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Review: This book gives such an accurate description of our history, that it should be used as a text-book in our public school-systems. School-teachers every-where should praise this wonderful book, and pass along the wealth of information and insight onto the eager minds of their students.
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Summary: The Onion will make you "cry" with laughter!!!
Review: The genesis of the Onion also happened to be the genesis of my enrollment at UW Madison. It was pretty crappy in retrospect, but it had attitude, and, as a youth from rural Wisconsin, it was different and exciting. As time went on, I grew to love the Onion and all its characters: Buddy Smellgood of The Shave, Rich and his Kids of Rich's Kids, James Sturm's Cereal Killings prototype The Scarecrow, Kimberly Crothcett, Librarian of Tomorrow. And who could forget Archie "Arch" Danielson? I've heard tell of Archie's columns being passed out in college courses on film study. Anyway, imagine my disilusionment when I finally met the writers and found out they were a sad lot of soft boys and girls, more suited for an early death by alcohol poisoning or clogged arteries. Not only that, but when I professed my admiration of the Onion, they looked at me like I had a 3-foot kelloid sprouting out of my cheek.Face flushed with the sting of rejection, I fled their presence and Madison alltogether. Now I am devoted to one thing and one thing only: elimination of the Onion by any means necessary. Sure, I gave the book five stars, but that's only because it reminded my of my heady youth. You should neither buy nor read this book, because you will be supporting a sorry group that, to paraphrase Stella Stevens in The Granny, are a bunch of loads that should have been swallowed.
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Summary: brutally hilarious
Review: "World's Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg" This one takes every notion of race, economic status, politics, gender and technology - and promptly skewers it. Satirizes the world as it needed to be satirized. If you have a sense of humor, you'll find something enjoyable in this book. And if you don't have a sense of humor, go buy a Ziggy book or something.
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Summary: Give me a hernia, or give me death.
Review: The Onion's most recent attempt at replacing the Bible, Torah, and the Koran has succeeded tremendously. Even before being available, it's witty book entitled "Our Dumb Century", has spurred the ranks of over 100 customer reviews already; a pseudo-apocalyptic social commentary of life in the 1999's. Personally, i wish humanity had gained the knowledge and insight that this book exudes a few millenia ago; perhaps Cleopatra, fat Americans, and the Berlin wall all would have been avoided
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Summary: I BELIEVE THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE
Review: I BELIEVE THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE... AN INCREDIBLE ARTICLE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF AMERICA MADE ME CRY... THERE IS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THE WRITING STYLE OF THE ONION THAT JUST BRINGS ME TO TEARS EVERYTIME I READ IT
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Summary: It Will be Phenomonal
Review: Never in my life have I seen such high-class and heartstopping humor as within the pages of the Onion.Be warned, this is not material for the decent, or the conservative, or those who hold anything sacred. The Onion is proof of human intelligence... there is no higher form of humor than satire/parody. We ought to be thankful; ours is one of the only countries that would allow this much sacrilege, blasphemy, and misinformation to be marketed. God Bless America
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Summary: Funnier than the first Book the onion came out with!!!!!!!!!
Review: They finally got it right. I guess the third time's a charm for the writers of the onion! Bravo
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Summary: Professors, structure your history courses around this!
Review: Learn what the history books have left out -- till NOW! Gain deeper perspectives on trends that have configured our lives. Follow events in their inexorable march to today. Or just turn the pages and begin to laugh. I confess I'm biased, partly because I'm another lucky reader who actually got to see this book before publication. Because I'm related to an ONION staffer. And, yes, because I've shown sample pages to people who quickly inoffensive than the ONION itself. (2) You're actually going to want to READ the tiny print. (3) You're going to end up with multiple copies, because, as you're buying it to give your friends, they're buying it to give to you. Don't worry about #3, though. You can simply scatter copies around your house in appropriate spots
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Summary: Even more durable than the book!
Review: No matter how many times I kicked it, the durable tape-like construction of this audio book wouldn't break! Bless you, Onion audio book!
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Summary: I can only weep...
Review: Sure, it was funny. But as I pondered its constuction, I asked myself, "What of the trees used to print these words of questionable irony? Hmmm? What of the tall Pine and Maple that gave to bravely of their life-essence that poison-based inks might reproduce the tome?" At this point the bookstore warehouse guard came and threw me out into the cold night, as the book had yet to be officially released, but not before I got a couple kicks in. But still, the thought of the trees still haunts..
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