonder with one number one?
14. Is a cuckoo evil?
15. Is there such a word as ‘cope’?
16. When you stand on a bridge are you standing on the ground?
17. IS A HORSE A VEHICLE?
18. Would it be OK to blast our rubbish into space?
19. Would a baby born on a deserted island ever laugh?
20. IS THE AIR IN YOUR LUNGS YOURS TO DO WITH WHAT YOU LIKE?
21. If I borrow a million pounds am I millionaire?
22. Is a cloud in the sky (and not above, under, part of, or anything else)?
23. If you found a contraceptive in your teenage daughter’s room, should you be pleased?
24. COULD A FISH EXPRESS A PREFERENCE?
25. Can you say how many deaths it takes for them to become a statistic and not a tragedy?
26. IF A ROBOT WAITER BRINGS YOU A DRINK SHOULD YOU SAY THANK YOU?
27. Is a frozen pizza food?
28. Can being in love be boring?
29. When the roof is on the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff is it a room?
30. Would you rather live under democracy or under a dictatorship led by Father Christmas?
31. Can y...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword : Thunks and the Brain
- Instructions
- THE THUNKS
- Copyright