Upon my word!: More stories from "My word!" a panel game devised by Edward J. Mason & Tony Shryane

Frank Muir and Denis Norden starred on the BBC Radio word-play panel show "My Word" for decades. In the final round of every game, each would take a popular phrase and spin a story that ended with a variation on the phrase. For example, one of the stories ends up, "You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It." The stories were filled with self-deprecating humor and the most elaborate puns. If you like that sort of thing, it's hilarious. If you don't, it's torture. After they'd been doing this for a few years, a publisher began to collect the stories in book form. Muir and Norden polished them up for publication. The books are hard paperback with newsprint pages. They sold for a few shillings when new. This particular volume has some really wonderful stuff in it. Muir's tale about a bodybuilding pixie that poses for the cover of Elf and Strength magazine. Norden recalls his most embarrassing moments, including the time he carried the full-grown cactus on the Underground at rush hour. The stories are no longer than two and a half pages. So, you can pick up the book up anytime. I loved it.