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edition:Paperback
category: Humor
published: Oct 2006
ISBN:9781550173734
publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

Black Gold

Nuggets from a Lifetime of Laughs

by Arthur Black

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The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is Canada's top award for humour and nobody has won it more times than Arthur Black, who carried off his third medal in June 2006. Now, in case there is anyone left standing who still disputes Black's claim to the title of Canada's funniest man, Harbour presents the laughing proof: a retrospective of Black's best hits, high-graded from eleven previous collections stretching back over the past twenty years. The result is a landslide of laughter, a pageant of puns, a tsunami of silliness, a cornucopia of corn, in short, a bonanza of Black humour.

From pointers on the medical application of duct tape to uses for that ancient Commodore 64 stashed in the closet to people who seek immortality by naming bugs after themselves to plans for a combination gambling and fitness machine so you can lose pounds as you lose money, Black holds nothing back.

About the Author

Arthur Black

One of few writers to have won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times, Arthur Black is one of Canada’s bestknown humorists. A former host of the CBC radio program, Basic Black, and the author of a syndicated newspaper column, Black is now permanently transplanted to Salt Spring Island, BC.
Editorial Review

"If at least a few of the essays don't give you a good belly laugh, then it must be a gloomy day indeed."
—Simon Hill, Mariner Life

— Mariner Life
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