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Loading... Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Editionby The Onion
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. FUNNY READ IT READ IT READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  14AB | Feb 9, 2009 |  Our Dumb World is guaranteed to both offend and amuse virtually everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual persuasion or, of course, nationality. In other words, the work falls somewhere between "mildly entertaining distraction" and "great coffee table book." (  ) BGP | Jan 12, 2009 | Absolutely hilarious. Especially note the entry for Sierra Leone. horacewimsey | Dec 17, 2008 | I find it amazing that the folks at The Onion can remain so consistently hilarious. Here the Onion guys turn their razor-sharp wit to the world, and they do an amazing job. They excoriate EVERYBODY, nobody gets a free pass. Putin, Nazis, Texans, the French, Djiboutians, everyone. On the map of Australia, for instance, there is a symbol denoting "The Paul Hogan Institute of Knife Identification." Hilarious. In AD 1245, the atlas informs us, in China, "Everybody was kung fu fighting." I also didn't know that, in an anti-communist effort in the early fifties, Truman outlawed sharing. Good stuff. All stellar, laughs on every page. (  ) tuckerresearch | Dec 5, 2008 | Well, it's from The Onion, so that should tell you from the start whether you will enjoy it or not. I'm a big fan of their previous books, and have not been let down by this one. I received it for Christmas 2007 and still haven't finished it - as another reviewer noted, it's not the kind of book that you're going to sit down and read straight through. Rather, you'll pick at it over a long period of time. That being the case, this book will bring you laughs for months, if not years to come. ( ) stypulkoski | Nov 10, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316018422, Hardcover)Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat Box," to the Ukraine, "The Bridebasket of Europe."Today's news-parody consumer cannot possibly understand made-up current events without the context of fake world history and geography. That is why The Onion is publishing a world atlas: to help us. Our Dumb World is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonight's party at Erica's. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the world's most important places, such as North Korea's Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia's superhighway, the Mohammedobahn. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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