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.