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Your Autobiography
Posted by Iainso on 31 August 2010 - 12:13pm.
Prompted by this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11109986
I hereby invite you lot to give us a title for your Autobiography, if or when you decide to write one.
I'll start: "Iain: Portrait of a Cereal Eater".
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'I was a teenage fudge packer'
with Maureen's of Brimfield, fudge fans
Beezer: My Autob-b-b, My Au-au-auto, My Autob-b, My Life Story
I stammer.
Well thats a coincidence, as.....
...I too am mildly afflicted with the old st-st-st-...speech thingy.
It was an absolute nightmare when I was younger, because the two phrases I really struggled with were my name, and my place of work!
I think maturity is helping. That and just telling people to fuck off a lot.
In all seriousness, it can be really debilitating, and my one fear is that my kids pick it up. OK so far, though!
Good Lord
Well I never.
I've posted here before on my younger travails so I shan't bore anyone again.
Debilitating. You're darn tootin' sir. Such an irony it's a minefield of syllables and a bastard to say.
Seriously, yes I too worry about my little girl picking up something similar from me. My Dad stammered too.
Ma Won't Shave Me,
Jesus Cant Save Me - Dog Faced Boy
"Good bad, not evil - el hombre malo"
-
Do You Do Any Wings?
.
"I've Been Bummed, Shag!" My
"I've Been Bummed, Shag!"
My colleague's first words to me at the factory where I spent my university summers, where 'shag' is a term of endearment and to be bummed is to be left a lot of work from the previous shift.
Me: Moir
Nobody can beat Vic Reeves's effort.
Peter Ustinov came close
his title was 'Dear Me'
My favourite comes from Auberon Waugh: 'Will This Do?'
(the editors among you will appreciate that one)
I'm writing a healthy-living guide at the moment. I'm going to call it '50 Ways To Love Your Liver'
vorgongod's guide
To wanking for fun and profit.
Drakeygirl:
My Life In Cakes, or She Was A Massive Bird
In two words?
Beany:
Lucky Sod
Mad Hatter
Born Bonkers
Massive Mingler
Jammie Dodger
Stackridge Bore
Bolton Wanderer
Accountant? Never!
And Will There Be Elephants?
.
Mad as a Snake
Rum bugger
Boxing fanatic
Thatcher hater
Dry bastard
Loyal
Off for a pint.
My Life in the Bush of Fuckwits
Forty Years of Moaning About How Stuff Used To Be Better
By Captain Underpants
Michael's Type
- a beautiful marriage of my given and Word names :-)
Elle Macpherson Stole My Body.
...which wouldn't be so bad if she hadn't left me her granny's reject.
"My Dad Was An Ovalteenie"
Bizarrely, I was talking to my parents about old adverts this afternoon before I saw this OP, and my mum said 'Your Dad used to be an Ovalteenie', to which I replied : 'That will be the name of my autobiography', so ....
Confessions of a biscuit bandit.
or maybe...
There seems to have been some kind of mistake...
Flabby Road.
Or possibly Parallel Chins.
Born To Be Idle & Rich
The true story of how I got halfway there.
Paris Hilton - My Life As A Coked Up Slut
It would improve sales, wouldn´t it?
My autobiography? Ooh I don't know.
But the unauthorised biography will be:
Gauntlet: by those who laid her down.
Has it started yet?
Subtitle: It has? Oh bugger.
"Deep Heat Gerbil"
.
Mine?
I came, I saw, I couldn't be arsed, so I went home. My life by Geacher.
My old man and the sea
Dad was in the merchant navy
The First 150 Years.
Sub-titled: From birth to adolescence. Well, a man's got to have hope, eh?
Diary of a Non-Liver
The hardback edition of the book would come with an acorn embedded in the spine, along with instructions to read it fast, bury it deep, and leave a beautiful copse.
I would have to revert to my given name
Being Green
or even
Green: Before It was Cool & Trendy
Can I Start Again Please?
My Life and Other Missed Opportunities
A few spring to mind...
I'd go with either:
"The Man Who Thought Too Much"
or
"You're A Nice Guy, But..."
If Push Comes To Sheev
Nice one.
Have an up!
I was a teenage Hun
Looking at the Scottish market really.
I'd jump ...
through Hoops for a copy.
I think...
it would have to focus on my total obsession with music.
'O-CD'.
A few more...
Oh Bollocks!
Shit, Is That The Time?
How Much?!
The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Music Was My First Love... And Cost Me A Packet.
Obscurity Beckoned.
"A Northern Childhood"
..parts 1-25
Couple of worries...
Let's say Ronan Keating's is called "Life is a Rollercoaster - My Autobiography". Is it right for the cover of the book to say
"MY Autobiography"? Most of them do - and it causes me no end of grief. I suppose the alternative is rather more aloof-sounding, "Life is a Rollercaster - the Autobiography of Ronan Keating".
(By the way, I have no idea whether that is the title of his book - but I bet it is.)
Correct:
Well how about that?!
Thanks Nick - that has made my day.
Surely "THE...
..Autobiography" is enough?
I hate the ubiquitous "My Autobiography" too.
Unless
you're Katie Price.
"You're Nick't, my son"
- though I suppose dad would have to write it.
Or to quote John Cleese in LoB
(or originally Joe Orton - I always assumed it was a deliberate quote by Cleese) - You're F***ng NICK'T me old beauty
A Tight Squeeze.
Published in fifty monthly parts with a self-assembly action figure.A snip at only £3.50 a month.
A Bit of the Bard
As it's always considered a bit upmarket to have a quote from the Classics as your title (and pretend that you're clever and have read a lot), I have always thought that a bit of Shakespeare would be good for mine. In particular, from that famous speech of Macbeth's towards the end (Act V scene V), which also includes "All our Yesterdays" and "The Way to Dusty Death". So, here it is:
"A Tale Told by an Idiot"
Actually writing one
as it happens and it's called Let's Be Other People. The rate I am rattling through it it should be on the shelves for 2063
You are Miles Hunt,
and I claim my five pounds!
Are you in any way influenced by this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hup_(album)
Without a doubt it would be...
"Needless to say, I had the last laugh!"
This is a bit rude
It's a phrase a friend told me had been hollered from behind a locked door of a friend of his at college. My friend wanted to go out for a drink. All he got was: "Fuck off, I'm having a wank!" I always thought that would make a great title for something, anything. A book? A song or album? An autobiography even?
Similarly
He does not know if he wants a shit or a haircut.
In a similar vein
this one, whilst possibly accurate, would never get past the censors:
My Shit Life So Far
Oh...
With my bad memory, perhaps
What I Might Have Been Doing The Day...Uh...That Big Event Took Place That Shook The World
or simply
What Are You Asking Me For ?
Rubbish puns galore!
Balancing the Brookes
Second-hand Brookes
Vintage Brookes
etc.
Taking It From Behind
Richard Blakey's (ex Yorkshire Wicket Keeper) autobiography.
My wife went into Waterstones to get it. I suggested she ask for it at the counter if she couldn't find it and she spent some time making sure she found it!
A Young Man's Passage
Julian Clary - obviously
With my usual nickname of Uncle Monkey ....
..... and with a nod to everyones favourite air hostess botherer, I spose I'd have to name my autobiography : Finished Monkey Business
.... or maybes Superfreak, Superfreak : I'm Super Freaky!
BR
FT
My title
Harry Potter - The Final Chapter
Grab the first day receipts from the till and get the hell out of town before the backlash starts.
Epitaph
what I would like on my tombstone is "still surrounded by braindead cunts"
Whereas your mates..
..will jump in at the last minute and change it to "Cheers up Chabsy, it's all over now..who gets your LPs?"
"Before sentencing
The defense would like the court to take into account the following..."
Only way I can imagine needing to write an autobiography.
No title but
How about a sneaky peak at the highlights of the index:
Beer p86; 95-125; 200; 202-254
Cinema p45-56; 86-97; 100-149; 289
Civil Service p125-266; 299
Cooking School (washing up) p67-75
France p90-100
Gigs p87; 95-167; 200-289
Hull p100
Kids p150-235; 237; 239-299
Lens (Racing Club de) p90-100; 145; 203-276
Libraries p10-65; 70-80
London p110-167
Manchester p95-109
Mrs SPT p100-300
Nottingham p1-87
Nottingham forest p5-299
Parliament p130-150
Pies p55; 64; 80-82; 101-123; 145; 156; 200-243;275-289
Record shops p60-97; 101-275; 298
School 23-85
Sheffield 149-299
Whisky 145;250-267
You've reminded me of JG Ballard's "The Index"
Brilliant in itself but which also inspired some great Spectator competition entries. e.g.
from http://www.ballardian.com/indexed-out-of-existence
My Struggle by Ganglesprocket has a nice ring to it.
Has it been used before?
Oh, no.
Safe ground there, for sure.
Have an up for making me chortle.
Once a Tosser,
always a Tosser - Stories of self abuse and incidents of embarrassing gaffes.
Would adequately sum up my life so far but would fall short the bestsellers list.
Autohagiography.
A marvelous description of Peter Mandelson's autobiography in today's Sunday Times.
Already used
by Aleister Crowley. As I suspect they knew...
More courage needed
Mine would doubtless turn into a "what might have been" story so I think I'd call it:
"If I'd Just Gone Round That Corner"
Point Blank
To quote the movie that is on as i read this thread
"Young, Dumb & Full Of Come"
That should cover the first volume then.
My Life is
Based on a True Story