Why Girls Can't Throw: ...and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered – Shocking Truths and Quirky Facts About the Universe, Human Body, and Everyday Life

by Mitchell Symons

the truth can be shocking, seductive, offensive, outrageous...even disgusting! Are you perplexed by the mysteries of the universe, confounded by the workings of the human body, prone to pondering the great imponderables? At long last, the answers are here for every inquiring mind that's not afraid to face up to the cold, hard facts of life. The author who brought you That Book . . . of Perfectly Useless Information now addresses the quirky, the eclectic, and the essential conundrums of our age in Why Girls Can't Throw . . . and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered ,

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Science

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Timothy]

Less science, but a good read.

[Lauren]

On some level, I have to agree with the people who say that this book isn't the best researched or it isn't academic. But it is definitely humorous & it has a good amount of trivia. If you borrow it just for the humor & the trivia, you will absolutely love this book. (I ended up borrowing the book from the library because some jackass dad posted about the book on Facebook & complaining about the sexual content. If you're someone worried about that, the book is a trivia book - it's mostly not about sex related questions. If you're a petty person, like I can be at times, hey! Piss off a bigot! There's sex in this book! Along with everything else. Lol.)

[Jack G]

Got it because of the cover and didn’t realise that it was literally just one question per page. Unfortunately this is just a bunch of a questions and answers (my bad for not realising what this was before buying it) however most of the questions are trivial and not that complicated. The search for learning is not achieved here and is a gag gift at best

[Sally Lovelock]

Mildly amusing

[Ahmad Akram]

Its like modern time reddit

[Ali Almajedi]

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[Ella87]

Interessante und teilweise lustige Fakten.

[Susan]

This book gets bonus points for humor, but falls a bit short on authoritativeness. Enough of the explanations in here I've encountered elsewhere from sturdier sources that I'm willing to go on a limb and say the author isn't completely making it up as he goes along. Still, he almost goes out of his way to appear that way, cheerfully admitting to gleaning his findings from "experts" ranging from alleged professionals in various scientific fields, to his young son, and a range of schlubby acquaintances. I suspect this is more for the comedic value than to cover his rear. Fortunately for everyone he does succeed in that respect and in several cases, the journey to get to the root of an answer is more satisfying (and funny) than the result. The research behind the title predicament "why girls can't throw" for example, was incredibly unscientific and yet I can't deny feeling a little bit pleased afterwards all the same.

If you're one of those guys who expects to have tenable high ground to stand on as you're spouting off little known facts and debunking commonly held misconceptions to your friends, this is not the book for you. However, if you think those people take themselves way too seriously, you'll likely enjoy this.

[Ian]

Goddamn I love trivia. This book is all about silly things we've heard, and the author sets out, rather unscientifically, to find what truth (if any) is in them.

For the record, he never establishes WHY, but by his tests, on average men CAN throw farther than women, although the longest single throw in his test was from a woman.

[Kiani Delahoia]

If you want dry humor then any of Mr Symons books will make you laugh out loud.

This is a fantastic read and i have spent countless hours reading this book to my hearts content.

I recommend this to all readers it simply is a must.

[John Gentry]

decent facts in here but after rereading it as an older person i realize a lot of them aren't that interesting.

[Mariaan]

I love the author's style of writing, quirky and funny and you learn a hell of a lot of interesting facts amongst the way.

[angela]

this book as some interesting questions

[Jamie]

Good book for random facts/trivia.

[Nurshafiqa]

funny.
informative?

i wish the book is thicker.

[Harkes]

I'll be reading one or two questions everyday. Very interesting.