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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 |  In Our Dumb World, the humorists over at The Onion debase the respective fields of cartography and geography. Their work is, as always, uneven, but, at its best, this Atlas is hilarious. (  ) 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
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