It's aiming to be the year's witty entry, like a modern update on Serious Drinking.
Simon Brett is happy to oblige with THE TORSO IN THE TOWN (Berkley Prime Crime, $22.95), another witty entry in a blithely comic series set in Fethering, a picturesque town on England's south coast -- "Costa Geriatrica," in the catty view of one male resident, "a repository for washed-up widows and washed-out maiden aunts".
I loved TOETAGS, BRIARS, ROCK OUT, PORTERS, RADIO CAR; honestly, there were too many witty entries today to count, or list without spoiling the solve.
Visit volunteer-with-howler-monkeys.org for more information Monty lives in Edinburgh The judge: Richard Hammond, editor of greentraveller.co.uk, said: "This is the wittiest entry, grabs you early, describes the place well and provides a description of the responsible tourism project without it sounding too worthy.
Indeed, the general consensus among bloggers is that one witty blog entry does not a loyal readership make.
Jessica spills out her heart in the form of witty, sarcastic diary entries as she deals with life without her best friend.
All are culled from the pages of 100 Things to Do Before You Die (Profile £3.99), a tiny guide to scientific exotica that has been put together by an illustrious assembly of researchers and public figures, including John Sulston, father of Britain's human genome project, Susan Greenfield and Adam Hart-Davis, with each providing a few paragraphs of witty text to accompany each entry.
He enlivened his dictionary entries with astute, witty and sometimes waspish observations, and in the later editions of Baker, he introduced some musicians with lavish evaluations.
Instead of the lyrics that read like journal entries, she was sharp and witty.
Dorothy Parker leads the list of the top five wittiest women, with 43 entries, ahead of Mae West, among whose best lines is: "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before".
In celebration of the verve he brought to the art of reviewing, we expect entries to be bold, insightful and witty – and more than just a critique of food on a plate.
