when John Lloyd was putting together the Not 1982 calendar, and was stuck for things to put on the bottoms of the pages {and also the tops and quite a few middles}. He turned out the drawer, chose a dozen or so of the best new words, and inserted them in the book under the name Oxtail English Dictionary. This quickly turned out to be one of the most popular bits of Not 1982, and the success of the idea in this small scale suggested the possibility of a book devoted to it-and here it is: The Meaning of Liff, the product of a hard lifetime's work studying and chronicling the behaviour of man. From"
( Douglas Adams )
[ The Salmon of Doubt ]
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