Ethel the Aardvark, anybody?

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1. Which future Python played the bookshop assistant to Marty Feldman's eccentric customer? Eric Idle Graham Chapman Michael Palin John Cleese

2. What was the first title asked for? 'Attractive and Affectionate Grave Design' 'Thirty Days In the Samarkand Desert with a Spoon' 'Procrastination and Task Avoidance: Theory, Research and Treatment' 'Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice'

3. The next book requested was 'A Hundred and One Ways to Start a Monsoon' by 'an Indian gentleman' whose name escaped the customer. Imagine the assistant's relief to be asked for 'David Copperfield' (he thinks!) next - but who did the customer claim was the author? Edmund Wells Leo Tolstoy Charles Dickens Charles Schultz

4. The next volume requested by the customer is 'Rarnaby Budge', written by whom? Charles Dickens Charles Dikkens Darles Chickens Chick Darlins

5. Who sent the customer to the bookshop? The chemist Another bookshop The library The doctor

6. After the customer asks for 'The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig among the Giant Pygmies of Corsica', Volume Two' the assistant decides to shut up shop for lunch, when the customer spots a book he wants on the shelves - 'Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'. After the assistant suspiciously checks the spelling, both of Olsen and birds, he thinks he's made a sale. But no, the customer wants the expurgated version. Why? The expurgated book has a prettier cover The original has bad language He doesn't like gannets The expurgated version is more thorough

7. The next book the customer asks for sounds like one in a series. If I tell you that some genuine titles in the series were '_______ of the Camel Squadron', '_______ Defies the Swastika', '_______ and the Leopards of Zinn' and '_______ Buries a Hatchet', perhaps the customers request for '_______ Combs his Hair' isn't too outlandish. Who is the eponymous hero? Answer: (One Word. Written by Captain W.E. Johns.)

8. After asking for 'The Gospel According to Charlie Drake', the customer at last asks for a book the assistant has got - 'Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity-Surveying'. But if you've got this far - you know there's a snag. What is it this time? The customer hasn't got enough money The customer wanted the book in Finnish Ethel should have been spelt 'Ethyl' The customer wanted the paperback

9. Why won't the customer write a cheque for the book? He thinks the book is too expensive He's going to borrow the book from the library He wants to pay by credit card He doesn't have a bank account

10. So, the customer has the book. Surely he now goes home and reads it. Does he? Yes No