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Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up by Dave Barry (1994, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Number of Pages
- 244
- Inscribed
- No
- Type
- Humor
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Vintage
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Personalized
- No
- Signed
- No
- ISBN
- 9780517595749
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0517595745
ISBN-13
9780517595749
eBay Product ID (ePID)
278432
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dave Barry Is Not Making this Up
Publication Year
1994
Topic
General
Language
English
Genre
Humor
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
94-008341
Reviews
"HILARIOUS . . . MIGHT BE HIS BEST YET." --Associated Press "BARRY AT HIS BEST." --The Baltimore Sun "HE ZAPS THE FUNNY BONE." --The Cincinnati Post From the Paperback edition., "HILARIOUS . . . MIGHT BE HIS BEST YET." --Associated Press "BARRY AT HIS BEST." --The Baltimore Sun "HE ZAPS THE FUNNY BONE." --The Cincinnati Post
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
818.5/4/02
Synopsis
Since Dave Barry writes about weird things, you might be tempted to think he has a weird brain. He does, of course, but that's not the whole explanation: A lot of the things he writes about -- exploding Pop-Tarts, for example -- are real. In fact, Dave's main job as a humor columnist -- aside from playing Stealth Fighter on his computer to avoid writing humor columns -- is to point out what is already funny in a world that is seriously bonkers. In Dave's world, amazing but true adventures occur every day, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist investigates a ground-breaking anti-flatulence product recommended to him by a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; the ecologically dangerous shellfish attacking women's undergarments; and the epidemic of snakes and woodland creatures currently appearing in people's toilets. Dave's bad song contest required him to read thousands of entries from people like you; now, people like you could have the pleasure of being badgered all the bad songs that badger Dave. Dave also participates in real-life form of investigative journalism that actually require him to leave the house: marching with the Lawn Rangers precision lawnmower drill team of Arcola, Illinois; playing lead guitar in an extremely mediocre rock band with Stephen King and other literary lights; and taking his little boat Buster from its happy berth in the Barry garage onto Miami's high seas, only to run it aground. He's even appeared in an episode of "Dave's World," the CBS television show based on his real life -- only taller -- in which he bids for an air conditioner. Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up includes longer feature pieces by Dave in which many of the featured facts happen to be accurate. Now you can read Dave Barry on UFO thrillseekers and the Elvis lovers who hang out at Graceland -- all articles that show Dave at his best and smartest. Complete with illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, Dave Barry is Not Making This Up brings you straight into the truly twisted center of Dave's world. On Buying His Son Sneakers: The salesperson's tone of voice carried the clear implication that he was going to call the Child Abuse Hotline if I didn't care enough, as a parent, to take out a second mortgage so I could purchase sufficient sneakerage for my son.... We need Congress to pass a law requiring the sneaker industry to return to the system we had when I was growing up, under which there was only one kind of sneakers, namely U.S. Keds, which were made from Army surplus tents and which cost about $10, or roughly $1 per pound. On Being Left-Handed: According to the researchers, left-handers die sooner than right-handers because they have more accidents. I know why this is: We read books backward...This saves us a lot of time with murder mysteries, but it's a bad habit when we're reading, say, the instructions for operating a barbecue grill, and we begin with "Step 147: Ignite Gas." On The Uses Of Exploding Pop-Tarts: When we detected incoming missiles, we'd simply hold the toaster levers down via some method (possibly involving Tom and Roseanne Arnold) and within a few minutes Whoom the country would be surrounded by a protective wall of flames, and the missiles would either burn up or get knocked off course and detonate harmlessly in some place like New Jersey. On Readers' Reaction To The Bad Song Contest: Sometimes the voters were so angry that they weren't even sure of the name of the song they hated. There were votes against "These Boots Are Made for Stomping"; the Beach Boys' classic "Carolina Girls"; "I'm Nothing But a Hound Dog"; and "Ain't No Woman Like the One-Eyed Gott."
LC Classification Number
PN6162.B2955 1994
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