Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of
opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of
living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the
Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined
columns from the award-winning Oxford Times magazine Oxfordshire
Limited Edition including several previously unpublished stories.In
these unflinchingly truthful columns he meets celebrities (Kate
Middleton, Dara O'Briain, the one who plays Phoebe in Friends and a
predictably grumpy Alan Sugar), visits the 11th dimension with an
Oxford University maths protegee, gatecrashes Encaenia, flirts with
a Roman slave girl from 79AD, is ejected from the Oxford Union by
burly security, witnesses a comeuppance for a pack of arrogant
students, conducts a walking tour for Britain's scariest hen party,
moves a library (which transpires to be harder work than moving a
mountain), sees Britain's most pretentious theatre production,
participates in the UK's national bell ringing championships (yes,
that is a thing), allows Oxford University psychologists to
experiment on him, rescues four escaped horses in a busy Oxford
street (thankfully it wasn't the apocalypse), becomes a
crime-fighting superhero, is hospitalised in a serious bike
accident, gets chased by a furious revenge-fixated woman dressed as
a Friesian cow, strides out of his house one morning and disappears
down a giant sink hole, mentors two stand-up comedy virgins,
commits a devastating social faux pas and pledges to never use a
split infinitive or sentence this long again.
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