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References
- Pile, Stephen (1979). The Book of Heroic Failures: Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain . Futura. ISBN 0-7088-1908-7.
- Pile, Stephen (1988). The Return of Heroic Failures. Secker & Warburg. ISBN 0-436-37351-3.
- ↑ Pile, Stephen (1989). Cannibals in the Cafeteria. Harper & Row. p. xiii. ISBN 0-06-016283-X.
In only a few months the club had received 20,000 enquiries from members of the public wishing to join. And so in 1979 the club disbanded on the grounds that it was now a roaring success. Even as failures, we failed.
- ↑ "ContributeHeroic Failures". Institut für Netzwerke und Sicherheit. Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- ↑ Pile, Stephen (2012). The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures. Faber and Faber. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-571-27733-9.
When it [The Book of Heroic Failures] appeared in the bestseller list I was thrown out as president, having brought shame on the membership.
