Shoot the Puppy

Are you a bobo or a wombat ? Are you tempted by infobia or to kick dead whales up the beach ? If your answer to any of these questions is 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of Shoot the Puppy . Amusing, informative and newly updated for 2007, it guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about our contemporary world.