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The University of the Bleeding Obvious has been nominated for an award!

The good people at The Dog's Doodahs have shortlisted us for their 2014 award and are inviting you to vote for your favourite.
You can vote for us HERE. Please do, even if it's only out of pity. Thanks!

The good people at The Dog's Doodahs have shortlisted us for their 2014 award and are inviting you to vote for your favourite.
You can vote for us HERE. Please do, even if it's only out of pity. Thanks!
This is your chance to win a copy of The University of the Bleeding Obvious: Volume 1, personally signed by my milkman! Oh yes.
Want to know how Professor Jez Moonbeam plans to harvest the phenomenal power of popcorn? Perhaps you're curious to find out what became of Frederick Maitland, the first man who tried to reach Venus by catapult? And you can't fail to be simultaneously confused and concerned at Wendy Miller's prediction that, in just a few short years, encroaching pastry will mean that our planet is nothing more than a huge pie hanging in space.
Enter the giveaway at: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/78229
Ends Feb 12, 2014
First published in 2006, this collection from the popular British comedy website The University of the Bleeding Obvious (www.bleeding-obvious.co.uk) was recently republished in an expanded edition, containing new illustrations.
So if you want final, incontrovertible proof of the existence of cheese, the exciting story behind the discovery of a smell new to science, the heart-rending tale of a man with a nuclear test site at the bottom of his garden, just behind his shed, or a cautionary warning from Barry the Road Safety Owl, then enter now.