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Title: The Onion's Our Dumb Century 2001 Day-by-Day Calendar by Scott Dikkers, Onion Staff ISBN: 0-609-80574-6 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (198 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Who said there's nothing funny about Wisconsin?
Comment: Clever, sarcastic and witty, this is a tremendously funny bathroom/coffee table book. Every week, I look forward to the satire newpaper, and this collection of the century's headlining satirical news events hits all the right marks. Always irreverent, sometimes offensive, never unfunny, the writers for The Onion have got to be the funniest people in America. I literally laughed till I couldn't breathe while reading the likes of "Pentagon Develops A-Bomb-Resistant Desk", "Holy (expletive). Man Walks on (expletive) Moon", "CNN Deploys Troops in Iraq", and "Kenneth Starr Taunts Clinton With 'Sittin in a Tree' Song". This is well worth the money spent. You'll laugh, till you think you can't laugh any more, and then ...
Rating: 5
Summary: Cutting, Wickedly Funny Satire
Comment: The Onion, with its weekly release of mock news-articles satirizing and lampooning the current status quo, is one of the most enjoyable humorous newspapers that currently exists. IT employs almost all types of humor, from subtletly to slapstick, from highbrow to lowbrow. However, nothing they write has even come close to the hilarity that Our Dumb Century brings to the reader. The book analyses the 20th Century from a not-quite-so objective standpoint, lampooning popular culture, spawning ludicrous conspiracy theories, ("Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons)and reveling in the stupidity of our country and the world in the 20th Century. Every page brings something funny and satirical, from "World's Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg - 1912" to "President Confronts Depression with 'Big Deal' Plan: 'Big deal, I'm Rich!' Roosevelt Says - 1933" to "Reagan May Have been Elected, Doesn't Recall - 1981."
Although I am a history buff, anyone with an elemantary backround in American and World History will be highly amused by this brilliant piece of humor, although I found that as I learned more the book became funnier and funnier. Please, whether you appreciate the lighter side of history or your team just lost and you need something to cheer you up- read Our Dumb Century.
Rating: 5
Summary: A tour de force of history
Comment: "Our Dumb Century" is, simply put, the most entertaining book I've ever had the pleasure of reading. On every page, covering each year of the 20th century, The Onion's crack team of writers bring their devastating sense of irony to every important and not-so-important event that a history enthusiast could ever want to think of. No prominent figure, from Hitler to Stalin to Nixon, is spared as the Onion launches a full frontal assault on lies, hypocrisy, stereotypes, and various misdeeds with the irreverent wit that has made its website an internet mainstay for close to a decade and running. You might think one would have a hard time laughing aloud at news of wars, genocides, and other high crimes, but you just need to take a look at the below headlines to understand what I'm talking about:
"The Machine: Will It Replace the China-Man?"
"Stalin Announces Five-Year 'Everybody Dies' Plan."
"Dastardly Japs Attack Colonially Occupied U.S. Non-State."
"Stock Market Crashes; Debacle Linked to Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Anarachists, Foreigners, Women Voters."
"'The Man' hurt by Black Panther Accusations."
"Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons."
"Mr. T Releases 'Pity List '86.'"
And there's lots, lots more where that came from. Despite a few scattered moments of tastelessness, "Our Dumb Century" is chiefly one hilarious story after another, relentessly lampooning the foibles of human nature and the train wreck that American culture has become of late. I've reread some of these stories as many as ten times, and they never cease to be funny. Sometimes (most of the time, actually), life becomes so absurd that the best way to deal with it is just to laugh, and The Onion has always been extremely useful for just that purpose. "Our Dumb Century" manages to cast the light of irony on some truly dark times, which is an achievement that should not be discounted.
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Title: Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion by ROBERT SIEGEL, Onion Staff, The Onion ISBN: 0609808346 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 by SCOTT DIKKERS, ROBERT SIEGEL, The Onion, Mike Loew ISBN: 0609804634 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives Volume 14 by ROBERT SIEGEL ISBN: 140004961X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 13 by Robert Siegel, Carol Kolb, Todd Hanson, John Krewson, Onion Editors ISBN: 1400047242 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt, Wendy Nothcutt ISBN: 0452283442 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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