Tish and Pish

Tish and Pish
How to be of a speakingness like Stephen Fry
A delicious collection of sumptious gorgeosities
by Stewart Ferris

I found this little beauty on amazon.com
Stephen Fry, aka His Royal Fryness, is my number one imaginary dinner guest and has been for years. He is, without a doubt, the most eloquent speaker on the planet, nay, the whole universe. What's interesting is that Russell Brand is sometimes voted as number two...
Give Stephen Fry one word and he'll give you one hundred back. Stewart Ferris has read Fry's books, gone through his speeches and television and movie performances and compiled an 'English to Fry' translating dictionary as it were. Take one everyday phrase, Fry-ise it and you'll be of a talkingness like Fry himself.
Tish and Pish explores a whole manner of situations where such sesquipedalian prose might be in order; at the beach, buying a car, purchasing electronics, it even assists in general conversations on religion, the weather and at the tennis. On the film set one might say three little words, 'Lights, Camera, Action.' According to Ferris' book if you want to be of a speakingness like Stephen Fry then a half page monologue about what precisely is involved in those three words would ensue. For example... 'Action!' is as follows... 'A transition from a state of doing nothing (other than the natural processes of one's internal organs necessary for continued survival plus some minor muscular corrections to help with balance and comfort) to a state of being of a doingness something which in this instance clearly relates to the noble art of acting!'
Just brilliant.
It's a great little book, oodles of fun to read. It will make you question the saying 'less is more'.
The more Stephen Fry the better!