London photos: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest book bench

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Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. They’ve just come off display, and will be auctioned off on October 7th. See Books about Town for more info.

This is the bench dedicated to Oscar Wilde’s novel The Importance of Being Earnest. (Click here for a larger version of the front.)

The back:

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(Click here for a larger version.)

And the bench in its environment:

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the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘F.A.R.T. The Movie’

According to Wikipedia: F.A.R.T. the Movie, released in 1991, is about a man named Russell who is obsessed with farting. His girlfriend Heather despises farts and becomes angry with Russell because all he does is watch television and fart. She tells him that if the television turns into fart jokes, then Russell won’t even leave … more…