Welsh Rarebits  
Author(s): Aubrey Malone
Published by The Books Council of Wales
Publication Date:  Available in all formats
ISBN: 9781847717856
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An anthology containing the essence of Welsh humour in all its wildness and eccentricity. A collection of acerbic putdowns, daft definitions, controversial insights, gaffes, prejudices, hoary old gags and some quirky philosophical reflections. Quotes from the usual suspects are here, such as Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton, and some contemporary ones from people who cut to the chase.
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An anthology containing the essence of Welsh humour in all its wildness and eccentricity. A collection of acerbic putdowns, daft definitions, controversial insights, gaffes, prejudices, hoary old gags and some quirky philosophical reflections. Quotes from the usual suspects are here, such as Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton, and some contemporary ones from people who cut to the chase.
Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Actors and Acting
  • Advice
  • Age and Ageing
  • Animals
  • Behaviour
  • Birth
  • Books
  • Boredom
  • Cardis
  • Children and Childhood
  • Clothing
  • Comparisons
  • Contradictions
  • Cynicism
  • Dating
  • Drinking
  • Education
  • Egotism
  • Eisteddfoddau
  • The English and the Welsh
  • Fame
  • Films and Filming
  • Foot and Mouth Disease
  • Football
  • God
  • Golf
  • Health
  • Hostility
  • Image
  • Insults
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Looks
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Men and Women
  • The Mines
  • Money
  • Morality
  • Motivation
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Names
  • Nonsense
  • Obsessions
  • Parenthood
  • People and Places
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Political Invective
  • Praise
  • Publicity
  • Puns
  • Rain
  • Religion
  • Repartee
  • Revulsion
  • Rugby
  • Sarcasm
  • Self-criticism
  • Sex
  • Snooker
  • Sport
  • Stereotypes
  • Theatre
  • Dylan Thomas on Poetry
  • Travel
  • The Valleys
  • Violence
  • Wales
  • Weather
  • Weight
  • The Welsh
  • Work
  • Writers and Writing
  • General Speculations
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