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    Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
    Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
    Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
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    Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets

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    Friends? Romans? Countrymen?
    You never know whom you'll have to impress
    at your next corporate shindig or keg party.

    Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch bowl isn't the trick. In fact, that's exactly why we're handing you Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets—a totally effective, foolproof guide to starting and sustaining conversations on every topic under the sun. Want to wax wise about barbarians, socialist theory, and jazz musicians? What about Keynesian economics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and James Joyce's Ulysses? Well, it's all right here in front of you.

    We've jam-packed this book with jaw-dropping facts and hysterical anecdotes that are sure to please. So go ahead and stock up for your next soiree. We're not guaranteeing it will make you the most knowledgeable person in the room . . . just the most interesting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061747670
    Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
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    Editors of Mental Floss

    Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.

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      Great little book full of interesting trivia and synopses of the 'important stuff' about a range of people (Viriginia Woolf, Santa Claus, Machiavelli) and things (Rosetta Stone, Magna Carta, the Koran). Did you know that if you have European heritage (although I'm not sure how the authors defined European) then you are almost definitely related to the Emperor Charlemagne? Great stuff!

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