Book description
Australia s best-selling author s favourite wisecracks, tall tales
and rib-ticklers. Two drunks were walking home along the railway tracks.
The first drunk says, 'There's a hell of a lot of steps here.' The
second drunk says, 'I'll tell you what's worse, this hand rail is low
down. Peter FitzSimons has collected the biggest, bestest, funniest,
downright groan-inducing,rib-ticklers, one-liners, knock-knocks, shaggy
dog stories and limericks and collated them into the ultimate book of
jokes. Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the SMH and The
Sun-Herald. He is also a regular TV commentator, a former radio
presenter (very successfully, with Mike Carlton on Radio 2UE) and is
also a former national representative rugby union player. Peter is the
author of over 20 books - including Tobruk, Batavia and Mawson and
biographies of Nancy Wake Kim Beazley Nick Farr-Jones Les Darcy,
Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is Australia's biggest-selling
non-fiction author of the last ten years. Earlier this year, Peter was
named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a
biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community
through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare
and sporting organisations. He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and
their three children in Sydney.
