Sweet Revenge: 200 Delicious Ways to Get Your Own Back

magazines. The adverts, some with photographs, claimed that a 21-year-old girl was 'seeking a virile man'. She received 946 replies, and it was over a year before the replies stopped arriving.
     

     
    A well-known photographer was having trouble getting a photograph of Bob Monkhouse which was needed for a television campaign for his new show. He had kept waiting for a week when, finally, he was invited to come and take the photograph just before one of the recordings. During the warm-up to the show, the photographer became the butt of Monkhouse's jokes about polaroids and haemorrhoids, and he did not take too kindly to it. To get his own back, he took all the photographs slightly out of the key light, which accentuated all the shadows and gave Mr Monkhouse double chins and a large nose that he did not deserve. To the photographer's delight, the photographs were duly displayed as part of the television campaign.
     

     
    Julia overheard her husband ordering flowers for his girlfriend. She immediately took polaroid photographs of his grubby underwear and their children and had them delivered with the husband's bouquet. He returned home that night with a black eye. They are now divorced.
     

     
    Tricia Morris took satisfying revenge on her cheating boyfriend, hockey player Graham Cook.
    'I was humiliated and when we had a passionate weekend together an idea came into my head. I took a picture of him naked with his bottom in the air while he was getting dressed.' She then had a T-shirt printed with a giant photograph of his bare bum and wore it to his next match.
    Cook was forced to flee ignominiously from the pitch as his fellow players collapsed with laughter when they saw their team-mate's blown-up botty and the caption 'Captain Cook's Tour Tart' emblazoned across Tricia's back.
     

     
    Pierette Le Pen, former wife of the French National Front party leader, carried out a most sophisticated sexual revenge. When she left her husband, the furious Jean-Marie refused to give her any money whatsoever and suggested that she might find a cleaning job to earn herself some extra francs. She took his advice and arranged a photographic shoot with Playboy magazine in which she cleaned, polished and swept wearing little more than a duster.
     

Travellers' Tales
     

     
    'Never complain, never explain - get even!'
    Robert Kennedy
     

Travellers' Tales
     
    The King of Morocco's brother, the late Prince Moulay Abdullah, took a chalet in Gstaad and it is alleged an unpopular member of the party needed quieting down. One evening he had too much to drink so the rest of the party took their revenge by putting one of his legs in plaster while he was unconscious.
    In the morning he woke up, horrified to discover his leg immobilised from thigh to toe. The rest of the party made up a story about how he had had a terrible and dramatic fall and for the next week he complained how painful his leg was and how much he was suffering. Finally, when they could bear his martyrdom no more, they attacked his leg with a hammer to smash the plaster and he was hideously embarrassed when he discovered it was all a hoax.
     

     
    Some years ago Hugh and Judy Corbett were the happy owners of the sixteenth-century Dormy House Hotel set among trees on the Hereford/Worcester borders. Only once did they find guests so aggravating that they had to do something about it.
    The particular guests were a couple of keen young Americans who stayed for five days, and drove Hugh mad, constantly asking what to do, where to go and then, on their return each day, giving him a full debrief each night about it all. Enough, Hugh thought.

     
    Their final morning they were to set off to Devon and wondered what they could do en route. 'Birmingham!' he announced proudly. 'The Venice of the north, with its beautiful waterways and parks, architecture not unlike Florence. I'll make you a picnic. Try to find your way to the Bull Ring to eat it. Marvellous place!' Complete with picnic the Americans set off with a merry wave of gratitude.
    Anyone who knows Birmingham will appreciate that it is in quite the opposite direction from Devon and that the Bull Ring is a horrendously busy three-lane inner circular road surrounding office blocks.
     

     
    A woman discovered that her husband was going to take his mistress on a dirty weekend in Venice, which was particularly galling as that was where they had spent their honeymoon. He told her, however, that he was going on a business