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The Schoolboy's Pocket Book

The Schoolboy's Pocket Book
‘The Schoolboy's Pocket Book’ was published in 1951. It is in pott octavo size of four by six and a quarter inches, with 160 pages. The publishers, Evans, badly misjudged the size of boy's pockets of that time. (Perhaps they took as a yardstick the misnamed Pocket Oxford Dictionary). Everything the author Carlton Wallace thought a boy needed to know is in ‘The Schoolboy's Pocket Book’:
• The length of the world’s longest rivers
• The height of the world’s tallest mountains
• The names of the Kings and Queens of England
• The area of the world’s lakes and seas
• The names of Britain’s fastest trains and ships
‘The Schoolboy's Pocket Book’ is completely useless when the schoolboy becomes a man. It offers no advice about asking a girl out on a date or how kissing on the lips is done. It is completely silent on how to order beer in a pub. There's not even an entry about wearing long trousers. Cripes!

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 Steve Bucknell
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I know! This is where it all went wrong for me.I'm just an older version of that boy, keen on note-taking, good at quizzes, but when it comes to grown-up things, completely impractical.
10 years ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Alas! The process of growing up is so often incomplete. And yet, when you see an example of a man who has made a successful transition to adulthood, it occurs to you that, the greater the depth of maturity, the drearier the outcome. So take heart, as well as notes.
10 years ago.

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